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Following so closely on the amazing Ratatouille, Flushed Away, and Wall-E, these two animated tales failed to live up to my expectations. Don’t get me wrong, they weren’t unwatchable. The actual animation was fine, but that’s to be expected these days. The voice acting was fine, Read the rest…
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Pixar’s story of a very low-born culinary artiste debuts on my list at #4 all-time favorite movies (right after Wallace and Gromit and the Curse of the Were Rabbit, Flushed Away, and Wall-E). As with the aforementioned, a talented cast combines with flawless animation and a saucy script to deliver a tasty evening’s entertainment. If you haven’t guessed the story from the trailers, Remy, a country rat, is separated from his family (never mind, they never understood him anyway) Read the rest…
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Ideally, I should have reviewed Prince Caspian directly after I’d seen it. There’s been quite a lot of metaphorical water under the figurative bridge since then and for all the wonders and marvels on offer in the film, looking back I can’t say that I find it all that memorable. It’s very like the book in that it’s not as good as the first: the means of transporting the children to Narnia lack the simple magic and inspired mystery of stepping through an old wardrobe Read the rest…
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Ever since Toy Story, our cinema screens have been awash with pixel-perfect CGI animations and usually I get the feeling they just replace one set of cutesy characters with another - swap penguins for pandas, zoo animals for woodland critters, toys for cars etc and you’re good to go. So I tend to be a bit skeptical whenever there’s a new Pixar or Dreamworks extravaganza on offer, but luckily there’s more than enough warmth, enchantment and humour in Wall-e to cure even the most skeptical of skeptics. Read the rest…
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The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, the third installment of the Mummy series, joins a more mature Rick “Ricochet” and Evelyn O’Connell, uneasy in retirement and secretly longing for the excitement of their younger days. Unfortunately, they don’t look any older, and it is difficult to believe 20-year-old Alex is really their child. That aside, The Mummy provides well-paced excitement, excellent fight choreography, believable CGI, and a superb cast.
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I didn’t want to watch Flushed Away. Until the word “Aardman” flashed on the screen. Then I knew I had been wrong to prejudge the film (I had thought from the title it was one of those well-past-marginal animated films that could only amuse toddlers of less-than-average intelligence) and that I would be in for a treat. From that point, I was not disappointed.
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Mamma Mia! Here I go again! My, my, how can I resist you?
This must be the feel-good film of the year. The plot is lightweight. The integration of the songs is sometimes clunky. But you will leave the theater humming, your step bouncier than when you went in.
In case you’ve been on a space mission, or living in a cave, Mamma Mia! is the film adaptation of the highly popular stage musical which combines a plot which may have been inspired by Read the rest…
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull rejoins the life of the famous adventurer/archaeologist/university lecturer nearly 20 years after his last adventure, The Last Crusade. It is now 1957 and the Nazis are history, but the world is not without its villains, in this case led by the amazing Cate Blanchett as Col Dr Irina Spalko. Indy has chased the lost Ark of the Covenant, hunted the Holy Grail, and retrieved the magic Sankara stones, and this time … well, if you haven’t heard, I won’t give it away. Read the rest…