Big Al Reviews
Movie reviews and more by Albert DeSantis
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The Super Mario Bros.
4 outta 5 2023’s animated adaptation The Super Mario Bros. is a step up from the live-action 1993 attempt. That was… liberal with the source material, to put it mildly. This version, made by Illumination Animation that also put out all those Minions movies, is much closer to the source. It may be guilty of…
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (’16 review)
4 outta 5 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is a unique entry into the Star Wars franchise. Aside from the animated Star Wars: The Clone Wars film (which was weak but led into a fantastic TV series) and TV movies about Ewoks (don’t ask), this is the first proper big budget theatrical Star Wars…
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Spider-Man 3 (’07 review)
4 out of 5 The original Spider-Man film is pretty good: a dramatic and stirring adaptation of Spidey’s origin for the 1st half of the movie, then it goes on autopilot for the 2nd half with somewhat bland superheroics. Its sequel, Spider-Man 2, is fantastic. The amount of abuse shoveled onto Peter Parker is inspired,…
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