Tag: Movie Reviews
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Transformers (’07 review)
4 out of 5 For some reason, “summer blockbuster” has become a bit of a dirty word. It implies all flash and no substance. With Transformers, directed by Mr. All-Flash And No Substance Himself, Michael Bay, and its based on a Hasbro toy-line, one would assume that it’s a typical summer blockbuster with “all flash…
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
5 outta 5 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is a fantastic sequel to the already fantastic Into the Spider-Verse. It takes the incredible animation style of the first film and evolves into several different visually lush and amazing looking universes. The film has huge dramatic beats and large-scale action, but it also remembers to keep things…
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (’18 review)
5 outta 5 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is a truly exuberant celebration of all things Spider-Man and showcasing innovative ways the animated format can collide with sequential comic art to make something really new and different. For all of the extradimensional bells and whistles and the cavalcade of deep cut Spider-Man continuity references it actually…
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The Little Mermaid
4 outta 5 As the seemingly inevitable Disney Live Action remake parade continues, it is now time for The Little Mermaid. Disney is probably remaking all its animated classics just so people will stay on the Disney Plus app for related content after watching a remake. Surprisingly, this turned out pretty good even if this…
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Cruella (’21 review)
4 outta 5 Disney has been plowing through an animated live action remakes, some are static recreations like Mulan or Cinderella, others take different angles like Maleficent and now Cruella, a sorta prequel to the animated film. This wild movie is about five different genres mashed up into a blender with a classic punk and…
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Mulan (’20 review)
4 out of 5 The 2020 Mulan live-action remake of Disney’s 1998 animated Mulan is definitely the same story in both versions, give or take an Eddie Murphy voiced dragon. However, unlike copy and paste recent Disney adaptations like Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin or The Lion King, this Mulan has pep. It looks great…
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The Lion King (’19 review)
3 outta 5 Disney’s 2019’s The Lion King photorealistic CGI animated film is a perfectly serviceable remake of the iconic Disney 1994 2D animated The Lion King. The story and tunes is all there as The Lion King has a good bedrock foundation that is hard to completely screw it up. Visually, the look of…
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The Jungle Book (’16 review)
3 outta 5 The Jungle Book is yet another of Disney’s recent foray into live action remakes of its extensive back catalogue of animated features. Initially, there were twists to the storylines like Alice in Wonderland or Maleficent. Lately, Disney’s recent spate of remaking classics like Cinderella, this movie, and the upcoming Beauty and the…
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Alice in Wonderland (’10 review)
3 out of 5 Tim Burton is one of the most dynamic visual filmmakers around and his latest outing, a semi-sequel of sorts to the classic tale Alice In Wonderland (even though it shares the same title…confused yet?) certainly has some pizzazz. Sometimes it’s so overdone it degenerates into a lot of noise and CGI…
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Fast X
3 outta 5 The Fast and Furious series is determined not to show any aging by sheer force of explosions happening repeatedly. Also, the roster is entirely gargantuan by now as characters that end up dead tend to be alive again a few movies later. Fast X doesn’t offer any sort of closure as it…
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