Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, & The Wardrobe
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Posted on December 10th, 2008 by
The new one is out on DVD – Prince something or other – so why not revisit my DisneyFamily.com review? Starting… NOW! I used to turn up my nose at Professor Tolkien’s best friend’s works. CS Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia’ looked too kiddy for me. I finally did read it last year and thought to myself: “Good, but clearly better for kids that age.”
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Wall*E
Posted on November 30th, 2008 by
Only Pixar could render a shattered post-apocalyptic New York – with cubes of compacted garbage rivaling the height of the Chrysler Building – beautiful. Wall*E actually exceeds high expectations, it rivals the companies best, it pushes the envelope on CGI animation and cinematic storytelling. It’s an instant masterpeice from a company known for making what amounts to cinematic literature.
Madagascar
Posted on November 26th, 2008 by
Madagascar proves a few theories that have been rattling around in my head. One is that Lemurs secretly like to Rave, and the other is that Dreamworks Pictures makes pretty CGI animated features that are like cotton candy. They melt in your mouth in a sweet and sticky way, but when compared to rival Pixar, they’re ultimately soulless and leave little after-taste. Or maybe a better way of thinking of it is: Dreamworks likes jokes. Pixar likes stories with jokes in them.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Posted on September 6th, 2008 by
As I was watching the ending credits for Star Wars: The Clone Wars, I was talking with my boys about the movie. All of us had enjoyed it and found it exciting and entertaining, but I had a nagging question: what would I have thought about it if I wasn’t a huge Star Wars fan? While I am pretty sure I wouldn’t have enjoyed it nearly as much, the bottom line is that it has been more than 31 years since I first paid my own money to see that opening crawl in a movie theater and I can no longer dissociate myself from Star Wars to the extent required to be truly objective about this movie. That might say to you that my opinion is biased, and it probably is, but too bad – I’m a Star Wars fanboy so deal with it … but that doesn’t mean that I can’t find quite a few negative things to say about this commercial … um, I mean cartoon … no, movie. Yeah, movie.
Cary’s Summer Movie Roundup
Posted on August 16th, 2008 by
Well, summer’s almost over. This summer I watched a lot of movies in the theater. Last summer I hardly watched any movies at all because they all kinda sucked. But this year it seemed there was a lot of flicks worth watching on the big screen in comparison. So I thought today I’d write a little blog with brief reviews of all the movies I’ve seen this summer, and give out a Best Summer Movie award! Read on to find out what it is. You’ll be surprised, I bet!
The Incredibles
Posted on July 17th, 2008 by
Meet Bob aka Mr. Incredible, Bob’s wife is Elasticgirl (Holly Hunter) and his kids, a speedster named Dash and a force-field/invisibility powered angst-ridden teen called Miss Disappear (voiced brilliantly by NPRs Sarah Vowell), all try to fit into a world where, genetically, they just can’t fit. Oh there’s also Jack-Jack, a precocious toddler who seems to be powerless.
Second Hand Lions
Posted on July 7th, 2008 by
by Tyrion Lannister
“I’m Hub McCann. I’ve fought in two World Wars and countless smaller ones on three continents. I’ve led thousands of men into battle with horses and swords, artillery and tanks. I’ve seen the headwaters of the Nile and tribes of natives no white men had ever seen before. I’ve won and lost a dozen fortunes, killed many men, and loved only one woman with a passion”
Triplets of Belleville
Posted on July 1st, 2008 by
The Triplet’s of Belleville launches onto screens with a rollicking tribute to vintage vaudeville stage entertainment and the hyperkinetic animation stylings of Tex Avery. The titular Triplets bop and mince through their Oscar nominated tune Belleville Rendez-Vous as an audience of monstrously fat women and their tiny monkey-like spouses groove in their seats. A topless Josephine Baker does her infamous banana dance and the audience, literally, goes wild. It sets the scene, even if it is set in the past, and soon we realize we’re watching it on television with a morose old woman, with a wandering eye, and her little son.
