Monday, January 30, 2006

Hoodwinked

Overall Rating: # # # (3 Buckets o' Popcorn)
Merlin's Grade: # # # (3 Buckets o' Popcorn)
Michele's Grade:# # # (3 Buckets o' Popcorn)

Comments:
(Merlin) Cute and funny retelling of Little Red Riding Hood story. Interesting animation (especially good on the Wolf) and well-done voice acting (again, The Wolf stands out as wonderfuly done by Patrick Warburton of The TICK and Emperor's New Groove fame). Great twists with each character having fun twists from the original story. Twitchy the squirell is hilarious, with great buddy chemistry with The Wolf. (They could have their own movie and I'd go see it!) Overall a fun bit of fluff.

(Michele) As always, I like new twists on old stories. Definately not a "Shrek", but very funny. A fun movie for all the family.

Sunday, January 22, 2006

Underworld: Evolution

Overall Rating: # # # + (3 1/2+ Buckets o' Popcorn)
Merlin's Grade: # # # # (4 Buckets o' Popcorn)
Michele's Grade: # # # + (3 1/2 Buckets o' Popcorn)

Comments:
(Merlin) Great continuation of the Underworld story. The story of the origins of the immortals is expanded and cool use of flashbacks get the thumbs-up from me. Marcus is awesome! Very well cast and acted, with amazing effects. Some unexpected plot twists that keep you guessing. One minor thing that people may want to be aware of is that they seem to have gone for the gore factor a bit more in this one. Where I felt they walked the line with Victor's decapitation in the first one, they do similar things 4-5 times in this flick.

(Michele) I loved how it starts out. Giving a history of the vamps and Lycans is very cool. More of the same, with more violence, and more gore. A bit much gore for me. Maybe they were trying to expand their market of movie goers? The head vamp and lycin were creepy! Very very cool.

Tuesday, January 03, 2006

Memoirs of a Geisha

Overall Rating: # # # (3 Buckets o' Popcorn)
Merlin's Grade: # # # (3 Buckets o' Popcorn)
Michele's Grade: # # # (3 Buckets o' Popcorn)

Comments:
(Merlin) The cinematography, costuming, sound, music, and general atmosphere of this movie are excellent! I found it to be a bit slow, pretty depressing story, which should be expected, I suppose. Overall, I liked seeing it, but I doubt I'm gonna rush to rent it, if at all.

(Michele) Beautifully designed movie. Very moving. Very sad. I was intrigued for more of the same. I love history, especially ones that I have not been exposed to. I may buy to have, to check out the costumes...but only at a good price.