Madagascar 2: Escape to Africa – Film Review December 22, 2008

5/5*s

This film is hilarious – I really loved it. The King Julien had me in tears (laughing tears!) from start to finish, as did David Schwimmer’s character, Melman. Obviously this is, strictly speaking, a kid’s film, but if you liked the first one, this is just as good, and it’s great to see all the fantastically funny characters again The sound track is very entertaining, as well.

 

My only criticism would be that it was too short, but I suppose the bloody kids would get impatient otherwise! But seriously, a great family film, I recommend it and will be buying it when it comes out on DVD.

WALL-E – Film Review August 7, 2008

5*’s

Having been told that the first half contained no dialogue at all, I was sort of expecting a film aimed at toddlers and maybe a bit of a laugh. I was pleasantly surprised!

The storyline – while put in a very imaginative setting – is a classic one, lonely boy meets lonely girl, overcome hurdle and fall in love. However, boy and girl are both robots, and neither the earth or the human race are as we know them. Fat human beings, our descendants, live on a space ship with robots catering for their every needs, because they have covered the earth in “trash” and set WALL-E and other robots like him the task of cleaning it up. After 700 years, WALL-E is the last remaining clean-up robot, and is cutely lonely and sad. But when plant life is discovered on earth by Eve, the robot girlfriend of WALL-E, the heroic ship’s captain remembers his morals before it’s too late and battles robots on autodrive to restore our faith in the human race

A very touching film that had me giggling throughout, with a lovely message – respect our planet or lose it!

Stardust – Film review June 19, 2008

5*s

How on earth can I describe Stardust!? A star studded film, Ian Mckellen narrates, Michelle Pfeiffer, Claire Danes, Sienna Miller and Charlie Cox star. I have to admit I do like most films, but this one stands out a million miles. I absolutely adored the magical story line, and the characters were all wonderful. It tells the story of ”shop boy” Tristan (Charlie Cox) from english town “Wall”, who is discovered to be the heir to the throne of the magical land behind “the wall”. He finds a fallen star, the beautiful Yvaine (Claire Danes) and they fall in love on their journey fleeing from witch Lamia (Michelle Pfeiffer) who wants to kill Yvaine and eat her heart to achieve ever lasting youth for herself and her sisters. I wish I had read the book first, but all the same this absolutely divine film is now one of my all time favourites, and I will definately buy it on DVD. You must watch it yourself, I’m having trouble finding the words! Enjoy!