A bit too preachy and sacharine at times but overall a work of oddball genius. Gosling and Robbie are an hilarious pairing and the 2001 spoof that kicks the film off was great. I think I spotted a few Fight Club references when Ken was falling in live with patriarchy. The trips too and from Barbieland were surreally pleasing as was the land itself...I guess loads of Barbie fandom passed over my head. Best line was Ken's: "I got bored…
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The Little Mermaid 2023
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Not keen or fish but animated ones are cute. Found it hard cheering on a real crab! That said I wept as Riel and her Daddy issues reached a slushy climax and the battle with the sea witch was exciting. But overall the original charms more.
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Top Gun: Maverick 2022
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A woeful attempt by Hollywood and Tom Cruise to interest us in their hyper masculine, militaristic, flight-porn fantasies. This is American warfare for the 21st century - no one dies, the enemy are faceless bad guys and the undoubtedly excitingly filmed aerial sequences are a smoke screen for right wing Hawks. Appalling. Shot down in flames
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Gasbags 1941
I love some films of the war era and Gasbags is a real blast from that time. The Crazy Gang (the Python of their day) accidentally invade Germany on a balloon and end up stealing a secret weapon and impersonating the remorselessly mocked Hitler. Propaganda for the masses so not high art but rather some great sight gags and some daft verbal jokes (many of which fall on deaf ears in the 21st century) but then that's the charm of…
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