Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
This movie reminded me of UP, the first 10 minutes were great, then you can and should leave.
Some movies dream big, and even though they don't reach their goals, the result is still a respectable achievement. This movie failed at what it was trying to do, and what it was trying to do was embarrassingly basic.
I am taking a guess that it wanted to be 100% faithful to the book, which meant stuffing 10 hours worth of plot…
Take any kidnapping/abduction/girls-in-peril-at-the-hands-of-sadistic-man movie. Now write the word Mormon on it a few hundred times. Now you've seen the movie.
Pseudo intellectual waffling about religion that put me in mind if the old a**hole atheist days of YouTube. Intercut with tropey B grade horror staples - a scary hag, gross food scene, implausibly cavernous house with a dungeon and scary attic.
Hugh Grant is ok in it. But it's not a good movie so he was polishing a turd from…
The first thing I noticed was how weirdly flat the characters look compared to the background. The animals are rendered in maybe 4 colours while the backgrounds are eye blisteringly detailed. They also don't move quite right. The limbs, tails and even heads are stiff and uncanny.
The second thing I noticed was that the animals act l anthropomorphised in the vein of a Disney movie. There is no point to them not talking because they're miming and gesturing like…