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So, we’ve already seen a number of the big summer movies so far…here’s the brief-est review I’ve ever done on them.
STAR TREK – I liked it a whole lot, and the Jim was not so enthused about it. I felt it made the Spock character so much more alluring; the Jim thought it took all the cerebral content out of the Star Trek mythos. I thought it was a good summer movie, lots of explosions, good characterizations and fun…but perhaps a tad mindless. *** out of 4 Stars.
TERMINATOR SALVATION – It was…okay. I must admit, I’ve only ever seen T2 and that is it. I know the story arc though, so I figured it would be easy to manage. The two things that stick with me from this film is how relentless the Terminators are and how depressing the future appears. Again, the Jim was far from enthused. It appears his suspension of disbelief isn’t as strong these days. ** out of 4 Stars.
ANGELS & DEMONS – I liked it! I was surprised. It was a good story if not a bit of a stretch. The visuals were great, the art awesome, the movie made me want to go to Europe big time. Now there was a slashy-slashy bit that I wasn’t into, but over all it was an enjoyable little mystery chase movie. The Jim actually LIKED this one, mostly because the plot took some directions he wasn’t expecting and he liked that. *** out of 4 Stars.
This week brings us UP and I can’t wait to see that. Chime in…what Summer Movies are ones NO ONE should miss?
In a few words, it was visually amazing but a little overly syrupy.
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The Jim and I are recent converts to the film character Hellboy. We only saw HellBoy 1 about a month or so ago and really liked it. The concept was funny/interesting, the makeup and visual effects fun, and the characters somewhat were endearing. The second installment actually takes that endearing characteristic and mixes it with saccharin making you leave with what I felt was the beginning of diabetes. Seriously. A darker concept that has so much potential to me, lost a couple of points due to some overly drawn out sappy scenes of “falling in/being in love”. I’m not going to ruin it here but let me just say, you’ll be so sick of Barry Manilow by the end of the movie. Seriously.
The good points were that Ron Perlman still does a bang-up job as the main character, such a good departure from his “Beast” days. I like Selma Blair as Liz. I miss David Hyde Pierce’s voice-over work for Abe Sapien. The visuals, however were cranked up a notch. Del Toro’s (not the cutie Benicio), directorial budget must have seriously gone up thanks in part to the critical acclaim of Pan’s Labyrinth and there was so much CGI (done well, I might add), that the art direction and animation budget might make someone think that we’re not really in a recession these days. Oh and this movie’s spin on the Tooth Fairy concept is…um…wow.
Our feelings are, that if you like the HellBoy world…you might like it, but you’ll probably be annoyed slightly. If you have no idea who HellBoy is…you might like it a bit more but you might be lost in the shuffle at times. Either way, it’s a decent summer movie and worth a matinee price to be entertained by the Big Red boy and his band of BPRD folks.
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