Trakt for iOS
Works on iPhone and iPad.
My favourite book of the series but the film just did not do it justice. The return of the White Witch (again, even though she doesn't appear in either Prince Caspian or The Voyage of the Dawn Treader) was just a sign of how little faith the company has in the series. Cast were fantastic just written out of character. Hopefully Andrew Adamson returns in some capacity to guide the series back on track.
A pleasant experience. Overrated as it doesn't excel at anything it does and the story is pretty basic. At the same time it neither fails at anything it attempts to do. Some funny moments. 6.5
It’s like watching someone play a pretentious shooter on easy, with unlimited ammo and auto aim turned on, so basically a borefest outside of a couple of sequences. I just need to reconcile with the fact that these movies are not going to click with me.
I can't recall the last time I laughed this hard, and subsequently got hit straight in the feels. Refreshing (even if old) movie and plot.
Good cast. Boring movie for me. I just didnt care about the sales people. Every time I watched Jack Lemmon's character I just thought of old Gill from The Simpsons. Pacino seemed cast for his voice and the monologues.
I didn't think the dialogue was all that great. All the character's dialogue was too simular, and as a result nobody had an individual voice. It was all a few steps away from being a gangster flick as they pushed for a tough world of sales.
Watched this with my niece and nephews without being caught up on the rest of the series. In fact, I couldn't have told you beforehand which ones I had seen, but if my watch history is to be trusted, I've only seen the first. Luckily, other than some initial confusion about Gru's affiliation with the AVL, I didn't feel like I was missing anything critical. I went in with basically no expectations and was pleasantly surprised. Unlike Inside Out 2, which I saw last week, there's no real ambition to tell a powerful/poignant story with this one - it's a low brow kids movie through and though. But it's very watchable, with an appropriately brief runtime and some physical/gag-based humor that even worked on a jaded adult like me (the minions doing baby care like a racing pit stop definitely got a chuckle). As far as criticisms go, the kids' plot line felt short changed and the epilogue song/dance party definitely lost me.
This film was ok I guess but I just found it to be overwhelmingly boring. For an action it just seemed to have absolutely nothing going for it. I rated it slightly higher than I was originally going to because I must take into account the year it was released and the impact it must have had back then but still it could have been better.
Movies like this are the reason I watch movies. The film doesn't promise you anything, and the plot sounds kind of silly. It even starts out a little weak, but it draws you in and doesn't let go, and by the end you don't even care that you just watched a movie that all took place in a small room. Amazing film.
I got massive GTA 5 vibes from this. Just look at it: heists, hijacking cars, more heists, criminals being portrayed as eccentric & nuts, planning heists in an abandoned urban building; hard to miss the influence.
It still feels like an Edgar Wright film though. In fact, it very much starts like one of his comedies, but then it takes a complete tonal shift around the halfway mark. It becomes much darker, and it’s suddenly driven by tension instead of jokes.
A lot of movies can’t pull that off, but this one does simply because you can look at this premise as lighthearted, but there’s nothing too ridiculous or stupid for it not to work as a serious thriller either.
The directing and editing are really stylish and inventive, the performances are good, plenty of character development (a lot of which is done visually), excellent music selection, and there are a few twists in the second half I didn’t see coming.
My only complaint is that the romance subplot starts a bit clunky, but it evens out as the film goes along.
8.5/10
This is a smart, funny and very entertaining movie with a killer soundtrack. The soundtrack has a little bit of everything and is choreographed perfectly into the action. Ansel Elgort is great and so are Kevin Spacey and Jon Hamm.
EDIT: Saw it again and it is still just as great.
This franchise moves a notch lower with every new film it releases. Gru hasn't been despicable since the original and his minions are now a joke I've heard many times before.
The absolute silence of the kids in the theater at my screening is a harsher critique than any I could pen.
