I saw The Return today. It's quite good, but not at all the movie the trailers would leadone to expect. Fans of Hawkgirl will find the denoument very familiar ...
I think what my daughter's trying to say is: nyah nyah nyah nyah.
Joyce ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 11, 2006 12:52:47 pm PST #5640 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
DavidS - Nov 11, 2006 2:24:14 pm PST #5641 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I want to take Owen to see Flushed Away. He's got a Rita doll in a Happy Meal and won't let go of her.
We just saw Flushed Away - very funny and fun. Recommended. Probably the funniest animated movie we saw this year. Rita rocks.
flea - Nov 11, 2006 2:43:01 pm PST #5642 of 10001
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How would Flushed Away play to the 3-year-old set? It looks a little older to me than Cars or Were-Rabbit, but we're due for a daddy-daughter movie date...
DavidS - Nov 11, 2006 4:18:46 pm PST #5643 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
How would Flushed Away play to the 3-year-old set? It looks a little older to me than Cars or Were-Rabbit, but we're due for a daddy-daughter movie date...
Many jokes would go over the head of a 3-year old but nothing is scary in it. Thrilling, yes. Scary, no. So I think it would keep a 3 y.o. entertained (and Dad as well). It's definitely not older than Were-Rabbit. Pitched about the same for humor. Very Aardman, really.
flea - Nov 12, 2006 9:21:25 am PST #5644 of 10001
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Well, they've gone off. We'll have a report in a couple of hours...
Polter-Cow - Nov 12, 2006 9:52:23 am PST #5645 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
flea - Nov 12, 2006 1:13:39 pm PST #5646 of 10001
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Flushed Away review, by Casper, age 3.
"He was flushed AWAY...and he met someBODY...and she didn't TALK good...and she didn't DO good...and she had a DIAMOND...and it BROKE..."
mr. flea reports she sat on his lap and sucked her finger, and it was maybe a little too much for her - too exciting and fast-paced.
Beverly - Nov 12, 2006 8:56:27 pm PST #5647 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I read several reviews of Grave of the Fireflies, and while it's considered a beautifully crafted film, I could also tell from the synopses that it wasn't something I would voluntarily sit through. I had it on the Netflix queue at one point, then removed it.
TMC ran it tonight, and I was just sitting there on the couch, and thought, well, why not? DH came in about an hour into it, stood and watched a bit, and wanted to know what it was and who by? I told him "It's about two Japanese kids starving to death at the end of WWII," and he lost interest and wandered away, fortunately before things got really grim, because he's not handling his situational depression any better than I am.
I was okay till the last ten minutes. You know, weeks of depression, with occasional highs and lows, and then this movie? I don't really recommend the combination.
But it is a beautiful film.
Hayden - Nov 12, 2006 9:13:47 pm PST #5648 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Agreed on all counts. It's gorgeous, moving, and ultimately devastating. That one's not a Miyazaki film, but one by his studio partner.
Theodosia - Nov 13, 2006 2:05:44 am PST #5649 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Yeah, GotF is in the category of "beautifully made but I'm never watching it again" along with such laughfests as Gallipoli and Schindler's List.