Big Hero 6: It was cute but WHAT THE FUCK OSCARS. I'll admit to not yet having seen neither Song of the Sea nor Kaguya, but heresay would suggest that they both delivered better than Disney and Dreamworks did this year, and seriously? It seems pretty obvious to me that HTTYD2 was way ahead of this one, even if it failed to live up to the original ( Read more... )

I have Opinions about how romance is portrayed in fiction, and that is the only reason why I never watched Avatar: The Last Airbender. Seriously, that's it: the way the internet kept handling their ship wars made me 110% positive that the series would drive me up the wall in the worst way ( Read more... )

I don't normally watch Dreamworks, because yeah. I got this one on DVD for cheap and God help me, I'm going to see #2 in a proper cinema.

You can find yourself a proper review of the film elsewhere, god only knows the internet is probably full of them. I'm going to talk about my own personal opinions on the story.

( Essentially, it's like a CGI Dreamworksified feature-length take on one of the anime that is nearest and dearest to my heart )

Why is that Brother Bear is so forgettable? This is seriously bugging me. It is gorgeously animated, it's got a unique story, it's conflict is the most nuanced one I ever saw in a Disney film that I can recall on top of my head ( Read more... )

The absolute low point in my career of consuming children's entertainment was when I was at uni, and on a day I didn't have class went to see a matinée screening of My Neighbor Totoro. It was me - a lonely twentysomething - and two or three families with children in an otherwise empty theatre. And Totoro makes me cryToday was Wreck-it-Ralph, and I ( Read more... )

TheI finally watched The Illusionist, and was struck by how the atmosphere linked back to the Triplets of Belleville.

( Cut because I talk about how it all ends )

The Disney version of Tarzan was never a memorable film for me, but I love the songs.

Italian is pretty.

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The Little Mermaid meets Brother Bear. It wasn't Pixar's best but I enjoyed it approximately ten times more than WALL-E.

( Spoilery )

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And here's a conversation between Hugh Grant, Martin Freeman and David Tennant which also summarises the plot of the film in eight seconds.

( Except for Big Fandom Names and Hugh Grant, then: )