Watched Finding Dory yesterday...
...and it was excellent! Really cute! Loved it.
Trailers I Got:
Most of them were kind of a blur, but the new Ghostbusters trailer... *Sighs* I don't have anything against the premise (I mean, an all-female cast? Awesome), and the actresses seem to be very, very talented people (I know I've seen Melissa McCarthy in stuff like Spy and she's absolutely wonderful. And I'm not just saying that; she really is good), but it could be a lot better. It was mostly the jokes in the trailer that really didn't exactly appeal to me. A lot of slapstick stuff and trying-to-be-hip humor (which, honestly, very rarely works). I did hear that the finished product is a lot better than the trailer suggests, so maybe it has potential to be good.
The movie experience:
It was a good experience. It really was. There were the occasional babbling kids, but it wasn't terribly distracting.
The film:
When I was most likely eight years old, I saw Finding Nemo in the theaters (the film came out two months prior to my ninth birthday and my parents were good in terms of seeing films almost first thing when they first came out). I was pretty tired at the time, I can say that much. I was actually tempted right there and then to fall asleep in the theaters -- I was looking forward to a good nap, at least. I didn't know that it would become one of my favorite movies of all time. But it did. The characters, the emotions, the humor, the suspense...it was just one of those movies that really got me. (Same with when I was a tiny little seven year old and watched Monsters Inc for the first time) I didn't know how to react to the idea of a sequel, but...the sequel was excellent. It really was.
First off, tiny Dory is just adorable. She really is. The flashbacks with her and her family were also really sweet, especially with them laying out shells for Dory and such. And Dory's search for them...it was really suspenseful and yes, there were times I was getting tense in the theater, just sort of like, "So close! So damn close!" It all worked out in the end, but Jesus, the filmmakers were really good at nearly giving me a goddamn anxiety attack, I'll say that.
It helped that the emotions there were very strong. Especially when Dory reunites with her family. And that bit with Hank the octopus (or ceptapus, as Dory calls him) and his own bits of bitterness, as well as Dory remembering Marlin and Nemo (kind of made worse considering her speech to Marlin in Finding Nemo about how she doesn't want to forget and how dangerously close she gets here to forgetting Marlin and Nemo completely). That being said, there were great bits of humor in there as well, such as at the beginning with Dory and Mr. Ray (Dory's cut-short version of The Talk was hilarious, especially Mr. Ray's reaction!), the reunion with Crush and his gang, and the new characters like Hank, Destiny and Bailey. (Also, Bailey was pretty freaking awesome!) Plus, an octopus. Driving. A truck. It's really not every day you get to see that in a movie, but when you do, it's glorious. And the sea lions. And...well, honestly, when the movie wasn't finding ways to tug at your heartstrings, it was doing this.
The movie did have its irritating spots, like Marlin seeming to revert a bit to where he was at the beginning of Finding Nemo (it seemed momentarily like "aw crap, we're back at square one again"), but overall? It was pretty awesome, that movie. Definitely recommended.
So overall? Go see it; it's wonderful! Definitely recommended.
Trailers I Got:
Most of them were kind of a blur, but the new Ghostbusters trailer... *Sighs* I don't have anything against the premise (I mean, an all-female cast? Awesome), and the actresses seem to be very, very talented people (I know I've seen Melissa McCarthy in stuff like Spy and she's absolutely wonderful. And I'm not just saying that; she really is good), but it could be a lot better. It was mostly the jokes in the trailer that really didn't exactly appeal to me. A lot of slapstick stuff and trying-to-be-hip humor (which, honestly, very rarely works). I did hear that the finished product is a lot better than the trailer suggests, so maybe it has potential to be good.
The movie experience:
It was a good experience. It really was. There were the occasional babbling kids, but it wasn't terribly distracting.
The film:
When I was most likely eight years old, I saw Finding Nemo in the theaters (the film came out two months prior to my ninth birthday and my parents were good in terms of seeing films almost first thing when they first came out). I was pretty tired at the time, I can say that much. I was actually tempted right there and then to fall asleep in the theaters -- I was looking forward to a good nap, at least. I didn't know that it would become one of my favorite movies of all time. But it did. The characters, the emotions, the humor, the suspense...it was just one of those movies that really got me. (Same with when I was a tiny little seven year old and watched Monsters Inc for the first time) I didn't know how to react to the idea of a sequel, but...the sequel was excellent. It really was.
First off, tiny Dory is just adorable. She really is. The flashbacks with her and her family were also really sweet, especially with them laying out shells for Dory and such. And Dory's search for them...it was really suspenseful and yes, there were times I was getting tense in the theater, just sort of like, "So close! So damn close!" It all worked out in the end, but Jesus, the filmmakers were really good at nearly giving me a goddamn anxiety attack, I'll say that.
It helped that the emotions there were very strong. Especially when Dory reunites with her family. And that bit with Hank the octopus (or ceptapus, as Dory calls him) and his own bits of bitterness, as well as Dory remembering Marlin and Nemo (kind of made worse considering her speech to Marlin in Finding Nemo about how she doesn't want to forget and how dangerously close she gets here to forgetting Marlin and Nemo completely). That being said, there were great bits of humor in there as well, such as at the beginning with Dory and Mr. Ray (Dory's cut-short version of The Talk was hilarious, especially Mr. Ray's reaction!), the reunion with Crush and his gang, and the new characters like Hank, Destiny and Bailey. (Also, Bailey was pretty freaking awesome!) Plus, an octopus. Driving. A truck. It's really not every day you get to see that in a movie, but when you do, it's glorious. And the sea lions. And...well, honestly, when the movie wasn't finding ways to tug at your heartstrings, it was doing this.
The movie did have its irritating spots, like Marlin seeming to revert a bit to where he was at the beginning of Finding Nemo (it seemed momentarily like "aw crap, we're back at square one again"), but overall? It was pretty awesome, that movie. Definitely recommended.
So overall? Go see it; it's wonderful! Definitely recommended.