Alice In Wonderland
Alice In Wonderland(2010) is due to release on Friday, March 5,2010. The movie takes place years after the events in the book, Alice(Mia Wasikowska) is now 19 years old, and seems to have completely forgotten the past events, or is ignoring it as a childish dream. It will be interesting with The White Queen(Anne Hathaway), The Mad Hatter(Johnny Depp) and Alice going into battle against the Red Queen's(Helena Bonham Carter) army. Directed by Tim Burton, the movie is in his classic "gloomy" style, and although Burton has directed lighter,happier movies such as Charlie In The Chocolate Factory, but he has also directed more gray and dark movies such as Sweeney Todd, It is going to be an interesting mix. and with Tim's close friend and great actor Johnny Depp as The Mad Hatter, it will be worth waiting to see how Burton and Depp work together in Wonderland.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
The Princess and The Frog review.
The Princess and The Frog.
"You're a waitress!??" Said Prince Naveen to Tiana, a look of disgust on his frog face. Disney's The Princess and The Frog takes a huge twist on the classic fairytale about a frog prince. Set in New Orleans, The Princess and The Frog is full of music, food, and fun.In a more modern time(Possibly from the 1900-1930s) this movie is easier to relate to. The main character Tiana(voice acted by Anika Nani Rose) is a more believable character over Disney's past Princesses. The animation is superb, and the fact that it is not CGI is a very welcome change. The fact that Tiana is Disney's first African American princess.
Tiana has always had a passion, and has held back on fun and friends to accomplish that dream, for years and years, she has worked twice as hard as any other person to open a restaurant. Yet when she finally has the money, the people who are selling her the area tell her the deals of unless she can get more money at a fancy dress party. She stands on a balcony in a princesses outfit and wishes to a star for help. Now meanwhile, Prince Naveen got turned into a frog by a voodoo master and has ran to the party. They meet on the balcony, the princess and the frog, and after only a short scene of screaming and cruelty to animals, they kiss under the stars. Yet when the sparkles clear, it is not a Prince who is standing next to a princess, no. The spell backfires, leaving both Tiana and Naveen as frogs, In their desperation they head to the Bayou in search of Mama Odi, a voodoo master of good. Unfortunately, the same Voodoo master who turned Naveen into a frog is hot on their heels, literally in search of Naveen's blood, with the dark voodoo forces chasing them it will be hard to return human.
The animation of the Princess and the Frog is splendid, with astounding effects, how the characters were drawn to represent their personality amazing and creative ways to create spectacles out of such simple things. The mere fact that this movie was animated classically, there were no CGI effects used brings back a more magical feeling to the Disney movie. With new concepts such as a first African American princess(still waiting for a prince), it makes this movie revolutionary on all fronts.
The Princess and The Frog is defiantly worth watching, Ron Clements and John Musker's animation teams did a splendid job, the music really pushed the movie along, giving it that more magical sense to it. With a more classical Disney animation style, and covering more modern concepts, it is a movie you can't miss. The best Disney movie in many years, The Princess and The Frog is a hilarious, well plotted ride all the way from the start to finish.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Pheobe In Wonderland
` ` Pheobe In Wonderland
Directed by Daniel Barnz Nicholas Brands Smit.
"Do you sometimes feel like your running but not going anywhere," She is sprinting next to the Queen, she is panting, but her destination was still no closer. She loses her balance and falls, and when she looks up, their is no queen to be seen, and her mother is running from the house to help her. Pheobe Lichten(Elle Fanning),is an imaginative, yet troubled girl. This movie tells the fictional story of a young girl with Tourettes syndrome. It is a strong story, yet it contains a few minor flaws.
Pheobe Lichten has a problem, a huge problem, she cannot control what she says. She is pulled into wonderland when she signs up for the play, and soon her imagination is clashing with reality. Although Pheobe is happily progressing with the play, there is trouble on the home front, and with an increasingly stressed out mother(Felicity Huffman), an angry father(Bill Pullman), and a unhappy sister(Bailee Madison), Phoebe will have fix her own life before conquering the world of wonderland.
The story of a girl with this syndrome merged with fantasy makes an inspiring story of hope, imagination, and emotion, yet a few flaws perge the story, but not enough to make its message weakened. For example, the teachers are exaggeratedly ignorant of what'd happenning to Pheobe, its like they can't see that their is something different about her. Another prime example is when the teacher sends Pheobe to the principals after spitting at a kid, the whole class was taunting her, and even if she didn't have the syndrome, the teacher made a bad decision. Yet it doesn't matter how much minor flaws with this movie was, it still contained a strong purpose and storyline about a girl with a powerful imagination and alot of dedication to her world.
Off with 'er head," the Queen says, although it was had powerfull lines and very good acting on the part of Elle Fanning, the Fantasy in this movie wasn't too strong, it was hard to tell if it was just her imagination, or if it really was magic. The story is appealing, the message about growing up, changing, and overcoming the problems in life is clear.It may be strange to watch if \you haven't read (or watched) Alice In Wonderland(Originaly named Alice's Adventures In Wonderland-Lewis Caroll) because characters will be unreconizable, making the movie hard to understand, making it have a smaller audience.
In my honest opinion, Pheobe in wonderland is worth watching even if just to remember the timeless novel of Alice In Wonderland, but I will not be jumping out of my seat to watch it again, it was an OK movie, worth renting a DVD to watch but it does even come close or live up to the timeless story that Pheobe imagination is based off.
Directed by Daniel Barnz Nicholas Brands Smit.
"Do you sometimes feel like your running but not going anywhere," She is sprinting next to the Queen, she is panting, but her destination was still no closer. She loses her balance and falls, and when she looks up, their is no queen to be seen, and her mother is running from the house to help her. Pheobe Lichten(Elle Fanning),is an imaginative, yet troubled girl. This movie tells the fictional story of a young girl with Tourettes syndrome. It is a strong story, yet it contains a few minor flaws.
Pheobe Lichten has a problem, a huge problem, she cannot control what she says. She is pulled into wonderland when she signs up for the play, and soon her imagination is clashing with reality. Although Pheobe is happily progressing with the play, there is trouble on the home front, and with an increasingly stressed out mother(Felicity Huffman), an angry father(Bill Pullman), and a unhappy sister(Bailee Madison), Phoebe will have fix her own life before conquering the world of wonderland.
The story of a girl with this syndrome merged with fantasy makes an inspiring story of hope, imagination, and emotion, yet a few flaws perge the story, but not enough to make its message weakened. For example, the teachers are exaggeratedly ignorant of what'd happenning to Pheobe, its like they can't see that their is something different about her. Another prime example is when the teacher sends Pheobe to the principals after spitting at a kid, the whole class was taunting her, and even if she didn't have the syndrome, the teacher made a bad decision. Yet it doesn't matter how much minor flaws with this movie was, it still contained a strong purpose and storyline about a girl with a powerful imagination and alot of dedication to her world.
Off with 'er head," the Queen says, although it was had powerfull lines and very good acting on the part of Elle Fanning, the Fantasy in this movie wasn't too strong, it was hard to tell if it was just her imagination, or if it really was magic. The story is appealing, the message about growing up, changing, and overcoming the problems in life is clear.It may be strange to watch if \you haven't read (or watched) Alice In Wonderland(Originaly named Alice's Adventures In Wonderland-Lewis Caroll) because characters will be unreconizable, making the movie hard to understand, making it have a smaller audience.
In my honest opinion, Pheobe in wonderland is worth watching even if just to remember the timeless novel of Alice In Wonderland, but I will not be jumping out of my seat to watch it again, it was an OK movie, worth renting a DVD to watch but it does even come close or live up to the timeless story that Pheobe imagination is based off.
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