Category: Reviews: Movies

Went to see Shark Tale over at the American Theater last night for my wife’s Friday night outing with her classmates and friends.

I really enjoyed the movie. The jokes were corny but funny, and there were the usual name variations for selected commercial entities (Kelpy Kreme, Coral Cola, etc). One of my favourite was Robert DeNiro as the godfather shark. The animators did a really good job of capturing DeNiro’s look and expressions. And as fish go, Angelina Jolie was pretty hot.

I think the best characters were the rasta jellyfish. For me, they definitely stole the show, and I loved every scene they were in. The octopus henchman was pretty funny too, but the jellyfish were the best.

Definitely one I’ll be adding to my collection when it comes out on DVD.

Saw Shrek2 tonight during a brief outing with the wife between study sessions. Funny funny movie. I thought it was just as funny as the first movie. Like most animated movies, there are jokes the kids will laugh at, and plenty of jokes for the adults to laugh at too. Definitely worth seeing and adding to the DVD/video collection.

One of my Christmas gifts was the Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers extended DVD (to go with the first one). So for the past 3 days, we’ve been watching a good 9 hours of Lord of the Rings and the behind the scenes stuff.

It’s an astounding DVD set, like the first one, but I think they’ve managed to pack even more stuff into this 2nd extended DVD set. Just like the first extended DVD set, the two appendix DVDs with behind the scenes stuff was fascinating to watch, and really adds a lot of insight into how the film was made, and the decisions the directors and writers made about adapting the book to film.

I don’t think there are very many people who are disappointed with Peter Jackson’s adaptation to film of Tolkien’s great work. This is one of the few film adaptations of a book that’s given me a greater appreciation of the book, and where you don’t mind the visual imagery from the film interfering with what you read in the book.

Watched a movie called Whale Rider last night. It’s an nice movie about the classic themes of old ideas and traditions clashing with modern reality. On this occasion, the old ideas and traditions are those of the Maori. Good movie, good story, very nicely filmed.