Lay out the bare ingredients for Space Jam and it shouldn’t work. The Looney Tunes can be fairly hit and miss, basketball stars should not make great actors and the film itself is stepping into territory best reserved for Disney … Continue reading Space Jam (1996) Review
The way that Pixar can create whole worlds and concepts out of a simple idea will always amaze. Soul is exactly like that too. This time, the world that has been created is the after-life, or more accurately, the pre-life, … Continue reading Soul (2020) Review
With the success of Pixar and Disney, both controlling and becoming the standard in animated movies, it is easy to overlook Aardman Animation. Farmageddon demonstrates why they should be as included in that list as the others. Farmageddon is a … Continue reading A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon (2019) Review
The first thing you will notice about Wolfwalkers is how different the animation feels. It has a “rough and ready” look that suits the movie and the story really well. This is a retelling of an old Irish folk tale … Continue reading Wolfwalkers (2020) Review
It will never cease to amaze how Pixar takes a simple idea and builds a fascinating world around it. In the case of Onward, its the idea that technology has altered the typically magical medieval world we are familiar with … Continue reading Onward (2020) Review
At a time when it is clearly very easy to make a lot of money from remaking their animated properties into live action films, Disney does something more interesting with Maleficent. Instead of a dull retelling of Sleeping Beauty, it … Continue reading Maleficent (2014) Review
I know I am in the minority but I can not get on-board with Studio Ghibli. From watching my first “proper” Ghibli movie in My Neighbor Totoro, it soon become apparent that the dream-like worlds, the bizarre characters and the … Continue reading Spirited Away (2001) Review
You’d be forgiven for thinking that Cruella is a cheap cash-grab movie which is shamelessly cashing-in on the well-known name of one of Disney’s most iconic villains. Fortunately, that is not the case and Cruella is a movie with some … Continue reading Cruella (2021) Review
Its a bold move to try to continue what is considered by many a perfect trilogy. Although Hollywood has always had a tendency to milk successful franchises beyond their creative limit, Pixar felt like it could have been different and … Continue reading Toy Story 4 (2019) Review
Every “kids movie” has to navigate that fine balance between being entertaining enough for kids to be engrossed for 90 minutes but not be too corny and super sweet that parents can’t enjoy it too. Pixar knows how to do … Continue reading Trolls (2016) Review
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