Artemis Fowl movie review: falls foul of itself
A disaster of a kids’ fantasy caper; feels like it’s making up the plot as it goes. A mishmash of manufactured wonder: characters barely sketched, action seemingly setting up future DisneyWorld rides.
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Aladdin (2019) movie review: cave of blunders
The romance lacks chemistry, and the villain lacks bite. It seems embarrassed to be a musical, failing to embrace the necessary ineffable daydreaminess. Somehow even more cartoonish as live-action.
fun stuff from FlickFilosopher stats week of May 25-31 2013
Actual unretouched phrases that people plugged into search engines this week that led them to this site (with some commentary from me)…
Oz the Great and Powerful (review)
Exactly what you expect it to be. Unless you were expecting some Sam Raimi nutso. (new DVD/VOD US/Can)
the worst movies of 2010
I’ve finally gotten through the last few films I needed to see for the year, and am now able to definitively declare that of the 208 new theatrical releases I saw during the award year (which doesn’t really end till the Oscars are handed out next month), these 10 are the very worst of the lot…
question of the day: Now that the Harry Potter theme park is about to launch, what other stories deserve their own theme park?
If you’re in the U.S., you’ve probably seen the TV ads for Universal Orlando Resort’s Wizarding World of Harry Potter, which opens on June 18. It sounds pretty cool, as manufactured entertainment experiences go (via People): As for what Potter fans will encounter when the gates open, a peek into Harry’s World earlier this month … more…
Wii of the weekend: ‘Toy Story Mania!’
Well, this is a huge letdown. A Toy Story game? How could that be less than awesome, I thought. And yet it’s not only disappointingly mundane and simplistic, it also has just about nothing to do with Toy Story. I was hoping for, I dunno, maybe a chance to explore Andy’s room, maybe have to … more…
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (review)
Forget that this is based on a ride at Disney World, and a pretty sorry one, at that — know that it’s a wonderfully exhausting, refreshingly unironic, delightfully old-fashioned swashbuckler.
