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Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)
Absolute PERFECTION
There's nothing like this movie. I haven't experienced pure joy like this in my entire life. The actor for Sonic the Hedgehog should recieve ALL the Oscars, BAFDAs or whatever stuff you give to famous people. In my home country of Zimbabwe, we are not allowed to watch films at all. So to watch this masterpiece is an honour in and off itself. I had to be escorted out of the premises after sticking by 12 minutes after the movie ended. Then I got arrested by the South African police (my neighbouring country where I went to watch the movie)
To cut a long story short. The poor slums in my area could use the extra money SEGA for me to write this review.
God bless America.
Home Alone (1990)
Christmas Classic
Everyone knows this Christmas Classic, the original Home Alone tells a story about a kid who gets left home accidentally by his family who leave to go on holiday.
Of course, Macaulay Culkin (McCallister) decides that he wants to make the most out of this opportunity and does the stuff his family never lets him do.
However, this all changes with his chance run-in with the "Wet Bandits", two burglars that are out on Christmas robbing houses.
Joe Pesci makes this movie great with his original personality, Daniel Stern adds the humour to the dynamic duo.
All in all, definitely recommended for a family.
Meitantei Conan: Konjo no fisuto (2019)
Meh
This movie's nonsensical and over-complicated story is harder to understand in English subtitles than it is in the Japanese that it was written in, uhh mostly due to how it made no attempt at explaining what was going on, when.
It has alright animation but the lovey-dovey stuff between Conan's sister's friend and her boyfriend is boring and cringey.
On the other hand, the finale is spectacular to watch and keeps me on edge in my seat the whole time. If you watch the main anime series, you CAN give this one a skip as it has no relevant information or story but if you are bored and really into the series, you can watch this one.
Coco (2017)
Exotic
From what I vaguely remember from this movie, it was fascinating and memorable.
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
Lost in New York
Yet another Christmas phenomenon by Chris Columbus; this movie is light-hearted and funny. Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern really make this 90s feature one of the biggest hits of its time.
Tim Curry makes for a great side-villain and many humorous slap-stick movements.
This movie does suffer from... a nonsensical storyline where the main character could have dialled 911 at least 5 times in the movie before he actually decides to do it, where the villains just go ahead and tell their entire plot to the protagonist and whatnot but I guess that's part of it being a kid's film.
As much as this movie is good, it's predecessor is far better and generally funnier. If you liked the first movie, you should watch the second.
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Not Marvel's best Film
Avenger's Endgame is the finale of almost 20 years of Marvel's cinematic universe. As such, I went in with high hopes and came out with rather mediocre mixed feelings. A lot of this movie rides on the audience being emotionally attached to the existing Marvel Cinematic Universe movies.
The story-line is rather simplistic to be honest, if you watched Avenger's Infinity War, the "solution" that they comes up with feels a little Deus Ex Machina.
The writers clearly and obviously wrote off any explanations of what the characters *should* have done by saying that there is canonically only one way that the story could have happened (by Strange checking the future timelines); in what is clearly an example of lazy writing.
The visuals are fine, the music is great, character development is lacking; none of the characters actually make any on-screen development. In fact, to save on screen time, both the Hulk and Thor make off-screen development which feels cheap and misplaced.
Instead, the writers spend most of their time dwelling on rather lack lustre fight scenes and bad jokes. It was clear that this movie could have been so much more, if only be examining the deleted scenes.
If you are a hardcore fan of Marvel movies, this is obviously a 100% watch, you will get all of their Easter eggs and nods to previous movies. If you are watching this movie series casually, and you are not emotionally attached to any of the characters & you can disconnect yourself from the nostalgia, then you will see behind the golden mask that the Russo Brothers and co. have crafted for this movie, that there is a lacklustre mess with no direction.
Klaus (2019)
Charmingly Heart Warming
For what seemed to be "just another Christmas movie" at first, this charming animated feature really surprised me with it's beautiful hand-drawn visuals and crisp character movement. It's dialogue is brazenly filled with witty jokes that never get old and the voice actors are chosen well. The story is heart warming for a family film, not too simple and not overly complicated but otherwise tells it's own original Christmas origin story.
The movie has actual real character development with no magical change-of-heart transformations like you see in Disney movies. In all honesty, this films is almost devoid of any considerable or obvious flaws, which is why it deserves a spot as one of the best Christmas movies I've ever watched.
10/10