Reviews

Usually it's the third film that kills a movie franchise, and let me get this out of the way; I actually LIKED Batman Forever. But little good can be said about this piece of crap.

Continuing the villain formula started by "Returns" We have two more Batman villains; Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy. These two are however, in my opinion the LEAST engaging of the Batman villains, not just in television, but in the movie franchise all together. I mean hell, Riddler and Two-Face broke into Bruce's home, destroyed the Bat cave, and Friggin SHOT him in the head. What did Ivy and Freeze do? well Freeze attempted to freeze Gothom and Ivy did absolutely nothing.

While Ivy and Freeze are doing all this, Batman and Robin bicker at each other for most of the film. We are also introduced to Barbara (Batgirl). However George Clooney, try as he might, couldn't play Batman if you put a gun to his head.

Hell, Batman hardly develops at all, which is to say NONE of the characters develop. Most of them I dare you to give a damn about, except maybe Freeze, but thats about it.

The action scenes are incredibly over-the-top. All of it is unconvincing and goofy, but not in a good way. Some of the scenes don't even make sense! For example, in the opening, when Freeze is trying to get his gun off a tall pillar that is a few feet in front of him, he grabs a guard and throws him at the pillar, knocking the gun.....right into Freezes arms...........

The complex dialog has also been reduced to corny one-liners and goofy jokes about ice and plants and gay innuendos, and the story isn't much better, if not worse.

I read on line that during the production of Batman and Robin that they were going to make another Batman film called Batman Triumphent, thank God almighty that this film tanked at the box office and prevented another Shumacher film. This film sucked, plain and simple and there are few people on earth willing to defend it.

Avatar the last Airbender the movie made me cry when I got home. This movie made me think over what the director was thinking or smoking in the making of this commercial disaster. I have never felt so let down by a movie ever since the I sat through the son of the mask, sequel of the mask. For the love of everything right and innocent, don't go to this sin of a movie. ITS NOT WORTH YOUR TIME.

The beginning was fine until I heard Soka's name turn into what I thought sounded like Asoka from star Wars the Clone Wars. Not only that, but the whole ship scene was missing. Thats when Aang or Ong finds out he is over 112 years old. Instead, M. flipped the whole flow of the story by adding scenes and taking some away. Why did this happen to a perfectly beautiful story, I will never know. This was like my worst nightmares come alive. They messed up Aang's water training ad any personality that was previously given to them. They left out some of the old masters of the white lotus, which really agitated me and left no hope in this movie.

The thing that made me confused was how Monk Gyatso was not only not aged correctly, but he was an entirely different race. Every single nation had their own race that made no sense. Air was mixed along with white. Water was native American(that actually made sense though). Fire was middle eastern and Earth was Asian...? Does that sound right to you? Of course it doesn't. Because the fire nation was based on imperialist Japan, not middle easterners. If anything, they should be the air nomads. It would make it seem just slightly better.

The only scenes that had effort put into it was the blue spirit scene and the Siege of the North pole. And though the cgi looked amazing, it never popped out to me in 3D. This was a promise that made me distrust anything involved this movie. Unless you want to commit suicide caused by depression and want to see the movie that made me cry, Do not watch this movie and cuddle up with your friend, Avatar: the last Airbender DVD set of the actual animated series.

*sigh* I am not going to survive the endless hoard of fans who defend this Sci-Fi. I was going to avoid this film originally, but my friends got me to. so I found it and gave it a try. I tried to like it, I tried to FORCE myself to like this, but the bull crap plot, the liberal messaging, and the stupid characters really didn't do it for me.

First off, yes, Pandora looks stunning. Its really beautiful. But special effects does not make a good film, not by a long shot. My biggest grip with Avatar was it's story. To those who say that this film has an original story, that is a bold faced lie. I am sorry but this story has been done. It has Disney's Pochahontas, Dances with Wolves, and hell even Fearngully's plot lines littered all over the place, and when left to what little originality there is, the film just bored the hell out of me.

My next grip are all the democratic, lefty liberal messaging, you know; "America bad" "Natives good" or how about all the subliminal spitting in the face of our soldiers anyone? This film was basically an uppercut to our soldiers who returned from Vietnam. Its been said by a few and I agree.

The characters are not much better. Most of them are cardboard cut outs with little personality. And all of them are annoying, from the "Oh so perfect Navi" to the cliché American villain who wants to mine the moon of Pandora for "Unobtainium". The Navi think there perfect, there full of themselves and claim that all humans are evil. while the cliché villains claim that there is no intelligent life form on Pandora. I was expecting the humans to leap out and start singing "Savages".

If you like Avatar, fine, don't accuse me of lacking imagination or creativity because that is just plain rude. I am part of a minority I understand, with that being said I dub Avatar by James Cameron the most overrated film I have ever seen.

When I found this after the nostalgia critic's review, I could not believe that ABC canceled this! The fact of the matter is, Sonic the Hedgehog, or SonicsatAM, was simply put, fantastic.

Unlike other shows based on video games, this show had effort. It had a strong consistent plot, characters that developed, great animation, and just kept many watchers hooked.

The story centered around our hero Sonic and a group of freedom fighters trying to free the planet Mobius from the rule of the evil Dr. Robotnik. Robotnik is actually threatening if you can believe it. He has a dark evil personality and a dark evil voice, an army of robots, a henchman named Snively, and a machine called the robotisiser.

Each episode basically involved Sonic and the freedom fighters either breaking into Robotnik's layer and sabotaging one of his creations, or just simply fighting off his attacks. The freedom fighters consist of Princess Sally Apricorn, Antione, Tails, Rotter, and Bunny Rabot. All these characters developed, except for Antoine. Antoine really just bugged me, he was the french stereotype, and was Meant for comic mischief. Sally is by all means 100 times more likable than Amy, she is basically one of the leaders of the freedom fighters (as well as Sonic's love interest) Bunny is a half bunny half robot who was saved just before she was fully robotized.

Rotter is the handy-man, but he was much better in the first season. Snively is Robotnik's henchman and nephew, who until the end of the series was just abused by Robotnik.

Now I bet some of you are wondering, why did i give this series only 9 and not 10 stars? Well let me turn you to the last episode and what I consider to be the absolute BIGGEST cliffhanger of all time! On the season 2 finale, Sonic and Sally set out to destroy Robotnik's Doomsday Machine. They are successful and as Robotnik tries to escape, he is ultimately caught in the explosion of the machine, the freedom fighters celebrate, Sonic and Sally share a kiss, and all is well right? WRONG! Back at the ruins, it turns out Snively had hid in a pod under the base and survived the explosion and is excited to see that Robotnik is gone, he plans to take over and succeed where Robotnik failed. He also claims that he is not alone as a pair of glowing red eyes appear in the pod next to him.

Now that all sounds cool right? Well its too damn bad we may never know what happened considering ABC leaders shut the show down because of Power Rangers. (Go to fans united for sonicsatam for more info)The series ended on a cliffhanger and to this day annoys people to no end. its sad to see such a great show end like this, just when it was getting better too.

What more can I say about the show except one of Sonic's catchphrases "Its way past cool!"

Don Bluth has made some great movies in the past. However, every film maker has his mediocre film, or in Don's case, several mediocre films. Rock-a-doodle is one of those films that could have been several times better than the end result.

The story is somewhat passable, but it's full of plot holes, like the fact that the sun rose without Chanticleer, it sets almost immediately, and then it turns out he's needed for the sun to rise. That plot hole is inexcusable, and it bugged me. But the dialog, and some annoying characters are what got me. Edmund, our main hero may be cute, but he is just plain annoying, the Owls can't go five freaking minuets without singing, etc.

The plot of the film is that this rooster named Chanticleer, (voiced by Glenn Cambell) has a job that is to wake up the sun by crowing. The Grand Duke of Owls (Christopher Plummber) sends an owl to attack Chanticleer and distract him so that he forgets to crow, the sun rises without Chanticller (then sets almost immediately) and everyone thinks Chanticleer is useless, so he sets off for the city, since the sun set, it starts to rain, and our villain the Grand duke is very happy.

As it turns out, the story of Chanticleer is actually a story book that is being read to our Hero Edmund. its flooding where he lives and he calls Chanticleer for help. This makes no sense considering Chanticleer is just a character, but the Duke still appears to try and silence Edmund. After Edmund is rescued by a Dog named Patoo, Edmund and a bunch of the other animals go to find Chanticleer, because apparently his crowing DID bring the sun up, (plot hole alert) Thats all Im going to say about the story, while its not bad, it kind of drags after a while. the songs by the way are HORRIBLE, there all dull, repetitive and just annoying. But the movie had moments that made me smile, the ending climax made me smile, and there was some other moments.

Bottom line, its not the worst, but its not the best.

Laputa is another fun Miyazaki film. It has great animation, a plot that kept me watching, and interesting characters, as well as a good soundtrack.

The film stars a little girl named Sheeta, she is in pursuit by the Military and a gang of pirates who are after her powerful crystal. After she escapes the two groups, she comes across a young boy named Patsu. The two quickly become friends, as Sheeta notices a picture of a castle called "Laputa". Patsu explains that he wants to prove it exists, because it will prove that his father wasn't lying about it.

The pirates and the Military catch up to them and the young duo escapes into some mines nearby and discover that Sheeta's crystal is made of a mineral that the people of Laputa use, this excites Patsu and the two decide to go looking for Laputa, and they decide to return the crystal there.

The military, along with our main Villain Mooscow, catch the two and blackmail Sheeta saying if she doesn't help them find Laputa, they may kill Patsu. She agrees and a confused, angry and sad Patsu leaves to return home as he comes across the pirates, the leader of the Pirates is convinced that Patsu sold Sheeta to the military but he claims thats not the case, he decides to team up with the pirates to save Sheeta.

Thats all of the story I will sum up, but I have more to say about the movie itself. The characters are likable and well rounded, and some of the characters do a good job in making me mad. The film's plot is easy to follow and has plenty of twists that make it another brilliant Miyazaki film

This film was supposed to be for all ages, however, this film put me and everyone I know to sleep. Its dull, over-the-top silly and just plain boring after a while.

The CGI is nice, but the plot had me scratching my head and going "What the hell?" most of the time. The implied romantic story between a Bee and a Human made me feel uncomfortable, if I wanted Beastiality, I'd play Sonic 06.

That being said, the characters very much annoyed me. Whenever the main character speaks, I feel annoyed, hes just uninteresting, which is to say, ALL of the characters if you ask me are uninteresting. Only one part of this movie made me laugh and thats the "Hi Bee, Hi! AAAAAA" part.

That being said, its not the worst film I have ever seen, but I still don't like it at all.

For those of you who are going to bash me for loving this movie, I say this to you: I don't care! This was my first anime movie, and I didn't know what to think of it, years later, I decided to go back down memory lane. I loved every minuet of this film.

Kiki's delivery service is another brilliant Miyazaki film. The animation and story are uplifting and fun. The soundtrack is also fun, and the characters are well developed. All of the characters are rounded, and enjoyable. The story centers around a young 13 year old girl named Kiki, who is a witch, she has to leave home to begin her training. She comes across a nice city and decides to start a flying delivery service, along with her cat Jiji.

As the film goes on she meets a boy named Tombo. Kiki is at first annoyed by him, but eventually becomes friends with him. kiki's training becomes more difficult as she is having a hard time trying to fit in, and she temporarily looses her witch powers. However she is able to recover them at the end of the film when she rushes to save Tombo's life, this urge to save Tombo gives Kiki her witch magic back and the film ends with her writing home.

I would give this film a perfect score but the film feels short, and it actually drags at one point, but only for a few minutes. But bottom line, Kiki's delivery service is a fun, uplifting film, that any Miyazaki fan or just movie fan, as well as the family will enjoy!

I have met a lot of people who hate the star wars prequels, I like Phantom Menace, I hate attack of the clones and I love revenge of the sith, however, the latest star wars film nearly made me hurl up blood. My mother and I being big star wars fans, decided to give it a whirl, and we wanted our money back soon after.

The film is full of boring actions scenes, incredibly unlikeable characters, and a horrible story. The film was incredible boring, and just painfully lame. Anakin continues to be a stupid, whiny character that no one likes, his new padawan has no personality and is pretty damn annoying, which is to say ALL of the characters are annoying, not even Obi-Wan or Yoda were enjoyable and their my two favorite characters.

The story is all over the place, apparently Jabba has a son (I know just go with it) and hes been kidnapped,and hes offering the use of tatoeen as a base to whoever can reclaim his son. So the Republic and the CIS compete. However, this story fails to be interesting, so the writers decided to brake some star wars rules, what I mean is there are THREE sith, whatever happened to "always two there are, no more no less, a master and an apprentice"? Second, the droids have personalities, leading to some "Comic mischief".

The saber dual scenes are horrendously boring, only one of them lasts more than a minute, and the others last not even 10 seconds. The other scenes are just bland and repetitive.

The problems don't stop there, Star wars the Clone wars is easily by far the worst looking CGI movie released in years. Everything looks like cardboard puppets that a fifth grader made in art class. The voice acting is also bad, and the soundtrack isn't even composed by John Williams. And the worst part is George Lucas didn't even direct or write this and people blamed him for it, thats how bad this movie is, it makes people delusional.

Overall: Just how bad is this movie? Its worst than what the critics are saying, this is perhaps the second worst movie I have ever seen,and trust me, its not worth a view,and apparently I am not alone on that thought considering the fact that it was only in theaters for less than a month.

After seeing the Nostalgia Critic's 100th episode, in which he reviewed BattleField Earth, I didn't know what to think, and after a few months, curiosity got the better of me and I went in search of this film on the internet while I was home sick. And BOY oh BOY does this film suck. Everything about it sucks, the characters (who don't develop) the effects are crap, the story is confusing at points, the movie itself drags, the acting is a joke, and I kept finding myself pointing out stupid points as well as plot holes.

I won't really talk about the story much but in a nutshell, earth has been ruled by an incredibly stupid race called Psychlos for one thousand years, and the humans (or Man animals as the psychlos call them) are in constant hiding from the psychlos and are on the verge of extinction, and the hero johnny tries to come up with a plan to take back earth. One of the psychlos called Terl is forced to stay on earth as chief of security for reasons unknown, and he wants to buy his way off earth by training the "man animals" to mine gold, because apparently gold is the rarest of all minerals.While the plot sounds simple, its hard to follow and full of plot holes.

The psychlos are perhaps the DUMMBEST alien race known to man, they let the humans roam free to the point where they actually kill a couple of psychlos, Terl lets a machine teach Johnny all about the psychlos, all the psychlos underestimate the humans, and apparently the psychlos have so many health problems I keep asking myself how in the mother of God did these morons conquer ANY planet? Travolta (who plays Terl) I believe didn't try in the slightest to act in this movie, and he's the dumbass who's responsible for this movie! However, his role actually made me laugh at points, as well as a lot of the psychlos stupidity did. But the crappy trophy award for worst actor and character goes to Johnny (Pepper). This guy is easily the worst frigging actor I have ever seen! his character is unrealistic and psychotic and just unlikeable.

Now The reason why I give this movie a star more than twilight or son of the mask is because this movie made me laugh and some of the action was some what enjoyable, but then again saying this movie is better than twilight or son of the mask is like saying it doesn't hurt being stabbed my this knife as much as it does with THIS knife. Bottom line, I WOULD say don't watch this movie, but I think in order to believe me you have to see it to believe it.

Every now and then, some unlikable creep decides to take a television show and turn it into a full lenght film. Now not all of these are bad, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles had a few good movies, and the Naruto and Death Note movies were likable. However, not all television shows are meant to be turned into movies, a lot of these TV movies usually suck and Tom and Jerry: The Movie is no exception. It's as if the people who wrote this had never seen a Tom and Jerry cartoon, or it was written by some stupid, ignorant, politically correct soccer moms who hated the idea of seeing their children watch two animals beat the living crap out of each other.

Now I know what some of you are thinking "Huh?!" well the thing is there is virtually no slapstick ANYWHERE in this movie. In fact, the movie has little relationship with the original cartoons, and the film is not funny at all. Tom and Jerry don't beat each other up, no, instead thanks to a dog and his flea pall sent straight from Hell, Tom and Jerry BECOME FRIENDS.

It all started when Tom's owners are moving, Tom and Jerry come with, only to fling each other out of the car. Howver, Tom and Jerry's home is buldozed to the ground, and they have to roam the town looking for food and shelter. Jerry constantly tries to convince Tom that they should work together (all without dialog, you'll see why I'm bringing this up in a minuete)but Tom does not want to.

Then everything goes to Hell when They meet Pugsy and his flea friend named Frank. They start preaching to Tom and Jerry about why they should become friends. Then they ask Tom and Jerry for their names and they SPEAK! Now I don't mean for a minute, no, they speak in FULL sentences! This is sacrilegious, it's against the rules! Its a number of things, but it's not NEARLY as bad as what happens next.

Pugsy and Frank pull out some dancing canes and, I'm not kidding, start singing about friendship. It's at this point that everyone in the theater figures out the point of this movie, and they wonder if the price of this movie was fair. Now granted, the song isn't actually that bad, but then it gets bad when TOM AND JERRY PICK UP THE CANES AND START SINGING THE SONG! And it's at this point that everyone in the theater that loves Tom and Jerry gets up and angrily leaves, those who stayed either tried to give the movie a chance, or their probably some of the fanboys that defend this movie both on this website and on Youtube.

And yes! There are more songs, but Tom and Jerry don't sing them don't worry. However, Tom and Jerry aren't the main characters, what do I mean, well they are SECONDARY characters. the REAL main character is a little orphan girl named Robin. Yep, the plot of this movie is that Tom and Jerry help this little girl escape from her evil aunt and her lawyer, and find Robin's dad. Yes, Robin actually takes up MORE screen time than Tom and Jerry do. What kind of bullcrap is this?! As for the other songs, they all suck. I mean they are Painful, all of them are written horribly and take up a few minuets each. The only point I can give this movie is that the animation is nice, but animation isn't enough to save this GOD AWFUL movie.

I could go on, but the Nostalgia Critic was right about this movie, he was right about every single minute of it! And to the Fanboys that defend this movie, may you NEVER watch a movie or a Tom and Jerry cartoon EVER AGAIN!!!

There are times in life where we find a movie that we not only really like, but it touches us in a way no other movie could. As mushy as that sounds, the movie that touched me is Hayoa Miyazaki's Spirited Away. Not only is it magical, funny, romantic and just plain creative and enjoyable in every way, but it manages to be serious and light-hearted at the same time.

The movie follows a little girl named Chihiro, who, much to her displease, is moving with her family to a new home. On the way, her father takes a wrong turn and ends up at what looks like an entrance to a theme park. The parents are curious to go in so Chihiro follows. The parents find some delicious food and begins to gobble it down like pigs. Chihiro tries to talk them out of it claiming that they'll get in trouble. Since her parents wont listen, Chihiro talks a walk and notices a bath house, and a little boy notices her. He desperately tries to get her to leave before night falls as it will trap her in the spirit world. Chihiro tries to get her parents to leave but they have been turned into pigs by the Witch of the BathHouse named Yubaba as punishment for eating the food. The little boy that Chihiro met reveals himself to be named Haku, the right hand man and apprentice to Yubaba. He tells Chihiro that he wants to help her and tells her that in order to save her parents, she needs to get a job at the bathhouse until they can figure a way to get Yubaba to turn them back.

And what follows is an amazing adventure complete with strange but likable characters like Kamaji the boiler man or Lin, just your everyday employee, and other strange characters like Yubaba's twin sister Zeniba, and Yubaba's giant baby, as well as a monster who just wants a friend called No-Face. All these characters help Chihiro grow dramatically overtime, and eventually Chihiro falls in love with Haku, and when Haku gets in fatal trouble, she goes out of her way to save him, risking her life for him. It touched me, and I'm sure it will touch you.

The animation is wonderful. Its beautiful, remarkable and sometimes silly. But the visuals were just stunning through out the film, and its just another thing that I love about this film. The soundtrack is also incredible with wonderful pieces like "Reprise" or "One Summer's Day" the list goes on. Most of the characters are developed overtime. Kamaji becomes less grumpy, Lin becomes more caring, the Baby learns to work, Haku gets his name back, and No-Face finds himself both a home and a friend.

The Movie comes to a thrilling climax when Chihiro discovers that Haku is the spirit of a river that she almost drowned in, but Haku had saved her. This realization breaks Yubaba's control on Haku. Then Yubaba gives Her one test that if she passes, she and her parents will be free. Chihiro passes the test, and EVERYONE cheers. Haku leads Chihiro back to the human world, and her parents, (who didn't remember what had happened) get the car started, and with one final look, Chihiro bids a silent farewell to the amazing world, and all her new friends.

Overall: What more do I need to say? This is EASILY Miyazaki's best film, as well as my favorite. If you are a movie lover, and anime lover, or you just want to watch an amazing film, You should check out Spirited Away, you will NOT regret it!

The first Mask was great, it was funny, creative and was just an overall great movie. The sequel however I can easily call the worst film of all time. Not only is it completely devoid of effort or creativity, but even if it the cast and crew tried it would still suck.

My first gripe with the film lies in the story; its boring, inconsistent and most of all, just not funny. The "Story" has to do with the Green Loki trying to recover his mask, which has the ability to grant incredible power to whoever wheres it, and apparently some looser finds it and puts it on, has sex with his wife, and the resulting baby that's born has the powers of the mask. Thats it, however the movie can't even keep this consistent. we are constantly dragged back and forth between Loki and the father doing really stupid stunts all acted HORRIBLY. Now I know what you're thinking, "How could Jim Carrey act bad?" well here's the thing; Jim Carrey is nowhere to be seen in this film. That's right, its another sequel to a Jim Carrey film without Jim Carrey, and the result is a steaming pile of crap.

The acting like I said is perhaps the worst I have ever seen in a film. Its all over the top, unconvincing and just goofy, but not the good goofy. The jokes are beyond horrible, they're all forced, too obvious and just plain painful. There IS a subplot abut the dog trying to kill the baby, but it's all just an attempt to grab onto the fame of Looney Toones, and you can probably guess how bad that is.

I would keep going, but just TALKING about this film is just painful. the story is crap, the acting is crap, the jokes are crap, and the effects are also crap. The bottom line is, Son of the Mask manages to hit the absolute lowest any film can POSSIBLE go, at least that's what I think.

Movies based on books are released all the time. Some are good like Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter, some are God awful like Battlefield Earth. Many know this to be true, however it takes a huge amount of effort to be considered one of the worst films of all time. Twilight is one of those rare pieces of crap. The movie is not only horrible written, horrible acted and horrible directed, but even if there was effort put into this film, it still would have sucked. Twilight manages to take the word "awful" and give it a whole new meaning. If Citizen Kane is shown at film schools as an example of how to make good movies, than Twilight is shown to tell students how NOT to make a film.

Twilight's first and by far biggest problem is its story, its inconsistent, stupid and Incredibly boring. The thing is, I have never read the book, I don't want to after seeing the film. But from what I've gathered, the book is basically "O my GOD i wanna hit Edward!" For 500+ pages. So how do you make a movie based off of that?! The book also lacks any credible dialog. Every line is either dull, stupid, or just unconvincing and awkward.

Like I said before, the story is awful. Other than "OMG I wanna hit Edward" we have an unconvincing plot about our main character Bella spending the summer with her father, going to school and a family of "vampires". The reason why I put vampires in quotation marks is because nothing in this movie resembles a vampire. The "vampires" in this film sparkle in daylight, possess super human speed and strength, and they apparently can turn people into vampires, instead of an army of the living dead. Edward himself is incredibly dull, emo and just cannot act in this movie. He has absolutely NO personality or emotion.

The characters are completely deprived of personality. Bella's lines all have the same emo monotone and are awkward and dull. The same can be said with every other character in this film. The dialog is absolutely horrendous as well. I could go on forever, but let me say this, I first saw this movie with a group I started to hang out with, some of them were girls, and they forced me to see this movie. I have been seeking revenge ever since.

Overall: What else needs to be said? If Son of the Mask and StarWars the Clone wars didn't exist, this would be the absolute worst film I have ever seen! The acting is horrible, the directing sucks, the story is beyond garbage. This film had "disaster" written all over it, and the end result is just not worth any sum of money.