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3rd & Bird (2008)
Charming adventures of Muffin set to deft musical arrangements
3rd & Bird is quite the most charming production on children's TV.
The songs and their musical arrangements (Jeffrey Lesser) are a joy to experience. The show centres on young Muffin, a kind and touchingly melancholic love bird, and her caring friends in a tree community. The show is a blend of songs and effortless revue musical arrangements which, whilst clearly compelling to a three year old, are equally appealing to any adult with a keen interest in music.
It's hard to understand why it didn't develop much beyond CBBC though I suspect that this show was a labour-of-love to make. It must have been a blast to be part of the creative team.
Some of the original creators were behind Wonder Pets and Small Potatoes yet, to this critic, those shows, though adequate, lack the magic and warmth of 3rd & Bird.
The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
And this won an Oscar for Sound?
After reading all the complimentary reviews on this site I feel quite sad to report that I found this movie quite diabolical. The poor sound design made the dialog difficult to follow to the extent that I needed to use subtitles in my own language! Ironically it won an Oscar for its sound which only serves to confirm my lack of respect for Oscar winners. It didn't help that the entire film was also drowned in an excessively loud and unimaginative soundtrack which tediously repeated the same refrain ad nauseam. The romance element seemed quite implausible and the relations between the characters were underdeveloped to the extend that I really didn't care what happened to any of them. From thirty minutes in I was itching for the film to end, which it did but only after what seemed like five hours!