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Reviews
The Butterfly Effect (2004)
Am I missing something here?
Strange, disjointed, untidy... I really didn't get it. It started out pretty promising, but I think it tried to be too philosophical and over-reached itself. Despite the image he may have garnered as something of a buffoon through the dreadfully overdone "Punk'd", I have no doubt Mr Kutcher is an intelligent, questful, deep thinking person, but "Butterfly Effect" just tried to explore too many issues - what was the central theme anyway? Was it paedophilia, bullying, drugs? Each scenario just became more outrageous than the last until it became totally implausible. I walked away from the movie feeling like I'd wasted 90 minutes of my valuable time.
Keeping Mum (2005)
A comedic gem!
I recently acquired this movie on DVD knowing nothing about its genre or content, having never seen a review or a piece of publicity. I looked down the cast list and liked what I saw - namely Maggie Smith and Liz Smith who were paired as aged mother and prim daughter opposite the stammering chiropodist (ex-Python, Michael Palin) in "A Private Function" (1984). They were stunning back then and now, 22 years later, their partnership is utterly amazing - vintage stuff. Real class.
Kristin Scott Thomas is wonderfully funny and Rowan Atkinson is surprisingly brilliant as the ditzy, bumbling vicar because somehow he's never quite kicked the traces of "Mr Bean"!
You'll be missing a truly wonderful experience if you don't hire or buy this movie - you won't be belly-laughing, but it'll certainly keep you tittering all the way through to the closing credits!
Caravan to Vaccares (1974)
This was truly a dreadful movie
This must rank as one of Cinema's greatest debacles. I was wandering Europe at the time and had the misfortune to stumble upon the crew making this movie in what was, even then, one of the world's idyllic, unspoiled settings. I was enlisted as an extra, and what followed was an exhibition of modern day debauchery. Forget all the accusations you've ever heard of Peter Mayall's intrusions on this rare piece of French life- Geoff Reeve and his cohorts embarked on a level of revelry at the restaurant at Les Beaux that left the Maitre'd slack-jawed in disbelief. They were, quite simply, awful, uncultured and undeserving of French hospitality.