Reviews

Why make a movie about a civil war in America when you can't even tell what the war is about. I love a movie that has a story and I went into this expecting a war story about America, instead what I got was a story about a journalist. It wasn't a bad film, but it wasn't great either. Maybe I expected too much, but I really wanted some meat to go along with potatoes, and I didn't get any. This could have really been a much better movie. At least with Captain America I got a story about their Civil War, with this one I feel as though I walked in half way through the movie and missed the first hour or so. Oh well, maybe there will be better writers somewhere else.

Black Panther was an Aveger and yet none of the other Avengers came to his funeral?? Yet he was there when they created Ironman, Disney must not have had enough money or respect for the character to have any of the Avengers there. What a waste for a movie, oh well. Well at least they had good continuity, oh wait, nope that precious metal was used by Stark Industry's well shucks, continuity is hard. And why is this movie so dark, can hardly see it, they needed better lighting on the set. All in all one of the worst movies I have tried to watch in a long time. Right up there with films like Things, Manos Hands of Fate.

I walked into this never hearing about it before and not knowing what it was. At first I thought it was like single white female. Then as the film went on I was surprised, little gore, little cussing, more like a good suspense. The story telling was good, no matter what some might say, I thought it was a good story. This girl seemed to never really go further than the edge, making threats, hurting people, but never to the point of murder. That is what I saw and to me that build up is what is lacking in movies today. They want to show everything from the past to the present and show blood and gore and sex. It was refreshing to see an old style movie with new actors. By the end of the movie it was sit on the edge of my seat and yell at the screen, "Look out behind you" I have not yelled at the movie screen in a long time. Thats what movies are for. I give this film two thumbs up and rate it an 8 out of 10. I would like to see more films like this. I miss old Hollywood.

I remember this movie when I was a kid and I am not the only one. And the thing that I really like is that most of the people who have made any comments on this movie remembers seeing it on channel 5 ktla out of LA. I remember that they would show this movie on that weekend show, family film festival. I would love to see this movie in in its entirety. I have seen individual episodes on Netflix, but it is still fun to see this day. Watching them and remembering the Giant Robot with the missiles coming out of the tips of his fingers and how he would fight. Great stuff from a by gone age of film making. I would not like to see a remake of this today. I believe that they would mess it up with CGI and it would lose all that charm the first show and film had. It would be a sad day for Voyage into Space fans everywhere.

When the lights went down and the movie started I kept thinking to myself, why didn't they just re-release the original 1984 film. I know, they thought they could improve the movie. Did they really do that? I do not think that they did. I also kept thinking to myself, wow, all of these teenagers that have never seen the original because it is 26 years old, and heaven forbid that they watch something older than 5 years ago, and yes I know that there are some that do, and yes, I work in a video store and I when they ask for horror movies they would much rather watch Jennifer's Body over the Exorcist because "That is way too old." Anyway, they were really loving the movie. This "Wanna Be Freddy" was not the same as in the films from the late 80's or early 90's, and he was not as scary as the original Robert England Freddy, it was like when Roger Moore tried to be James Bond, after all he was no Sean Connery. This new "Freddy" could hardly open his mouth, he looked like he was wearing a rubber mask, and he was just not that scary. He seemed to have no idea how to use his gloves, since when is making them sound like a pair of scissors more frighting than the consistent scrapping on metal? It just became more lame as the film went on. Then we are made to believe that the children made up the stories about him. What is more frighting, a monster that just likes to kill children, or a child molester who wants them to remember that he really liked them? Kind of twisted, but not scary. In the original we don't even find out who Freddy is until way late in the movie, and only then we know that he was a murderer who was seeking revenge. Well, watch this if you must, but just remember, New Line Cinema is the house that Freddy built, but it was the 1984 film that put them on the map. There is a reason for that.

From someone like Sam Rami. I read a lot of reviews about this movie before I sat down to watch it. I read that a lot of people compared it to The Evil Dead. So going into it I thought I was in for a treat. I was wrong. It was more like Stephen King's Thinner, only it took three days to happen. I did not find all the "black comedy" to be funny at all, because it seemed to only involve "throwing up". Some parts were kind of creepy, like the encounter in the parking lot, but other than that, I did not find this movie scary. I believe it could have been better, the plot was good, but lacked in depth. Horror needs to take a step back and look at its roots to find what is scary and what is just fodder.

But then again, Steve Martin is no Peter Sellers. I know that a lot of people are comparing this film to the original Blake Edwards/Peter Sellers films of the 60's and 70's, but I have to say that in all fairness, these people that are making the new films must not have paid much attention to the older ones. Yes some things are there, Peter Sellers used to call Cato his "Little Yellow friend" that line is heard here, but in a different context. The surprise attacks by Cato are used here, but only by children. What is missing? "Yes I knew that" "What was that you said?" The way Dreyfus hates Inspector Clouseau, Herbert Lom was just so great in that part, nothing aganst the former Monty Python alumnist, he was even better that Keven Kline, but something was missing three. Just to name a few things. Now for moment lets look at this film. Did I laugh? Yes, with some parts of the film it was hard not to laugh. Were some things over the top? Yes, the part with the Pope was a little over done. The Pink Panther seemed to a bit bigger than in the first movie and looks more like the one from the original films, bigger.

It has been at least twenty years since I have been to a movie that when the credits start to roll the audience cheers and applauds. This is what movies are made of, stands right up there with all the great films of the 20th century. Very little CGI, the ants stood out the most. It was the first time that I went to a theater in a long time and saw a good movie. To all the people that said they should have remade or recast Indiana Jones, I pity you, to the ones who told me that this movie would suck because it has been so long since there was an Indiana Jones movie and he did not belong in the 21st century, you must not like movies. It had everything that one would expect from an Indiana Jones movie, action, laughs, sci-fi, John Williams score, and those scenes that make you look away, even tho you don't want to.

Go into this movie expecting only a movie, a fun movie with lots of the things that made all the other movies great.