fintastique
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Sorry if someone has used that tag line before but i'm not searching through 9 pages of reviews. the price of living in Europe we have to wait for some American releases.
I know I am way outside the target audience of this one but I like the writers.
After a brief flirtation with the bar and the novel by Amanda Brown in Legally Blonde writers Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith have returned to their true love the bard William Shakespeare. After adapting the Taming of the Shrew into "10 Things I hate about you" they have blended "12th Night" with "Bend it like Beckham". Though to be fair Ewan Leslie actually has first billing of the writers. I won't mention their other film Ella Enchanted as I never saw it and Karen and Kirsten were two of five writers associated with that film.
Anyway the film, Viola has a passion for playing soccer but girl's soccer is cancelled at her school so she decides to attend another school pretending to be someone else to play on their team instead.
To achieve this deception she must walk like a man, talk like a man and spit like a man. The walking isn't too much of a problem, the talking at times she sounds like Steve Martin in "Bringing down the House" with her overuse of African American street slang and the spitting she only does that once.
The most important bit of casting was Amanda Bynes as Viola a pretty girl but with a wig and sideburns could pass for a tall prepubescent boy, strange how different a haircut can make somebody. It's certainly an improvement over her previous film "What a Girl Wants" though I never saw "Lovewrecked" she carries the film though appearing in virtually every scene in some form or another, she has to.
The rest of the cast was of mostly of unknowns to me (Channing Tatum, Laura Ramsey, Robert Hoffman) with the exception of the underused Julia Haggerty (the flight attendant in "Airplane 1 + 2") and the over rated Vinnie Jones. Though to be fair nobody plays a hard man footballer like Vinnie and he is not too stretched in this role, it would have been nice to have had a quirky football coach. As the principle played by David Cross is beyond quirky he is just annoying.
On the whole I enjoyed the film at times I cringed at some of the scenes but its pace sped us to scenes that were actually very amusing, if you enjoyed "10 Things" and "Legally Blonde" you will enjoy this though I know it maybe a little sweet for some tastes.
I know I am way outside the target audience of this one but I like the writers.
After a brief flirtation with the bar and the novel by Amanda Brown in Legally Blonde writers Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith have returned to their true love the bard William Shakespeare. After adapting the Taming of the Shrew into "10 Things I hate about you" they have blended "12th Night" with "Bend it like Beckham". Though to be fair Ewan Leslie actually has first billing of the writers. I won't mention their other film Ella Enchanted as I never saw it and Karen and Kirsten were two of five writers associated with that film.
Anyway the film, Viola has a passion for playing soccer but girl's soccer is cancelled at her school so she decides to attend another school pretending to be someone else to play on their team instead.
To achieve this deception she must walk like a man, talk like a man and spit like a man. The walking isn't too much of a problem, the talking at times she sounds like Steve Martin in "Bringing down the House" with her overuse of African American street slang and the spitting she only does that once.
The most important bit of casting was Amanda Bynes as Viola a pretty girl but with a wig and sideburns could pass for a tall prepubescent boy, strange how different a haircut can make somebody. It's certainly an improvement over her previous film "What a Girl Wants" though I never saw "Lovewrecked" she carries the film though appearing in virtually every scene in some form or another, she has to.
The rest of the cast was of mostly of unknowns to me (Channing Tatum, Laura Ramsey, Robert Hoffman) with the exception of the underused Julia Haggerty (the flight attendant in "Airplane 1 + 2") and the over rated Vinnie Jones. Though to be fair nobody plays a hard man footballer like Vinnie and he is not too stretched in this role, it would have been nice to have had a quirky football coach. As the principle played by David Cross is beyond quirky he is just annoying.
On the whole I enjoyed the film at times I cringed at some of the scenes but its pace sped us to scenes that were actually very amusing, if you enjoyed "10 Things" and "Legally Blonde" you will enjoy this though I know it maybe a little sweet for some tastes.
This was supposedly scheduled for a 5th of November release but they missed it by three months. 1984 meets the Matrix though despite the writers of the later the Wachowski brothers it has more in common with the former. Don't expect too much action but lots of wordy prose and at times sentences that sound like someone is reading from the V section of the dictionary. Though they have promoting their first assistant director from the Matrix Trilogy James McTeigue to direct this one.
It's a strong cast Hugo "Agent Smith" Weaving dons the Guy Fawkes mask as the anarchist with an agenda. Natalie Portman is his unlikely collaborator. They are joined by Stephen Rea, Stephen Fry, John Hurt and Tim Pigott-Smith. Obviously somebody thought if they were going to set a film in London at least the supporting cast should be from that area of the world.
The plot has its twists, all I will say it is set in alternate universe where the government has absolute power and curfews and other controls are in place but one man the mysterious V has other ideas. I enjoyed it though it's more of a thriller than an action film.
It's a strong cast Hugo "Agent Smith" Weaving dons the Guy Fawkes mask as the anarchist with an agenda. Natalie Portman is his unlikely collaborator. They are joined by Stephen Rea, Stephen Fry, John Hurt and Tim Pigott-Smith. Obviously somebody thought if they were going to set a film in London at least the supporting cast should be from that area of the world.
The plot has its twists, all I will say it is set in alternate universe where the government has absolute power and curfews and other controls are in place but one man the mysterious V has other ideas. I enjoyed it though it's more of a thriller than an action film.
Obviously they felt that the computers could handle water now and the first film was worthy of a sequel. All the familiar faces and not so familiar voices from the first instalment are faced with a serious case of global warming so their ice palace is going to be converted into water world.
No cave men this time just critters, the mammoth (Ray Romano), the sloth (John Leguizamo) and the sabre tooth tiger (Denis Leary). Plus Queen Latifa and cameos by Seann William Scott and Jay Leno. It's an average computer generated animation, if you enjoyed the first instalment you will enjoy it but don't expect Nemo or the Incredibles in terms of characters or sheer imagination.
No cave men this time just critters, the mammoth (Ray Romano), the sloth (John Leguizamo) and the sabre tooth tiger (Denis Leary). Plus Queen Latifa and cameos by Seann William Scott and Jay Leno. It's an average computer generated animation, if you enjoyed the first instalment you will enjoy it but don't expect Nemo or the Incredibles in terms of characters or sheer imagination.