If you’ve seen Star Wars, (also known as The First One, Episode IV or Classic Star Wars™) you may enjoy this:
http://www.thankyougeorge.com/index/story/short_attention_span_theater_tribute_to_george/
It’s the entirety of Star Wars edited down to exactly 2 minutes.
Chuckle.
Raaaarr, I’m a computer-generated lion, and I’m today’s guest movie reviewer!
The short summary is that if you’re in the mood for some outstanding art direction and lovely special effects, go see this film. And the computer-generated lion is pretty good too.
Yes, it’s smashing magical goodness.
Go and see it, though not if you have already read the book 8 times, and will wince inwardly when the film omits a plot-point—because the film cuts out a lot. And because really, that’s no way to enjoy a film.
Basically the story this year at the magical Mallory Towers [...]
Disappointing.
Not awful, but disappointing.
The problem is that this film has been done before, in a hundred different ways, and better. The animation is smashing, of course, and the timing, art direction, etc, etc is all slick as you would expect for a big-budget animated movie. It’s just really uninspired.
What I saw as its core [...]
Sublime, sublime movie. A classic in its own lunchtime. A classy old English comedy, rivaling the best of what Ealing had to offer, with knockabout action sequences which, in a fair world, would make Will Farrell give up and go home. Wordplay worthy of Wodehouse. A script which makes you care about the characters. To [...]