I wonder how Roger Ebert (my idol movie critic) would react to his own review of Cars after the film went on garnering awards. He said Cars was the least beautiful of John Lasseter’s earlier works, Toy Story and A Bug’s Life. I tend to disagree since there are lots of factors that make this [...]
Monster House is an experiment to merge children’s animation with horror. And it succeeds. This actually is Robert Zemeckis’s follow up to Polar Express, Zemeckis having fallen in love himself to children’s animation, big thanks to the influence of Steven Spielberg. There is one memorable scene in this movie – the liplock between Jenny and [...]
It’s kinda abnormal for animals to possess intelligence as humans but that’s the fun in fables where humans are involved, right? And so it is in this movie. The actors are so engrossed with their animal characters that even Nick Nolte had to research his role just as his voice would be that of a [...]
In 1998, A Bug’s Life was Disney’s November answer to the September release of Dreamworks Pictures, Antz. When Disney was still a separate entity from Pixar Animation Studios, the former contracted the latter to come up with another interesting CGI film, as follow up for Toy Story. Yes, Pixar was also the force behind Toy [...]
This movie is a departure from the kind of Adam Sandler that we usually see i.e. being a lone father, or pathetic lover, or someone locked up for a very obscure offense. We see an Adam Sandler here in his usual raw comedic self. Here, he plays one bored middle-class family man who wants to [...]
The Longest Yard was one of the heartfelt movies that I’ve seen starring Adam Sandler. Adam here is not a slapstick or a romantic comedian, he’s more of like Michael Scofield in Prison Break who extends a helping hand even though he’s confined. Adam Sandler here plays a football player who’s jailed for drunk driving. [...]
Shot in the beautiful island of Hawaii, 50 First Dates is another one of Adam Sandler’s romantic offerings. It has also become popular because of its reggae theme song Hold Me Now performed by Wayne Wonder. In this movie, Adam Sandler finely explores both worlds of slapstick comedy and romance. Why slapstick comedy? Simply because [...]
