Reviews

It is very hard to come to any sort of coherent verdict over this one, because it is not your typical movie at all. Artsy in as many places as it can have artsy scenes, cuts, two maybe three color high contrast views, and all this to a ton of quite good music. It isn't truly a movie, rather a half breed of a music video and an art film. A gruesome Moonwalker maybe?..

Too bad because it is "this" close to being a decent Bladerunner-esque world. It has the regular low-budget problem of not really being able to convincingly pull off the outside world as something big and lived-in. The rooms and small number of walkways are fine.

Towards the end the "even the director did not know what they wanted to say" gets really strong with this one. But i am sure i'm gonna watch this again at one point. More of an experience than something with rigorous meaning and story to tell.

The biggest two jokes of the movie is at the very end, Elvira standing in front of a magnifying glass distorting her boobs. And that is really about it.

I was so bored, and uninvolved with anything, now that i think about it there wasn't much to be involved with.

Low budget or not, it LOOKs good. Sounds good. Technical problems are really not present, although the castle outer FX shots looked like were done on an early Amiga computer. But whatever.

Substance, where is the substance, i did not find any. Elvira the character is very low on quips, because there is nothing to react to.

The cartoon sound effects all the way didn't help.

I would have been better off never seeing it, a bitter disappointment.

They don't know what they are doing, from the industry veterans like these people i would expect sticking to something of a plan. They began doing big and admirable changes by introducing Whole Foods to the town, they tossed out the talking poop onto that other racist show in Springfield, and just about got to the right track of swapping out all dated relics of the past with strong diverse women, many of them with just as diverse interests of sexuality, i was like "good, good..."

...

And then they back out of it all completely with a convoluted, now industry standard multiverse scene thingamajig at the very end! Which is great, actually.

Bob Iger and Kathleen Kennedy are actually our saviors, this is video proof here, stop the hate you guys!

The episode wants to be an Oscar-bait or something, i know it is a type of loss not that far from having a death in the family, to let a child go to have their own life...

But nobody moves out, it is just that Marge feels that Bart is not clingy anymore, and started forming opinions and not an "agreeing to any Mum activity machine" any longer.

It's hard to find the usual Simpsons entertainment in this that one usually pops one up on the screen for. It's all very artsy, maybe a Homer having a chilly hallucination marathon in the desert thing but with Marge, but the women edition of it prohibits it from being funny or something?..

I just had to see the very first frame of the Terminator 2 dream sequence, i immediately knew what's coming, and i said to myself no way, they are not having Marge as a flaming skelet---oh yes they do.

Homer's Odysssey anyone?... him being fired for the first time from the power plant, and acting as the guardian angel of small and adults all around town.

Homer becoming the city garbage manager yelling knowitallisms and learns how hard it is really?..

Homer establishing a home defense para militant thingamajig that becomes aggressive to the civilians by time...

And so this is the time, the fourth, to tell the same somewhat differently. Interestingly enough, the first iteration was heart warming and great, the garbage one was anything but, and the defense group thing was kinda on the same level as this new, but 20 years ago.

I will NEVER be disappointed over a mediocre first episode ever again, after looking at Marge The Singing Disney Princess Nightmare. So 6 it is.

Nothing really indicates that this is an ultra family friendly thingy... for kids... by kidz. Okay that last part might not be true.

The rating on here is clearly extremely slanted upwards by people who loved it as a kid, which made me watch it in hope of maybe a "Who's Harry Crumb?" or something of an English style, time appropriate Naked Gun maybe?

But it is extremely low on disturbing looksies just as much as anything funny. It is a thriller / horror spoof thingy that is just very rarely, and very very very mildly funny. Most of the intended source of jokes is the evidently way too stupid (even seen as, in universe, by his colleague) detective assistant, and the detective himself who's got an entire one silly shocked look as his arsenal for laugh making.

The entirety of the movie is these two bumbling through a mansion's public, and secretive rooms and dungeons, while the one makes the silly look, and the other just looking/acting silly.

There's one remarkable running joke with messenger pigeons, through which the detectives are supposedly in contact with the Yard, but none of the pigeons ever reach the outside of the mansion alive. Those yielded some mild chuckles out of me as they get progressively more creative throughout.

I gave 5 and will not say "not recommended", because i both consider giving sub-5 ratings and saying "not recommended" to be mean to a film.

But this is truly one of those "loved as a kiddo, and as an adult you now see it wasn't good" types. Not me, i didn't see it as a kid, my head is clear to make an objective judgement.

A more brutal, less Hollywood-happy-ending 'Speed' (1994) basically.

No shortage of some contrived junctions, where the movie could have been something very different, or could have been cut way too short, if the main character acts as if it would be the most logical and not just convenient for keeping up the heat.

Quite the overzealous police, not far from the all out hilarious scenes of the Blues Brothers at times.

It's a fun ride how the Hitcher is playing around with the guy, but Rutger Hauer's character is a little bit too psychic and all aware, and is at all the right places at the right times, for me not to question the probability of stuff happening in the movie. He is also essentially a Terminator godlike being, ONLY stopped by our random protagonist kid.

Stopped by him because he wants to be stopped (one of those Jeffrey Dahmer types i guess), and he chooses the kid at the beginning because he is the first to stand up against him or something?..

It is filled with memorable shots and lighting, and if not the music itself, but otherwise the sound department is really cool, the whole movie is essentially constantly on our nerves with those deep rumbling effects and you can guess which one is for mood, or a fake-out, or the Hitcher coming through the wall any second now.

So yeah, just like Speed, you know what you are watching is silly, but you also feel it is silly fun, so you won't put it down till the end.

I know Booberella from The Simpsons, and i'm a well grown up white adult male alright?.. And i thoroughly enjoyed it, in fact i'm very much looking forward for numerous re-watches the following years.

Snappily establishes what Elvira is and what she does for a living, and boom, no time, onto the movie's plot.

Elvira is truly a phenomenon, even though she herself shepherds the topic / our eyes onto her haunted hills often, she is so much more than those.

I just love this careless fun character bumbling through the serious real world type, with just a tiny bit of danger to the protagonist, but we can all be sure that some more humor sprinkled in will fix everything!

I also liked how that "real world" ended up somewhat more magical than we expected. The main confrontation is greatly handled, i don't get the naggers who say the budget does not show.

Some also tend to smirk at the "ending", well if you ask ME, this is exactly the kind of movie cut out for a feelgood musical act as a final goodbye. To be honest i'm baffled how they managed anything more from that measly 7 million after the closing music number, 80s dollars or not!

It's one of those movies which is progressively making you question if You are going mad / not clever enough to understand any freakin thing in this picture. Then something happens at the very end, and you go A-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-!..!.!...

...and you are probably supposed to re-watch now actually getting the point of every happening and strange set dressings.

Gotta admit the intriguing third "sci-fi" tag made me watching it in the end, and i was right: it is not just an inconsequential "stranger from the street keeps a naive poor soul on her toes for an hour" type of flick.

But don't ask me what type of flick it really is either, because i'm not sure if we are even expected to fully understand what is going on. All i say is, the film sorta hints at the possibility that The Girl is either the last person alive on Earth, or she is one of the handful of "lucky ones" left, being tormented.

I'm yet to re-watch some time, maybe i will be able to rate higher once i saw these two acting the way they do, now in a different light.

...well if you ask me the entire world is warped and strange in this typical early Tim Burton film featuring a kinda American Mr. Bean years before the Rowan Atkinson character ever surfaced.

Sure, sure, Pee-wee Herman is the most kiddish, most strangely living individual in this world, but everybody else has got their own kinks and ticks just in different ways. It's absolutely not like the case of Bean where only the star is a misfit.

This movie is one of those i feel of which if i had been a fan as a kid, now i would discover how not so good it really is. It's a bunch of almost dream like nonsense woven together. The fantastical happenings don't come up because Herman's regular clockwork life-style got messed up by his bike being stolen, he just steps outside his street, and boom: ghost riders, menacingly friendly convicts broken out of jail, girls' mute grunt boyfriends pumped up from misheard strangely suggestive sexual innuendo, biker gangs mesmerized by silly dance numbers...

Whatever, a mess of a silly fun dreamy road movie. Why not... but i did not feel it was punchy enough for a 7.0... for me 7 is the entry level to REALLY good movies.

Very likable... somehow. But not that good. Harmless kids movie (again, sexy innuendo for adults aside), i was expecting a sort of Bill & Ted heart and cool, but i just found heart.

It all feels like the comedic Magnum Opus of one's entire life, aided by a lifetime of good friends chipping in, in key small to mid scenes. It is essentially a motherload of sketches and stand-alone TV parody bits, but it does a great job at organically chaining them all together along a nice humble story. It was supposedly a low-budget production under a troubled production company, but for what it is, it is perfect, in fact surprisingly done to a high visual standard at times. What may show roughness on the edges just adds to the fun. Thank god for steering Sly Stallone away that week from the production, it would have been a sin not to have Weird Al in the Rambo body suit! And what music! Hot damn the credits roll track is so catchy you just want to play the entire movie again that instant. I love Al's almost Naked Gun-esque type of humor, i wouldn't mind if he could have pulled off a thing like this every 3-5 years ever since. Bruh, the rating is unfortunately tainted by a couple of those "apparently this is TV according to Weird Al" sorts of nonsense reviewers, everybody else with a hearth just gives this at least an 8 or 9.

Never heard the podcast on its own, and i do think it needs this style of bonus graphical presentation to reach its peak excellence, so it was a great idea from them.

The show is about the (supposedly... he thinks he is anyways) very clever Ricky Gervais, the rather humble humored Stephen Merchant, and the more or less nobody Karl Pilkington with a unique way of thinking that sometimes is actually thought provoking sometimes truly hilariously funny due to differing degrees of under education or again, his outside of the ordinary thought processes.

Karl was fed up with his grey boring job, left it for the podcast, then thanks to Gervais got to all sorts of places around the Globe doing reality/documentary/whatnots TV programmes. Of which many happ'nins are talked about in this show, but later they focus more and more on arbitrary starting ideas of philosophy, and towards the very end just more and more on Karl's kinks and everyday mundane existence.

Probably the most striking example of Karl being actually right in an argument, came as an item during Pilkington being told to make prophetic predictions about the future, and do it so in a way that even the public of the future will be in complete awe of his foretellings when their time comes maybe even thousands of years from now: Augmented Reality glasses. Even though projects like those have been surely deeply in the works by 2010, it straight up gets discarded by Gervais with utter smug know-it-allism.

If you ask me, although my review focuses heavily on Karl, all three are organic and 100% legitimate elements of this, but evidently Karl is the starting point or many times center piece of most fun stuff. Gervais' infectious laugh is great although makes the show impossible to watch with loudspeakers with people around. And Merchant is quick on invaluable quick quips to complete the picture.

My main criticism of this particular episode is that is has been placed way too early in the life of the series. We haven't had nearly enough time to get sufficiently accustomed to the hotel's interior structure, and one of the primary scenes wants us - alongside Basil - to be deeply shocked by how there is now a door at the stairway, and a door still being present next to the reception area. Also saddens me to bits but i have to say this is a weaker Manuel presence compared to anything else in any other episodes. It is just chuck full of those if you love the series, lovable but not very well landing scenes and bits to it. The drawing is of Mr. Fawlty huh, well would have been great to actually see it. The overall acting is not yet very defined, the two permanent old lady guests give the kiddiest acts, Basil is a bit raw at certain places. But the main Irish builder guy is a stand-out performance, and while Sybil is obviously afraid to hit hard enough is great at the end. Overall thee least great episode, definitely not the one to initiate someone to Fawlty Towers, you will ruin the show for someone if you do that.

Just what the flippin' heck is this movie?!..

The first third is ugly revolting dry nonsense. I almost left the thing, but i pushed through because i've been eyeing this for two decades now, and i wanted to finally have closure over what the hell this might be. One of those movies where the rating is so high, but just looking at the poster i know we just won't be friends.

State of the art for 1999 talking CGI penguin that is passable for a hallucination.

Big big, biiiiig liberties on how easily people get round up into cult like groups. The passing of time is something the movie handles with great liberty due to the special nature of the main guy, so it could be that...

A twist that wants you to rewatch with a "ahh now i get it attitude", instead of never watching again with a passion. How successful is it, well, i'd say that might differ from person to person.

Culminating in an ad-hoc, might i add, successful (yes), brain surgery with a desert eagle in the end.

From about the first third, it is like a constant roller coaster ride of "all right, that is where you are going movie, i see", and "the frick is that now movie", i'm very perplexed by it, cannot rate.

Andy McDowell was easier to get to third base with than with Emily Blunt. I also greatly miss the cut scene where an utter bonkers Tom Cruise drives into a chasm holding a groundhog in his arms.

Seriously, someone REALLY REALLY wanted to make the exact same movie, but was forced to do a science fiction flick in the same vein instead.

After a truly atrocious intro of a Red Alert level TV news montage with an inexplicable 25% Israeli coverage of a middle European interplanetary conflict...

...comes decently executed action madness spiced with some humor and just a tiny romance. Maybe if the aliens weren't these pulsating pieces of mess i would like the movie, but i hate their ultra speedy hyper detail trendy "nano robots clinging together to form a big mass" look.

I was really looking for a scene in which Cage (Cruise's character... somewhere in an alternative universe there's a film with Nick Cage playing someone named Cruise) points out among one of these timelines that the woman was coldly leaving him to rot on the battlefield... but that never came. I get that Blunt's character is this supposedly plausible female Rambo focused on the mission, but... Rambo was rescuing his war mates, you member?

By the way, you apparently loose this re-try ability after 24 hours, so... how did she gain this incredible massive respect among soldiers, FOR A WELL EXECUTED LIKE HALF DAY?.. give me a break.

The countless re-tries of different scenarios are well edited so the movie stays relatively engaging and fun, however i must say it is nonsense to repeat everything so precisely so you exactly know what comes at the N+1th corner. So many variables, very silly. The movie handles Cage's day like it's a precisely scripted modern FPS video game, and he is re-trying the same level over and over again till he becomes godlike at it.

I've checked out the 3D version of this... WOW. No shock 3D failed again, this thing does nothing to be suitable, the constant cuts ugh it becomes very tiring after a minute.

The supporting cast did a good job as a whole.

I can't recall a single beat of the music.

I gotta say i couldn't really grasp the ending... but i don't care to re-watch to get it more unfortunately. Not sorry for wasting the time once though.

Ever wondered what Stallone thinks of caught badnicks going on trial and judged innocent... or going to jail for some time and released to roam the streets once more? Well watch and wonder no more. I get the message, i agree even, however there is this thing called subtlety you know. Other than the heavy handed message multiple times during the movie, it's a little bit basic really, ultra hardcore murderous cult from nowhere kill kill kill, and when a random victim escapes them because Stallone, they throw everything at this Cobra Cobretti guy (jeez) and fail. Worthy of a watch just for the stunts though, they are hyper crazy and look madly deadly to any stuntmen coming near the production.

Becomes way too cartoony and contrived during the final fifteen minutes, this isn't Death Becomes Her anymore Mr. Zemeckis. Up until that point it was more or less on the plausibility track, but you had to spoil it because two or three critical twists are simply not enough anymore in one single movie apparently. Not much concrete stuff to list here without going full on spoiling territories i'm afraid, it's a very one time movie, but once it is... almost a must really. Minus some very obvious "he is gonna be behind that thing" repetitive action, Pfeiffer's performance warrants a watch alone. Also a rare opportunity for Mr. Ford to play the /SPOILER/ guy.

I just re-watched from nostalgia after like ~25ish years. It wasn't the type of cartoon i watched again and again numerous times, but i've always remembered it as something hilarious, and something that will be fun to revisit some time in my life. Ugh, so little in there in terms of writing, it's all looks and visual gags of the weaker type. The graphical presentation is interesting though, how they incorporated early 3d backgrounds many times into the hand drawn movie. However some of the artists weren't really at the top of their game, because a couple buildings are ridiculously low polygon every now and then. What made me absolutely shocked, was at the end, when those little asteroid dwelling bear creatures make up the two word sentence "Thanks George". Seeing it as like a ~10 years old, on a 20inch CRT screen i've somehow registered it as this fantastic technological achievement crowd shot... it's freakin' colored pucks sliding about man! Damn that was disappointing, practically the only thing i was looking out for, for the past 25 years. Must have been embarrassing on the big screen in theaters.

I had to check this out from hearing about its ridiculous ending style each episode, how our hero is essentially in a sure-to-die situation, mostly looks as if he exploded with the vehicle / building, he was last seen occupying...

And at the beginning of the coming episode, the resolution is ALWAYS like, our hero was already a mile away from the disaster or something. How is this possible to pull off with the public per EVERY episode, and not loosing the entire audience after episode two?!.. incredible.

I watched all the endings and beginnings recently for fun... and out of a bit of masochism... and watching the movie 'Misery' just now i was delighted to hear Kathy Bates talking (screaming rather) about this series during a hysterical temper tantrum! Funny. And what a coincidence. I totally knew what she was talking about, elevating the scene quite some.

Oh boy. Was this a hectically edited and strange strange movie. At least, must have been hectically cut, because most of the key steps i somehow totally missed, i must have blinked the wrong times. Also didn't help that i was unable to get involved and sucked in by anything and anybody. Also i was unable to turn the volume up enough to hear half of what they are saying. Fun fact, mumbling doesn't improve by volume.

But these are just tiny technical problems, just what the heck is this... one of those "you gotta shed some light on todays problems in sci-fi" movies of Cameron. I agree with the notion, but this one didn't succeed.

3/4s of the thing is about bumbling through random crowds with every now and than Ralph Fiennes randomly putting on a headset and seeing someone else's memories á la Brainstorm (1983) style. He also has a lowlife former girlfriend and a limo driver not yet girlfriend. Riveting.

Then last quarter the film turns into a massive preacher fest about how black people are treated in this specific sci-fi setting, and IT'S JUST WRONG. If you ask me all people are on the brink of being without purpose / imminent death / whatever in this movie.

The cry for the blacks message reaches its apex when two cops in pursuit of a black woman, shoot quite a few white bystanders to death during the running around. AND, minutes later the chief policeman shows up to declare the cops ripe for arrest because they days earlier committed black murder. All this, at the freakin' middle of a New Year celebration on an open, busy street, where not half a minute ago an exponentially escalating riot was taking place for black abuse by the police and army.

Very, very strange experience this thing is, i would say i want to study it more by multiple viewings to see what on Earth i just watched, but i'm left so indifferent to it that i just cannot move myself to do so. Boring and disjointed, lacking just one good character, bizarre but not in the interesting sense... cannot recommend at all.

These never heard-of things with high ratings exist for a reason: i haven't the slightest clue what the reason is though.

It's extremely funny though how seeing a Sony MiniDisc in someone's possession immediately means they are a hardcore perv, because in this universe that holds someone else's (mostly recorded during a crime) memories... in this universe, music was distributed on tapes till we passed 2000.

P. S.: oh yeah, there's this almost 24-esque timer thing going on until New Year 2000, i almost forgot! Of course, BECAUSE THERE IS NOT A SINGLE DAMN REASON whatsoever it goes on throughout!

To hell with Piranha 2, THIS is Cameron's worst where he wasn't first in command.

There's no real reason for Robin Williams in this... but does great nonetheless. He is practically the only one doing actual acting in there.

The problem with these what-if science fiction stories most of the time, is that the idea they throw up into the air almost every single time screams improbability to the max. Which wouldn't be a problem on its own, but most of these films try to convince you how things shouldn't be as in the film, because it is JUST WRONG!

I KNOW RIGHT, i've been saying this to myself the minute you entered with this evening's silly concept of a dystopian future.

Whatever.

The movie has a few beneficial areas not touched upon to prevent plot holes or questions to arise that might make it hard to follow the story, like how these "cutters" are supposedly cutting together fine promotional material of the deceased, using only footage featuring the one's surroundings and people they have been seeing. That's... kinda hard to do i would think. In the movie people watch a couple shots of people smiling straight at the dead guy's face, and the mourning crowd is at an audible awe about how precious the dead guy must have been.

Whatever.

Very rare cuts of these memories in where we see the individuals themselves, mostly in a mirror looking straight at their own faces. I would have loved a fine trick shot where our person is in a crowd, and in a mirror where obviously a camera should be, there is he. But i guess the budget was too low for that.

I'm confused over why Alan remembers things differently of the crucial mishap with the other kid. I was expecting a conspiratorial editing of his memories, but no! So why does one remember such an extremely determinative minute of life in such an altered way? No explanation.

Whatever...

The very last shot, the film forgets that Alan is supposedly the camera. Or his soul stays in front of the mirror, and only his body goes to work?

I'm barely over the level of "give me my one and a half hours back", but i am, so no hard feelings.

Great science-fiction presentation, absolutely top-notch prop-work and scenery, that aged very well apart from just a couple silly little things that i'm sure seemed silly even on day one.

Two things for that come to mind: the super lit faces in the environment suits by a Christmas light row, and the overplayed exploding head effect whenever anybody is exposed to the outside atmosphere.

Great performances all around.

It should be something up on the same tier with Alien(s) and gang... but at the end of the day, there's nothing helping it, it's just a silly little drug story with a cop, in space. I was entertained by the looks of everything throughout, but felt the entire thing was so inconsequential.

Maybe i've seen too many silly little drug movies already.

The time travel thing was never done with any real intention behind it, nothing got altered in the past due to actions, but now they are talking about space-time collapsing due to the previous movies and all i can hear deep in my mind is Christian Bale in Terminator Salivation going all Back To The Future-like, yappin about how he won't be born IF this and that... whatever.

Apart from taking itself a bit too seriously for a Bill & Ted movie, it also sports this "fan film done professionally" feeling that almost all new sequels after decades of a gap have. Maybe a hint of 2020 in there too.

BUT, it is overall likeable. Kinda follows the trend started by Bogus Journey: a bit less hilarious, and more epic.

I loved their daughters, especially Ted's, she really understood how not to look simply retarded playing a girl Ted. Samara Weaving is just decent, didn't strike me as much as a female Bill, but decent. Am so sad George Carlin couldn't live to participate (or to gift us with like a dozen new specials since his death), they a had solid little memory of him placed in there. Death's role is sadly quite minimal after they fetch him from hell, but the scenes of accomplishing that are greatly appreciated. And of course, the titular two... Alex is fantastic. Keanu is a bit stiff... but strangely fine in all of Ted's alternative selves. Huh. It's as if he was just simply not able to get a feeling again for the character completely.

It can, and should be watched by fans, very harmful spreading the message that it destroys the franchise. It's just not the feelgood silly nonsense anymore, that's its problem.

Not bad, not bad at all, but the periodic 90s music is killing me. Good casting and acting all around, and finely written, even if the getting rid of the queen rids the world of all parasites thing is very cartoony, in fact as described by the girl who suggests the idea from reading sci-fi to begin with.

I'm puzzled over the fact that the key against the parasites is dehydration, and fire never plays a role in fighting them.

Recommended, a Body Snatchers lite if you will with a happy ending. The Sutherland one.

By the way, what's up with the poster?! They totally swapped out Stan with the black guy who's got like 10 seconds of total screen time... for diversity?..

Most people are enchanted by the brilliant ideas in it, how it rejuvenates n' stuff... but my feelings are very mixed over this.

You see, by going the "the actors of the movie series are being haunted by AN entity that took the look of Freddy" route, the movie does two, horrible things besides being original: declaring how Freddy has never existed and all the previous movies were just that, movies. And second, the Freddy in here is just a random impostor demon using a Freddy theme for its actions. So essentially according to the movie, Freddy is 100% non-existent even in his own universe and never was.

Technically well done, maybe a bit too much kid... decent "Freddy" scenes... underutilized Englund (as himself) appearances, that abruptly stop around 2/3 of the movie never to return... i was very open for like a confrontation of actor and the monster he helped to create or something... ah yes, and the previously mentioned big sins.

I'm not happy with the movie at all.