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Supernova (2005)
bad science, bad research, and bad acting
Oh where to begin? Leaving the incredibly bad science out of it (and believe me, as a former astronomer I gotta say the science was so bad!), the people who made this movie did obviously NO research on what Australia is supposed to look like.
Not only did just about everyone have an American accent (and most of those who affected an Aussie accent need to fire their dialect coach), but just about every detail was way, way off. I could handle some of the small stuff (i.e. phone numbers here have 8 digits, not 7), but they got some pretty major stuff wrong too.
Whlle the cars were at least driving on the left, they all had the wrong kind (possibly European) of licence plates. Aussie plates don't look anything like what they had. Imagine a movie set in New York where all the cars had bright pink tags.
But the BIGGEST blunder that anyone who had ever set foot on this continent would recognise: Australia doesn't have the death penalty. Like in most civilised nations, it was abolished years ago. This was a major plot point in the movie, and if they had bothered to do a lick of research, they would have known they needed a major rewrite.
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Santa and the Three Bears (1970)
Don't waste your time
While I hate to be a scrooge, this is by far the worst Christmas special I've ever sat through. From the soporific score to the glacial pace of the story, there was very little in this film to make it worth watching. There was a standard, feel good Christmas message in the story, but the way it was told made it hard to get that message across.
We sat down a few nights before Christmas to watch this video with three adults and two children (under 6). By the time it was over, all three adults had drifted off at some point, and both children were growing increasingly bored. You could have tightened this story up and made it much more watchable if you took out a lot of the musical numbers (which tended to be very repetitive and didn't add much to the story), and brought it down to about 25 minutes rather than its 45 minute running time.
My recommendation: Don't waste your time, there's too much good Christmas entertainment out there to bother with something like this.