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Zoya (1995)
OK viewing for a rainy afternoon
Melissa Gilbert's attempt at a Russian accent is on a par with Dick Van Dyke's cockney accent. If not for Melissa's particularly distracting accent, I would have awarded this film 7 out of 10.
The amount of tragedy in one person's lifetime is unconvincing. In my humble opinion, the movie should have ended at the halfway point but it lumbered on past its best.
It's neither the best nor the worst romantic movie I've seen. One plus is that it's suitable for all the family. However, any males in the household may well lose the will to live!
In conclusion, this movie is OK viewing for a rainy afternoon.
A Christmas Carol (2009)
Happy Holidays! Happy Holidays? Bah humbug it's Christmas!
This is the best animated version of this wonderful story which is essential viewing at Christmas. I love the quality of the animation and the cast is top class.
I would have given this film a perfect 10 BUT for the term "Happy Holidays".
Happy Holidays? The clue is in the title, "A Christmas Carol". Yes, it's a Christian themed story of redemption written by Charles Dickens. In Victorian England, where the vast majority of people were Christian, they would have said "Merry Christmas".
As Mr Scrooge said,
"I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A MERRY Christmas to every-body! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!"