LINCOLN LAWYER (2011)
The plot is as such... Mattey McConaughey (for the first I am spelling, or copying and pasting that only this once, for the sake of my fingers he will B Matty Mac) is a lawyer who believes absolute that all are entitled to a fair defense. In face a superb defense, a role he relishes. Defending the undefendable. This has cost him much in his life, but hey at least he has his principals, and a Black guy to drive his Lincoln (ya, I wont even touch the question there, did I mention he wears a lil 50s hat too... No no jokes, moving on). His office is in the Lincoln backseat by the way. Anywho he eventually finds a client that will test his worth as a man, and as a lawyer.
Ok so did I make that sound like it sucked? Like you've seen it before? Like F Matty Mac? Well it was suppose to be all those things. Yet for some reason I found myself approaching this movie with a sense of hope. Much the way a child approaches a used bag of ruffles potato chips (PLUG!) hoping to find some delicious and crunchy remains. Part of that hope was that a few people actually let me know that the film had impressed them. People I trusted, people I knew to be thoroughly unimpressed with all of Matty Mac's ROMCOM shizzie (possible exception "How to lose a guy").
This is actually a very well written, and exciting, old fashioned (with a new twist) law film. I am sure that much of that goes to the original novel the film sprang from. I could definitely see places that the screenplay over looked back story and character development on a few key members of the supporting class. However that was the best choice, focusing on Matty Mac and the court room drama is what was needed. It's enough. Matty Mac is actually very good in this, as is the often underrated Ryan Phillipe (see "Franklyn" or "Way of the gun" if any of you ho Nuggets doubt me). Should not have been a complete surprise having suddenly remember his previous turn as a lawyer in " A time to kill". He is at home in this role and he makes it his own. Enough charm buried in his conflict to ensnare the passer by.
I will admit to loving Lawyer films, but so often they get lost in their own attempts to complicate, and complex up the drama. This is simple brain vs brain, evil vs good... winner take the verdict. I had a blast. The ending does leave a little to be desired, and seems a lil too convenient (I have my own band of merry drug dealing bikers) but... still F-U-N fun lol...
LAW FILM SCALE 3.75 out of five stars
MOVIE SCALE 3 out of 5 stars...
COURT is in session bitches!
Chucky B is out!
Friday, August 12, 2011
Thursday, January 20, 2011
SKI slope of doom
FROZEN (2010)
Remember the days when you could make a great, kick ass movie with a wad of bubblegum and your mama's second hand-handy cam. Ok me neither, but still, not every movie needed 100 million dollar budget, and computerized blood. Shout out to Savini! If you don't know who that is, its ok. Sad. But ok.
Well there is still a market for independent film making. Indeed with the growing number of big budgeted kaka, and Hollywood's growing dependence on the remake one could argue people are seeking out alternatives. Okay most of those people might be stoned university students, and middle aged people who have eight copies of the evil dead, but dammit it counts.
Frozen stands as the most vivid example of a success with near nothing but a great idea, and writing, and actors and ... well that's all you really... ok and directing. Simple plot... Boy and girl, and boys bestie go to ski/snowboard. They get left behind on a ski lift after the park is closed (quite believably actually). And realizing they will freeze before help arrives they try to find a way down from a chair suspended a good sixty feet from ground.
Sound boring? If so slap your damn self. The suspense is nerve shattering... You will cringe, and if you are not horribly desensitized by modern horror and Oprah, you will look away. The struggle these three go through as real people in a real situation with a camera never afraid to be unflinching is ... well REALLY SCARY.
I've heard a peer refer to this as "Will do for Ski lifts what Jaws did to the water" and they is right. I would bet money a few girlfriends talked boyfriends out of a ski trip after this flick. The gore (yes there is gore, how you ask? Go find out!) is fantastic. Brutally real... Its really a running theme with this flick.
This movie messed me up a little. Oh and Hollywood... pay attention to what a real freaking ending looks like.
After you watch this movie the following joke will make sense, till then sorry: If Hollywood had done this guaranteed in a few months we'd have trailers for the sequel... "Frozen: Ice Dances with Wolves"
A great movie. The performances are stellar... The line "That was the boy I was gonna marry" still gets me. I honestly think she deserved a nod somewhere from someone.
Movie scale: 3.5 out of five stars
horror/thriller scale: 4 out of five stars (points for originality, and simplicity)
-- Sincerely your fav white holmie
Chuck B. Boonsweet
Remember the days when you could make a great, kick ass movie with a wad of bubblegum and your mama's second hand-handy cam. Ok me neither, but still, not every movie needed 100 million dollar budget, and computerized blood. Shout out to Savini! If you don't know who that is, its ok. Sad. But ok.
Well there is still a market for independent film making. Indeed with the growing number of big budgeted kaka, and Hollywood's growing dependence on the remake one could argue people are seeking out alternatives. Okay most of those people might be stoned university students, and middle aged people who have eight copies of the evil dead, but dammit it counts.
Frozen stands as the most vivid example of a success with near nothing but a great idea, and writing, and actors and ... well that's all you really... ok and directing. Simple plot... Boy and girl, and boys bestie go to ski/snowboard. They get left behind on a ski lift after the park is closed (quite believably actually). And realizing they will freeze before help arrives they try to find a way down from a chair suspended a good sixty feet from ground.
Sound boring? If so slap your damn self. The suspense is nerve shattering... You will cringe, and if you are not horribly desensitized by modern horror and Oprah, you will look away. The struggle these three go through as real people in a real situation with a camera never afraid to be unflinching is ... well REALLY SCARY.
I've heard a peer refer to this as "Will do for Ski lifts what Jaws did to the water" and they is right. I would bet money a few girlfriends talked boyfriends out of a ski trip after this flick. The gore (yes there is gore, how you ask? Go find out!) is fantastic. Brutally real... Its really a running theme with this flick.
This movie messed me up a little. Oh and Hollywood... pay attention to what a real freaking ending looks like.
After you watch this movie the following joke will make sense, till then sorry: If Hollywood had done this guaranteed in a few months we'd have trailers for the sequel... "Frozen: Ice Dances with Wolves"
A great movie. The performances are stellar... The line "That was the boy I was gonna marry" still gets me. I honestly think she deserved a nod somewhere from someone.
Movie scale: 3.5 out of five stars
horror/thriller scale: 4 out of five stars (points for originality, and simplicity)
-- Sincerely your fav white holmie
Chuck B. Boonsweet
Then sea Dwellers
ATLANTIS : The Lost Empire (2001)
Ok plot, if you are unaware of Atlantis. The legend/history goes as such. Super awesome city of long ago, was all advanced, and disappeared. So that's the legit part anyway... Enter Disney, and Atlantis had spaceships, and laser beams, and I think was populated by the extras from LILO and STITCH lol. So present day, a few thousand years after city went for a swim, bumbling science guy gets a mysterious benefactor to back his quest for fame, and the lost city. With a rag tag group of funny and colorful characters, they make there way past giant robot lobsters, fire bomb fireflies, and spear wielding Atlantians... (I should pause here if you are thinking how did they go from spaceships to spears, not sure something to do with a hidden glowing ball I believe) to the city itself.
That being said Boony loves this movie for a few reasons. This was one of two big budget Disney ventures into computer assisted animation that was not well received by the public (Reference the 150 million dollar flop that was the underrated TREASURE PLANET). Films that I thought along with another non Disney entry into the genre TITAN AE were actually very, very pretty, and fun.
Second... tremendous voice cast... Michael J Fox... Leonard Nimoy... James Garner (as a fantastic bad guy). and the dearly missed Jim Varney. Doyouknowwhatimean?
Lastly both my often indulged inner child and full grown man child thing Boony is now, agree, this movie is a blast. Some great one liners. Solid inside jokes... and memorable characters...
Maybe not one of Disney's most famous ventures. But a risky and expensive one, that I have thought since the first time delivers some of the most amazing visuals this side of CGI and 85 minutes of family enjoyment much warranted to see.
Movie scale : 2.5 out of five stars
Animated scale : 3.5 out of five stars
Ok plot, if you are unaware of Atlantis. The legend/history goes as such. Super awesome city of long ago, was all advanced, and disappeared. So that's the legit part anyway... Enter Disney, and Atlantis had spaceships, and laser beams, and I think was populated by the extras from LILO and STITCH lol. So present day, a few thousand years after city went for a swim, bumbling science guy gets a mysterious benefactor to back his quest for fame, and the lost city. With a rag tag group of funny and colorful characters, they make there way past giant robot lobsters, fire bomb fireflies, and spear wielding Atlantians... (I should pause here if you are thinking how did they go from spaceships to spears, not sure something to do with a hidden glowing ball I believe) to the city itself.
That being said Boony loves this movie for a few reasons. This was one of two big budget Disney ventures into computer assisted animation that was not well received by the public (Reference the 150 million dollar flop that was the underrated TREASURE PLANET). Films that I thought along with another non Disney entry into the genre TITAN AE were actually very, very pretty, and fun.
Second... tremendous voice cast... Michael J Fox... Leonard Nimoy... James Garner (as a fantastic bad guy). and the dearly missed Jim Varney. Doyouknowwhatimean?
Lastly both my often indulged inner child and full grown man child thing Boony is now, agree, this movie is a blast. Some great one liners. Solid inside jokes... and memorable characters...
Maybe not one of Disney's most famous ventures. But a risky and expensive one, that I have thought since the first time delivers some of the most amazing visuals this side of CGI and 85 minutes of family enjoyment much warranted to see.
Movie scale : 2.5 out of five stars
Animated scale : 3.5 out of five stars
Saturday, December 5, 2009
THE NINJA MOVIE OF ALL TIME!!! (Probably) December '09
NINJA ASSASSIN (2009)
I love ninjas. I have made no attempt at hiding this. It has been a sad time for mainstream ninja flicks. Do you remember the days of American Ninja, and the parade of similar entries (I mean American Ninja 4, Ninjas on rollerblades... priceless). Finally we have NINJA doom dealing in your local cinema, and sweet hell is it awesome.
Okay first. I have read many reviews hating on the CGI blood splatter, limbs, etc. Listen people, purists whatever, I love real old fashion make up and blood packs, but we need to accept those days are done. Hell even the legend Romero has moved on. And yet all these haters are still waiting for it to return... IT"S GONE. Accept it, it shouldn't determine your love of the film. And any movie that has six dismemberment deaths (arms, half face, legs, etc) in the first five minutes deserves attention.
Plot do you need any? Boy raised by Ninjas, falls for Ninja girl, they mess her up. He makes it a mission to kill them all. Did I mention old school flashbacks to explain it all? Goosebumps? You should. First the Ninjas in this movie move how they should, they hide in shadow, move faster than normal man (including one show down where they actually blink out and reappear they are moving so fast). There is so much violence I can't even fit it all in here, I will just say ... Yes.... YEssssssssssssssssssss. The lead is played by an actor/singer who is the JT of Asia. And he holds it down. The guy trained for like eight months or something for this flick, and he makes the roll work, hard. The actions scenes are a ballet of blood and weapons. Some fights as many as twenty on one. Ninja stars flying everywhere... You get the picture. The choreography is awesome. Produced by them Matrix boys you could expect as much.
This is pure popcorn crunching fun. For the boys, or the blood horny ladies... oh they do exist.
I left the theatre with my hands raised... in my mind...
Can not wait for a sequel, here's hoping.
movie scale 2.5 out of 5 stars
Action movie scale 4 out of five stars.
I love ninjas. I have made no attempt at hiding this. It has been a sad time for mainstream ninja flicks. Do you remember the days of American Ninja, and the parade of similar entries (I mean American Ninja 4, Ninjas on rollerblades... priceless). Finally we have NINJA doom dealing in your local cinema, and sweet hell is it awesome.
Okay first. I have read many reviews hating on the CGI blood splatter, limbs, etc. Listen people, purists whatever, I love real old fashion make up and blood packs, but we need to accept those days are done. Hell even the legend Romero has moved on. And yet all these haters are still waiting for it to return... IT"S GONE. Accept it, it shouldn't determine your love of the film. And any movie that has six dismemberment deaths (arms, half face, legs, etc) in the first five minutes deserves attention.
Plot do you need any? Boy raised by Ninjas, falls for Ninja girl, they mess her up. He makes it a mission to kill them all. Did I mention old school flashbacks to explain it all? Goosebumps? You should. First the Ninjas in this movie move how they should, they hide in shadow, move faster than normal man (including one show down where they actually blink out and reappear they are moving so fast). There is so much violence I can't even fit it all in here, I will just say ... Yes.... YEssssssssssssssssssss. The lead is played by an actor/singer who is the JT of Asia. And he holds it down. The guy trained for like eight months or something for this flick, and he makes the roll work, hard. The actions scenes are a ballet of blood and weapons. Some fights as many as twenty on one. Ninja stars flying everywhere... You get the picture. The choreography is awesome. Produced by them Matrix boys you could expect as much.
This is pure popcorn crunching fun. For the boys, or the blood horny ladies... oh they do exist.
I left the theatre with my hands raised... in my mind...
Can not wait for a sequel, here's hoping.
movie scale 2.5 out of 5 stars
Action movie scale 4 out of five stars.
Glorious? Um... Okay...
INGLORIOUS BASTERDS (2009)
Quentin Tarantino is one of the last mainstream film makers to continually create entertaining works of art. No matter what the project, he has a certain feel to his films that excite and involve you. Weather its the dialogue, the acting (which he always seems to pull forth even from unknowns), the action (mind-bottling, yes i said that intentionally, Kill Bill anyone). Even in an instance when he shots one scene in a film (I.E. Sin City) the scene stands apart from the rest. You know it's his, and it feels good.
This film was ten years in the making. So I was expecting a lot. Maybe that went against it. All the mainstays of QTs work are here. Razor sharp speak, intensity the likes of which directors can call up, brilliant acting. Violence, insane levels of stomach turning violence (though rather sparse, when they happen its nuts, in example "The choking). Here's where this film falls down, the ending. It's almost as if you can see the part where he was unsure what to do so he just said kill everyone make it look cool, and end film.
The story is two fronts. A group of Nazi killers (headed by the very talented Brad Pitt) who hunt and kill dem nasty Nazi folk. And a girl seeking revenge for her family's death. The villain is a German detective, named the "Jew hunter" and he is very, very good at his job. The first scene of the film is hold your breath intense. It has been a while since we saw a villain like this on screen. One of my favorite villains is Phillip Seymour Hoffman in MI3 (if you haven't watched it yet do to Cruise hatred, watch it) and he makes that guy look like Jafar. As the movie moves forward you can since the impending clash of paths. Only, funny story it never happens.
The cool, balls out American, never has his showdown of wits with the detective. The girl never gets to really live her revenge. Everything just ends in crazy violence. This is not a "Based on true events" was film. So there was so much room to play here. So much. Instead QT seems to get involved to much in his intense dialogue and not in the structure of the plot around it. I'm sorry but you build a villain up like this... and then waste him like he did... it's criminal. Another QT thang is his music. It's always hip and cool. But he layers intense war drama with sound and tricks that feel better suited for Kill Bill and not this. It could have worked had he really gotten into the showdowns, and had a lot of spaghetti fun with the climax. Instead its just death. I mean Hitler... HITLER... didn't even get thirty seconds... W... T... F... that's right I have resorted to instant messenger language... FML.
In closing. Cool flick... great performances... but once you wipe the polish off. And that it's QT and we love him... there is so much more this could have been. SO much more.
movie scale 2.5 out of five stars
Action Drama scale 3 out of five stars.
I think you'll enjoy it, in a way, chat wise, might be some of his most realized creations, and yet... the blah ending.
And so says the Boonsweet for what that's worth... lol hahaha
Peace bitches
Quentin Tarantino is one of the last mainstream film makers to continually create entertaining works of art. No matter what the project, he has a certain feel to his films that excite and involve you. Weather its the dialogue, the acting (which he always seems to pull forth even from unknowns), the action (mind-bottling, yes i said that intentionally, Kill Bill anyone). Even in an instance when he shots one scene in a film (I.E. Sin City) the scene stands apart from the rest. You know it's his, and it feels good.
This film was ten years in the making. So I was expecting a lot. Maybe that went against it. All the mainstays of QTs work are here. Razor sharp speak, intensity the likes of which directors can call up, brilliant acting. Violence, insane levels of stomach turning violence (though rather sparse, when they happen its nuts, in example "The choking). Here's where this film falls down, the ending. It's almost as if you can see the part where he was unsure what to do so he just said kill everyone make it look cool, and end film.
The story is two fronts. A group of Nazi killers (headed by the very talented Brad Pitt) who hunt and kill dem nasty Nazi folk. And a girl seeking revenge for her family's death. The villain is a German detective, named the "Jew hunter" and he is very, very good at his job. The first scene of the film is hold your breath intense. It has been a while since we saw a villain like this on screen. One of my favorite villains is Phillip Seymour Hoffman in MI3 (if you haven't watched it yet do to Cruise hatred, watch it) and he makes that guy look like Jafar. As the movie moves forward you can since the impending clash of paths. Only, funny story it never happens.
The cool, balls out American, never has his showdown of wits with the detective. The girl never gets to really live her revenge. Everything just ends in crazy violence. This is not a "Based on true events" was film. So there was so much room to play here. So much. Instead QT seems to get involved to much in his intense dialogue and not in the structure of the plot around it. I'm sorry but you build a villain up like this... and then waste him like he did... it's criminal. Another QT thang is his music. It's always hip and cool. But he layers intense war drama with sound and tricks that feel better suited for Kill Bill and not this. It could have worked had he really gotten into the showdowns, and had a lot of spaghetti fun with the climax. Instead its just death. I mean Hitler... HITLER... didn't even get thirty seconds... W... T... F... that's right I have resorted to instant messenger language... FML.
In closing. Cool flick... great performances... but once you wipe the polish off. And that it's QT and we love him... there is so much more this could have been. SO much more.
movie scale 2.5 out of five stars
Action Drama scale 3 out of five stars.
I think you'll enjoy it, in a way, chat wise, might be some of his most realized creations, and yet... the blah ending.
And so says the Boonsweet for what that's worth... lol hahaha
Peace bitches
Thursday, November 19, 2009
NINE out of ... well something other than ten
NINE (2009)
I was pumped for this movie. I saw the short, then Tim "The freaky maestro" Burton got his hands on producing a full length feature with that guy with a name I will not attempt to spell here due to type laziness that made NIGHTWATCH, DAYWATCH, AND WANTED.
Nine dolls wake up in a world of dead people, destroyed cities, and sleeping robots. With the exception of a few creepy demon bot things. Their was a war, man lost to the machines, and then then turned off. Or shut down. Or decided to take a vacation. Who knows. I don't and I watched the damn thing.
First I think this film has UP going against it. Having watched it after watching that, it was hard to see it as anything other than beautiful crazy. It looks cool. The idea is solid. Creepy little voodoo dolls the last living things on the planet. The problem is that the further we get into what they might try to call plot, the less you enjoy yourself. Its just bad. The big reveals are built up brilliantly than fail to live up, at all.
This is not for the kids, at least the young kids. There are some genuinely dark moments, violent, and just dead creepy. Its for us big kids, the issue is they forget the cool aspect while chasing the end. It's almost as if they just kept writing with little to no idea how it was going to end, and then they just do it.
Without spoiling too much plot, all nine are meant to do something, so then why are there only five at the end. And why can we see there spirits, and does the green spots in the rain really explain anything like the final shot suggests it does? No, No, nononononononononononononono. I am an avid film goer, obviously, and I was able to kind of fill in some of the blanks, but not enough to enjoy the experience.
Very cool idea... wasted on the climax.
Boony sad... I shall feed this void with chips....
Movie scale 2 out of five stars
animated scale 2 out of five scales
Not for the kids, a big let down for the adults. Just rent OPEN SEASON, UP, RENAISSANCE, FINAL FANTASY: ADVENT CHILDREN, and well get ready for the PRINCESS AND THE FROG first big screen cartoon since LILO AND STITCH whoop whoop.
-Boony out
I was pumped for this movie. I saw the short, then Tim "The freaky maestro" Burton got his hands on producing a full length feature with that guy with a name I will not attempt to spell here due to type laziness that made NIGHTWATCH, DAYWATCH, AND WANTED.
Nine dolls wake up in a world of dead people, destroyed cities, and sleeping robots. With the exception of a few creepy demon bot things. Their was a war, man lost to the machines, and then then turned off. Or shut down. Or decided to take a vacation. Who knows. I don't and I watched the damn thing.
First I think this film has UP going against it. Having watched it after watching that, it was hard to see it as anything other than beautiful crazy. It looks cool. The idea is solid. Creepy little voodoo dolls the last living things on the planet. The problem is that the further we get into what they might try to call plot, the less you enjoy yourself. Its just bad. The big reveals are built up brilliantly than fail to live up, at all.
This is not for the kids, at least the young kids. There are some genuinely dark moments, violent, and just dead creepy. Its for us big kids, the issue is they forget the cool aspect while chasing the end. It's almost as if they just kept writing with little to no idea how it was going to end, and then they just do it.
Without spoiling too much plot, all nine are meant to do something, so then why are there only five at the end. And why can we see there spirits, and does the green spots in the rain really explain anything like the final shot suggests it does? No, No, nononononononononononononono. I am an avid film goer, obviously, and I was able to kind of fill in some of the blanks, but not enough to enjoy the experience.
Very cool idea... wasted on the climax.
Boony sad... I shall feed this void with chips....
Movie scale 2 out of five stars
animated scale 2 out of five scales
Not for the kids, a big let down for the adults. Just rent OPEN SEASON, UP, RENAISSANCE, FINAL FANTASY: ADVENT CHILDREN, and well get ready for the PRINCESS AND THE FROG first big screen cartoon since LILO AND STITCH whoop whoop.
-Boony out
... And away
UP (2009)
At some point in time Pixar became more than fodder for the imagination and giggles of children. I'm not exactly sure when. Perhaps with the underwater character development in FINDING NEMO. It could have been the perils of family, and the surrendering to the 9-5 in THE INCREDIBLES. Hell them boys at Pixar can even wrap a whole multitude of message in a five minute short (the theatrical short featured before UP, and on the DVD is no exception). Here's what makes Pixar just plain better: Story. They can make you laugh, they can make your children laugh, and they can move you, to the point you are at war with the lump in your throat. WALL-E was a turning point for me (as you can see in my long ago post) that was the point I walked out of the theatre and said to myself, "Did Pixar just rip my heart out with a nifty little tale out how our consumerism, and lack of connection could lead to our doom?" Why yes they did, yes they did.
UP is heavy. The story goes as such. Boy meets girl, falls in love with girl, marries girl, grows old with girl. And then after she passes on (yes death, one of the many lovely adult upgrades Pixar threw in here for kicks, and by kicks I mean spoon munching your heart) he then proceeds to dodge the retirement home by flying his house to another country by way of a thousand balloons tied to his roof. Sound crazy, over the top, silly, it is. It's all that and more. The one thing that just floored me about this movie was the imagination. To even fathom connected such heavy content with the story of an old man in a flying balloon house... I mean W-T-F. Yes I do use the msn from time to time, Stop ya damn hatin.
The kids will catch some of it, but not all of it. There is a lot here for the adults. Which brings me to another thing Pixar has mastered, making a film children and adults can enjoy on two different levels, and yet together. They don't need cheap over the kiddy head sex jokes, and one liners, they use intelligent structure. Simple imagery. That us grown ups get, and the kids clap.
My jaw was floored a few times at the beauty of the flick. It was just so over the top I couldn't believe I felt a tear crawling up the old Boony throat hallway. But there it was.
You will laugh many many times in this movie. Giant crazy birds, talking dogs, fat Asian camp kids, has it all. In my mind one of the best films of '09. With Oscar expanding to ten nominations (after realizing that snubbing public loved films like THE DARK KNIGHT was murdering their ratings) I would be surprised if they don't give this one some attention. It deserves it. If for nothing else the sheer magnitude of the creators limitless limits... wait... that don't sound right.
:)
Movie scale 4 out of five stars
Animated movie scale 5 out of 5 stars (you will not be disappointed)
For the record. I still think there is something about WALL-E that will keep it my number one Pixar film ever... but who knows what they have coming, and UP was damn close. I might even say the better story. I just loved that damn lovable hunk of garbage processing bot.
-Chuck Boonsweet saying duck!!!!!!!!
At some point in time Pixar became more than fodder for the imagination and giggles of children. I'm not exactly sure when. Perhaps with the underwater character development in FINDING NEMO. It could have been the perils of family, and the surrendering to the 9-5 in THE INCREDIBLES. Hell them boys at Pixar can even wrap a whole multitude of message in a five minute short (the theatrical short featured before UP, and on the DVD is no exception). Here's what makes Pixar just plain better: Story. They can make you laugh, they can make your children laugh, and they can move you, to the point you are at war with the lump in your throat. WALL-E was a turning point for me (as you can see in my long ago post) that was the point I walked out of the theatre and said to myself, "Did Pixar just rip my heart out with a nifty little tale out how our consumerism, and lack of connection could lead to our doom?" Why yes they did, yes they did.
UP is heavy. The story goes as such. Boy meets girl, falls in love with girl, marries girl, grows old with girl. And then after she passes on (yes death, one of the many lovely adult upgrades Pixar threw in here for kicks, and by kicks I mean spoon munching your heart) he then proceeds to dodge the retirement home by flying his house to another country by way of a thousand balloons tied to his roof. Sound crazy, over the top, silly, it is. It's all that and more. The one thing that just floored me about this movie was the imagination. To even fathom connected such heavy content with the story of an old man in a flying balloon house... I mean W-T-F. Yes I do use the msn from time to time, Stop ya damn hatin.
The kids will catch some of it, but not all of it. There is a lot here for the adults. Which brings me to another thing Pixar has mastered, making a film children and adults can enjoy on two different levels, and yet together. They don't need cheap over the kiddy head sex jokes, and one liners, they use intelligent structure. Simple imagery. That us grown ups get, and the kids clap.
My jaw was floored a few times at the beauty of the flick. It was just so over the top I couldn't believe I felt a tear crawling up the old Boony throat hallway. But there it was.
You will laugh many many times in this movie. Giant crazy birds, talking dogs, fat Asian camp kids, has it all. In my mind one of the best films of '09. With Oscar expanding to ten nominations (after realizing that snubbing public loved films like THE DARK KNIGHT was murdering their ratings) I would be surprised if they don't give this one some attention. It deserves it. If for nothing else the sheer magnitude of the creators limitless limits... wait... that don't sound right.
:)
Movie scale 4 out of five stars
Animated movie scale 5 out of 5 stars (you will not be disappointed)
For the record. I still think there is something about WALL-E that will keep it my number one Pixar film ever... but who knows what they have coming, and UP was damn close. I might even say the better story. I just loved that damn lovable hunk of garbage processing bot.
-Chuck Boonsweet saying duck!!!!!!!!
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