Showing posts with label Family Movie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Family Movie. Show all posts

Saturday, February 5

Movie Review: Encanto (2021)




Film Title:
Encanto 
Length:   1h 42m
Released: 2021
Genre:  Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Rating: PG
Where I Got It: Disney+

SUMMARY:
A young Colombian woman has to face the frustration of being the only member of her family without magical powers.

REVIEW:
Okkkkkkaaaayyyy....I've watched this three times now. LOL. It all started when I hung out with my friend and her baby. hehe. 

We follow Mirabel who is part of a magical family and lives in a magical house. However...she was not gifted with a gift. She is the black sheep who loves her family so much but she feels like she is never good enough for her Grandmother. When things start going wrong and the magic seems to be breaking, she decides she is going to save her family and their magic. 

This was such a fun movie, but it has all the feels. 

I felt so bad for Mirabel. She just loves her family so much even her one sister who is a perfect Golden child and her grumpy Grandma. Poor girl. I can't imagine being literally the only one in the family with no powers. I do love how they finally (not a spoiler bc you know it's a Disney flick that always has a HEA) realize she IS the gift. Without Mirabel they would be lost. 

Poor Bruno too. :/ 

The music is great! All of them. I love dancing along with the music!! 

If I was to point to one thing....the ending left me a tiny bit sad. BUT I get the symbolism and etc. SO I won't hold it against the movie. I get it, but I was hopeful for something else. 

In the end, this is a great new Disney movies. Great cast. Great music. Great story. You will feel all the feels. Joy, humor, sadness, anger. All of them. 5 stars from me. 



Saturday, October 31

Movie Review: Halloweentown (1998)



Film Title: Halloweentown
Length:     1h 24min   
Released:    1998
Genre:  Adventure, Comedy, Family
Rating: R
Where I Got It: Disney+


SUMMARY:

When a young girl living with her good-witch grandmother learns she too is a witch, she must help her grandmother save Halloweentown from evil forces.




TRAILER:




REVIEW:
Awww this movie series had been a favorite of mine when I was a youth. It was nice revisiting this world and these characters X amount of years later. 

The story follows Marnie, Dylan, and Sophie Pipe. Marnie loves Halloween and wants so much more. Their mysterious granny comes over for her yearly visit which always ends with a fight. While granny and mom are fighting, Marnie witnesses granny use magic. The three kids follow their granny and find there is another world out there that is magical and Halloween every day. However, there is a darkness hiding. 

Soooo cheesy, but soooooooo fun. This is fun for not only the kids for the adults. It has humor and serious moments too. 

Oooo that baddie was easy to pinpoint, but it was fun. I am still bummed the baddie was the baddie. The character was very sweet. A touch creepy....but sweet. 

I really want to watch the rest now! I watched this twice already haha. I watched it during a girl's night and this week. I wonder if I con BF to watch the others with me since it is Halloween after all. ;)

In the end, a cute and fun Halloween movie for all ages. I'll give it 4 stars. 










Saturday, August 11

2-in-1 Movie Review - DRIVE-IN EDITION: Hotel Transylvania 3 & Incredibles 2



This is a special post! For the first time, I went to the drive-in! I enjoyed it immensely. I want to go again! I went with two friends and my friend's daughter! So fun.






Film Title:
Hotel Transylvania 3 Summer Vacation
Length: 1 hr and 37 mins 
Released: 2018
Genre:  Comedy, Family Movie
Rating: PG
Where I Got It: Drive-In


SUMMARY:

Count Dracula and company participate in a cruise for sea-loving monsters, unaware that their boat is being commandeered by the monster-hating Van Helsing family.








TRAILER:





REVIEW:
I believe I watched the first movie, but I can’t remember now. Good thing this movie did well as a standalone. My friend just gave me a quick rundown before this started, so I was good to go. 

It was a cute film. I loved the whole concept of a vaca for this family and friends. Even monsters need to get away. 

I was meh about the whole love story. Maybe it was the fact that it was so predictable. I called it right away. It was cute watching her fall for him. 

Overall, this was just cute. You can watch this without watching the first couple of movies. I should backtrack and rewatch. Eh. I’ll give this 3 stars. 








Film Title: Incredibles 2
Length: 1 hr and 58 mins 
Released: 2018
Genre:  Comedy, Family Movie, Action/Adventure
Rating: PG
Where I Got It: Drive-In


SUMMARY:

Bob Parr (Mr. Incredible) is left to care for the kids while Helen (Elastigirl) is out saving the world.








TRAILER:





REVIEW:
Took WAY too long to get this film. I can barely remember the first one. I’m glad they did a quick recap at the beginning there or I would’ve been pretty lost. 

It was fun to watch this family and see the baby’s powers come into play. My goodness that baby is funny! I loved the scene with the raccoon. I’m still chuckling even just thinking of it. 
The story, again, was pretty predictable. I pinpointed the baddie right away. Clever, but it was still easy to point out as an adult. Maybe the kiddies wouldn’t catch it. 

I felt so bad for the Dad. I mean…it was good he got to reconnect with the kids, but it really was unfair that they left him and the kids behind. The mom is more logical, but I wanted to see more of his power and the kid’s power. I’m glad we got the scene at the ending where everyone was powering it up, but I felt like they deserved more airtime.

The art was fun like the old one. I don’t get the proportions of the bodies though. They seem very unbalanced, but other than that I liked it a lot. 

Overall, I did like it. A few laughs but it was a hair underwhelming. I’ll give it 3 stars. 













Saturday, July 28

Saturday Movie Night - A Wrinkle in Time (2018)








Hello everyone! This month Blodeuedd and I are reviewing, A Wrinkle in Time. 




Blodeuedd is in red and I am in blue.




Title:  A Wrinkle in Time
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure, Family
Running Time: 1 hr and 49 mins
Rating: PG
Released: 2018

After the disappearance of her scientist father, three peculiar beings send Meg, her brother, and her friend to space in order to find him.













TRAILER: 





DISCUSSION: 



Good day m’am!

Hi! Let’s start with our movie discussion then :D

Yess, so this was a random last minute pick. And it wasn’t bad...but it wasn’t really good either. I wanted to like it because it has a good cast and the story seemed interesting enough, buuuuuuuuuuut ya

I have heard that people love the book and that the movie was so good! And honestly I was disappointing. It was really meh, all the time.

I believe I had read the book...I can’t honestly remember. This really was a disappointment. It had potential but I couldn’t get past the acting. It all felt so awkward all the time.

The 3---what were they? Goddesses? Witches? Anyway, none of them excelled. The girl ..eh, the young boy, double yawn. Why was he even there? The only good thing about that movie was her young brother. I felt like he did a great job. Sorry kids!

Yess he really was the best character and the best actor. Everyone else felt so fake and so awkward. The Misses (I think that is what they were called) were useless. The girl was so awkward. I swear if she adjusted her glasses or screams one more time I was going to die. LOL The adults in this world sucked. And that young boy? He felt like he was just added for a romantic element.

Why couldn’t they find the dad!?
That boy, yes a romantic element, but all he did was standing there mooning and I was all, insta love is lame. He should have been cut out.
The girl, well the premise of her was excellent. Doing all to save her brother, but I felt they had not written her part well. Maybe she is better in the book.

Agreed. He was just space to try and help the girl feel good about herself. Yes, her premise was good, but the writing and acting made her annoying. The brother was right about everything he said at that one point. The dad was a jerk for that. Why would you just touch the wrinkle? Not call for someone or do something. And what was he doing for 4 years? Sighs.

More an idiot than a jerk, oh and he should be dead.
But let’s talk about that stupid black thing going through space making people evil. *eye roll* I just could not. People were bitches long before that black blob made it to earth.

Unless it got here eons ago? They were not very clear

Didn’t they say it was getting closer?

*shrugs* I honestly don’t remember. It took three times to get through the film. Hahaha I might’ve missed it.
It’s not like I paid any better attention to it. Took me over a week to watch it. Oh and did they even defeat it now when I think about it? Omg maybe I did not even watch the end--nope, I did. Everyone was happy.

That end had me annoyed. Too happy. Nothing felt real. But yes, I was pretty done after the scene when the bully pretty much said she wished the main girl was dead and when the main girl defended herself she got in trouble. OH and the adults were legit talking shit about the brother and sister out in the open. Like really? Really? >_>

That just felt like bad writing. It also felt like the movie did not know where it stood. I felt it could have been more a kid’s movie. Now it tried things, or, I do not know. It was messy.

Yes, the writing was bad. Sure the effects were good and cool, but the film felt off and awkward.

Right like when she saved them and he was all my heroine! It made me lol. Come on, what kind of teen boy would do that? I mean that look on him. This was an author’s/director’s wet dream. That the nerd gets her man.

It really was. The main girl did nothing. He fell head-over-heels after she threw a ball in that chick’s face and he was all SWOON! I LOVE YOUR HAIR! WHA?

He felt weird and stalkerish haha.

It did. Like stop talking about her hair. Creeper.

At least I saw him looking dreamingly at her. I do not think it came across much from her side. And he who followed her to other worlds. A girl saves the day! I guess we are supposed to be all girl power! And haha he is just in the background, but why should anyone just stand there being useless?

They really were shoving the girl power down our throats. If they really wanted to make a point they would’ve cut his character. He was just there to make her feel pretty and loved. He had no uses. Which is not fair for him. No character should just be a filler.

You are right. I would have liked it better with him gone and her saving the day!

I think it would’ve helped a small bit. Maybe...the writing and acting was still meh. I liked the premise of the story and the effects, but that is it.

I liked some of the worlds, the premise and the concept of the Misses. But the writing did not work for me. Too many things started to bug me and it was a chore watching it.

The worlds were cool. I wanted more of those. See more!

That movie was confusing when I think back. Watch something else instead. But if kids like it then good. We oldies analyze too much ;)

LOL we really do. I think the kids would only the like worlds and the effects. The story bits are boring. So just play the good bits with the flowers over and over. Hahaha

I did like that world the best too ;)

So pretty! I want them in my garden

That would be something.
Anyway final thoughts. Just cos a movie passes the bechel test or whatever it was called. Does not mean I will care one bit. I like what it try to show, but I wish it has been done in a better way

Agreed. The writing and acting were just so awkward and cringe-worthy at times. The premise of the characters and concept were good, but yes, the execution was a big meh for me.

Better luck next time! ;)

Yesss! It was good that we watched it. I was curious. Until next time!!

THE END