The Kids Are All Right - Movie review

Lisa Cholodenko, a lesser known director has taken a simple What if?-scenario and made it into a 100 odd minutes of riveting family drama. But the movie reaches the level which it has reached thanks only to the stupendous performance by its lead artists. Annette Bening and Julianne Moore just shows us how its done and a small question arises, can the Oscar for the best performance – actress can be shared? (Havn’t seen Nataile Portman’s raved performance in ‘Black Swan’ yet though.) Mark Ruffalo plays his part exceptionally and the two kids Mia and Josh were mind-blowing as well.
The movie is slow especially in the middle portions which will surely make you yawn or even make you doze for few minutes but we all forget these petty things when Annette breaks down in the bedroom and Julianne tries hard to lie.

Watch it for Annette and Julianne

Stars - 3

Tangled - movie review

Now, this is what we have been waiting for from the Mouse House. After enticing us with enchanted and impressing us with ‘The Princess and the Frog’, the mouse house comes up with its (if I am not wrong) 4th 3D animated movie without the help of Pixar. And this is for sure its best 3D animated movie yet.

The age old tale of Rapunzel gets the usual Disney’s touch to become a magical ride for the kids and adults alike. With spectacular animation and exceptional characterization and brilliant voice overs this gets a big thumbs up from my end. A thoroughly enjoyable movie.

A Disney treat

Stars - 4

Megamind - Movie review

Mega mind was a mega let down as I expected something extraordinary from the company who are slowly getting better and better with their animated flicks (without counting the last of the Shrek series, of course). Dreamworks did get richer by a few hundred million due to this movie so I don’t think they will be complaining or hear our complaints, but seriously a substandard work taking the content into consideration. A predictable movie from start to finish which has the same Villain-turned hero story, which was quite cleverly put-forth in the recent Universal hit, ‘Despicable Me’.

Will Farrel is a big let down and why the hell did Brad Pitt even sign for this petty role? Jonah Hill’s voice suited the role perfectly though. Let me make this clear, the movie was not all that bad, a definite one time watch in your home theatre but all too predictable a fair which might be lapped up by the kids but not the adults. Kick-ass animation though.

A mega waste of time.

Stars – 2