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High School Musical 2, a review by addicted2dvd

High School Musical 2: Extended Edition (2007/United States) IMDb |Wikipedia |Trailer | Walt Disney Home Entertainment, Buena Vista Home Entertainment (United States) Director: Kenny Ortega Writing: Peter Barsocchini (Writer), Peter Barsocchini (Original Characters By) Length: 111 min. Video: Widescreen 1.78:1 Audio: English: PCM: 5.1, English: Dolby Digital: 5.1, French: Dolby Digital: 5.1, Spanish: Dolby Digital: 5.1 Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

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Stars:
Zac Efron as Troy Bolton
Vanessa Hudgens as Gabriella Montez
Ashley Tisdale as Sharpay Evans
Lucas Grabeel as Ryan Evans
Corbin Bleu as Chad Danforth

Plot:Extras:

• Scene Access
• Feature Trailers
• Featurettes
• Music Videos
• Outtakes/Bloopers
• Karaoke

After enjoying the first one more then I thought I would I had to give this one a chance. While still an entertaining film... it is a rather large step down in quality of the story.



(From July Movie Marathon: Musicals (Yes... You read right!) on July 10th, 2016)

The Trouble with Girls, a review by KinkyCyborg

Title:The Trouble with Girls
Year: 1969
Director:
Rating: G
Length: 99 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital: Mono, French: Dolby Digital: Mono
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

Stars:
Elvis Presley
Marlyn Mason
Nicole Jaffe
Sheree North
Edward Andrews

Plot:Extras:
Scene Access
Closed Captioned


Last entry in my Elvis trilogy. Quite a confusing movie that had some great individual performances but in the end I'm left asking myself what was the point and what did the title have to do with the story??!

Some noticeable differences from the other 2 movies I watched. Elvis did much less singing in this one. It was almost 40 minutes into the film before he sang his first song but it was one of his rocking gospel numbers and it was top notch. His only other main singing performance was near the end of the movie and it was also one of the best songs he sang in all three movies.

Another interesting thing I noticed was that he surrounded himself with gorgeous women in the first two movies but in this one his love interest was quite the plain jane. I'm almost led to believe that this was an attempt at a semi-serious movie in order to avoid being typecast as a rocking crooner who makes bad movies. Noble, but in the end it failed.

Vincent Price made a brief but memorable appearance in this one as Mr. Morality, a carnival philosopher who preached about the sin in us all. I've never been a huge Price fan but I thought he was rather prominent and regal in his cameo.

I went into these Elvis movies expecting little... almost turning it into a case study. I think there were positives to be taken from his films but they will always be overshadowed by the tacky productions and the almost compulsive need to have him sing at every opportunity. I have quite a few more unwatched Elvis movies in my collection but I'm in no particular hurry to watch them.

KC

Rating:

(From KinkyCyborg's Random Reviews 2010 on September 8th, 2010)

Pilot Season 2014-15, a review by DJ Doena

Extant



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Extant @ IMDb

Synopsis: Molly Woods has returned from a months-long mission in space.
This whole trip she was alone. Yet when she returns she is pregnant.
At home her son is waiting for her. Except he's not technically her son but a synthetic being trying to behave like a real human.

My Opinion: This is one of the rare occasions where I turned off halfway through the pilot and never bothered to tune in again.
The main reason for this was: I was bored by it.
The secondary reason was that this pilot felt like it tried to cram every subject ever brought up by science fiction into it.
You have the Pinocchio and the discussion what makes someone human. What is a soul.
You have a pregnant woman who didn't have sex.
She also sees dead people without being Haley Joel Osment.
It was just too much and boring at the same time.



(From Pilot Season 2014-15 on September 14th, 2014)