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G-Force, a review by addicted2dvd

G-Force (2009/United States) IMDb |Trailer |Wikipedia | Walt Disney Pictures, Jerry Bruckheimer Films Director: Hoyt H. Yeatman, Jr. [Hoyt H. Yeatman Jr.] Writing: Cormac Wibberley [The Wibberleys] (Screenwriter), Marianne Wibberley [The Wibberleys] (Screenwriter), Hoyt H. Yeatman, Jr. [Hoyt H. Yeatman Jr.] (Story By), David P. I. James (Story By) Length: 88 min. Rating: PG Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.40:1 Audio: English: DTS-HD High Resolution: 5.1, French: DTS-HD High Resolution: 5.1 Subtitles: English, French

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Stars:
Bill Nighy as Saber
Will Arnett as Kip Killian
Zach Galifianakis as Ben
Kelli Garner as Marcie
Tyler Patrick Jones as Connor
Piper Mackenzie Harris as Penny

Plot:Extras:

• Scene Access
• Audio Commentary
• Bonus Trailers
• Deleted Scenes
• Featurettes
• Outtakes/Bloopers
• BD-Live

I felt like watching something cute and fun... so popped this one in. I didn't remember ever seeing it before... but turns out I did. This is a cute little family film. But I do believe the kids will get more enjoyment from this then the adults. Watching this entire movies I didn't get a single chuckle from it. So it isn't something I see myself watching often... but can see watching it again eventually. Maybe for a talking animal marathon or sormething like that.



(From What Movies I Been Watching on June 6th, 2014)

X-Men 2, a review by Dragonfire

My Thoughts

This is a wonderfully entertaining movie and one of the few sequels that is stronger than the original.  I love that Nightcrawler is introduced even though I was still irritated that Gambit was left out again.  There is a small reference to Gambit in one scene that is easily missed.  There are all sorts of interesting things tied to Logan/Wolverine's past shared that I really enjoyed.  I also liked how the movie was setting up things to cover the Phoenix story from the comic books.  The plot works very well and is entertaining.  The main plot is resolved while some things are also left for the next movie.  The cast all fit their characters well.  There is a good amount of action and a few humorous moments throughout the movie.

 

I did get a review posted on Epinions back after seeing the movie in the theater.

X2 - X-Men United

(From Dragonfire: What I've Been Watching on May 29th, 2009)

Tom's Random Reviews, a review by Tom

Title: GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka
Year: 1999
Rating: NR
Length: 625 Min.
Video: Full Frame 1.33:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital Stereo , Japanese: Dolby Digital Stereo
Subtitles: English

Plot:
Meet Eikichi Onizuka, a 22-year-old virgin and ex-biker. He's crude, foul-mouthed, and has a hair-trigger temper. His goal: to be the Greatest High School Teacher in the World! Wait, what?!? GTO is the fan-favorite story of Onizuka, a former motorcycle gang member whose goal is to become a teacher to make a difference. Once he's got his foot in the school door...can he squeeze his big head through it?

Watch in awe as Onizuka pummels through his teacher training only to be faced with the mammoth task of actually landing a teaching position. With unusual circumstances on his side, he just might pull it off. Using his street smarts to deal with colleagues, students, and troublemakers, Onizuka finds that he has too many lessons to learn!

Extras:
Interviews
Scene Access
Trailers

This anime series is an adaption of the first 14 volumes of the manga. It follows fairly close the manga, only changing some story elements to soften it a little (AFAIK they allowed to be more crass in mangas than in animes in Japan) and extending others. Also some ideas were taken from the live-action version which came one year earlier.
It had its high and lows for me but overall the anime is good. Sometimes the animation style bothered me a little and I think they had dumbed down the character Onizuka too much on some occations. He was too gullable in some cases compared to the manga version.
Too bad that they made this anime while the manga was still running and therefore it does not cover the full manga story, but the new ending they devised is fitting (I haven't read the ending of the manga yet, so I am curious how that one will end).
I can understand that they make anime series based on mangas while the manga is still current and popular, but it is always sad that the anime is cut short or differentiate from the manga because of this.

Rating:

(From Tom's Random Reviews on October 5th, 2008)