Title:Race to Space Year: 2000 Director: Sean McNamara Rating: PG Length: 104 Min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 5.1, Commentary: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo Subtitles: English, Spanish
Stars: James Woods Annabeth Gish Alex D. Linz Wesley Mann Patrick Richwood
Plot: Based on the true story of the first chimpanzee in space, James Woods stars as Wilhelm Von Huber, a NASA scientist who transfers to Florida with his son, Billy (Alex Linz). Billy dreams of becoming a hero like the young astronaut Alan Shepard. Wilhelm dreams of Billy becoming a scientist like him. When Billy is hired by Dr. Donni McGuiness (Annabeth Gish) to help train the chimpanzees for the NASA space mission, he develops a close bond with Mac, one of the chimps. But when Mac is chosen to become the first chimp sent into space, Billy soon realizes that if Mac is successful on this mission, something could go terribly wrong. Father and son put aside their differences and work together in hopes of bringing Mac home safely.
Extras: Scene Access Audio Commentary Feature Trailers Deleted Scenes Featurettes Production Notes Bloopers, HAM Featurette, KSC Promo
My Thoughts:
Based on true events, this explores the U.S./U.S.S.R. race to put a living being in space. An American team led by German scientists accomplished this feat by putting a chimp in orbit.
I don't think this was a completely accurate accounting of the events leading up to the launch of that day as some comical and diabolical elements were added to keep this from being a strictly technical display, but it was done without going overboard.
I enjoyed it although I thought James Woods looked horribly out of place as the lead German scientist whose uptight and strict nature certainly did nothing to dispel the Nazi persona associated with his homeland. I like Woods but I guess I'm used to seeing him as a hard nosed cop or a convincing sleaze...
Kids will enjoy this too as the chimps do the expected gags, farts, raspberries and goofy faces.
Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones, a review by Tom
Title:Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones Year: 2002 Director: George Lucas Rating: FSK-12 Length: 137 Min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35 Audio: English: Dolby Digital Surround EX , German: Dolby Digital Surround EX , Commentary: Dolby Digital Surround Subtitles: Commentary, English, German
Stars: Ewan McGregor Natalie Portman Hayden Christensen Christopher Lee Samuel L. Jackson
Extras: Commentary Deleted Scenes DVD-ROM Content Featurettes Music Videos Outtakes Photo Gallery Scene Access THX certified Trailers
My Thoughts:
Better than Episode I but far from the greatness of the original trilogy. The action scenes work well but the story holding the action scenes together is weak. The weakest is the romantic storyline between Anakin and Padmé. The movie feels like big video game. A lot of the action scenes even look like they were made to have a game level based on the movie with typical video game elements (the droid factory for example). Also the backgrounds are as fake-looking as the backgrounds of Full-motion video cutscenes of games.
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