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Muppet Christmas Movie, a review by Dragonfire

Have yourself a very Muppet Christmas with this all-new holiday movie starring Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and the whole Muppet gang - plus a celebrity cast featuring David Arquette, Joan Cusack and Whoopi Goldberg, with cameos by Michael Lillard, William H. Macy, Carson Daly, Kelly Ripa, Joe Rogan, Molly Shannon and the cast of "Scrubs"!

'Tis the night before Christmas, and the Muppet theater is in danger of being torn down. And when bad goes to worse, Kermit begins to believe the world would be a better place if he'd never been born. But don't worry! With heavenly help and hilarious send-ups of just about every holiday movie ever made, Kermit and the Muppets discover what matters most is their love for each other.

Featuring showstopping musical numbers like "Moulin Scrooge!" (starring Miss Piggy as "Saltine"), this "charming and clever" ('The San Diego Union-Tribune') holiday classic will have the whole family laughing!

My Thoughts

I should start off by saying that I am a bit partial to The Muppets.  I grew up watching Sesame Street and The Muppet Show.  I have loved the Muppets since I was a child and I still love them.  Basically, if The Muppets are involved, I'm watching.

That being said, I did enjoy this movie overall, though it wasn't as good as earlier Muppet movies.  This one was made for television a few years ago.  I liked how the movie was a version of It's a Wonderful Life.  Without Kermit, poor Miss Piggy ended up pretending to be a psychic with an apartment full of cats..She was a crazy cat lady..or pig I guess. lol  Anyway, the movie was entertaining and had a decent message about what is really important without being too preachy like can happen with some movies.  Joan Cusack was really good as the bad guy who was tring to take over the Muppet Theater.  Some of the characters didn't have as much to do, which was a little disappointing.  Since I have seen so much Muppet stuff, I did really notice that more of the characters didn't sound the same since other people took over performing.  The characters did still act the same though.  Some of the voices were just slightly different while one or two were much more different.

 

(From My November Alphabet Marathon on November 28th, 2008)

The Falcon And The Snowman, a review by KinkyCyborg

The Falcon And The Snowman



Title:The Falcon and the Snowman
Year: 1984
Director: John Schlesinger
Rating: R
Length: 131 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital: Dolby Surround
Subtitles: English, French

Stars:
Timothy Hutton
Sean Penn
Pat Hingle
Joyce Van Patten
Boyce Children

Plot:Extras:
Scene Access
Closed Captioned


Captivating true story about a young, privileged man who lets his idealistic views and discontent towards his government lead him to impulsively sell secrets to the KGB. Bringing his loose cannon, drugged out friend along for the ride, they quickly find themselves in way over their heads.

Second or third time watching this now, I've always liked this movie. Showing how the CIA would (and probably still does) coerce and manipulate foreign governments, it fascinates me how they feel it incumbent to stick their noses into everyone's business. For Timothy Hutton's character, Boyce, selling out his country was his way of protesting this political interference.

Hutton was great. He was thriving in the 80's as a hot young actor in demand but like many other young actors from that era, re: Brat Packers, his relevance has waned mostly, playing in mostly low budget straight to video movies now, although he has seen a bit of a resurgence in his new TV series Leverage.

Now Sean Penn on the other hand who, in my opinion, gave his best ever performance in this movie despite his young age, was giving us a taste of things to come in his brilliant, if not turbulent career. Daulton Lee was immortalized by Penn's role as the shifty, fast talking, drug dealing spy wannabe. Dealing in espionage which already breeds paranoia, his constant cocaine and heroin use just compounded his troubles and brought him precariously close to being terminated. Penn is masterful in portraying troubled, desperate men and this was a grand performance.

Great movie. This should be mandatory in anyone's collection!

KC

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(From KinkyCyborg's Random Reviews 2010 on November 21st, 2010)

Angel Marathon, a review by addicted2dvd

5. Dear Boy
Original Air Date: 10/24/2000
Angel's continued restless nights takes him all the way back to 1860 London and his first encounter with Drusilla , but when he sees Darla in his waking life, Cordelia, Wesley and Gunn fear he has gone off the deep end and may revert to his evil ways.

Guest Stars:
Elisabeth Rohm
Christian Kane
Juliet Landau
Julie Benz

My Thoughts:
Another excellent episode. It was fun seeing Angelus (through flashbacks) with Darla and Drusilla. This is a huge Darla episode... which was cool since I have become a fan of Julie Benz between this show and Dexter.

My Rating:

(From Angel Marathon on March 2nd, 2010)