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My Favorite Martian, a review by Tom

Title: My Favorite Martian
Year: 1999
Director: Donald Petrie
Rating: FSK-6
Length: 90 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85
Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1, German: Dolby Digital 5.1, Hungarian: Dolby Digital Stereo
Subtitles: Dutch, English, German, Hungarian, Polish

Stars:
Christopher Lloyd
Jeff Daniels
Elizabeth Hurley
Daryl Hannah
Wallace Shawn

Plot:
When a harmless Martian (Christopher Lloyd) crashes onto earth, and into the life of struggling TV reporter, Tim (Jeff Daniels), he must use all his magical powers to keep his identity a secret and quickly find a way back to Mars. Tim initially wants to expose the friendly Martian, whom he names,'Uncle Martin', and his crazy animated spacesuit, Zoot. Ultimately Tim helps Uncle Martin, but can he send him safely home before the world discovers thier secret?


Extras:
Scene Access

The fun part about this movie are the antics of Christopher Lloyd as Martin. He is just perfect at playing eccentric characters. Otherwise this movie is nothing special. Though I love the fact that Ray Walston (Martin in the original series) appears in a cameo as a Martian who has been waiting for 30 years on Earth for a chance to get back to Mars.

Rating:

(From Tom's Random Reviews on August 24th, 2009)

My Summer Of Love, a review by dfmorgan

My Summer Of Love

Part of

Imagine Me & You / My Summer of Love

Year: 2004
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Cast: Natalie Press, Emily Blunt, Paddy Considine
Overview: Mona (Natalie Press) has just got hold of a brilliant moped that only cost a tenner. No engine but still dirt-cheap. She lives with her brother, Phil (Paddy Considine) who used to run a pub before he found God and poured away all the booze. Tamsin (Emily Blunt) is rich, spoilt and trying to live a life of seductive decadence. They meet on the moors, above their quiet Yorkshire village and begin an intense, unlikely friendship. Tamsin and Mona want to escape their lives, but Phil wants to save them and save everybody else. Mona wants the old, dangerous, Phil back; the brother that she loved. Tamsin wants to see what it takes to break him.

Watched: 4th. Dec 2010
My Thoughts: As mentioned elsewhere a bit of faux pas by Universal to include this as part of a Romantic Comedy Double as although there is romance and some comedic pieces this is not a Rom/Com.

Overall I thought that this was and OK film. Some of the film could be used to sell Yorkshire as a county to visit because there was some stunning photography of the countryside, dales and woods. However the director used some techniques in the filming of the lead girls that left me cold. He seemed to me to be filming like a first time user of a camcorder with tops of heads cut off, jerky movement to close in to the face then a jerky movement back out. I wondered at first if this was his first film but found on IMDb that it wasn't. As already said an overall enjoyable film with a nice unexpected twist and with that enigmatic smile on Mona's (Natalie Press) face as she walks away at the end leaving one to ponder.

My Rating: Overall a 3 from me

Dave

(From Dave's DVD/Blu-ray Reviews on December 5th, 2010)

Valentine's Day Episode Marathon, a review by addicted2dvd

Sabrina the Teenage Witch: Season 4 Episode 15: Love in Bloom
On Valentine's Day, Sabrina has to find a way to get Josh to stop vying for her heart before it causes her to break up with her boyfriend Harvey.

My Thoughts:
I enjoyed this one quite a bit... it didn't even bother me too much that Roland is in this one. It had several laughs in it.

My Rating:

(From Valentine's Day Episode Marathon on February 14th, 2010)