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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, a review by Critter

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World





Plot: Scott Pilgrim's life is so awesome. He's 23 years old, in a rock band, "between jobs," and dating a cute high school girl. Everything's fantastic until a seriously mind-blowing, dangerously fashionable, roller blading delivery girl named Ramona Flowers starts cruising through his dreams and sailing by him at parties. But the path to Ms. Flowers isn't covered in rose petals. Ramona's seven evil exes stand between Scott and true happiness. Can Scott defeat all seven of the bad guys and get the girl without turning his precious little life upside-down, before the game is over?


My Thoughts: This was one of the single funnest cinema experience I have had for the last couple of years. When I keep thinking back to this film 'fun' is the word that keeps coming back to my head. It was fun from start to finish, loads of laughs, great action scenes, great performances.  I saw this in a sold out cinema and the whole audience laughed at all of the jokes, there was great comedy timing throughout the whole film, and this is coming from someone who usually isn't a fan of comedies. I haven't yet read the comics that this film is based off but I didn't feel like I was missing out because of that. As a lover of video games there was a lot for me to appreciate in this film. It pretty much played out like a live-action video game, complete with incredible and outlandish fight scenes, and even giant monsters and dragons created from the energy of music. As well of, of course, a soundtrack that was composed highly of sound effects from old arcade style games that many of us know and love.

When I heard that Michael Cera would be playing the lead in this I was a little worried, as I like many other people are getting sick of Cera playing the same role over and over, as the awkward, somewhat geeky kid. And I won't lie, this role did show many similarities to some of his previous roles but it did seem to work in this film. Cera played Scott quite well in this instance, and the rest of the cast were also fantastic. The plot of this film was strange, that's for sure, but not strange enough to turn people off. As I said before, it's a fun ride and you just learn to expect anything at all as the film progresses as, just like in some video games, you never know what is about to turn up. This is a film that I can see myself enjoying many many times, in fact I am already planning my next cinema visit to see it. I highly recommend this film to anyone who is out to have a fun night at the movies.

My Rating:

(From Scott Pilgrim vs. the World on August 9th, 2010)

Hoodwinked!, a review by Tom

Title: Hoodwinked!
Year: 2005
Director: Cory Edwards
Rating: PG
Length: 81 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78
Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1 , French: Dolby Digital 5.1 , Commentary: Dolby Digital Surround
Subtitles: Spanish

Stars:
Anne Hathaway
Glenn Close
Jim Belushi
Patrick Warburton
Anthony Anderson

Plot:
So you think you know the story of Little Red Riding Hood. Don't be too sure.... One of your favorite fairy tales is turned upside-down and inside-out in what the L.A. Times called "high-energy, imaginative entertainment." With irreverent storytelling, spunk and wit, Hoodwinked delivers a comedy caper for the young, the young at heart and everyone in between. When the police arrive at Granny's cottage in the woods to answer a domestic disturbance call, it looks like just another open-and-shut case. But Red, Granny, the Big Bad Wolf, and the Woodsman are not your usual suspects, as they have their own dark secrets, wily deceptions and conflicting accounts of the crime. Together, they must put aside their differences and find their own original twist on Happily Ever After in this "raucous, genre-busting, animated gem (Entertainment Weekly, The Must List)."

Extras:
Closed Captioned
Commentary
Deleted Scenes
Featurettes
Music Videos
Scene Access
Trailers

A fun play on the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale. Police investigates four different points of views of what has happened. These four POV do interweave quite nicely and result in a story totally different as it first seems.
Animation is far from the league of Pixar (especially the movements) but it did not detract from the story otherwise.

Rating:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpVqRm8G97U

(From Tom's Random Reviews on November 22nd, 2008)

Tom's Random Reviews, a review by Tom

Being Erica: Season Three (2010/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia Just Bridge Entertainment (Netherlands) Director: Writing: Length: 585 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1 Subtitles: Dutch

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Another great season. In the beginning I wasn't sure I'd like the direction this season was going, but it turned out okay.
The second to last episode was a great episode, which really felt like a season finale. Including the feeling to want to see how it now continues. And I thought, great that there is another episode. I get to see it continue. But as it turned out it really was the season finale, and the last episode was a christmas special, which obviously disregarded the episode before that. It was obviously set before the finale. It's a typical special, which doesn't further the storyline and just takes the characters and setting to "teach" you the meaning of christmas. Not a bad episode, but I was left disappointed that I didn't get to the story continue.
Now I have to wait a long time to see it. The fourth (and last) season hasn't even aired yet in Canada.

#	Episode	Rating
01	The Rabbit Hole
02	Moving On Up
03	Two Wrongs
04	Wash, Rinse and Repeat
05	Being Adam
06	Bear Breasts
07	Jenny From the Block
08	Physician, Heal Thyself
09	Getting Wiggy With It
10	The Tribe Has Spoken
11	Adam's Family
12	Erica, Interrupted
13	Fa La Erica

(From Tom's Random Reviews on September 13th, 2011)