Penelope

I always wonder how when it comes to movies, sometimes it can take 2 years between production and release before people get a chance to see a film. And it also seems that its those films, the often smaller ones that don’t have real chance and become over looked, when infact they are brilliant. The movie Penelope is no exception.
After 2 years it’s finally made it to the big screen, but still its one of those movies most people haven’t heard of, and I’m here to get the word out.

In a season where fairytalesque films are making a major comeback, we get the cute story of a girl born with a pigs face (more or less, ears and a nose), all thanks to a curse put on the family several decades previous. We learn that in order for her to get a real nose (I mean human nose) she must marry and spend her life with someone like herself, aka a blueblood, which is the elite class in England. We experience a new adventure as we follow Penelope as she tries to find someone to marry, and escapes onto her own for an adventure she’s been waiting. This movie is full of good morals about accepting yourself the way that you, something made difficult by today’s Hollywood standards.

It’s a brilliant and heart warming film, you’ll be laughing from beginning to end in this family film. I absolutely loved this movie, it was very artistic in it’s colours and designs giving it all the more fairy tale atmosphere. The script was amazing and a good choice was made in casting. Christina Ricci shows that she still has the talent to do just about any film and still make it look good she has great on screen chemistry with James McAvoy, who shines thru his character. With a number of stars including Catherine O’Hara and Reese Witherspoon who also produced this film, its great for the whole family.

I recommend this movie to everyone, its quirky and goofy and romantic in all the right ways.

I give it 5 IceCream Scoops out of 5
Rated PG for thematic elements, some innuendo and language

The Spiderwick Chronicles

Who doesn’t love a good fantasy film, these days most of them are based on a book series. This movie is no exception and I was amused by the trailers I saw for it. It was good and still left plenty up to imagination as to what it was about. I had wanted to see the movie, but I think it would’ve been a little difficult to find someone to go with me. I was enough to win some passes to an advanced screening of this movie, and I do admit I wish I had posted this then, but now is still okay. I knew going into the film that it was not recommended for younger children, and that it contained frightening images, what I didn’t know, was that some of those same images were even a little scary to me.

Our story is about child adolescence and the belief in something amazing. Two brothers and their sister after moving to a house in the middle of nowhere and discover a world their great great Uncle or something discovered, and has the info that could destroy the good. The one unleashes the secret with a book, and so the story continues as we learn all about the secret world and the good and the evil.

I was very impressed with this movie, it had a good story line and had awesome creative aspects in the fantasy creatures in the movie. I was scared for some parts of it, and also impressed with the movie.

I recommend this movie to anyone who like a fantasy film, it has its good moments its great moments and a couple of cheesey ones too.

I give it 4 IceCream Scoops out of 5
Rated PG for scary creature action and violence, peril and some thematic elements.

P.S. I love You

A little Late on the review, but it’s finally here.

I’ll be honest and say my first reason for seeing this film was Gerard Butler, a good actor with good looks. When the first trailer came out I was excited to finally be able to see what this movie really was about. I liked what I saw in the preview, the movie looked like a good emotional story line.

It’s a story about moving forward while saying goodbye to the past. A woman loses her husband in the beginning of the film, and the story is about the love letters she receives from him afterwards to help her move on. It is a brilliantly moving story of love and of loss.

I was relatively impressed with the movie, it has a good story line and for the most part I really enjoyed it. There was only one part of the movie I was disappointed in and thought it took away from the film. The main character went to Ireland with her friends and they encouraged her to have sex with a stranger, just because she hadn’t had sex in a while. The movie throws you a few twists and turns, but in the end quite good.

I recommend this movie to anyone who doesn’t mind a little romance movie, and can handle a few tears. I enjoyed it to say I’d see it again.

I give it 4 IceCream Scoops out of 5
Rated PG-13 for sexual references and brief nudity

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

I know this is coming a little late, but better late than never.

I first of this play a few years ago while watching the movie jersey girl in which the play was mentioned. I briefly looked it up and thought it was an interesting play. A butcher who kills people and the lady who lives below turns them into meat pies, well that was the gyst of what I knew about it anyways. So when I heard it was supposed to be turned into a movie, I got excited to see how it would be done. After learning who would be in the film, I was hoping they wouldn’t let me down and that it still was going to be a musical. I think what worried me was how gruesome it would be. I am glad to say I was impressed.

These days you never know what to expect when Johnny Depp takes a role, what he will bring to the character or change it. With Tim Burton directing it, I knew it would be different. As it came closer to see the movie I finally learned more about the story of how Sweeney Todd became, well, Sweeney Todd.

Our story is about a man who was wrongly accused and arrested and taken to prison, and once he escaped became Mr. Todd a man bent on revenge. He befriended the woman who sold meat pies and together created the most interesting musical to be turned into a film.

I was happy to be able to see the film, and I give it great reviews, a stunning performance by all actors in this movie. I was surprised at the Talent of Johnny Depp and Helen Bonham Carter in their singing. An Extremely dark movie, but well put together with the right amount of humor.

This is by no means a childs movie, made plain by the adult rating it was given. It does contain some scenes that are hard to watch for some as it is somewhat gruesome.

I recommend this film to all of you, as long as you can handle the graphic nature of murder. It has amazing song, and a deep story line.

I give it 5 IceCreams Scoops out of 5
Rated R for graphic bloody violence.