Review: WALL*E
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Anyway, back to ‘WALL*E’. Being a Pixar offering, you can be rest assured that a high level of quality is in store for you. And with 'WALL*E', they did not disappoint. In fact, for me anyway, it exceeded my expectations. After coming out of the cinema hall, my mind was swirling with the
notion that this is Pixar’s best picture since the introduction of ‘Toy Story’. No joke. It was a tremendous piece of story-telling told with almost no dialogue from its main characters. And the most surprising of all, everyone seemed to love it. Emotion, humor and action sequences were told with reliance on simple movements and interactions between the characters. And they did it with wildly imaginative aplomb.
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As usual the animation is state-of-the-art, but what stood out as one of the greatest piece of animation master-work was the very emotive binocular-like (and VERY CUTE) eyes of 'WALL*E'. You will just have to watch it to believe it. All problems and stress will be immediately washed away once you stare at those puppy-cute eyes of 'WALL*E'. And when he moves, it has a completeness that 'WALL*E' achieves that will leave him (or it) be remembered for years to come. But let’s not forget 'EVE', the other main robot that is his companion. 'EVE' communicates her (or it) emotions through bodily shapes. Between the two, they have this special type of sweetness that will stroke the emotions of all ages, and is also universally touching.
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Verdict: 9 / 10 (WALL*E)
Review: ‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’
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This film is in fact visually beautiful, skillfully crafted with sweeping landscapes and grand action sequences. But sadly, as usual with George Luca nowadays, tremendous effort has gone into the visual style of the film, but the story and acting quality is very obviously dreadful. I mean, what is wrong with George Lucas? His passion for ‘Star Wars’ is long gone and little time or care is given to the story, character development and dialogue. He is now making ‘Star Wars’ just for the sake of making it, not because he wanted it. His heart was never into ‘Star Wars’ since ‘The Return of the Jedi’ was completed. If George Lucas finds making a ‘Star Wars’ film too burdensome, then hand it over to someone more passionate about it for goodness sake. But no, he wants complete control of his baby, and look how it turned out. If Bill Gates was his son, he would still be living in his basement and there would no Microsoft…
In a nutshell, the dialogue is completely juvenile and fitting for an infant with an I.Q. of 0. (Seriously George, is this the demographic you are targeting at nowadays? Jeez). Silly nicknames are being thrown about like a boring weekday party, i.e. ‘Sky Guy’ and ‘Snips’. C’mon man, ‘SKY GUY’?? ‘SNIPS’?? Does ‘Snips’ refer to anything anatomical perhaps? God, let’s move on. The storyline is so overly simple, I wouldn’t even provide a brief description here or else I would have revealed the entire film to you.
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But let’s the fair here, the film is not without merit. The action sequences are immensely rich in detail, painfully designed to maximize visual eye candy that will at times leave you speechless. Being a ‘Star Wars’ fan, there was a few action sequences in there that did raise my ‘WOW’ bar a notch or so. Beautifully choreographed light-saber battles, very cool designs of new machines of war and very impressive additions of sound effects that are distinguising signatures of a ‘Star Wars’ film are all there to be admired. But that’s all there is to be admired really.
All in all, it is upsetting that I felt ‘Clone Wars’ was a bit of a snooze. Long gone are the days that ‘Star Wars’ was in its prime, and long-gone are the days that George Lucas ever cared. Take a rest, George. Hand it over to someone else that cares a bit more about this legacy. Give that person a chance, whoever it may be, and we then might actually see a ‘Star Wars’ film that once again matches the original in passion and quality.
Verdict: 4 / 10 (Star Wars: The Clone Wars)
All in all, it is upsetting that I felt ‘Clone Wars’ was a bit of a snooze. Long gone are the days that ‘Star Wars’ was in its prime, and long-gone are the days that George Lucas ever cared. Take a rest, George. Hand it over to someone else that cares a bit more about this legacy. Give that person a chance, whoever it may be, and we then might actually see a ‘Star Wars’ film that once again matches the original in passion and quality.
Verdict: 4 / 10 (Star Wars: The Clone Wars)
Reviewed by: Raymond Choy
4 FEEDBACKS:
oo double dose! I can't believe you went to watch the Clone Wars!!! I saw the trailer yesterday and went "oh no ma'am". lol
I went to watch Zohan on Sunday. Usual Adam Sandler movie..but they had cut out a few parts of the movie..can't blame them since he was showing his a$s! It was very silly and funny. Go get the DVD. it's a good laugh =)
Oopps sorry the late reply, was freakin' bz. anyways, yeah Clone Wars. Bummer. It wasnt my idea, i was dragged and maybe even drugged) to watch it....long story hahah...
Zohan huh, i kinda like Adam Sandler movies, but recently his movies are kindly so-so only..maybe he's running out of ideas...
Oh, i saw the love guru that day...and...kinda dissappointing :( i mean, its mike myers y'know, should have been alot more.
oh well...summer movies are running out, stupid movies like death race is out. dun think any good movies are coming soon rite..?
No worries, work is like that. Get home and you've no energy left to do nothing.
Love Guru was disappointing? crikey, i was looking forward for that. No other movies to look forward to atm >.< death race looked silly..car race to get out of prison? lol
Zohan was ridiculous..you know Adam Sandler-la.
Yup, no more movies. But Eagle Eye looked kinda good. Zohan was...insulting at times, but being a Sandler film, everyone seems to forgive and forget. Amazing.
Love Guru was abit disappointing la, but got some parts in there that was pretty darn furnee.
Besides these few movies, we all have to wait until Dec for the cool movies to re-appear again sighhh
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