I’m not a fan of the popcorn movie argument–it’s the one where people tell you you’re just supposed to enjoy the movie and not think about it–Stephen Sommers uses it in his defense and so does, somewhat more interestingly, Cameron Crowe (I think he called it populist to prove he’d been to college). Except if […]
Entries Tagged as 'Walt Disney Pictures'
G-Force (2009, Hoyt Yeatman)
September 7th, 2009 · No Comments
Tagged: Bill Nighy· Cormac Wibberley· Hoyt Yeatman· Jon Favreau· Marianne Wibberley· Nicolas Cage· Sam Rockwell· Walt Disney Pictures· ★★
The Rocketeer (1991, Joe Johnston)
July 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
Joe Johnston never getting recognition for The Rocketeer astounds me. Johnston creates a perfect adventure film, a now neglected and abused genre. Additionally, Johnston never fetishizes the historical setting. The late 1930s, Nazis as villains setting is practically its own genre at this point (strange how after a half decade, there are so few choices […]
Tagged: Alan Arkin· Danny Bilson· Dave Stevens· Ed Lauter· Joe Johnston· Paul De Meo· Walt Disney Pictures· William Dear· ★★★★
WALL·E (2008, Andrew Stanton)
July 2nd, 2008 · 3 Comments
WALL·E might be the first major Hollywood production not to feature a speaking protagonist in a while. I can’t remember the last one. WALL·E, the robot, makes some emotive sounds and mispronounces his girlfriend’s name, but he communicates through action, not through verbalization. It’s rather effective, since the robot’s supposed to be adorable and Pixar’s […]
Tagged: Andrew Stanton· Jim Reardon· Pete Docter· Sigourney Weaver· Walt Disney Pictures· ★★★½
Ratatouille (2007, Brad Bird)
July 2nd, 2007 · No Comments
While Ratatouille features Pixar’s finest three-dimensional CG, it also features their worst two dimensional characters. The problem’s apparent from the start–the main character has one conflict and it turns out to resolve itself quite easily in the end. There are other conflicts in the film, but they’re all external to the main character, Remy–whose name […]
Tagged: Brad Bird· Brian Dennehy· Emily Cook· Ian Holm· Jan Pinkava· Jim Capobianco· Kathy Greenberg· Peter O'Toole· Pixar Animation Studios· Walt Disney Pictures· ★★
George of the Jungle (1997, Sam Weisman)
January 12th, 2007 · No Comments
For what it is, George of the Jungle is a rather successful film. It has to appeal to kids (since it’s a Disney movie), teenage girls (who I presume liked Brendan Fraser and might buy the soundtrack–from Disney Records, of course), and even “George of the Jungle” fans. Viewers of the show would be parents […]
Tagged: Audrey Wells· Dana Olsen· Jay Ward· John Cleese· Sam Weisman· Thomas Haden Church· Walt Disney Pictures· ★★½
The Three Musketeers (1993, Stephen Herek)
July 31st, 2005 · No Comments
There’s a cruelty of home video. I can watch The Three Musketeers, which I liked as a fifteen year-old, and loathe myself for that previous affection.
What can I say about this film? A lot, actually. One, I had no idea Disney let so many people get killed quite so graphically. Two, Charlie Sheen is good. […]
Tagged: Alexandre Dumas· David Loughery· Kiefer Sutherland· Michael Wincott· Oliver Platt· Stephen Herek· Walt Disney Pictures· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
