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Kiddie Cinerama
We've gotten back into the habit of watching movies again, yay! Although one movie my husband didn't want to watch with me was the 1986 My Little Pony movie. I was inspired to look it up after watching the season finale of FIM and thought the rainbow that wound through everything at the end was a little familiar...and it seems it was just a little something borrowed from G1. I never got to watch the movie when it first came out, although I did (and still do) have the movie sticker book. Honestly, it would have been cheaper to just take me to the movie Mom and Dad! It's actually a pretty cool sticker book, it came with a 3D viewer so you could sneak a peak at any missing stickers. Anyway, asides from the horrible voice acting for the ponies, it's really not a bad children's movie at all. I enjoyed it!
We also finally saw Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, which was way funnier than we expected. The nerdy love story was great along with the elastic animation and jokes. Someone remembered how to make a movie fun! We actually watched this movie after being mildly traumatized by another movie, for another post.
Yesterday we watched Hop, which came from the same studio as Despicable Me, which we watched on Friday night. Finally! We get embarrassingly behind on movies. Such a fun and sweet movie with lots for adults. Hop, though, was a trip to weirdsville and not as well made. The CGI/live action blend is technically brilliant, but there are places where the story stops, starts and falls right out of the bottom! There were also some minor racial stereotypes that were poorly thought out. After it ended, I said to my husband that it seemed like a metaphor for coming out and he thought that the main human character, Fred O'Hare, had had a break with reality and was hallucinating. Kids won't notice it's cut and paste quality, but...
Basically the inspiration for Hop came from any number of Christmas movies with motifs swapped around. There's an Easter sleigh drawn by chickselves that never mature, and looks pretty goofy!
In hindsight, there's just way too many plots. A half hour sitcom can usually pull off two plots well, an hour long show maybe three. In Hop, there were easily five or six plots going on at the same time with too many characters. For sure, there were some funny moments, but it was just such a cluttered and rambling movie that it was unwatchable.
The scheming Carlos, who wants to lead a revolucion, is pretty weak as far as baddies go, but he's a pretty good example of Marx's theory of alienation. The biggest flaw is that touching the Egg of Destiny turns Carlos into a chick/rabbit hybrid. But when Fred touches it, nothing happens. The details! They bug me ;-)
We also finally saw Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, which was way funnier than we expected. The nerdy love story was great along with the elastic animation and jokes. Someone remembered how to make a movie fun! We actually watched this movie after being mildly traumatized by another movie, for another post.
Yesterday we watched Hop, which came from the same studio as Despicable Me, which we watched on Friday night. Finally! We get embarrassingly behind on movies. Such a fun and sweet movie with lots for adults. Hop, though, was a trip to weirdsville and not as well made. The CGI/live action blend is technically brilliant, but there are places where the story stops, starts and falls right out of the bottom! There were also some minor racial stereotypes that were poorly thought out. After it ended, I said to my husband that it seemed like a metaphor for coming out and he thought that the main human character, Fred O'Hare, had had a break with reality and was hallucinating. Kids won't notice it's cut and paste quality, but...
Basically the inspiration for Hop came from any number of Christmas movies with motifs swapped around. There's an Easter sleigh drawn by chicks
In hindsight, there's just way too many plots. A half hour sitcom can usually pull off two plots well, an hour long show maybe three. In Hop, there were easily five or six plots going on at the same time with too many characters. For sure, there were some funny moments, but it was just such a cluttered and rambling movie that it was unwatchable.
The scheming Carlos, who wants to lead a revolucion, is pretty weak as far as baddies go, but he's a pretty good example of Marx's theory of alienation. The biggest flaw is that touching the Egg of Destiny turns Carlos into a chick/rabbit hybrid. But when Fred touches it, nothing happens. The details! They bug me ;-)
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The specials are good too if you haven't seen them and also the "Bright Lights" saga. They had scary villains!
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The other good one is Escape from Catrina, maybe she can come back as a villain.
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