Post by Vits on Mar 1, 2020 10:02:50 GMT
The first 25 minutes of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM play out like regular period piece, but then a group of fairies show up to manipulate the humans. Come on! Even if there was nothing for them to do during the beginning, why not show them for like 30 seconds during the opening credits or something? It might seem like a little detail, but it has to do with establishing the type of fictional world. By doing it so late, those characters feel out of place. The last part of the movie focuses too much on an amateur play instead of the other characters and their romantic shenanigans. An actor is told to rehearse a line using a high-pitched voice. A man gets an erection and the woman in front of him giggles. 2 women wrestle in mud. Was all of this in the play it's based on? I thought that William Shakespeare represented high-brow humor. Rupert Everett's performance is good, Anna Friel's is very good and Calista Flockhart's is bad.
3/10
GET OVER IT begins with funny non sequiturs and gags that are darker than what was expected from a 2001 comedy about and targeted at teens. Unfortunately, at some point, it becomes serious and also clichéd. I realized that the non sequiturs from previous scenes were dreams or daydreams. Wait a minute. Why don't we see Berke Landers (the personality-free protagonist) waking up from them, even though we did see it during the 1st part of the movie? Was he also imagining the scene were Allison McAllister (a childhood friend he hadn't seen in years) recognized him by seeing only the back of his head and talked to him in the school cafeteria while every other student was surprised and stared at them in silence? They date for more than a year and she breaks up with him without a proper explanation. No, that wasn't done to set up a 3rd act twist nor to make Berke realize that she's not who he thought she was. Allison never explains the reason and it makes no sense because she's not really portrayed as a bad person.
5/10
STRANGE MAGIC is like SHREK, except that the animation isn't very good and that
5/10
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3/10
GET OVER IT begins with funny non sequiturs and gags that are darker than what was expected from a 2001 comedy about and targeted at teens. Unfortunately, at some point, it becomes serious and also clichéd. I realized that the non sequiturs from previous scenes were dreams or daydreams. Wait a minute. Why don't we see Berke Landers (the personality-free protagonist) waking up from them, even though we did see it during the 1st part of the movie? Was he also imagining the scene were Allison McAllister (a childhood friend he hadn't seen in years) recognized him by seeing only the back of his head and talked to him in the school cafeteria while every other student was surprised and stared at them in silence? They date for more than a year and she breaks up with him without a proper explanation. No, that wasn't done to set up a 3rd act twist nor to make Berke realize that she's not who he thought she was. Allison never explains the reason and it makes no sense because she's not really portrayed as a bad person.
Berke eventually realizes that his friend Kelly Woods is "the one." Does it happen when they're about to kiss? No. Does it happen later when they do kiss? No, it happens when he hears her singing during their school's musical adaptation of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Ummm... OK? It seems that the people in the audience know every word of the original play. They gasp whenever someone changes a line. They also think that one student punching another is real. It is, but how do they know that? The students are playing rivals. Regardless, isn't their fight reason enough to stop the show?
The original songs are good, but Sisqó and Vitamin C's cover of SEPTEMBER by Earth, Wind & Fire is weak. They speed up LOVE WILL KEEP US TOGETHER by Captain & Tennille and it sounds awkward.5/10
STRANGE MAGIC is like SHREK, except that the animation isn't very good and that
a lot more time passes before hints of a romance between a fairy named Marianne and a misunderstood dark creature named Bog are shown. It's a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it feels refreshengly unpredictable; on the other hand, there's no time to develop their relationship. Here's how it happens: They have a sword fight and he (being cocky) waits until losing before pointing out why she can't kill him. While they can't fight anymore, it doesn't mean that they shouldn't completely lower their guard. They do (foolish decision made by a princess and a king). They have a "We're surrounded by romantic objects even though we're not a couple" awkward moment. She starts treating him differently when she learns about his past. They sing a love song. That's it.
This is a jukebox musical with mostly good covers, because of the rhythm and intensity of the singers' voices. The melodies of the original versions of some of these songs didn't really reflect the emotion of the lyrics. When it comes to the non-singing scenes, Evan Rachel Wood's performance is the best one.5/10
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