As you know I love cartoons... I love love them and I blogged about them, here and here.
And I did enjoy the Despicable me, but I did think that where was not enough yellow minions, perhaps a lot of people thought that so Despicable me 2 had more of them... And oh god this was so much fun!
(haven't seen it yet but planning to... stop reading now!)
I did love how very fatherly Gru has became and how his neighbors wanted to set him up on the date... Oh it was just so funny.
Although it is a cartoon and happy ending is quiet obvious from the posters!
But the songs yellow minions sing are just so funny! But you need to know who Boyz To Men were... and you know early 90s music.
Yellow minions actually play a very important role in this cartoon in the way they actually take center stage... In a really diabolical way actually!
I did love Kristen Wiig's character... She was so cute and fun, like a magical unicorn of cartoon spies!:)
Anyway, the cartoon is cute. Do watch it, Russel Brand's acting as an evil doctor is cute.. Actually all the actors are great, I do love Steve Carell so much. Especially after Dan in Real Life.
I guess I am the only one who just saw new Star Track film... well it was me and hubby. We went to Cineworld! Yes, no more Odeon for me! So happy, you know how I feel about Odeon...
When my co-blogger Owen went to see Into the Darkness he said just one thing to me:
"Benedict does steal every scene"
And oh boy!!... But first thing first.
I do not like Star Track series, they are just too dated for me. Sorry. I like Sci-Fi... not all of it but some definitely, I am a bit of a geek.
Husband did say that I need to watch The Wrath of Khan (if you didn't know Star Track did the films too)to understand the jokes that the opening scenes refer to.. well maybe one day.
(if you haven't seen it yet now it is a good time to stop reading)
Opening scenes showed us this small world that is on the verge of distraction by volcanic eruption... But Jim Kirk being a human that he is decides to save it. A lot of running around, many funny comments, but Spock almost dies.... I think this kind of sets the mood really.
Spock was very puzzled about the whole big deal with the human emotion. Zachary Quinto did a very good job of that too! I was very moved by his speech to Uhura when they were about to land on Chronos.
Then it all kicks off with sad scenes form London featuring lovely Noel Clarke who I love since he was Mickey in Dr Who (geek, told you!) and the dramatic appearance of Khan.
And when they do get on the planet of "Cornish pasties"... well I'm sorry but Klingon do look like them a bit, action scene ... Benedict Cumberbatch is magnificent! Every move is captivating. It was truly amazing...Ok I might be slightly biased on that...
Since I obviously had no idea what would happened and appart from the whole genocide thing I really wanted Khan to win! Yes, he was that good!
The comedy moments been provided by very sexy "Bones" (Karl Urban) and Mr Scott (Simon Pegg), fun all around. I do think that's a good film make, really: action must be awesome, excellent effects and fight scenes, comedy and men candy!
However....the whole Kirk dying thing I saw this coming really... Magic blood and what not, so ending was a bit predictable.
(you can start reading again)
The action the story the characters well worth watching!
I really enjoyed it, and I think will be watching it again and again. Highly recommend it!
Written by Daria who seem to be still in love with Benedict Cumberbatch with black hair. I think blond just don't do it for me.
My friend Marzena watched what to expect when you're expecting while expecting... and said it was a good film. So it is finally on netflix, what would we be doing without it? and I just watched it too....
Oh fun! A lot of great comedy actors, including my very favorite Cameron Diaz, Elizabeth Banks and Rebel Wilson...
Different new babies stories linked into one film. They all somehow related, not by blood but work, food and park. Very cute. It is a film for girls, especially with Joe Manganiello strutting his stuff:) Beautiful beautiful man!
Very heart warming with amazing comedy moments...
Sneezed.... oh there is the baby...
"She is like a magical unicorn of pregnancy"....
I think the most precious thing of this film is Elizabeth Banks meltdown. So true! Everyone wants a glow... and not fats, hemorrhoids... and all the other "pleasures" of being pregnant.
Film that makes you smile. It's not a super comedy it is just a very nice heart warming film. Really. Only if you are pro babies...
But one of them I did not go to see because of adverts... the orange did a clip based on the Rio cartoon and it has been in the cinema for such a long time and it was just so annoying and just bad... well in the end I have seen it way to many times and did not see the film on the big screen.
So there is such thing as a bad advertisement... It took me like 2 years to get around to watch it.
Now I am thinking that it would have been epic...
The music by Sergio Mendes makes the atmosphere, my legs wanted to dance!
The actors did amazingly too... You really feel for silly Blu by Jesse Eisenberg for not being a real bird, and the super funny Will.I.Am and Jamie Foxx as street smart birdies!
Great comedy fun for everyone, just nee to make hubby watch it. Very sweet film and very funny... The dog dancing in the bikini with fruit hat on i mean come on! its just too funny!!
This cartoon made me really happy and now I want to see the Carnaval!!
Growing up in USSR we got to see strange collection of foreign films... Mainly Bollywood and old French comedies...
So we were all about singing in dancing in Mumbai slums and giggling away on silliness of Louis De Funes. There were a lot of comedies around!
Then again studying French most of my childhood... We Russians love France, everything French really, music, beauty, however most of the time we are terrible at French cooking, that's one aspect of French culture we don't do very well. Epic fail on the cooking French!
Yes, I do know how Brits feel about French, but I happened to love French things, France, yet I have never been... Did you know that Cinema was actually invented in France? By Lumiere brothers in 1895. It's actually quiet amusing, in a geeky way, the lumier actually means light!
So naturally I am pro foreign cinema... I love French cinema! It is always so... so... different.
My all time favorite is Amelie. How can one not love Amelie... it is just so sweet and elegant! Tres Chic!
The of course there was La Vie en Rose about the amazing Edith Piaf with Marion Cottoilard as the late singer. It was a truly remarkable film, do not think I cried so much over anything...
Critics also loved La Vie en Rose, Mademoiselle Cottilard won a lot of award for it, including that shiny man called Oscar.
But French films are not only love and sadness, it is also incredible violence...
Doberman
Film that has violence, explosions, sex, drugs... and Vincent Cassel!
Then there is again one of my favorite Crimson Rivers, Empire of the Wolves after the books of amazing French writer Jean-Christophe Grange, with fabulous Jean Reno.
Again, they showed a lot of things no one really needed to see on the screen. But unlike, killer inside me, I am willing to re-watch these films again and again.. Must be their French charm.
The ultimate love letter to everything french is in my opinion Paris, Je t'aime
Go watch it... enjoy it.
I shall go back to dream about my trip to Paris this year
I wish that local cinemas, looking at you Odeon Bath, showed more foreign and indi films...
Written by Daria while looking for the French Onion soup recipe.
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