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Chalet Girl (2011)
Loverly Fluff for Teengirls
To start, Miss Jones is about 26 here, but does a remarkably convincing 19-year old kid. Her super petite frame does helps, I'd say. Odd to see a younger 'Jyn Erso', though. But that is what You get when rummaging through the bargain-bin at the local electronics chain: Stuff You never knew certain 'famous' actors did before they became celebrities.
The movie itself is lighthearted, easy to digest Hallmark-like fluff, but with better actors and bigger budgets for locations. It's SO utterly 'Hallmark-Like" that it's un-spoilable for anyone that has ever watched straight-to-Hulu/Netflix/Amazon/Apple TV romantoic movies..... But with snowboards.... It even features the actual pioneer of 'Pre 'Olympic Girl hardcore snowboarding' Tara Decides.
All-in-all one of my favorite Xmas movies, despite the fact that it tries SO hard to be 'hip' that it didn't age very well afa snowboard gear goes. Unavoidable, I guess. The Irony is that the movie itself takes a very funny jab at the fleeting 'hipness' of gear.
It's reasonably (British) funny here& there, the cast obviously had a good time, it has snow, lots of snow, beautiful locations and likable characters. For a gloomy winter evening snuggled up with a bin of popcorn, the perfect mindless getaway, especially for teen girls, that are all-too-obviously targeted here.
Van Helsing (2016)
Walking Dead with Vampires
I am not familiar with the graphic novel upon which the tv-series is based, but the whole affair reeks of a blatant rip-off from The Walking Dead, and a smidgen of Game of Thrones....with less budget.
I watched the whole 1st season. What a slog, crawling -in a snails' pace- through about every Walkin Dead trope the writers could think off. Apocalyptic world made with some cardboard car-wrecks here&there. check. At least one character has to die every episode. Check. there has to be treason by a character You'd "never" thought treasonous (riiiight) Check. The 'heroes' have to battle paranoia and the results of idiotic choices..check, check & check.
Oh, and don't forget the age-old trope of may, many "survival" series -and a fair bit of Star Trek- the "to-good-to-be-true-comune-of-peace&tranquility" -episode. Really?? Ugh!
I gave it 3 stars for of cinematography here & there. On Blu-Ray some of it looked exellent, though some of the outdoor scenes looked a tad too much like Fallout-4 with an ENB that cranked the coloured fog and saturation to the max.
And the story? Forgettable Vampires take over the world and Buff... ehh, sorry Ms van Helsing, as the vampire killer in chief, will save it while searching for her daughter who -how predictable- SPOILER!!!!!!!
..is turned into a vampire, as revealed in the lst episode. Oh, as is the "hero marine boy"
/SPOILER
double " ugh".
All in all, a nasty combi of ripped-off story telling, unsympathetic cast, and trodden-to-death tropes and cliche's.
Tip: Avoid!
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
All pictures and no soul
4 stars, just for the great visuals, many of whom have been picked right from the graphic novels.
However...
Nèver have I seen such a total lack in chemistry between actors. Valerian and Laureline try to act like they know each other, but it is quite obvious the actors have no idea whó they are playing, and why.
They seem to phone-in their lines, straight from a auto cue. Absolutely terrible acting. Let alone the fact that the actors don't look in the faintest like the graphic novels' characters. The film makers didn't even take the trouble of making Laureline at léast a red-head. With góod actors, one can forgive something like that. With the below-par straight-to-video actors they shoved in the leads, well, it becomes allthemore evident they haven't got the chops to pull the characters of Valerian and Laureline off in any satisfactory manner.
In his arrogance, Besson, apparently, thought he knew better than de Mezières. The characters -as played by Dehaene and whats-her-name are an affront to èverything de Mezière built in all those years.
So, yeah. I was in awe of the visuals, but that was it. The rest was below par. A colourful, empty shell. Popcorn-flic at the best.
I mean, there is something really awry, when a short bit, played by Rihanna, is the most engaging and funny part of a movie.....
Monster's Ball (2001)
Slow, deeply unsettling and absolutely great.
Slow, deeply unsettling and absolutely great.
*may contain spoilers*
I got the DVD for my recent birthday. It's an older movie, but still relevant because of the timeless story of life & death.
Monster's Ball has the pace, and depressing qualities of a french drama, and is thusly loathed by the "colorful stuff exploding every minute"- crowd, hence the foaming-at-the-mouth reviews here & there.
Yes, well. If One watches it to get a glimpse of Berry's "assets", yes, it's there, but there's quite a bit more to that.
The basic premise of Monster's Ball is "People that lost everything, trying to get their feeling back"
Both Berry and Thornton lost close relatives to rather tragic events. Their lives seem to unravel around them, and struck numb by that, they seem to be walking around in a sort of auto-pilot haze, until they, through even móre tragic events, accidentally meet.
The events in question, losing their sons, the one by suicide, the other by drunk driver, makes them connect on a deeper level. The odd thing is, that there hardly seems to be any love involved in that connection, but only desperation. Desperation unloading in a first and -by American standards- rather steamy sex-scene (A good observer cannot, by the life of it, call it a "love-making" scene).
It's visceral, almost a hate-f**k, a desperate attempt to regain their feeling and humanity, and as such, deeply unsettling for the watcher. It's also deeply European.
Where in America the "love-making" is -as a norm- the ultimate expression of love, it's not as such in many European movies. Especially the French seem to revel in showing love and sex in a rather unsettling way, close to some kind of insanity, and -more often than not- combined with violence and death.
At first I couldn't understand the emphasis on sex as a rather distant affair, like the way Thornton and a hooker go at it, and later the steamy, visceral but loveless banging Thornton and Berry demonstrate. But, after a second watching, it suddenly dawned at me :It was an attempt to escape something inescapable, hence the inter-cuts of a caged bird..
From that moment on, I started to watch for more symbology, and boy! is it chock-full of it.
It starts with he way Thornton gets at his job. He has to take a ferry, crossing a river to his job as a correction officer. Crossing the Styx to a Hell that hé has accepted, but that his son -Ledger- can no longer. Which, combined with the utter contempt that their racist Father and Grandfather (Boyle), has for his son ánd even more so for his grandson, leads to a very tragic outcome.
Then there's Thornton's regular nightly ice-cream, which he insist on to be chocolate with a white, plastic spoon, combined with hot, black coffee.
And it goes on- and on, by times it's even a bit much tbh. And yet, it's all expertly cut-together to make an utterly compelling, but somewhat depressing cocktail of simple, "normal" people that deal with an almost insurmountable lot of grieving after their lives fall apart, and who's fate drives them in each other's arms, forcing them to accept a new reality, And all of that with an undercurrent of racism that seeps through everything in the world around them.
It ends on a somewhat optimistic tone, but even there, a tragic undercurrent is still very much apparent.
The acting of the cast is absolutely top-notch. They all flex their acting-muscles with gusto (even Berry. Remember that she once got a raspberry-award, and showed-up in person to collect it, thereby stealing the hearts of the crowd). Boyle's expert portrayal of Hank Grotowsky's shockingly racist Dad, even made me actively loathe a character. And, tbh, áll characters, except maybe for Ledger's Sonny Grotowski, are somewhat unpleasant by times. Which is a good thing! Daring too.
The whole affair was shot for a meager $4,000,000.- $1,000,000.- of it for Berry to drop her undies (or so it's said. I dunno). The director, his hands tied by the tiny budget, was as such forced to use all kinds of locally available assets. No fancy sets, no fancy props, no nuttin' and as a collateral, it makes for an utterly believable "mise-en scène" and authenticity, which -in turn- makes it look more like an unsettling documentary, in a way. The minimalist music also supports that feeling of "watching a slice of reality".
All in all, I liked it very much. The calm pace gives the viewer ample time to ponder the things the director tries to tell. And after the end- credits One is left thinking about it all for quite some time.
9/10 (-1 for the sometimes too thick layer of symbolism)
Justin and the Knights of Valour (2013)
high expectations, low result.
This one was a serious disappointment, really.
Having just enjoyed the -frankly- masterpiece that is "How to train Your Dragon" (on Blu-Ray) the bland characters, the mediocre animation and the predictable story of "Justin" became all the more irritating.
I had seen the trailer, and on that basis I bought (yes, "bought!" ) the blue ray.
Turns out, the trailer had quite some amusing bits. The movie? Not so much. The story drags, the characters are bland and by times annoying. The setting was uninteresting and bland too. A mixture of Renaissance and medieval, done in the most jarring way possible.
But, what got me really annoyed was that the animators, director and editors fell for the big no-no in CGI-animation: " We built it. So we shall proceed to light it, ALL of it, as harsh as possible" The result? The picture seems burnt-out, bland, pale, and only got slightly interesting when the hero treks through misty mountains.
Oh, and the producers of the Bue Ray couldn't help themselves, and HAD to put in (almost) unskippable trailers of some extremely uninteresting CGI glut.. Having paid for the Blue Ray, I felt quite insulted by that, and started to understand some of the reasons that people decide to rip movies. It really, REALLY ticked me off.
I still refuse to rip DVD's and such as a matter of principle, but stuff like that, makes it really hard to keep steadfast.
On a side-note: it's not just "Justin and the Knights of Valour" that does that. It's an affliction shared by many big names. I hope, one day the industry wakes up. Offering a bare-bones download version of a movie is a first good step, seen with many movies nowadays.
All in all, it's -maybe- nice for kids, on a TV cartoon afternoon, but it's no feature film material. Too long, too bland, too predictable, and iffy animation to boot..
It gets a "4" for effort, being a smaller European studio, but that's about it.
Secret of the Wings (2012)
Tink gets a winter surprise
I bought the Blu-Ray of "The Secret of the Wings" after having seen badly ripped tidbits of it. The tiny bits that I saw (in a rather crappy quality) made me wonder about the rest of the movie, and I decided to just buy the movie.
Now, I have to admit that Disney's fairies are kind of a guilty pleasure for this grown-up geek. I know they are, basically, meant for kids, however, there are enough little jokes and visual gags that go over the heads of little ones, to entertain grown-ups too.
Aside from the gags and little in-jokes, the high quality blu-ray visuals are absolutely stunning, even in 2d. The color palette is gorgeous, atmospheric and translates very well to a smaller screen. The animation is very good. Some mo capping seems to have been used, but not consistently. Frankly that's a bit of a shame. Kids won't notice, but this art-school drop-out noticed that the upper-torso movements, the little twitches that every human has, were captured in sheer perfection, and show the craft of the Disney animators. However, walking animations, and animal animations were not very convincing and pulled me a bit out of the "immersion" The snow-owls were adequate, but the lynx was absolutely not.. Nit-picking, I know.
And while I am at it, the "songs" were an uninspired atrocity, belted-out by some talentless, soulless...person.. Brrrr. The rest of the music was good, with nice little touches of classical pieces. Listen f.i. careful to the theme played when Tinkerbell and her sister, Periwinkle "dance" around each other for the first time.
The story on its own was a nice adventure bit, with some really funny characters that were brought to joyful life by an excellent combo of very talented voice-actors (and some big names at that..) and the Disney animators that, as already stated, absolutely know their craft.
All in all movies like this show that CGI doesn't have to be lifeless shiny stuff, and prove that in the hands of people that know what they are doing, can be just as charming (and tugging at your heart-strings) as drawn animation.
On a side-note: What struck me, was an underlying message that girls can do technical stuff too. Tinkerbell designs, and builds a snow-maker with the help of the other girls. The boys just deliver the parts. Tinkerbell..well.. She "tinkers" and is still, undoubtedly a girl. That's an on-going theme in the Disney-fairy movies and shorts. I think it is a really good, empowering thing for girls to be told:"yes, you can/may build technical gizmo's. It's not just a boy-thing, or a weird geek-thing".
Let It Snow (2013)
Grinch rediscovers Christmas spirit in herself
Not a whole lot to say about this typical Hallmark movie. And to me that is a good thing. I'm kind of tired of the whole high-strung "grim 'n gritty super realistic" vibe of so many movies, and around Christmas I like my no-problem-everything-will-be-alright movies.
Hallmark delivers on that.
It's an enjoyable movie with actors that seem to really like what they are doing, and there's a constant undercurrent of a child-like happiness about Christmas. The leading lady conveys her slowly rediscovering of the joys of Christmas very well, with tons of odd 'n funny traditions thrown into one, giant basket, so to say. (just see what a "spinster" has to go through to see the man in her future in her dreams)
The Vancouver locations are fantastic. Snow aplenty, no need for fake snow, unlike some other Hallmark Christmas movies, and used very effectively for a bit of physical comedy.
All in all, an enjoyable (there's that word again) movie, and clean, non-convoluted entertainment.
Christmas Under Wraps (2014)
Romance with a little surprise
Really nice and unpretentious Christmas romance. No convoluted "problems" with the love interests, for a change.
I like the fact that they made a movie that's just cheerful fun. It's a made-for-TV movie, and as such the little niggles like sunny dawns in wintery Alaska, snow that's not entirely convincing here&there (but thankfully none of that horrible "foam snow" they often use) didn't bother me to much.
The actors are adequate, but sometimes too sitcom-ish. Though, it has to be said that theater veteran Kendra Mylnechuk as the busy, joyous nurse Billie really jumps out.
The Utah locations are nice, but to me don't look a whole lot like Alaska. Still, as a background it was good enough for me.
It's just, basically, a movie with a wholesome, upbeat and positive vibe. Fitting for Christmas.
Catwoman (2004)
Mousy girl becomes ferocious cat
Only thing to remember: Halle Berry got a Razzie for it, AND PICKED THAT ONE UP IN PERSON.
This movie may be derided by critics, and those fancying themselves critics and comics- purists, but that showing of steel cojones on Miss Berry is a redemption on it's own!
It's always a bit sad to see a movie becoming "the most hated" as a sort of trope, because tons of pretentious hipsters feel peer-pressure to fall in-line. And especially hating on Miss Berry seems to be the norm. Blame her interpretation of Storm/Ororo Munroe, I guess. I'm no fan of that too, to be frank.
Back to Catwoman.
This movie isn't half as bad as it may seem from the spitting-foaming-at-the-mouth-angry reviews here&there. It's no Citizen Cane, no doubt there, but it has a charming, campy over-acted quirky-ness far too often missing from the current glut of taking-themselves-far-too-serious Super Hero movies. In some instances I felt an undertone of the Batman series of the 60's. Shame that the filmmakers were a tad too fearful to go that way.
It's unpretentious fun, a bit of an enjoyable power-trip where a meek, mousy girl/woman suddenly becomes this super-powered creature, oozing sensuality. Don't lie to me Ladies (and gents)! A lot of You have -secretly- dreamt of something like that happening to You.
The sheer derision, and fulminating spit-attacks towards cat-woman are more telling of the type of people perpetrating them, than of the actual quality of this movie.
Honesty forces me to admit that I wouldn't go to a theater for it, but as a Bargain-bin DVD, to be watched while enjoying a beer and the company of friends? Not bad, not bad at all.
I'd classify it as an enjoyable made-for-TV type of flick. The CGI Is dated by now, true. Same goes for the way writers ignored the "pure" Catwoman canon, but it's 10 years old by now (!) and at that time the Super-Hero genre was not as established as it is nowadays.
I feel that -would a comparable movie be made nowadays- the public and critics would be far more forgiving, no longer having the fear of being considered a freak for liking the whole crazy, odd Super Powered Super Hero genre.
No, it stìll wouldn't be Citizen Kane, but it would not have been slammed with mud like it was in 2004.
Christmas Lodge (2011)
Young woman stumbles upon happy place of her youth, but finds out it is in disrepair, and decides to do something about that.
Not too bad.
It's a nice little story with a positive undercurrent.
However, the continuous invoking of religion really starts to grate towards the end. I guess it's an American/Canadian thing.
Luckily the beautiful surroundings of Vancouver and BC do compensate a bit for the "message" that's constantly rammed home. And the actors do a nice job of showing a close family, without getting too sappy.
I guess, in the end, this movie will really be loved by the very religious, yet when one looks beyond that, there's still a decent Christmas movie behind all of it for us non-believers.
Oblivion (2013)
Apple Design meets Post-Apocalypse
Imagine the designers of Apple getting their hands on a not-too-bad script for a Sci-Fi movie. Story is fixed, they may design the props.
In other words: The looks/set-pieces are outstanding, pure minimalistic stylishness. The story is well-crafted, but in the end rather un-revolutionary.
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I watched it on blu-ray, and the quality of the imagery is really impressive. The Icelandic locations make for a quite un-American background very befitting of the somewhat dystopian setting: (spoiler!) An Earth, slowly being sucked-dry by ginormous installations for..ehh.. what exactly? For something called "The Tet" A Space-pyramid thingy.
Tom Cruise plays Jack, a repairman that's sent-out to repair armed drones that are programmed to sniff-out "Scavs" the "Aliens" that apparently tried to take-over earth, but were bombed to kingdom come with nukes. Or so Jack is made to believe.
In the end it becomes a rather slowly developing, complex story involving clones, wiped memories, Alien A.i. and whatnot. Some people loathe Oblivion for that (but especially for it's slower pace).
True, it's a rather slow pace through the whole thing. Yet, here&there It has some good moments that make it feel like some Northern Scandinavian Movie, with it's minimalist and sombre looks, the main character doing the ponderous, internal turmoil-thing etc, but it lacks the depth and total depressing qualities that define many of those Nordic movies, and the lacking of those qualities sadly makes it look a tad pretentious.
Suffice to say, the average "big 'splosions every 2 minutes" public will most certainly not like this movie. Same goes for those that expect some deeper, philosophical undertone.
I have to be honest here. The director did try to get a "Nordic" feel, and does have some good moments, but in the end is too American in his way of showing f.i. "action". Too loud, too colorful, too many kitschy interludes (lovers in a swimming pool..ugh.. ) Stuff, frankly, clashes here&there, making for a somewhat unbalanced experience. It feels like he was on the right track, but lost his way in post-production, trying to cater to "the bigger audience"
My biggest gripe? The music. It is too bombastic. Too in-yer-face. Something that irked me to no end. Hence the 7
And Cruise is still too much the "petty American guy". Kurylenko, on the other hand does inject a bit of non-Americanism in the movie with her peculiar beauty. Although, her acting? Ahem. Not too shabby for a former clothes-horse, but no Oscar material, for sure.
Luckily the overall design, and specifically the director's choices for the rather cold coloring of -especially- slower moments, elevate this movie above popcorn-fare, and even successfully evoke a Space 2001-sense here&there, something the director hints at in the extra's.
All in all. I don't feel that I wasted money on the Blu-Ray, but I am happy that it was cheaper than the Theater..
Dead Like Me (2003)
Still great
In my country of origin, it was broadcast a couple of years ago, but they never finished the full season 1. Somehow the "people high-up" decided to pull the plug.
In reality, they had given it the post 23:45 -slot. Dead tide, so to speak, and thusly the amount of viewers was abysmal.
What a dramatic bit of miscalculating.
I watched the available 6 episodes....and it stopped, just disappeared.
I forgot about it, until the 2 seasons'DVD's popped-up at a sale at a local electronics store. I picked it up, and with it the movie. I watched the full run in a week, and have enjoyed it immensely. Despite the grim (hehe) subject, it was a breath of fresh air in a long-gone-stale world of sit-coms.
the freshness is also supported with the excellent light Vancouver BC offers. (Yes, I notice such things) the filming has an airy feeling, also in the writing that soothes the sad, dark, often sarcastic, funny, hilarious ,and, again, sad premise. (For Vancouverites there's a great game of "find the location" as a side-activity)
The hilarious deaths that get shown are only part of the strength of the series. The actors obviously are enjoying themselves in the breadth of the characters. They áre stereotypes in the beginning, but after episode 2, the writers start to réally dig into the different characters, with great effect.
Georgia Lass (played by Ellen Muth) immediately stole my heart with her dry, sarcastic wit, and more often than not, poignant observations. Added to that her peculiar, quirky ,and husky-voiced beauty, and we have a winner! Mandy Patimkin is also one of the highlights. He is the anchor in a series that could easily disintegrate into farce, chaos and slapstick. But, it does nót disintegrate, fár from that.
Watching the whole series back-to-back, makes pretty clear that there's a distinctive system to the madness.
That "system" also makes it all the more obvious that the writers had many more paths to travel and explore when the studio execs pulled the plug.
Shame Sadly the momentum got lost, and the Dead like Me Movie was rather weak, to say the least.
If You are in for a dark, sarcastic, hilarious, touching bit of TV/DVD, "Dead like Me" is about the best way to indulge oneself.
It's good, it's bloody good, and absolutely unique.
Star Trek (2009)
A re-boot that gives fans the boot...BAD!
To all trekkies: do.not.watch.it!
I am not kidding You. To fans of the original series, this convoluted bit of uninspired, half- ripped-off just-to-make-money, cinematography will feel like a kick in the teeth.
Yes,it has some neat action scenes, the Enterprise is there, and Spock and Mc Coy are half-way recognizable..buuut....
Kirk is an atrocity, and an insulting one at that. He's reduced to a bar-brawling nincompoop with an annoying swagger. No trace of the brains, and charm, that the original Kirk more often than not, showed. He's just an annoying, reckless ADHD toddler, that should be kept as far away from a billion dollar exploration vessel, as possible. He succeeded in actually making me HATE a character. Quite a feat, because I tend to forget characters that are wrong somehow.
Spock, on the other hand, played very well by the ex- "Heroes" bad guy, (sortof bad-guy, to be honest) comes off as half-way decent, despite the crappy role the script forces him in.
His relation with Uhura was a nice refreshing bit, and there could have been done more with that, but it got swept aside by the TOTALLY, UNABASHED, HORRENDOUS, CONVOLUTED plot. ("Timetravel" fracking "TIMETRAVEL"!! Sheesh! THE tool for inept writers of "sci-fi" What a crock! Re-boot, my furry rear.)
I'll never fathom why they choose to make Kirk, quite the pivotal, and charming character in TOS, the irritating git he is in this piece of (nasty expletive) movie.
This puerile load of junk is the ultimate middle-finger, with the compliments of JJ. A. He arrogantly even boasted he never saw TOS...whaddayaknow.. It shows! Congrats. We now know You loathe fans of the original series.
All in all, when not acquainted with TOS, or Voyager, DS 9 et al, it might be a nice popcorn piece, totally forgettable, but knowing the brand and THEN watching this is about as enjoyable as a root-canal....without anesthesia...while someone pushes sharp pieces of wood under your toe-nails. Thát bad.
It's brainless, empty, devoid of the characterizations and dilemma's that made it's predecessors so intriguing, it's insulting, etc. Etc.
Avoid it like the plague if You are even the slightest into the original series, or Voyager, or Enterprise, for that matter.
The Wonderful World of Disney: Life-Size (2000)
A Lonely girl who recently lost her mom, accidentally brings a doll to life.
I am not going to give a synopsis, many reviewers already did that very well.
I ran into this made-for-TV movie in the sellout-bin from the local videostore. I have to admit I am shallow enough to pick it up, just for the nice pic of Miss Banks on the front.
Like most reviewers I did not have any high hopes about the acting ability of a former super- model (I did not know, at that time, of her heartbreaking performance in "Higher Learning")
I was, however, pleasantly surprised. The chemistry between Lindsay Lohan and Tyra Banks is there. Tyra Banks has great comical&physical talent. Her lanky legs&arms are totally uncoordinated in the beginning, but the longer the doll is human, the better it gets. Small detail, but her initial clumsiness makes a "living doll" even somewhat believable.
Miss Lohan is, as usual, very professional and convincing as the shocked girl who got something more than she bargained for. The actor playing her dad? Well. He's somewhat annoying with his constant "smooth lovable talking". On the other hand, the "loving Dad" is something of a standard mainstay in Disney- movies I guess.... Tyra Banks does an admirable job as Eve, the vapid, ever-beautiful doll-girl-with a heart, and her part has some subtle in-jokes about modeling for the grown-ups(f.i. her obsession with food..)and after the initial annoyance with her overdone stupidity in real-life, she started to warm to me. She's utterly charming in the end. But she cannot sing! Sorry to say but there is one little scene that really made me cringe.
One thing is obvious. All actors had a great time filming this little for-TV movie, never mind a cohesive story.
Yeah..The Story.. Well.. The script is quite inconsistent here and there. (SPOILER ALERT:How come Eve cannot read a Menu OR a computer screen, yet apparently CAN read ingredients on packages when trying to make a cake..with hilarious results...and THEN again is not able to read "The Book" ???) but the flow of the story isn't bad. Even though it seems that the script- writers couldn't really decide were to go: More fairy-tale or more real-life. Magic books?? Come on! This isn't Harry Potter!
Little niggles like that do not take away anything from the enjoyment of this rather charming movie though. The target audience(family with kids from 8 to 13)will like it, and it has some nice messages about equality of boys&girls strewn in here and there.
All in all it is typical, even "stereo-typical" Disney run-of-the-mill produce with some cringe-worthy moments, but for the price, quite enjoyable. And the ending? Well, a bit different from what I expected in a Disney-Movie.