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El lince perdido (2008)
Loved it
This has to be the cutest, funniest movie I've seen in a long time. While the plot itself isn't innovative, the movie is refreshing, witty, and hilarious. There wasn't a boring moment in it. The characters and their interactions are well written and very entertaining. The animation is also great. And of course there's the underlying message about endangered animals, which is important.
Over all, this movie is funny and adorable and I enjoyed it very much. I'm sure it would entertain both children and adults. Seeing how most of the stuff that passes for "comedy" these days doesn't even make me smile, I started to think I might have lost my sense of humor. But this one made me laugh out loud.
Thank you, makers of this lovely little gem. I had to post a review to give this low budget film the thumbs up it deserves. Well done!
Nancy Drew (2007)
Horrible
This movie was so incredibly horrible that I HAD to leave a comment.
I liked the Nancy Drew books but in this movie they turned her into the ultimate Mary Sue, she's the absolute best at absolutely everything and has this stuck up know-it-all holier-than-thou superiority complex that literally makes me wanna beat the crap out of her, like seriously when would writers learn that writing their characters pukingly, unrealistically perfect doesn't make the audience admire them... it just makes them cringe in disgust.
ALL the characters were extremely exaggerated stereotypes and none of them were even remotely realistic or credible, the acting was terrible all over and sorry but Emma Roberts couldn't act her way out of a juice box (which is probably why she gets cast in that kinda crap in the first place). It was so unrealistic and stereotypical that it was like a really bad attempt at parody, but parody takes real talent to make and unfortunately simply slapping a bunch of stereotypes together doesn't make for parody. It's just lazy, uninspired, unintelligent, unimaginative, uninventive, and points to SERIOUS lack of talent.
The whole thing was like WAY BEYOND predictable, in fact I solved the whole case just hearing the line in the beginning about how Draycott disappeared for 5 months. And I'm not even kidding.
The Mary Sue factor is made even worse with the contrast of how incredibly perfect Drew's supposed to be and how INCREDIBLY DUMB AND INCOMPETENT she actually is. I mean like it took her half the movie to even come up with the idea that Draycott was pregnant for crying out loud, and even that only after looking at screencaps. And the Chinese box thing, boo hoo it's empty, like HELLO?? Anyone bothered at all by the fact that the 2' tall box is only like an inch deep?? Like what's the rest of it, just a really thick bottom board?? I'm no detective and I instinctively expect a secret compartment, even if it wouldn't be made so OUTSTANDINGLY OBVIOUS (because really, what's it hiding a PIECE OF PAPER for crying out loud), and the Wannabe Detective doesn't even THINK about it??
And don't even get me started with the CPR thing which is a big WTF, if it were me and someone was yelling "my brother's choking, anyone know CPR" I wouldn't take my sweet time and WAIT AROUND for the commotion to die down to even SAY "I know CPR", THEN move my big fat ass and cutely walk to help the victim. Nope, I'd charge forward and Heimlich him before he even falls down goes boom, and then if anyone's still interested in my answer, I'd say I know CPR. ::rolleyes:: Not so pukingly cute, but practical. ::rolleyes again:: And for crying out loud check the vitals before you give CPR, he's breathing and has pulse!! In which case even if he WERE unconscious there's no need for pumps/mouth to mouth, its just a case of the legs-up or roll him on his side. But of course that doesn't count as "showing off the mighty CPR skills". And AIRWAYS, forgetting about them?? Gah it was so contrived and unrealistic that even the character herself came off as if she didn't even have a clue what she was doing. Like what would she do if he were having an epileptic seizure or something. Give him the pumps?? ::rolleyes::
And do you really expect me to believe that she could just walk into a Bruce Willis film set. In a big STUDIO LOT. Give me a break. I wouldn't be let on the sets of my OWN films if it weren't for the fact that I have ROLES in them, and they're nowhere nearly as big as a Bruce Willis film.
In conclusion this is literally the worst film I've seen in a really long time, and I just watched ULTRAVIOLET for crying out loud. Lead Mary Sue that's like WAY too good to be true, which makes for a WAY too BAD to be true movie, and over all a pile of crap and I'm thankful I didn't actually spend any money on this thing, although I wanna be compensated for the time I wasted!! I sincerely hope my review will help save innocent unsuspecting souls from this torture.