Tag: animation
Cars 2
by Felipe Rosa
Cars 2: once more, Pixar is dazzling with the visual creativity, with an expansion of the world seen in the original. As far as story goes, this is certainly more to the light side for their recent standards; also, thematically, it doesn’t feel right at home with what they did in Cars. That would be the main weakness in a very fun movie. (But still, incidentally, one lap ahead of both DWA and BlueSky).
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: adventure, animation, pixar
Cars
by Felipe Rosa
Cars: there are many great qualities to this film, not the least of them the heartfelt earnestness of the story (which is sorely missing from many of the recent films from DWA and BlueSky). The visual creativity is also sky high, particularly in the care for the background. And, of course, the genius casting of Paul Newman. (The discussion if this is the worst Pixar to date is immaterial. But I’m a assumed fan.)
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: adventure, animation, pixar
Kung Fu Panda 2
by Felipe Rosa
Kung Fu Panda 2: looks beautiful (and, surprisingly, makes good use of 3D; it means a lot coming from me), but it doesn’t have the heart or the content to match that beauty. The characters are flat like a board, if one can even call them that. It’s not even all that funny.
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: adventure, animation, fantasy
Rio
by Felipe Rosa
Rio: visually beautiful, the music is (for the most part) quite nice, but the story is disappointing. The stereotypes were not as bad as I expected, but as expected they were still there. In short, fun, but not to par with the best out there.
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: adventure, animation, comedy
Toy Story 3 – Revisit
by Felipe Rosa
Toy Story 3: whatever I said before stands. Still the best movie of 2010, upon a review. It hits the same notes, packs the same emotional punch and the characters remain as rich as they felt the first time. I don’t think there is bigger compliment than saying I was breaking down all over again at the end. See what I wrote before: Toy Story 3
Categories: Film reviews, Revisit • Tags: adventure, animation, pixar, top
Megamind
by Felipe Rosa
Megamind: it’s typical DW animation fare. Fun and completely forgettable. There’s nothing here, storywise or aestheticswise, to differentiate it from most of their other movies.
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: animation, super hero
Rango
by Felipe Rosa
Rango: just to make it unequivocal, great! One has got to love the odd mix of (mostly) Leone’s “The Man with No Name” series, Chinatown, visual cues out of Star Wars, just to name a few of the more obvious things. The character design is different, risky and wonderful. The end result is an animated movie with brains, heart and soul, a rare presence in (US’) landscape today.
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: animation, comedy, fantasy, western
L’Illusionniste
by Felipe Rosa
L’Illusionniste: a great proof that one can tell a story well with just good visuals and well-chosen music. One can actually see a lot of Jacques Tati here (Old x New, some very nice and low-key visual gags); a bit of Sylvain Chomet as well, with the peculiar physical types. I think it was a good choice to tone that down, it fits better the bitter-sweet story. Very very nice.
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: animation, drama
Fifth about The Seventh 