by Felipe Rosa
Fantastic Mr. Fox: very quirky animated film, starting with the style chosen. Reasonably funny, reasonably touching, certainly more original than most of the animations around us nowadays. It carries the same emotional distance than other of Anderson’s works, but somehow, that fits a cartoon somewhat less than it fits a live action feature.
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: animation, comedy, fantasy
by Felipe Rosa
Puss in Boots: a typical DWA film will be well done and funny, a pleasure to sit through but empty and somewhat heartless, therefore easily forgettable. This one has the usual drawbacks, but not the usual strong points. It’s still quite well done, and the voice acting is good enough, but the humor is flat and the whole thing is almost boring.
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: adventure, animation, fantasy
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
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
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
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
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
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
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