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Nobody (2021)
Fun shoot 'em up
Just as the title says, this is a fun film that has lots of moments that makes your toes curl and it's delicious. Often presents you with stuff that then passes without explication which I really liked, left things to your imagination. Give it a go if you've got some popcorn and a couple of hours you want to have fun killing.
Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)
A film of two halves
The film starts off badly enough, the scetchy back story of our villain and his squeeze, Eddie wandering about filled with Venom who's only contribution seems to be to eat chocolate and moan about stuff. Thankfully as the film gains some momentum it gets better, not Citizen Kane better but better none the less. The interaction between venom and Eddie keeps thing ticking over and at times it's even funny and carnage is a decent bad guy and the fight scene is OK, on the whole it's an OK movie. Not one I'm going to revisit anytime soon, or ever, it is what it is.
Also, please wait for the post credit scene thing, I almost pee'd myself I was so excited.
Ron's Gone Wrong (2021)
He's just so darn cute!
Loved it, family, personal growth, remembering who you are and what's important in life, it does it all with added laughs and a wee robot that does things to your feels like no other robot since Wall-E.
The Addams Family 2 (2021)
Erm.....
As sequals and road trip movies go this was still pretty bad, like not even as entertaining as Roadchip (am I thrusting the knife too deeply?)
For a road movie it doesn't really go anywhere special and takes what seems like an age to get there. Maybe it's not a road movie, maybe it's a father/daughter bonding flick, well if it is its pretty bad at that too. Never reaches anywhere near the first one which you'd be well advised to watch again rather than sit through this.
The Witches (2020)
Distracting
I have to say that that I was distracted beyond forming any kind of critique while watching this by Anne Hathaway's accent. Wtf is going on with that Eastern European Scots car crash?
Dora and the Lost City of Gold (2019)
Lots of fun
Cliché or not but this really is an entertaining romp for all the family, my kids love it and there are enough wee funny bits and knods for the adults to have a quite chuckle. Casting is spot on and we'll I don't really know what more to say without dropping spoilers so I'll just leave it by saying its well worth a watch on a family movie night.
My kids are 6 and 12 and both love it.
Happy! (2017)
Loved it
Nobody I know had watched this and when I recomend it they say "what's it about?"
I then have to watch their eyes glaze over when I tell them a wee girl gets kidnapped and her imaginary unicorn friend goes off looking for her Dad to help her, but believe me this is no Disney schmuck.
Happy is brutal, scary and barrels of laughs with the main protagonist being a complete mess and the bad guy being completely messed up. I'll not include spoilers or much else, I just recomend you watch it and hope you enjoy it every bit as much as I did.
Fear the Walking Dead (2015)
Lost its way
I really enjoyed this from the start, the concept of a family living through the outbreak as opposed to Rick waking up kinda after the event was just down my street. As the series' progress it morphs from a family survival show in series 1-3 to something else in 4-5 but I still enjoyed it and it introduced some good characters.
Now the 'but', series six has not started well, Morgan having yet another mental shift and is "born again hard", other characters have to go to their "dark place" to survive while others have to keep hold of their humanity and the rest have to just kinda stay out of the way because the story arch doesn't concern them. Oh and of course the baddie has a good sister who just wants to get away from her, convenient plot vehicle or what!
This along with World Beyond feels like they've both been written by someone who got 'idiots guid to writing a TV script' for their birthday and thought they'd have a go.
Gave it a 7 because I was enjoying it.
The Walking Dead: World Beyond (2020)
Lazy lazy writing
The only effort put into this by the writers was to see how many lazy overused tropes they could fit into it. Siblings who are so different, one clever and one wild but no, wait, the wild one is the clever one but watch out for the moody teen with the dark past oh and the geeky one who in the middle of all the death and sky falling in has somehow managed to go off into the world with the chick that killed his pregnant Mother! (gasp I hear you gasp)
Then there's the adults, the cool guy who just wants to keep everyone safe and the tough misterious woman with an equally mysterious past (you still with me, just checking) and of course a British baddie who has a big union jack on her wall to prove how British she is (the flag is actually hung upside down but who's keeping score at this point)
If all that wasn't enough for you we have torches the suddenly cut out, batteries in walkie talkies that randomly corrode and a fit young woman completely unable to jump down two feet without twisting her ankle when the empties are after her. And what's that all about, having to think of a new name to call the dead for every group in every series, I feel everyone would just call them the dead because that's what they are, dead like this spin-off.