Animated film&#39;s lame humor, recycled plot don&#39;t make the cut
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IT WOULD BE unfair to say that &quot;Shark Tale&quot; is nothing more than a lame digital cartoon comprising little more than pop culture references and product placements.
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The music for Rohit Shetty's new film is insipid.
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If you&#39;re going to tell a wildly implausible tale of fortune hunting and unlikely heroes, you could do worse than &quot;National Treasure.
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Tycho:  Heavenly Sword is, as you will soon discover, the very definition of a rental title.  Clocking in at somewhere between five and six hours (depending on your appetite for overwrought cinemas) it's a decent game saddled by impossible expectations.  It has silly ideas and grandeur in close proximity to one another.   It tries hard.  And it's not bad, by any means.  But it's not excellent, and perhaps unfairly it had this onus placed upon it.  I've said that Lair is not the Playstation 3, and nor is Heavenly Sword, but taken together one must come to the unmistakable conclusion that the Playstation 3 is a game console and not the supernatural artifact they have presented it as.  That however many processors and however many gigs of space are not especially relevant when put in the service of middling entertainment.    It has a decent combat system, and using this combat system you will progress from locked room to cramped, locked room until you come face to face with some jeering asshole.  You might kill them either because of the jeering or because you think that death might cull their interminable monologues.  There's a mean snake bitch and a pervert and an oaf.  Oh!  And en evil king.  The only thing running through my head during the lavish and no doubt expensive mo-capped cutscenes was that these kings and bitches and so forth should form a band.  It never seems to know if it wants to be a hilarious comic circus or a stark medieval saga.  Play it, and you'll know what I mean.     There are successes, though:  Kai, the mostly deranged sidekick, charms from the outset.  Her feral animations and nuanced delivery really make her stand out against this batch of also-rans.  Any object that can be thrown can also be thrown and then guided in slow motion, including corpses, which is something you must see to believe.  We didn't even have a target; we would just throw bodies so that they flew like Superman head-first into gongs.  This is something you can do for a half an hour - or more - without tiring of it.  This guided firing is called "Aftertouch," and it's about fifty percent of the game.  One wonders what the game's length would actually be if you didn't play half of it in slow-motion.        Some measure of your enjoyment will be bound up in whether or not you "buy" the story that they are telling.  I've heard it described as epic, when it's pretty rudimentary fantasy-by-numbers bullshit, so who knows.  It's all a matter of perspective:  are we judging it against only PS3 games?  If so, things are shaping up!  If you own more than one console - or a personal computer - your standards for grand storytelling were recently adjusted upward.
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Seth MacFarlane's "American Dad" has amusing moments and engaging characters, but when compared to "The Simpsons," is crude and cheaply drawn.
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Lets Enjoy does not have a matured plot, and offers little humour.
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Anurag Kashyap's No Smoking does not make any sense. This is self-indulgent filmmaking, and totally ignores the sort of audience that may end up watching it.
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Sabesh-Murali's musical score is unimpressive.
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âRise of the Silver Surferâ is an existentially and aesthetically unnecessary sequel to the equally irrelevant if depressingly successful âFantastic Four.â
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Zayed-Urmila's new film is a frame to frame copy of the Hollywood film, Cellular. Only, this one is much, much worse.
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The junky, clunky, grimly unfunny âRush Hour 3â isnât the worst movie of the summer. But itâs an enervating bummer nonetheless.
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that is more unnatural than ketchup on eggs. And I don&#39;t care what you say; that is just disgusting. The jolly people at DreamWorks thought that Ben Affleck and Surviving
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[Hollywood News]: London, Nov 2 : Remember those times when your only excuse for watching kung flu flicks were those terribly dubbed movies with no story lines whatsoever?
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and it surely is not -- it isn&#39;t for lack of a great story, compelling characters, and a capable director. Really, the
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The new CGI feature &quot;Shark Tale&quot; packs the same watery visuals, sly banter and movie-star voice-overs that made &quot;Finding Nemo&quot; a cross-generational smash.
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This horror film, spun off from an old Atari video game, is so inept on every level, you wonder why the distributor didn't toss it directly into the trash.
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The latest and lamest version of Don Siegelâs 1956 pulp classic âInvasion of the Body Snatchersâ might have been an accidental camp classic if its politics werenât so abhorrent.