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I was unsure what to give this movie because i figure that about 90% of you would never ever want to see it or be capable of enjoying it if you did.  I mean, come one, a number of young half starved dancers join the American Ballet Association and we get to see them train through their first season.  Do we honestly want to see if they are going to make it through the big performance at the end to get a permanent position with a dance company?  A movie in which the main focus is ballet in every way?  You know, a movie where everything is about the strength of human spirit and young women finding themselves in spite of what it is that they are expected to become by their parents and people around them?

And then i realized that it didn't matter how much i didn't think you were going to like it, that doesn't matter.  What does matter is the performance of the people in the movie, the way the move was written, directed, danced and etc.  And all these things were done rather well. I liked pretty much all the characters for what they did, and although i don't really know from the technical of dancing, they pretty much impressed the shit out of me. 

The story. Well....it was a little predictable, it was a little simple, but it was, as advertised, cute and heart-warming and special.  I pretty much melted for this movie and loved it for the way it made me feel.  You might too.  Who knows.  

So, i guess what i am going to say is that if you can read what i have just written and still seem interested in this movie, then by all means, go and see it, for it is good.  I have given it a half-limpid.

 
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   So this movie is simple.  It is a chicken farm.  The chickens think of it as a prison, go figure, and want out.   They are organizing and want to escape en mass.  They have to do it before the evil farmers can complete their sadistic plans to make the chickens into chicken pot pies with a pie machine machine.  Rocky is a flying rooster that flies into the pen to help.

   Is this movie done well?  Without doubt.  It is exceptionally well done.  Masterful and wonderful.  I laughed so much at so many things.  Witty, clever and fun.  Is it only for children.  Not at all, while kids will love this film it has more than enough humour aimed at a mature sense of humour to make it fun for everyone. 

   I loved this film and would recommend it to anyone.  I give it a half-limpid.

 
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   So yes, this movie is worth seeing, i guess, but don't go expecting a revelation from a chocolate movie.  I have given it a half-limpid.

 
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   In the end, was my enjoyment of this movie just about sexy women dancing on a bar?  No, not precisely, i think that anyone could have fun seeing these strong women control the crowd of men in they way that they did, not necessarily using sex, but using their knowledge of the power they hold over men when they want it.  And the glee you could see in this, was grand.  And ok, i confess, there was some joy in the sexy women, although, it was the sweet and pure Piper that did it most for me.  She well go far i think, if you want to base such things on my hormones. 

I have given this movie a vapid, mostly because it sucked.  But you know, if you go into it with the right attitude and waiting for the fun parts and being willing to cat call at the bad ones, then you just might enjoy it.  Because i walked out of it, having had fun.

 
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   I went to this movie not expecting too much, i mean you are really setting yourself up if you are expecting too much from Burt Reynolds and Richard Dreyfus movie aren't you?  And i was pleasantly surprised.  This movie was cute and witty and most of all funny.  They didn't harp over and over again with the old jokes and the ones that they did include were new and fresh (so to speak).  The story, was novel, if not competely new and creative.  Yeah, i laughed a fair amount and left the movie thinking that i had had a good time.  

   Of course it was still a little mindless and the humour was a little low rather than intelligent and they did lean a little too much on the age as a cruch for carrying things when they needed to.  This is another one you can take your grandpa to and you will both enjoy it and he won't go on and on about the state the world is getting into these days.  Also kudos to Mr. Reynolds for making him like him once again in a movie, an adorable violent thug he was.  

   I have given this movie a tepid because even with the fact that i enjoyed it out there, i mean it was a shallow silly comedy.  But if you want a light laugh and a no-brainer, check it out, it will amuse you.

 
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   This movie is filled with some of the most amazing physical effects that i have ever seen.  I mean, sure the running up the tree has a sort of surreal feeling that makes you kind of want to snicker but if you step back in your mind and think about what it would take to get someone up on the tip top of a tree like that, and then have them fight a sword and martial arts battle.  And sure those things were aided with special effects, but the lighting fast fighting that happened on the ground it was done real time without aids. How's that for cool?

   Add to this a story that makes sense, that flows and has you buying into characters.  That makes you care and want to win.  This movie had it all.  Story, fighting, characters....everything.  Chow Yun-Fat, who i am told learned martial arts for this film played the entire master.  Wise and skilled he managed to thwart every move made against him with practiced ease.  When you looked at him you knew he was wise.  And yet they still managed to show that he was kind of silly in the ways of the world and what love meant to him.  Michelle Yeoh was obviously incredibly talented and also world wise but seemingly in an entirely different way than he.  And the young martial artist needing guidance, i don't think she could have done a better job of wanting us to put us over our knee and give her the spanking she deserved.  Unless of course it was for the fact that she could kick our ass.

   This movie had great and strong characters, both male and female that knew what they were doing and why they were doing it.  They evil character of the Fox, you knew she was evil and every fibre of her being was rife with moral turpitude.  

   I liked this movie, no, i loved this movie, i have given it a half-turgid.

 
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   I smiled a few times while i was watching this movie it is true but after 2 hours of continually missing my expectations and making me wonder why they had made it in this way i am afraid i can't give this film much beyond a half-tepid.

 
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Before i can even talk about the story or anything else, this movie was incredible in its graphics and imagery.  The dinosaurs were huge and moved with something very akin to reality.  Better than any human i have ever seen.  I would have to say that the actual animation in this film could make it a masterpiece and totally makes it worth watching. The wrinkles that you see in that eye to the left actually move in the movie, they actually move.

Now, the story and stuff.  Well the voices do a good job, but honestly, i don't know if i can think of an example of a full release animated picture where they weren't fine.  The story....was...believable i guess, within the bounds of suspended belief, but there was just something missing for me.  I guess i just didn't get to know the characters well enough, or something like that. So, that took away for me, it all just seemed a lot superficial.  I guess this is what took it down to tepid for me.

Kudos to disney though, these are dinosaurs, they are somewhat harder than most traditional Disney characters.  We even get to see a little death.

I have chosen to give this movie a tepid.   I think that for kids, it would get a much higher and for the very serious minded adult lower.  But all around i liked it.

 
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 This movie had myself and the rest of the audience howling.  For most of the film.  Because it is funny.  Even though the story is enough to make you angry, it doens't really, it just makes you want to smile.

This a British film set in the 70's.  It surrounds the events of a mixed Pakistani and British family as the older sons are going to be set up in a fixed marriage.  Everything about this film is a set up for us to laugh about some cultural inconsistency of the times.

Om Puri is just amazing in his role as the hard line Pakistani father.  You have no choice but to pity him and hate him.  After his role as the lovable taxi driver in My Son the Fanatic i thought that he could only be lovable, but this was certainly not the case.  He rocked.

Go and see this film, you will be rolling in the sticky isles.  I give it a limpid.

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Instead they wandered into hell.  Every person from the west was by definition a spy and a person from France had no rights at all.  

So...the stupidity.  Well...the woman... the French wife had no perception of reality and seemed to do everything she could to make things difficult. i mean how bright is it to stand in front of people who willingly and happily shoot anyone who causes them the slightest bit of consternation and tell they don't know who to run a country.  and to do it in the face of your husband who tries to explain...constantly.  Although, i think that many would call her courageous.  I think those people are silly. 

But aside from that it is still a superb movie.  I mean, she was probably a stupid woman in real life so it was an accurate depiction. 

It is a sweeping movie that teaches you as much about history as it does about people.  I love it, every minute.  It is in Russian and French language and subtitled in English if that means anything to you.  But go and see it, i give it a limpid.

 
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   Add all of these things together with the dynamic energy that this film had and you get something that is just fun to sit there and watch.  I laughed a lot, and meant it.  I began to care a little bit about the characters.  And as opposed to traditional Disney fare, i wasn't being forced to care because the characters were bunny rabbit cute, or cried all the time, or were downtrodden.  You know how it is. 

   In the end i would recommend this movie for anyone who is remotely interested in the idea of Disney with brains.  Or just a wandering romp.  On the other hand, don't expect it to make you think, they lessons it has within it are really things you already knew and it is just going to add its lesson to the heap in your subconscious.  I have given it a half-limpid.

 
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   War is supposed to be depressing right?  No one is really a hero right?  Well, this movie will not only demonstrate that, it will also show you all the things that were bad about being Russian.  Downright awful. 

   So i guess you might want to know about the actual movie.  It is not bad.   I think that the acting was done quite passably.  Although i don't think you at any point get to know the character that Ed Harris plays, or any of them really.  You sort of get to know the parts that are already obvious by the situation.  So the simple farm boy gets a little put off by the deaths of his friends, whoa, that makes sense.  So, yes, the acting is done well enough but the characters are very shallow and somehow not believable enough to make us really care.  

   The story, is just too damn long, i am sure they could have done this shorter and actually held some suspense and action to be a part of it.  As it was this action, war, film managed to move slowly and not always hold my attention.  tepid

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So, basically, Julia Roberts plays the title character a no nonsense strong as nails single mom who has absolutely no resume saleable skills.  She manages to take this and her willpower to get herself a job that she can transform into a struggle against big business for the little guy.

Surprise me, she does a good and believable job.  This may be the first movie that i have seen Julia Roberts in where i didn't think, 'I wonder if Pamela Anderson couldn't do the same job.'  She does a good job.  And the movie has an interesting story that keeps you watching and wanting.  How will they take down the big business, how will the single mom with no law training take them down in a courtroom.

As for being feminist and empowering?  Well, it might very well be both of these, because it is about a woman who takes on a job in order to feed her family. And she does a good job, with some realism for an enjoyable performance.

Then again, there is nothing exceptionally wonderful about it.  So, i enjoyed it, and give it a tepid.

 
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   It's really quite an impressive achievement you might assume.  It is true that i didn't go into this movie expecting it to be good, but i must admit that i went into it expecting to enjoy the racing scenes. I, like many, am rather fond of a good car chase or a good car race.  However, the races in this movie were flat and empty.  Granted there was some impressive driving from time to time but they rarely focussed upon that, instead deciding that all you need to do to show speed is make everything blurry and just keep the cameras on the faces of the actors.  In short the entire reason for going to this movie in the first place fell far short of the goal. 

  My second hope and dream for this movie was that it would have a good story. I mean, consider you have street racers, racing robbers, an undercover cop, an ex-con and a love story with his sister, with all of these elements put together it seems unreasonable that you couldn't put them together into a plot that had a flow and interlocking nature that actually made it a pleasure to see.  But no, it was disjointed and boring.  Not all of the plot points seemed to relate to the same story. 

    The actors didn't seem to do a bad job and Vin Diesel, in spite of his silly name, on and off screen managed to be completely sexy at all times.  However, this was totally ruined by the fact that their lines sucked, their character development lacked, shall we say the developmental parts and their lines lacked any sort of humanity or interest. 

   In short, there doesn't really seem to be that much in the way of a reason to see this film.  I mean, if you are a car buff, and love to see suped up Honda Civics, go see it with my blessing, but don't expect a good movie. I have given it a half-tepid.

 
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   Now we come to the more problematic portion of the movie.  The story.  Simply put, i guess the base of the story was rather imaginative and fairly unique.  I haven't really heard a story just like this before.  That is truly saying something.  On the other hand they didn't really put it together very well.  They just didn't produce a story that i could really care about.  And the dialogue seemed rather clunky at times, somehow not matching the characters that we were put before us.  

   Another nag, was the voices that they chose. I mean, i like how they chose voices that we would recognize, but i didn't always agree with the match.  The doctor in particular gave me problems each time he spoke. It was just wrong. 

   So we are left with a movie that is fabulous to see but not so fabulous to watch, if you know what i mean.  I have given this movie a half-limpid.

 
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   All right you caught me, what i just wrote makes no sense at all, but if you sat there thinking about it for a while you have a sense of what a lot of this movie did for me, it gave me things to think about.  I guess that you can tell by they way i incessantly write about these movies and things that i style myself as a writer.  Well this movies is about being a writer, it is about wanting to be a writer and it is about what it is to not be a writer.  Sure there are some other lessons to be learned about being who you are to be who you are.  And loving yourself for who you are.  And i did, indeed like it for this.  

   In fact i quite loved this movie, i did.  I think it was incredibly  well done, written, directed and acted.  Sean Connery should definitely be up for best actor consideration and Robert Brown XVII (my that's a lot of Robert Browns).  There is so little about this film that brings it down to Good Will Hunting as well.  It's not about a  boy who doesn't want it, who has to learn what he is in order to even think about what he wants.  It has nothing to do with love.  This movie is about a young man how knows what he wants, has no doubts, who is willing to work and dream to get there. 

   I sat through most of this movie enthralled, even the basketball subplots.  This is a good movie.  This movie can do nothing but make you think.  I have given it a half-turgid .