Dumbo (Disney Collection)

Dumbo is the 4th film done by Disney animation studios. This is were the company started to fall on hard times. The film clocks at in at just around a hour. The movie is about the elephant Jumbo Jr. who is nicknamed Dumbo. Who has huge ears I mean huge ears. This is his story about him trying to get his mother out of the "jail".

Dumbo is a very different film. You can tell the company has taken a hit form the depression. Now the film has some really great moments and the  scenes that we all remember for childhood are still there and just as powerful. I liked the film for the most part. It has a good story and you really do feel for Jumbo (dumbo). He is a great protagonist, but who really saves this film for is the mice manager. I loved his character rewatching the film. He is funny and he is smart. The film would have really a lot more difficult to get thought if that character wasn't good. The animation is really good. Not as good as Fantasia, but I think its because this film was so much cheaper to make then Fantasia. Its gonna be awhile before I see animation as good as Fantasia I feel. The tone of the film was great. It never let up it had this magical feel all the way thought. Also my favorite scene in the film was the "Pink Elephants" really good song and a lot of fun. I thought it was funny about Jumbo gets drunk and figures out that he can fly. I am not sure what was in that liquor, but dang that's some strong stuff to make you see pink elephants and fly.

Now what I didn't really love was the film was very slow. Its odd saying that for a film that clocks in at just about a hour. It has a good story and I was into it, but it jus slows down a lot like right after Jumbos mom gets thought in jail. Like he meets the mouse and then after that nothing really big happens. Maybe its just that part of the film I didn't really enjoy or what. This is still a very good film. I think if you showed this film back to back with Bambi you would have a very good Double Feature like thing going on. They are very tonely the same film. So my finale thoughts and rating is going to be


BLOG UPDATE: Okay I am four movies into the Disney Collection Series. I am sure everyone wants me to get to the 90's don't worry I will get there (just may take me awhile). The next one is going to be Bambi. After Bambi there is 6 movies that I am going to skip. These films were a bunch of films with a lot of shorts in them. They are very hard to find. I am sorry I won't be able to do those. I will pick up in the 50's with Disney's Cinderella. After that one I shouldn't have to skip any, but if I do I am sorry. People seem to be reading these so I am going to keep going. Thanks for the all the views it really means a lot. Also if you ever want my review on a certain film let me know. You know you can friend me on facebook or just email me or comment below and let me know. Stay tuned for more great reviews.

RATING
3.5 out of 5 Ticket Stubs

Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters

Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters is what happens to the children after they kill the witch that wants to fatten them up and eat them. So after this they become the famous witch hunters that kill and stop the forces of evil.

Well lets talk about the good in the film. I think all the actors in the film had a lot of fun in the roles they  played. This movie really is saved by Jeremy Renner (Hansel). Everything he does I believe and he is just good in the role. Also I would like to say to the girl playing Gretel (Gemma Arterton) she had a lot of fun to. I would also like to say the music in the film is awesome. It really makes the action scenes very cool. Now this is what I have to say about the tone and pace. They are great. The tone is this over the top action film with a lot of gore. Now I personally loved it, because its like this b movie tone and I really enjoy it for that. I will say that it isn't for everyone and not many people will like it. So if your into that thing you find some good enjoyment there. Also the pace was fine the film never really felt slow.

Now to what I didn't like about this film. The script was horrible I mean it was really bad. I usually don't spoil movies, but there is a huge plot hole with this like insulin thing. Also the whole insulin thing to begin with is a little nuts. Also the characters are super flat. I really didn't care about any of the characters in the film. Like if they were to all die I wouldn't care one way or the other. This was the biggest and its a pretty huge problem to have with the film. I also didn't really enjoy the cinematography in the film. It wasn't the worse but anyone can tell it wasn't great.

So this film was also in 3d. Don't and I repeat don't see this in 3d. The reason why they put these type of movies in 3d is the studio knows that its not going to make very much money so they try and save the box office by putting it in 3d which they didn't need to do at all. So for all those reasons I am going to give this film a rating of

RATING
2 out 5 Ticket Stubs

Fantasia (Disney Collection)

Fantasia. This is a very interesting film to say the least. There isn't a story, but there is a story. What this film is basically classic music with animation in front of it. Now some of these have a story like the Sorcerer's Apprentice(which is my personal favorite). Then there are some that don't have any bit of story.

I am going to talk about the positives. All the animation is this film is breathtaking it all looks amazing like the final story called Night on the Bald Mountain some of the best hand draw things I have ever seen. It really impressed me, best animation I have seen in doing these reviews. Also I would like to talk about the musical score to this film.  Easily the best I have ever heard. You can hear every crash every beat. Going to the theaters would be a  great way to watch this film and some of the best music I have ever heard and will ever heard. I loved the score to this film. Those are like the two things in this movie if they didn't  do well this film would have been a huge failure. Luckily for disney it worked great.

Now this is the hard part. This film is really unlike any other movie that I have ever seen. I can't really talk about the direction of the film, because there really isn't one. I can't talk about the tone with the film as a whole, but want I can to do is talk about how each piece of this film had a different tone and pace. All the pieces are very well paced and had a very good sense of tone.  I did have a problem with like the over all pace of the film thought. It clocks in at just about 2 hours and thats a lot of music and a lot of different animation with no story. I feel as if some could have been cut. Like the one right before Night at Bald Mountain. They also could have cut out the some of the live action things. It is kinda of mess when it comes to pace. It was hard for me to get thought the whole film, but the parts I enjoyed  I really loved so its kinda hard to rate this film.

Also I would like to mention that my hat is off to Disney for doing this because its really is a impressive piece of work and I can think of a few people that would really enjoy this film, but on the other hand I can name a lot more people that would hate this film.   So over all I liked this film, but there is just to many different issues with the film for me to give a really high rating. So to one of the highest rated critic movies I am going to give it

RATING
3 out of 5 Ticket Stubs

Pinocchio (Disney Collection)

Pinocchio is the story of a man named Geppeto who is a lonely man who builds toys for a living. He one day makes a wooden marionette boy. He wishes upon a star (yes i did just do that) for the boy to come to life and the blue fairy comes down and grants him this wish and he comes to life.

Now Pinocchio was a great idea for Disney I really have to hand it to them this movie was really aimed at all kids not just girls which Snow White was. This movie was all about morals really hits you over the head with it. Like don't lie, don't drink, and don't smoke or you will be turned into a donkey. This one wasn't as focused on music as Snow White was. Which I really enjoyed it for that, but it does have the song that would become Disneys theme with "when you wish upon a star".  Now this one I feel was a little slower paced which I think kinda worked for the movie it really told a great story about how to be a good kid.  The animation and drawing in this film was amazing the art in this film was so much better then Snow White.

I feel like this one was more of what they wanted Snow White to be. Also I would like to mention that is one is so much darker then Snow White and actually very creepy. I mean you can see Pinocchio smoke a whole cigar. Then also take a big swig of beer. Then the scene when the kids start turning into donkeys was actually creepy and very sad. The things that I didn't like about the film was that it was slow and the tone was kinda all over the place. Like you were supposed to happy one moment and sad the next so this movie is still very much a classic and very good, but just not as good as Snow White form that you can most likely guess my rating of

RATING
4.5 out of 5 Ticket Stubs

Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (1937) (Disney Collection)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Who doesn't know the story to this one. Its about a evil queen trying to become the fairest in the land and they way she has to do this is to kill Snow White are main character. When the queen tries this snow escapes and gets help form the Seven Dwarfs. This is one of the first movies I ever saw as a kid so it holds a special place in my heart it was cool to revisit it.

Snow White is like the bar that all disney princess movies and cartoon movies is set to. The art in this film is crazy good. It doesn't look dated at all. It was the first full feature long cartoon movie ever made. It has timeless scenes and timeless songs like "Its off to work we go." The movie is still good to this day. I loved rewatching it. I was laughing and it was just very well made. To me and i think a lot of people would agree the best part about this film was the Dwarfs. You fall in love with these characters and you hope nothing bad ever happens to them. Also the are a few scenes were the movie is very creepy. Like the scenes where the evil queen turns into the old lady and she gives the apple to Snow. Also we she is killed (which i had totally forgotten how she does die)  was just awesome and some great images and art. To say I love this film is not enough. This is the one of the reasons why I want to do what I want to do. 

This film will always be a classic and should always be looked at as one. So its easy to tell you that I am going to give this film a rating of 

RATING

5 out of 5 Ticket Stubs

Disney Movie collection

I think since I have been on this huge Disney movie kick. I am going to start reviewing them all. Yes I mean all. Starting from Snow White and ending with the last movie which would Tangled (as of right now) because I already reviewed Wreck It Ralph. Now this does not include Pixar movies. I am only human this already a lot of movies. Also this will not stop me from seeing new movies and reviewing them. So if want those I will also being doing that as well. This is just for fun and I think people will be interested in it. So Snow White will be up as soon as I rewatch it.

Zero Dark Thirty

Zero Dark Thirty is the story of the women and the team that brought down Osama Bin Laden. The actress playing the Lead Maya is Jessica Chastain and the film is directed by Kathryn Bigeleow (The Hurt Locker)

To begin the acting in the film done by Jessica is so good. She is a very strong character and is very driven. I super strong women character which is always a good thing to see in the movies. So form that everything else is very good. The way that Bigeleow told this story is so good. It had that super tease and super real feel to it. This felt more like a documentary then a movie. It had that feel of like your just peeking in on the action that is happening in front of you. Also the tone never switches and it is always this super tease feel form the opening scene to the ending moment. Also the writing in this film is simply amazing. It keep the the same feeling like it was just people talking and trying to do there job. Nothing every comes off cheesy. The last scene of the this movie was amazing. Where you see the navy seals come in and take out the house that has Bin Laden in. It is one of those scenes that is really hard to take your eyes off the screen. I am almost at a lost for words on how good this film was. Its really hard to find anything wrong. It is good form start to finish. If I would have seen this film before the new year it would have easily been on the top ten films of the year.

The only problems I have with the film which are very few is like maybe the pace of the film but it is really hard to say the pace is wrong when every scene is good and needed to tell the story. Also the DOP was just okay. Now saying he is just okay is not a negative. I am saying that in comperson to the rest of the film it isn't as good, but is still very good. So that being said i am going to give this film a

RATING
5 out 5 Ticket Stubs

Jack Reacher

Jack Reacher is a film about a man who is up for killing 5 random people and he asks for the help form a man named Jack Reacher. That is the simplest why I could tell this story. The movie stars Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher and Rosamund Pike as a lawyer defending the man.

This film has been been getting a really bad reputation for what it is. Now I am not just gonna sit here and rip on this film. It honestly does have some good points and some decent things done. Tom Cruise to me is the saving grace of the film he is the best actor in the whole film. I can tell when they were writing the film they gave all the good lines to him, because everything that everyone else says is super crony and just bad writing. Now the weakest point to this film to me was the acting done by Pike I swear her face doesn't change at all everything that happens to her is just like a straight up surprised to her. I was in the movie just sitting like for the love of god please act better. Also I had a huge problem with the tone of this film it was all over the place. It had this very light harded scene and then go to this hugely dramatic scene it was all over the place and I really hated it. Also the film was only 2 hours and it felt like 3 hours it was very slow and boring. I was very hard for me to get thought.

So that I did kinda get thought all the bad in the movie to what i thought the movie did well besides Cruise. The action scenes had some nice impact. The car chase was pretty sick and when he was fighting it was very cool. Also there is a scene where you relive the shooting and it is a very tease scene and very well paced scene and shot well. Now since those are the only really the good things that I liked about the film I can't give it a high praise. So my rating will be

RATING
2 out of 5 Ticket Stubs