Tag Archive | james marsden
This Robot and Frank review is so square it’s practically avant-garde
Plot I was worried that the trailer had given away the whole story. It did, sort of, but I still wasn’t prepared for the film to have this much heart. Characters It takes a good actor to play off of a robot, but Frank Langella pulled it off. Visuals They probably chose to use a [...]
Today I review X2, also known as X-Men 2, also known as X-Men 2: X-Men United
Plot X2 is a lot darker and more serious than X-Men. Sadly, a lot of the things they set up in this film were squandered or abandoned altogether in the third film. Characters Despite the…Shakespearean elegance…of Magneto and Professor Xavier, Nightcrawler is one of the most interesting of the X-Men, and his portrayal here is [...]
X marks the spot for an X-Men review
In an attempt to make up for the onslaught of girly movies I’ve been watching lately, I’ll be reviewing the first three X-Men movies this weekend. Plot X-Men is interesting from a plot standpoint because it’s not an origin story like most first-in-the-series superhero movies are. That’s probably because the characters don’t technically have origins [...]
Bird’s the word with my review of The Notebook
I was recently given a digital copy of this film by someone I know without any explanation. I decided to regard it as a challenge. This is the result. Plot If I climbed onto a moving Ferris wheel to ask the girl I love to go out with me, I’d get arrested, and probably a [...]
Hop
Plot Hop is a halfhearted attempt to make an Easter movie in the mold of lower-tier “__________ Saves Christmas” movies, combined with a little bit of Alvin and the Chipmunks for good* measure. Too bad the story almost completely fell apart about halfway through, because I was about to give it a 3 here based [...]