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Joep Bonthond
Reviews
Ice Age (2002)
Funny and ......... just Funny
The movie trailer is to blame that I watched the movie in the first place. Everything you see in the trailer is about the funniest parts of the film. All right the story is quite original but they could have made more of it. It wasn't filled up. No background music or long talks. So it's a silent movie.
The jokes and sketches that are made are funny but nothing more and nothing less.
The main figure seen in the trailers is in fact the background figure in the film. And he makes the most fun parts. So I would say "give scrat his own movie".
greetzzzzzzzzzz Joep
Showtime (2002)
Brainless watching.
Every now and then I have the urge to see a movie where I don't have to think about. A so called stupid movie (domme film). And this is a typical stupid movie.
The jokes that are made are the ones you would expect, and even though you're not planning on laughing about them, you just have to laugh because of the face that's pulled with it.
I'm not a fan of Eddie Murphy, but I liked him playing donkey in Shrek.
And with this movie you can clearly see that Robbert de Niro is coming to the end of his career. The good old times as "top cop" are over.
The story it self isn't much of a real story. At the beginning it's explained that in real live cops don't jump over cars chasing bad guys. But after 30 minutes that's exactly where it ends up.
It's a great stupid movie, so to say.
greetzzzzzzzzzzz Joep
K-PAX (2001)
Originality at its best
K-PAX is a brilliantly original movie. Kevin Spacy at its best, as I would say. He makes Prot the alien he claims to be. The story telling is brilliant. K-PAX the planet far from here, where sexual inter action is a painful business, and where every K-PAXian knows the same about everything including all the planets evolving around K-PAX. There are no rules and there are no bosses. Traveling at multiple times the speed of light K-Paxians are scedualed for flights in and out K-PAX. It's just brilliantly made up.
It's a movie well worth seeing for scifi lovers as well as dramatics.
Astérix & Obélix : Mission Cléopâtre (2002)
Unexpected humoristix
The French people are not known to be great movie producers.
Though their Amelie scores high points at the Oscars. Asterix et Obelix is a very different film of what I am used to from the French. It is a great movie especially for kids. The only thing that boddert me was that it was spoken in French and subtiteld. Normally with the english spoken movies (here in the Netherlands) I don't have to read the subtitles. But with the French language you just have to read to understand. The story it self is just great with Obelix who doesn't recall him self of beïng fat, but there also nice details mainly in names like brucewillix and malcomix. You all know the story from the comic books and this movie shows all most slide by slide the book. Every thing is in it, from the Sfinx nose braking till pirate red beards lose of three more ships. I would say a great movie for the weekend with the children.
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
I had to test my loyalty
It was one of the worse movies I have ever seen. My policy is not to walk away from a film during the break. But this time I was tested on it.
Ok I passed my own test but the movie sucked big time.
I mean there was no real story only a weird family situation, every joke they were trying to make failed in my opinion and there wasn't any speed in this story. Alright it was nice to see Derek Zoolander facing Hansel again after there movie Zoolander, and to see that the red Adidash suites are on discount, but that is about it.
greetzzzzz Joep