paullee01 Reviews

Monster House (2006)

Great fun for all children from 9 to ~ 99

[9/10 · 26 September 2006]

First be forewarned ... This film is targeted for children eight or nine and up. There are some truly frightening sequences that may upset children younger than that age. But for just about everyone else this film is one not to be missed! When my daughter wanted to me to take her and her friend to see this movie I begrudgingly agreed, only because it was a rainy day with not much else to do. The most surprising thing about the movie was ... I loved every moment of the movie even more than the kids did! The three central stars are three preteen children (DJ, Chowder and Jenny) and these children sounded just like my own 12 year old yakking about preteen stuff. My hats off to the writers who made these young folks intelligent and real! When they are forced to work together and depend on one another they show themselves to be resourceful, brave and daring, even when frightened out of their wits.

The veteran actors and actresses that support these three children are also wonderful in filling out their roles including Steve Buscemi, Maggie Gyllenhall, Kathleen Turner (one of my all time favorite ladies) and John Heder, who voices my favorite supporting character Skull, a very nerdy video game player who the boys look up to because he can play for four days straight on one quarter, a gallon of chocolate milk and an adult diaper!

Lastly though ... the house is truly a scary and wonderful. With great CGI work and exceptional special effects the house becomes a spectacularly memorable character in it's own right as it comes to life.

I suspect this movies will quickly become a true animated classic and there already is s space on my DVD shelf reserved for it!

The Opening of Misty Beethoven (1976)

Imagination, dialog and a storyline in a porn film!

[9/10 · 12 February 2005]

Try crossing My Fair Lady with Deep Throat and you'll end up with "The Opening of Misty Beethoven", a porn film with good production values, surprisingly decent acting, and a young, knockout female lead actress.

This film could never have been made today where all you see are numerous gynecological closeups with copious amounts of spewing bodily fluids. Instead you are treated to an imaginative film with a lot of laughs wrapped around enough sex to earn it's XXX rating.

Constance Money, worth seeing in this film by herself, plays the Eliza Doolittle role as the classless gum popping French street hooker (Misty Beethoven) who gives hand jobs in a dingy Paris movie theater. Jamie Gillis plays the Henry Higgins part as Dr Seymour Love, willing to take on Misty and turn her from this cheap trollop into a high class "Goldenrod Girl" with the help of Jacqueline Beaudant (a female Colonel Pickering?).

There are some very funny sequences on the adult airlines and in the training sequences which brought to mind the "Rocky" films. The sex is not of the grind house variety that you find in most XXX films but it is highly erotic, entertaining and with Ms. Money, surprisingly romantic. This is a jewel of an erotic film.