Reviews

Some critics say this movie isn't dealing about anything. That's true. It just deals about a 16 year old ice skater who gets a videocamera and films his life over one year. He's preparing for an ice skating championship, his best friend wants to be an actor is is having one girlfriend after the other, his history professor is starting a relationship with his mother and he comes to terms with being gay. That's not revolutionary, no. But it's nice. I guess the critics who did not like this movie, were not charmed by the debuting actor Jimmy Tavares who is great. (he's a real ice skating champion and gives a daring performance). He will remind people of Jamie Bell in Billy Elliott. Maybe the two can star together in a movie! If you liked Drole De Felix and Billy Elliott, you'll like this one as well.

This is by far the best Dutch television series I've ever seen. the acting is great, the story is captivating, the dialogue is great... The coolest thing about the series is that it depicts the characters and the different cultures in a very sincere way. It's not moralising at all.

The story is about a young Dutch hockey-player who falls in love wit a moroccan pizza-delivery boy. However, the boy's brother is in jail for some drug business and the girl's father is a police detective who's colleague did business with the boy's brother... It's a modern Romea And Juliet tale and it's the beginning of a great future for both Tara en Hanin.

I saw this movie on television one night and I really liked it. It's just a mediocre television movie in Spanish, but it's way better than most American romantic comedies... the central character is a young Spanish girl who gets acquainted with an flower selling immigrant from India (or Pakistan). He falls in love with her and she's curious about how a relationship between them would turn out... It isn't serious. It's a comedy. And that's what makes it so watchable. It's not about 'look how difficult intercultural relations can be'. It's more like 'look how funny intercultural relations can be'.

14 year old girls will probably like this movie. Dj-lovers all over the world will laugh at it. The story? A farmer's kid from Nebraska who's musically talented mother died when he was young goes off to Los Angeles to compete with the best Dj's of the States. There he meets a cool black kid, a pretty dancer from New York whom he falls in love with and some evil competitors. He wins of course.

Nothing wrong with a standard formula and Eric Szmanda is okay as the lead actor, but who chose the soundtrack? there's no way that a dj could ever win a contest playing the old fashioned pophouse Eric's character spins... it's just not right... I know the dj scene in the States is way different from the one in Europe, but hey, that's no excuse for having the best dj of the competition play stupid popmusic.

France had Vidocq, the States had Attack Of The Clones and now Belgium has Hop. Thanks to Sony en Barco, director Standaert got his money to make his debut feature, only if he made it digitally! Well, the image is great, but the story is weak. This movie is about a young African kid who lives in Brussels with his father after they fled from Burundi, where their mother/wife was killed (or just died?). After an incident with their neightbours, they have to flee again. They are living in Belgium illegally and they know what that means. The father gets caught, but the young kid escapes and finds shelter at the home of an anarchist writer (Jan Decleir, from Daens and Character). To cut a long story short: the fathers gets send to Congo (yes, not to Burundi) and the writer and the kid threaten to blow up a famous Belgian landmark. (the kid already tried to blow up the Atomium, but the anarchist could prevent him doing so) The black and white photography is great, but that's the only thing great about this movie. The acting is soso, the story is ridiculous and the director blew the chance of showing the world that Flemish and French are equal in Belgium. They aren't of course, but still, you see two briljant Flemish actors who play Flemish characters and who talk French all the time!

I have no idea why people rate this movie so high. I didn't like it at

all. It's all about sex and drugs and sex and coming of age and

sex, but without any heart whatsoever. Is it fun(ny)? no. Is it

interesting? no. Does it have memorable scenes? no. Is it

believable? no. Do you see good acting? no. What's left is an

exotic sex road movie that looks like a Hollywood flick but with

more guts. The similar Spanish coming of age movie Krampack is

way much better.

I cannot imagine seeing a more stupid movie this year. This is absolute crap. I like the director though and he has made some okay movies like Team Spirit and Alles Moet Weg, but I have no idea why he wanted to make this. So yes, it is the first Belgian thriller ever. It is also the first Belgian entry for next year's rasberry awards. The acting is okay, the scenery as well (hey, it shows great views over Ghent in the beginning of the movie), but the story is just so ridiculous and unbelievable... The special effects (well, when they start killing people) is so unprofessionally done, it's a laugh. Jan Verheyen presents cult movies on friday nights at one of the Flemish television channels (Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Cannibal Holocaust, etc...) and makes compilations of the most stupid scenes in movie history... The chances of Alias becoming cult are small, but I guess it won't be long before we will see bits of this movie in one of his compilations.

I saw this movie at the International Filmfestival of Flanders in Ghent and I was pleasantly surprised.

The best thing about this movie is that it is true and believable. This is life in Brussels. With its good and its bad moments. They even speak Flemish in one scene of the movie!!!! How odd is that for a French-speaking production. This movie should really get a theatrical release, at least in all the European countries.

It may look as a television production and it is not as controversial as La Haine, but it has its merits. It's gripping at moments, it makes you smile (the scene in the restaurant at the coast!) and also get angry at our society. But there is also hope and that's good, right?

I decided to go see the French version of this second Asterix

adventure. Boy, was I wrong. I should have gone to the dubbed

Flemish version 'cos then I might have understood the jokes. The

main problem is Jamel Debbouze, whose jokes I just do not get at

all.

Apart from not being funny, the movie isn't that exciting either.

Everyone's writing about how much better this one is than the first

feature film, but I have to disagree. I guess I am just to big a fan of

the comics. If people say Planet Of The Apes was a total waste of

money, than they should go see this and think again...

This is my second or third Greek movie I guess, so I have no idea if this is the best one ever, but it is a very good one to say the least. I did not really want to see this one because I was not in the mood for a depressing hustler story or a foreign gaythemed drama, but that's not really what this movie is about. I would rather call it a lost generation movie with a lot of attention to immigration problems and drug abuse. I urge the main lead to learn English (or French) and try it abroad, because he has talent. the rest of the cast wasn't that good. Check it out if you get the chance, it's really not a gayhustler movie as the people might want you to believe

I had to review this movie and wasn't too keen on doing so. The

(European) cover and the synopsis made me think of all the stupid

teen comedies I have seen before. No thanks

But surprise surprise…this was an excellent comedy! It shows just

how stupid American culture is. Not that I dislike American culture,

after all I lived there for a while, but it's not quite what Europe is all

about. This movie tackles all the obsessions of the American

people: pretty naïve cheerleaders and healthy but ignorant

quarterbacks as the ideal high school kids; popculture and all its

excesses as a source of information; the absurd but highly

praised legal system, the american dream, etc…

Irony, cynism, sarcasm en political incorrectness are forms of

humor that you hardly find in American comedies, but this movie

has them all! The movie however refers to so many American

things that most Europeans won't get the jokes. Hey, how can you

laugh with one character's obsession of Conan O'Brien, if you've

never seen the guy before. The acting is top, and the humor is just

very funny! This was a pleasant surprise.

I haven't seen that many good Dutch movies. And after seeing the dreadful COSTA! which has the same producers as this one, I really did not think it would be okay. But IT IS! It took me a few minutes to get into the story, but once the guy starts his own company the story gets really funny. I ended up really liking the movie, especially the scenario, which is truly brilliant! Humour comes in different forms (from Nutty Professor to Clerks), but this was truly unique. It wasn't haha funny, nor was it woeha! funny. It was more like 'mmm, wow'-funny. You'll only understand when you see the movie....

There are some movies that you can just watch repeatedly without being bored. There's Jaws, there's Star Wars, there are the Indiana Jones flicks and North By North West. All adventure movies with fun scenes and a lot of action. There's also Singin' in the rain however, the ultimate comedy feel good musical. This is such a great movie. Too bad for the overlong dance scene at the end, but the story is amazing. I have the script at home and it's brilliant to read as well. I can honestly say, that when feeling sad this is the movie I put in my VCR (sorry no DVD yet)! Gene Kelly is the best. Let's hope Jamie Bell (Billy Elliott) will finally bring some cheerful dancing back to the screen.

Have you ever gone to a movie with no expectations at all and come out over-enthusiastically? Well this is the kind of film that will make you leave the theater thinking 'Why am I complaining about stupid details, I just need to enjoy every moment I live ?'.

Sami Boujila is superb as a gay, North African, unemployed guy who just lost his mother and has AIDS. Any normal person would just kill himself out of misery. But Felix won't. He decides to look up his father he never knew in Marseille and crosses the country meeting a lot of interesting people. The film deals with racism, indifference and homophobia, but is so fun too watch. If Felix was a Disney character, everybody would just want to buy a Felix-doll to look at when feeling a bit down.