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The Comedy Trail: A Shaggy Dog Story (1999)
An amazing way to show how long BBC has been entertaining us
The Comedy Trail: A Shaggy Dog Story perfectly shows us how BBC comedy has been over the years. The story of The Comedy Trail: A Shaggy Dog Story is that it shows use the amount of entertainment the BBC has brought to us over the years by having characters from many of the BBC tv shows appearing. Each character that appears says a few words before cutting to the next and everything each character says relates to one hole sentence after another. The story works well at showing us these characters the BBC has created and also having them say a few words and then cutting to the next character allows us to see how all these characters have one thing in mind is that they have entertained us over the years. The characters is this are amazing as well. The movie shows many famous british actors. Most of them are from the BBC's tv shows but there's also few characters that appear in this that are basically just the actors playing themselves. It's so nice getting to these many of these famous british characters appear in this one movie. The overall look of each shot for each character we see looks amazing and we even get to see some locations from some of the actual shows the BBC has made like for example we see Norman Clegg from Last of the Summer Wine in the pub which is from the actual tv show. There's also many more of these scenes that we see. The editing in between each time we cut to the next character is amazing and probably must have been quite tricky to do I bet. All the actors that appear in this movie are amazing and the famous british actors they got to appear in this is just insane. The Comedy Trail: A Shaggy Dog Story 10/10.
The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
Such an amazing wallace & gromit movie.
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were Rabbit is not the best Wallace and Gromit movie but it's still amazing. The start of Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were Rabbit is that there is a vegetable compation coming to town but there's a bunch of rabbits eating people's vegetables and so Wallace & Gromit decide to start a business called Anti-Pesto where they go around catching the rabbit. However one night Wallace decides to use his new invention to brain wash the bunnies however it goes wrong and leads to one of the rabbit's getting stuck on Wallace head and it messes with the rabbit's brain. Gromit manages to stop the machine but when Wallace try's to feed the rabbit a karrot the rabbit doesn't like it and Wallace feels so happy that his machine worked. Wallace then put the rabbit in cage and decides to call him Hutch. Later that night the vicar of the church named Reverend Clement Hedges is shocked when meets a giant beast. The next morning everyone from the town gathers in the town church to try and process what happened last night because the villagers vegetables have been eaten. Reverend Clement Hedges tells the whole town that he saw a giant were rabbit last night. A man name Victor then decides that he want to watch and shot the beast but Lady Tottington says no and that she wants Wallace & Gromit to catch the were rabbit. Later that night Wallace drives through the town with a giant fake girl rabbit on the top of the van as part of his plan to catching the were rabbit. However the giant fake girl rabbit falls of the van and Wallace then tells Gromit that he is going to go and get it back. However Gromit starts noticing strange things happening and Wallace still hasn't returned and with no other option Gromit decides to dive off and chase after the beast since he believes he just saw it. Gromit chases after the were rabbit through town and into a giant rabbit hole. Gromit loses it but he continues to drive through the hole until he reaches the end of the hole that leads into his & Wallace's garden. Gromit then goes into the house and sees Wallace talking on the phone to the people from the town about there vegetables been eaten. Wallace then tells Gromit of for going of on his own. Gromit then goes into the basement and finds the cage that they put Hutch in has been broken apart. Wallace then is shocked to find that Hutch has grown and he then starts to theories that his machine that uses moon sola panalls must cause Hutch to turn into a were rabbit every night. Wallace then leaves to go and tell Lady Tottington that they have caught the beast while Gromit stays to build a strong cage to make sure Hutch doesn't escape. Once Gromit has finished building the cage he then notices giant rabbit foot prints in there house that lead upstairs and into Wallace's room. Gromit opens the door and is in shock when he finds a bunch of eaten vegetables on Wallace's bed. Gromit then realises that Wallace is the were rabbit not Hutch. At Tottington hall Victor decides to bring some flowers for Lady Tottington but he gets angry to see Wallace with Lady Tottington in the garden room. Once Gromit arrives at Tottington hall he gets Wallace out of there starts driving him home however road then gets blocked but a falling tree and when Wallace goes out to try and move it Victor then tells Wallace to back of from Lady Tottington, however he doesn't want to leave it at that by just telling him that he actually what's to fight Wallace. When Victor goes in for a punch Wallace then picks him up a throws him onto the van. Then Gromit, Victor and Victor's dog Philip then watch in shock as they see Wallace transform into the were rabbit. Now Gromit has to try and fix Wallace until Victor shots him and also before Victor falls in love with Lady Tottington. The story for this movie is basically a parody of The Curse of the Were Wolf book except with Wallace & Gromit and a were rabbit and it is exuded amazing mainly because it still has the charm that the other Wallace & Gromit movies had and it also has some fun and engaging chase scenes. The story is also amazing because it has a mystery to it where it turns out that Wallace is the were rabbit and Hutch isn't. The characters in this movie are also amazing. Wallace & Gromit are just as amazing as they were in the previous three short movies. Wallace is very sympathetic because he really wants to get rid of the curse that he has. You really do care about Gromit trying to save Wallace from being shot by Victor and you really do care even more for him when he struggles on how to get rid of this curse from Wallace. Lady Tottington is also amazing mainly because she is very sympathetic because you really do care for her to try and stop Victor from shooting Wallace. Victor is amazing as the villain in this movie because he is so funny and really threatening because you understand his motivations and not only that though he is easily and most evil villain from the Wallace & Gromit franchise by far in fact he's even more threatening than Feathers McGraw and Preston. Victor's dog Philip is also amazing because just like with Gromit he is a silent character and he doesn't talk and yet you understand everything he's saying. The more noticeable side characters in this movie such as PC Albert Mackintosh, Reverend Clement Hedges, Mr. Mulch and Mrs. Mulch are all pretty good. They do have some a lot funny scenes in this movie. The animation for this movie looks better than the animation from the other three short movies. The new sets such as Tottington hall, the Field and the Forest set look amazing. The music for this movie is also amazing. The music for the opening credits and end credits of the have the Wallace & Gromit theme in a new remix version and it is amazing. The music for the happy scenes, the sad scenes and the chase scenes are all also amazing. The humour for this movie is also amazing. Nearly every joke in this movie lands perfectly. The voice cast is perfect. Peter Sallis is just as amazing at voicing Wallace like he has done in the previous three movies. Helena Bonham Carter is amazing at voicing Lady Tottington. Ralph Filenes is amazing at voicing Victor. Peter Kay is amazing at voicing PC Albert Mackintosh. Nicholas Smith is amazing at voicing Reverend Clement Hedges and Liz Smith is also amazing at voicing Mrs. Mulch. All the other voice actors such as John Thompson, Mark Gatiss, Vincent Edrahim, Geraldine McEwan, Edward Kelsey, Dicken Ashworth, Robert Horvath, Pete Atkin, Noni Lewis, Ben Whitehead, Christopher Fairbank, James Mather, William Vanderpuye and Nigel Pilkington also do amazing with the character they voice. I should also mention that Ben Whitehead who voices Mr. Leaching in this movie would later become the new guy to voice Wallace starting in the adverts around 2008 and counting all the way to present day now. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were Rabbit 10/10.
Thomas & Friends: Hero of the Rails (2009)
Pretty good for the first cgi thomas & friends production.
Thomas & Friends: Hero of the Rails isn't the best Thomas movie but it's still good for what it is. The story of Thomas & Friends: Hero of the Rails is that Spencer has come to the island of Sodor to help with the Duke and Duchess boxford summer house, however Spencer keeps on bossing around all the engines until Thomas then challenges Spencer to show him that he can pull more heavy flatbeds than him all the way from the yards to brendom docks. Spencer agrees to this and so they start there race, but Thomas's breaks break and so he goes onto an abandoned track in the forest, however Thomas finds an old engine named Hero. Hero tells Thomas everything about him and how he ended up on the siding and it's because he had broken down and had been left on the siding for new parts but the parts never came. Thomas then decides he wants to help Hero and get him the parts he needs. Thomas also gets help from Victor, Kevin, Edward, Henry, Gordon, James, Percy, Toby and Emily. Thomas and his friends also have to make sure that the Fat Controller and Spencer don't find out because if the Fat Controller finds out he will probably scrap him and if Spencer finds out he may tell the Fat Controller. The story for this movie is really good. It's a nice heart felt story about trying to help someone who maybe in a loose end situation. This movie has some scenes that do drag on for to long though. This movie's story also has a lot of cool chase scenes as well mainly because of the cold camera angles and the voice acting as well. The characters in this movie are great. Thomas, Edward, Henry, Gordon, James, Percy, Toby and Emily are very sympathetic and you really do care for them since there just getting bullied by Spencer. Thomas and all his friends are perfectly in character although it is really dumb that they would think the Fat Controller would scrap Hero since in the bast the Fat Controller has said he would never do that. Spencer is also good as the villain in this movie. In this movie you can tell he really means business and that he really want to find out what Thomas is up to and that he won't let him get away with it. Spencer does have one problem with his character is that we never know why apparently he wanted Hero scrapped. The new characters Victor and Hero are amazing. Victor is really funny and he's also over just a really nice and helpful engine. Hero's is also amazing mainly because of how sympathetic he is and also because of how interesting of a character he is. His back story makes him very sympathetic as a character and very interesting as well and you really care about him in this movie. He also has a cool design because he isn't labelled as a token diversity character. Kevin is overall fine. There's not a lot to him but he does have some funny scenes in this movie. The animation doesn't look the best but none of it look cheap. The engines all feel like they have some weight to them. The songs and music for this movie are great. The opening music is really nice. The music used for the chase scenes are great and the theme song Go Go Thomas is so great and really fun to listen to. The voice acting is really good and they did a good job with the selection of voices they gave the characters well for the uk dub. The us dub voices for Henry and Toby sound very weird. There's also way to much narration from Michael Angelis and Michael Brandon. Thomas & Friends: Hero of the Rails 7/10.
The Clifton House Mystery (1978)
A great tv show.
The Clifton House Mystery is not the best tv show but it still great for what it is. The story of The Clifton House Mystery is that a family are moving into a new house, however the family start noticing strange things happening in there house and they don't know whats causing the strange things to happen. The two boys Steven and Ben decide to go and ask Milton Guest who is a ghost hunter to come and help them find out if there are any ghosts in there house, but there's a strange mystery to it because the ghost that lives in the house can appear when the music box in the house is played and so the Milton Guest has to try and find out what the ghost is trying to do. The story for this tv show is something that we have seen relatively before but what makes it nice and fresh is that they build up the mystery and show it to us in a way that doesn't feel so predictable. It's also nice that in the last episode of the tv show they show to us that the mystery about the old lady ghost staying in there home will only happen if everyone in the family believes in the ghost. The characters is movie are also great. The dad and mam are very sympathetic and so are the two boys and the girl because you really do care for them because there so confused by what happening in the house and also because they don't know what to do. The dad, mam and the girl are great. The two boys Steven and Ben are both equally great because they are very smart when they try to figure out what the helmet could have to the mystery. Milton Guest is also great with how he has the idea on how to deal with the ghost. It's nice that they gave him a back story to how he his because that makes you understand him more as a character. The old woman ghost character is also great because she simply just wants to stay in the house because it's where her and her son died. It also nice that they made her a silent character through out all six episodes. The sets for this movie are really good at making the house look creepy and old. These sets also fit well with witch year this is meant to take place in. The music is great and has a creepy feeling sound to it and the acting is great. The acting from Milton Guest and the old ghost lady are easily the best ones. Milton Guest acting is great mainly from how serious he is as a character at trying to solve the mystery. The old ghost lady acting is also great mainly because we understand everything about the way she's feel through her face experiences. Here are the ranking for all six episodes
Episode 1 7/10
Episode 2 8/10
Episode 3 8/10
Episode 4 8.4/10
Episode 5 8.5/10
Episode 6 8/10
The Clifton House Mystery 8/10.
The Snowdropper (1975)
A strange but funny movie.
The Snowdropper was a very strange movie but it is really funny. The story of The Snowdropper is that a man names Spicer is trying to hide because he is an escaped convict and he decides to take refuge in a remote welsh cottage. The cottage is owned by a woman called Beulah who is all alone and has mental health problems and when we finds this man named Spicer knocking on her door and so she decides to help him. At first she finds Spicer a bad man but she then starts to like him and she begins to enjoy doing it. However her friend known as Sergeant is trying to her to train and do shooting and it doesn't go very well. The story for this is very strange and something that hasn't really been done before in any other movie. The movie's story is mainly good because it try's to make you feel bad for Spicer while at the same time he kind of deserves what happened to him at the end of the movie. The story also works well at having it be a thriller movie that try's to make the characters Beulah and Spicer be very sneaky to make sure they don't get caught. The references that this movie has fit very while given how this movie came out in 1975 and many of the references in this movie are references to what actually happened back in 1975. The characters in this movie are pretty good. Beulah is a bit of a sympathetic character but at the same time she should have known better than to lie. Given how she was someone who wanted Spicer to stay but then she decided later on she wanted him gone because she knew what would happen if she got caught and guess what we were able to see what happened to her. Spicer is great mainly because he's best part of this movie. Many of the things he says are so funny, he easily has the best lines in this movie. The way he looks just looks funny as well. He also just like with Beulah he lied and that lead to him facing consequences. Sergeant is fine. It would have been nice if they had shown us about his bavkstory then maybe that would make him a more understandable character given how in this movie were shown that he knows Beulah. I also wish that they could have had a better ending of him dealing with Beulah by making her suffer consequences for her actions rather than shooting her. The look of this movie looks amazing for it's time. The house looks just like a house from the 1970s. In fact the house is the only set we see in this movie and that's amazing how they managed to do that in a 79 minute long movie. We do see two shots of the house from outside the window and that's the only time we see any shots out side. The music for this movie is pretty good as well and fits the tone of the movie. The acting from Fiona Walker, Peter Vaughan and Glyn Welden is really good. Peter Sallis is easily the best actor in this movie and he's great. The way Peter Sallis acts when he's playing Spicer when he's happy, crazy and sad is what makes his performance stand out and he is so funny when he plays Spicer. The Snowdropper 8/10.
Thomas & Friends: The Great Discovery - The Movie (2008)
Finally a good thomas and friends movie at last.
Thomas & Friends: The Great Discovery was a big shock for the fact that this is actually the first good Thomas & Friends movie. The story of Thomas & Friends: the Great Discovery is that Thomas has a job on taking wood from the hills down to the warf, however on his journey there Duncan tells Thomas to take the rolling river bridge track. Thomas takes the track and ends up at the bridge but the bridge then collapse so Thomas then heads back the way he came and find another track so he decides to take the other track thinking it will lead to the warf, however the track he takes is all old and over grown and it hasn't been used for years. Thomas continues along the track until he reaches an old and abandoned town. Then Thomas leaves the town and starts to tell everyone and once the Fat Controller hears about this he asks Thomas to take him there and so when Thomas and the Fat Controller arrive the Fat Controller tells Thomas that the town he had found was the town of Great Watertom that was the main town of the island of Sodor when steam engines first came. The Fat Controller then decides that the town must be rebuilt and he also tells Thomas that he will be in charge of all the work and so they must get the town rebuilt in time for Sodor day. The Fat Controller also hires an engine from the main land to do his usual jobs and that engine is Stanley. However Thomas starts getting jealous of Stanley doing so many of his jobs. The story of Thomas & Friends: The Great Discovery is great. It's executed great because the movie's passing is quick and the story is actually interesting because you can understand everything happening and it's actually entertaining. There are some scenes in this movie that don't really add anything to the story and they could have very easily been removed but at least there's no learning segments. The characters is this movie are amazing. All the characters feel like there in character. Thomas's character arc he has in this movie is really nice as well because he learns that he should be mean to engines that are just trying to help. Although they probably could have added a bit more to this character arc because here's the thing Thomas character arc in this movie is very similar to Woody's character arc from Toy Story. In Ot Story Woody got jealous of Buzz being Andy's new favourite toy where as Thomas just got cross of his doing all his job's and also because he took his birth one night. That's the only problem with Thomas in this movie they probably could have done better and more with this. Edward, Henry, Gordon, James, Percy, Toby and Emily are all perfectly in character and every scene with them in this movie is amazing they all feel like there in character and that's about it for them because there mainly background characters. Stanley was fine. He didn't have a lot to him as a character mainly because he was just a plot device and that's about it. The only things about him is that he's nice, kind, he's bigger and stronger than Thomas so yeah he's fine. The model sets finally look like something you would see for a movie because there's a lot of good looking sets like, Rolling River Bridge, Great Waterton, the old mine and the mountains. The music for this movie is great. The songs Thomas & James are Racing and Jobs a Plenty are good. Where oh Where is Thomas and The Engine Roll Call are fine. The best song in this movie is Thomas You're the Leader it's one of the best Thomas songs ever made and guess what it's sung by a professional rapper instead of being sung by the children. The narration form Pierce Brosnam is pretty good he's not the best Thomas narrator but he's pretty good in this. Thomas & Friends: The Great Discovery 8/10.
Thomas & Friends: Calling All Engines! (2005)
It's not good but it a lot better than the last movie.
Thomas & Friends: Calling & Engines! Is not a good Thomas and Friends movie but it's definitely better than that garage Thomas and the Magic Railroad movie that we don't talk about. The story of Thomas & Friends: Calling all Engine's is that a new airport is being built on Sodor to try and get more holiday tourists to come and visit the island and so the Fat Controller wants his engines to help build the airport however when Thomas goes to the yard Arry and Bert start teasing him. This then leads to Thomas playing a trick on them however a little later on Diesel tells Thomas that he has an important job to do and he hear that he had played a trick on Arry and Bert and so he tells Thomas not to play a trick on him but Thomas does it anyway and so he swaps Diesel's trucks of bricks with trucks full of bananas however later one that day when Thomas and the rest of his friends arrive home they find out that tidmoth sheds has been nocked down and it turns out that building the new ones was Diesel's important job but since Thomas gave him the trucks full of bananas what lead to the sheds being delayed so all the steam engines have to find a new place to sleep however over the night a big storm hits Sodor and damages a lot of the railway and leads to a lot of delays however later that day the steam engines and the diesel engines have fight and can't get along this then leads to Thomas telling everyone that they have to work together and get the airport build otherwise it will be bad for all the engines and so all engines then agree and decide to work together. The story for this movie sounds good but the problem with the story is that it is such a snore fest because the movie's passing is very slow. Another problem with the story is that there are stupid dumb learning segments that just drag out the runtime. There are some funny scene throughout the movie and there are a lot of great character interactions between Thomas and Friends mainly towards the end of the movie when there so close to finishing the airport. This movie's message is also quite nice where no mater what you look like you should just put your differences aside and work together. The message this movie teachs is definitely a much better message than what the message Thomas and the Magic Railroad was trying to teach us that for sure. The characters in this movie are decent. Thomas has a lot of his cheeky moments in this movie and it's nice how he has the idea on trying to get the steam engines and diesel engines to work together. James, Henry, Percy, Toby and Emily are also fine and they do have a lot of great character moments that actually sure a purpose to the story unlike Thomas and the Magic Railroad which didn't do that at all. Gordon is definitely the best in character because of how funny he is. Diesel, Arry, Bert are also fine and they also have a lot of great character moments as well. Mavis is really good in this movie mainly because she's now a nice diesel and given how before she was a bad diesel now we see that she has grown as a character ever since she got introduced back in series 3 of the tv series. This may sound shocking but Lady makes an appearance appears in Thomas dream and she's fine because in this movie she's just a figment of Thomas's imagination now that is how you work a magical engine into Thomas and Friends and not only that though she's definitely used better in this movie because she actually adds something to the story because she tells Thomas in his dream that they always finish there jobs when they work together, unlike Thomas and the Magic Railroad where she added nothing to the story whatsoever and all she was in that movie was a plot device and that's it. Diesel 10 also appears in this movie and he is definitely a lot better in this movie compared to the last movie because he actually adds something to the story unlike Thomas and the Magic Railroad where he added nothing to the movie and all he was in that movie was a character just to pad out the runtime and that's it. In this movie Diesel 10 helps Thomas to clear the track and after Thomas tells him what will happen if he doesn't to it he agrees to do it. The overall look of this movie looks very dull and plain. The best looking sets in this movie are the airport set, the brendum docks set, the suspension bridge set, and the church set. However the best part of the sets is the storm montage where we see the island of Sodor getting destroyed and the fact that it's all props is what makes it stand out. The music for this movie are decent as well. The songs Busy, Trying to do thing Better and Together we made it happen are all good. However the engine roll call song and the dream song are just okay. The narration from Michael Angelis and Michael Brandon is fine. The best narration from both of them is from the scene when there voicing Diesel 10 mainly from the growing song both narrators gave Diesel 10. Thomas & Friends: Calling all Engine's 4/10.
Thomas and the Magic Railroad (2000)
No seriously guys this movie is horrible in every way possible.
Thomas and the Magic Railroad has gotten so much backlash from critics and fans of the franchise and it's lead to a lot of people that have started treating this movie as not canon to the franchise and let me tell yeah after watching this movie for the first time in over 12 years yeah I can easily see why. Guys Thomas and the Magic Railroad not only feels like a garbage fan product to a book series and a tv show that were both so good but it feels like in exaggerates everything we know about Thomas and Friends while also failing to realise what made the book series and the tv show so great in the first place. The story of Thomas and the Magic Railroad is that a man named Mr. Conductor is coming over to the island of sodor to look after the place while the Fat Controller is away on holiday. While Mr. Conductor is on sodor he starts running out of gold dust and he needs more other wise if he doesn't get any more his home town Shining Time Station will loose it magic. So Mr. Conductor decides to call his cousin Junior to go and get his last stash of gold dust from Shining Time Station and then come to the island and help him find more. Meanwhile theres a girl called Lilly who is going to go and meet her grandpa however for some reason she lets some dog guide her onto the wrong train and she gets lost on the way and she ends up at Shining Time Station where Junior is getting Mr. Conductors gold dust. Lilly's grandpa burnet stone owes a broken down engine called Lady and Lady is the source of the gold dust so Lilly and her Grandpa have to get her working again so Mr. Conductor and Junior can get there gold dust back oh and all the while theres an evil Diesel engine named Diesel 10 who wants to destroy Lady for some reason. He is also on Sodor while all this is happening. This movie story is absolutely atrocious both as a story for a Thomas & Friends movie and as a movie on it's own. The biggest problem with this movie is that this story is just so frustrating to sit through because of how stupid the characters are and also because of how uninteresting it is. Nothing about the story makes sense at all. There's also no world building as well with this movie. Remember all the new world building and Lord that we all saw from the tv series of Thomas & Friends it gave the world a new life and introduced to the times characters that live on the island of Sodor but this movie does nothing like that at all. This movie's story is also abysmal because the story takes a complete back seat through out the hole movie and it has absolutely nothing to do with Thomas & Friends at all. This movie also lacks the great writing from series 1-5 of the tv series as well. The characters in this movie are terrible. Thomas, James, Henry, Gordon, Percy, Toby, Annie, Clarabelle, Harold and Bertie are so boring and uninteresting because they have nothing to them as characters and they add nothing to the movie at all. The only thing I have to say about Thomas is that he has this idea where he wants to stop Diesel 10 from destroying Lady and if you ask me this should have been the main focus of the story but it's a shame that this pointless sud plot adds nothing to the story and is nothing more than just a stupid joke. Henry was treated so awfully in this movie because this movie retcons his character arc and history from series 1. Remember is series 1 of the tv series where he had a crash and got set away to be rebuilt and when he returned he had a new boiler and after that he didn't need special coal any more but now it's worthless in this movie because despite being in his new shape Henry still needs special coal wow. The new characters are so terrible. Mr. Conductor is so stupid as the main character in this movie because he acts so dumb throughout the entire runtime. For example theres a scene were he gets lost in the forest on the way to the mill and he just sits there all sad. Why couldn't Mr. Conductor go back the way he came then he wouldn't get lost in the forest but no of course he doesn't do that because he's stupid that why. Here's another example he's laying on grass all sad when suddenly Thomas passes by and Mr. Conductor just sits there and says Thomas named quietly three times in a row. Why couldn't Mr Conductor have gotten up and run after Thomas and yell ''Hey Thomas I'm over here'', but no of course he doesn't do that. How do you expect the audience to take him seriously as a character when he so stupid and dumb. Mr. Conductor's cousin named Junior is so annoying. Junior come off as just a whiny annoying brat because through out this hole movie he just causes problems for Mr. Conductor raver than actually trying to help him. Theres even a scene where he goes to Shinning Time Station to get Mr. Conductors last stash of gold dust and guess what he decides to steal it and go and get a new suit instead of going to Sodor to help Mr. Conductor first. Wow what a great message to teach kids. I'm not joking when I say this but Junior is quite possibly the most annoying character in the entire Thomas and Friends franchise. I'd honestly go as far to say he's even more annoying and an even worse character than the Loging Locos. Lilly is somehow even more stupid than Mr. Conductor and Junior mainly because she asks a dog a tell her what train she should get on when there is a train conductor standing right next to her. What realistic kid would ever do that and not only that though but her and Patch start failing in love with each other and that goes absolutely nowhere and is pointless to the hole movie. In fact Lilly and Patch add nothing to the movie at all what so ever. Burnet Stone is probably the least bad character but that's not saying much. The only good thing about him is his acting and that's it. He also adds nothing to the story as well. Lady has nothing to her as a character and has no personality all she is a plot device and that's it. Lady is also worthless because she isn't even based of a real life engine build. She could literally be removed from the story and nothing would change whatsoever. Diesel 10 is such an terrible villain because his motivations makes no sense. He wants to destroy Lady and apparently if he does that all the engines on the island of Sodor will die, but if Diesel 10 does that than he will die as well. His plan makes absolutely no sense at all. He's also terrible as a villain because he does nothing evil as a villain until the end of the second act. So if the movie wants him to be the villain it doesn't work. His two hench men called Splatter and Doge have nothing to them as characters and they add nothing to the movie as well. I should probably also mention that this movie is honestly quite offensive as well because the movie trying to show to us that we shouldn't trust Diesel engines at all. Oh by the way the steam engines have Canadian accents and Diesel 10 has a New Jersey accent so yeah I think way know what I'm trying to say, but in case you don't know I'll say this what I'm trying to say is that this movie is basically trying to be offensive towards black peoples. The humour is just terrible. Thomas and the Magic Railroad is not funny in fact it's disgustingly unfunny and I mean they literally because they like to overplay so many jokes in this movie. The jokes Mr. Conductor does are just low brow jokes that only toddlers would only laugh at and not only that though but many of the joke Junior does in this movie are just insufferable and it never takes a break. Some of jokes Diesel 10 does will just drag on for to long or play out to quickly. The voices for the train characters such as Thomas, Gordon, Percy, Toby, Annie, Clarabel and Diesel 10 are fine. But the rest are just bad. Henry's voice sounds stupid and dumb and doesn't fit with who he is as a character from tv show. Bertie and Harold's voice sound way to high pitched and annoying. Splatter and Doge don't sound like villains. The worst voice is Susan Romans voice as James. James sounds like he has a stuffed up nose. Susan Roman Has voiced boy characters before in past such as the Mushroom Boy from the 1990 cartoon The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 in the episode Mush romers and she also voice Snowy the dog in the 1991-1992 cartoon The Adventures of Tintin and her voice she gave both them characters sounded great and sounded just like a boy. The humour in series 1-5 of Thomas and Friends was great because it was well written and well played out were as this movie try's everything it can to Appel to toddlers or stupid teenagers. The overall look of this movie looks way to sympathetic and plan and not that interesting. The cgi effect in the Magic Railroad part of the movie look abysmal and they have aged horribly. I should also mention the most of the model sets that we see look every empty with not a lot in them. Many of them are just tracks with grassy fields in the background. This movie's tone also doesn't work because it try's to balance a Fantasy, Family and Drama feel to it that just doesn't work. This movie is also very soulless because theres no scenes in this movie that make you care for the characters. The music fro this movie is fine. Some of the songs are good while others are hit and miss. My final things to say are this Now guys Thomas and the Magic Railroad is not only terrible because of the amount of terrible things it has in it but because it just feel like a joke and after watching it again I can now completely understand why everyone want to pretend it isn't canon it doesn't add anything new to the franchise and it does nothing substantional in the long run and the fact that series 6 of Thomas and Friends completely eggnors the events of this movie just goes to show how much people don't care about this movie. I can tell you guys now that the Reverend W. Awdry is now gonna be rolling in his grave because of Britt Allcroft making this abysmal movie that no one asked for at all. Thomas and the Magic Railroad 0/10.
Shrek Forever After (2010)
Not as good as the second one but a lot better than the third one
Shrek Forever After was a big shock for the fact that this movie managed to fix the problem from the third movie. The story of Shrek Forever After is that it starts of with a man named Rumple Stiltskin who has been wanting to take over far far away for his own needs and we see Fiona's parents who were about to sigh there kingdom over to Rumple Stiltskin when suddenly there told that Fiona has been saved that's because this opening scene takes place while Shrek and Fiona were away on there honey moon. Thus Rumple Stiltskin dreams on getting revenge on Shrek. Meanwhile Shrek is getting sick of his mundane life because he wakes up and every day feels the same to him and everyone loves him, but he misses the days when people used to be afraid of him and he gets persuaded by Rumple Stiltskin to sigh a contract that gives him one hole day to be the scary orga he used to be, but as soon as he discovers Shrek doesn't exist in this timeline because the very day Rumple Stiltskin took was the day Shrek was born. So Naturally he locates Fiona becomes friends with Donkey again and joins the orga resistance to get back his happily ever after. The story is basically the Shrek equivalent to It's A Wonderful Life, but even though it copies the basic set up the way it's exuded makes it feel different and it overall works really well for what it is. It's nice that this movie goes back on the themes of Shrek's character arc. All Shrek wanted from the beginning of the first movie is that he wanted to fit in and bet acceptance by society but now is this movie he's here with everything he wanted but it's a life style that becomes repetitive for him and that leads to his decision to sigh the contract. The characters in this movie are amazing. Since Shrek is getting sick of all this hard work it makes him very sympathetic. Now Shrek does burst out at Fiona but they did that intentionally so that later one when Shrek realises he mess up it's immensely satisfying. His character he has in this movie is really nice as well. Fiona, Donkey and Puss are also amazing because it's really nice getting to see them in different roles we want to see. Fiona is a strong fighter who wants to get revenge on Rumple Stiltskin for what he did to her parents and that's really nice. Notice how in this movie Shrek has to befriend Donkey the other way around. Puss doesn't have a lot to him compared to Shrek, Fiona and Donkey but he's still good for what he is in this movie. Rumple Stiltskin is really great as the villain in this movie. His design looks greats and he's pretty funny and the fact that he rules nearly over everything makes him one of the largest threats in the hole franchise and not only that though but definitely better than what Prince Charming was in the third movie. The animation for this movie looks amazing and it's easily the best looking Shrek movie out of all of them. The humour for this movie is strange because it's not really trying to be funny and I think that's because this movie is focused in an alternative timeline where Shrek's life is stripped away and everyone is miserable there's hardly a need for any jokes in this movie but with that being said most of the jokes do work well enough while some other jokes fall flat but the important thing is that none of the jokes in this movie are as bad as the jokes in Shrek the Third. The voice acting is also amazing as well. Shrek Forever After 9.2/10.
Five Nights at Freddy's (2014)
An amazing start to the Fnaf franchise
Five Night's At Freddy's isn't the best game in the series but it's still an amazing start to the franchise. The story of Five Night's At Freddy's is that a security guard named Mike has a job working as a security guard at a restaurant called Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. Mike has to stay in the office and watch the cameras to make sure nothing happens. However it turns out that the four main animatronics in the restaurant called Freddy, Chica, Bonnie and Foxy are alive and there trying to get inside your office and kill whoever's in there. So now Mike has to survive all five night's without being killed. The story for this games works great mainly at how it is at creating a creepy atmosphere look to the game. It's also great because of how carefully you have you play the game by making sure you don't run out of power and that you don't actually let the animatronics in your offic because once there in your office prepare to be jumpscared. The characters for this game don't have much to them but there explained to us in a away that you can understand them. The main character Mike we can relate to because he needs the money for himself and his family. The Animatronics are amazing at being evil killer robots. All the information about them as characters are explained to you by the phone guy who tells you about them and there history. There also amazing because you have to figure out what they have to them through your mind. This works great at making them have a ghostie past story. The animation for this game still looks amazing now in 2024 nothing about the animation looks bad at all. The music is fantastic at making the game be scary especially the main theme for this game. Five Night's At Freddy's 9.5/10.
New Super Mario Bros. (2006)
A great start to the new super mario bros games.
New Super Mario Bros. May not be the best game in the super mario franchise but it's still a lot of fun to come back to this one every now and then. The story of New Super Mario Bros. Is that Mario and Peach are walking through the mushroom kingdom when a bolt of lightning strikes the castle. Mario then goes over to see what happened but then Bowser Jr then grabs Peach and runs off, now Mario has to travel to 8 different worlds and save Peach from Bowser, Bowser Jr and his minions. The story for this game is paper fin but it works really good for what it is. The story is mainly fun because of the amount of fun levels there are to play through and also because of how fun the bosses are to fight. The characters for this game don't have much personality to them but there still a lot of fun. Mario is very sympathetic since he wants to save Peach. Peach is overall fine and that's about it. Bowser is really good as the villain in this game and his son Bowser Jr is just as good as he is. The animation for this game doesn't look the best now because some of the animation does look quite dated now 2024 but still hold up good enough. The music for this game is also great. The best music is the music for the credits, it's so fun to listen to. The voice lines from the characters do sound quite weird almost a bit to weird. The controls for this game still function very well to this day. New Super Mario Bros. 8/10.
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends (1984)
Still fun to come back to this show every now and again
Thomas & Friends is a show that has had a strange reputation over the years. The plot of this show focuses on the life of Thomas a small tank engine and his friends living on the island of sodor. The series is based of a book series called The Railway Series written by Rev. W Awdry. The plot for this show is great, it's simple but it has its own unique charm to it for what it is. The stories for this series are fun to watch because of how funny and fun they are. The characters in this series are amazing from there on unique personalities to there voices to there designs. The different kids of trains that we see in this show makes it look like an actual place you could go to in real life. The model sets for this show look amazing. Some of the model sets from the earlier series do look quite dated now in 2024 because of how dark a lot of them are. The cgi series of this show doesn't hold a candle to the look of the model era but still looks good for what it is. The voice acting from the narrators from the model series at best is amazing and at worst it just awful. The voice acting for the cgi series is at best amazing and at worst it's just what ever. The music from this show is at best amazing and at worst it's bad. Now here are the ratings for each series of the show.
Series 1 9/10 (Amazing)
Series 2 10/10 (Excellent)
Series 3 10/10 (Excellent)
Series 4 9.5/10 (Amazing-Excellent)
Series 5 7/10 (Good)
Series 6 7/10 (Good)
Series 7 7.5/10 (Good-Great)
Series 8 5/10 (Fine)
Series 9 6/10 (Decent)
Series 10 4/10 (Meh)
Series 11 5.5/10 (Fine-Decent)
Series 12 1.5/10 (Terrible-Awful)
Series 13 2.5/10 (Awful-Bad)
Series 14 1.5/10 (Terrible)
Series 15 1.5/10 (Terrible-Awful)
Series 16 4/10 (Meh)
Series 17 8.5/10 (Great-Amazing)
Series 18 8/10 (Great)
Series 19 7.5/10 (Good-Great)
Series 20 9/10 (Amazing)
Series 21 8/10 (Great)
Series 22 1.5/10 (Terrible-Awful)
Series 23 1/10 (Terrible)
Series 24 1.5/10 (Terrible-Awful)
Thomas and Friends 9/10.
Cars 2 (2011)
Really bad.
Cars 2 is always regarded as pixar's worst movie and it's very easy to see why because it felt like pixar made this movie just to make money. The story of Cars 2 is that an electric car named Miles Axlerod has invested a new type of alternative fuel named Allinal for cars and is holding a racing competition called the WorldGrandPrix featuring some of the fastest racing cars around the world to race in it all fuelled by Allinal. Lighting McQueen is planning on racing in it and so him and his friends head of to it, but while there on this world tour Mater gets sucked into this spy plot revolving around this conspiracy in which these evil secret society lemon cars are sabotageing the race to make Allinal look bad, to maintain their monopoly on the tradition fuel industry. Mater gets mistaken for an american spy and ends up going on all these crazy spy adventures, one of which screws up McQueen in the first race and costes him the victory. This whole plot ends with Mater getting a bomb on him but he doesn't blow up. The plot for this movie is so complexed, compared to the first movie which was a simple story about McQueen growing as a character, it was all marged to classic americana and motor racing and honoured real racing legends, but you get to Cars 2 and it's nothing like the first movie. The biggest problem with the story is that it's forced on Mater and not McQueen. This doesn't work because Mater from Cars 1 was the comic relief character who would only appear just for a funny line or for funny scene every now and then. Mater is not interesting as the main character in this movie because he doesn't have a goal and he doen't effect the direction the plot goes and so as a result we the audience just get annoyed with him because you just want him to shut up. This movie's plot makes it look like one of those Mater's Tail Tales cartoons episode stretched into a feature length movie. The second problem with this movie is making it a spy movie. Some of the spy stuff that they do show in this movie is pretty cool at times but the problem is that this messes with the tone from the first movie. The spy stuff also doesn't work because they have to dumb down the spy's so Mater can be worked in it. The spy car named rodledline has to talk meet with Holly in person to exchange a photo and this happens to that there can be a scene where Mater gets involved with the plot. The spy cars Finn and Holly ignore how annoying Mater is so that way he can be involved with more action thriller spy stuff. The villains plot is also so dumb mainly because there evil plan doesn't make a lot of sense and there just not that interesting. The racing part of this movie with McQueen should have been the main focus of the story and it would have been at least around the same level as the first movie. The characters in this movie are bad. McQueen is probably the only good main character in this movie because of the racing scenes with him and the other racers mainly because it of how fun it is to watch. Mater is so dumb and he sucks as the main character because he's annoying and he doesn't have a goal. The only good thing about him in this movie is his character arc but thats about it. Finn and Holly the two spy cars in this movie are also so stupid and there quite possibly the worst professional spy's ever. Why is Holly painted the most brightest colour ever shouldn't she be painted in like a grayish colour so that she can't be spotted from a mile away. Finn is so stupid as a spy car because he is always getting caught. Why does he go out on the oil rig so close to the lemon cars where literally anyone can she him. He gets spotted at the airport and again he gets caught almost immediately, he gets caught in paris, he try's to catch the bad guys in italy and get caught again by a helicopter. Professor is really bad as the villain in this movie because he's not interesting and his plan B paln is so stupid. There plan B is so blow up McQueen to make it look like it was the fuels fault, but they put the bomb on Mater realising that he tried to get close to McQueen so there plan B is to blow up Mater and take out McQueen with him, but the whole race track has cameras everywhere from every corner from every building on the race track and all that camera footage is going to show is Mater blowing up and taking McQueen with him so how is that gonna make them accomplish there goal of making Allinal the fuel in McQueen tank look bad. It's the dumbest plan ever and it only happens so that we can have this literal ticking time bomb element in the final climax scene. The animation does look amazing and still look really good now in 2024. The soundtrack is also amazing. The spy music is so cool and fun to listen to. The voice actors do a great job in this movie but these things sadly don't save the movie. Cars 2 3/10.
Cars (2006)
Not the best pixar movie but it's still a nice cosy movie
Cars is not the best pixar movie but it's still nice to come back to this movie every now and then. The story of Cars is that a talking race car named Lighting McQueen is going to be racing in a competition with The King and Chick Hits in california and McQueen really want to win. However on the journey to the competition McQueen is in Macks trailer when the door opens up and McQueen rolls out and gets lot and he ends up in a small town named radiator springs and while he's there he actually wrecks the town and causes damage to it and the cars that live in radiator springs want him to fix the damage he has done to the road and if he repairs the road they will let him go and so McQueen has to fix the road and get to the big race. The story for Cars is simple but it's educated in a way that makes it feel fresh mainly because it's about talking cars something we've never seen before. It's also nice that the movie also adds a lot of heart and love to motor racing something that the world really likes. Now there is no real reason why they are cars in this universe and some things about the world are questionable but a lot of those problems are only just nitpicking problems with the movie. The characters in this movie are great McQueen is amazing and really funny. McQueen's character arc he has in this movie is really nice because he learns to sometimes in life you need to slow down and learn that there are more important things in life. McQueen falls in love with the town radiator springs and he learns there more things in life than just winning. It's also nice how at the end of the movie when Chick Hits causes The King's reck McQueen stops and gives up the race to go back and help The King and to push him across the finish line. Mater is overall pretty funny as a comic relief character. Sometimes he shows up just for a funny that you can't help but just laugh at him. Sally is also amazing mainly because she manages to change McQueen's personality and she also falls in love with him. Doc Hutson is amazing because he's starts of as just a car that runs the town until the end of the movie when he learns that everyone else in radiator springs started to like him. The character arc that Doc Huston goes through as well is really nice when he learns to appreciate McQueen as a racer. All the other car characters in radiator springs are amazing in there own way possible as well. The King is also great and wants the most shocking is that he's based off a car in real life of the same name and in this movie he was voiced by the same guy who drove the The King in the nascar races Richard Perry. Chick Hits is really great as the villain in this movie. The only problem with the characters is given how Chick Hits does a lot of bad things to the other race cars at the beginning of the movie and at the end when he caused The King's crash and yet he doesn't get removed. I know why they did this because we need the plot to happen a show he's a bad guy but still. The animation for this movie looks really good and it still holds up very well now in 2024. The voice actors they got for this movie is insane and all of them do amazing job in every way possible. The music for this movie is fantastic. The best song in this movie is easily the song Real Gone even though it's not an original song from this movie it's still amazing to listen to. Cars 8/10.
Nativity 3: Dude, Where's My Donkey?! (2014)
Such an awful christmas movie
Nativity 3: Dude, Where's My Donkey?! Is easily the worst one out of all four of the Nativity movies. The story of Nativity 3: Dude, Where's My Donkey?! Is that a teacher named Mr. Shepherd is coming to the school to stay there for an inspection, but at the same time he has to deal with Mr. Poppy being annoying as well. At the same time Mr. Poppy wants seek the kids out of school and take them to london for a flash mob competition and if they win they will be able to go to new york and sing there song on top of the Empire State Building. The reason why has has to seek the children out of school is because the new headmistress named Mrs. Keen has fired Mr. Poppy. While Mr. Poppy tells Mr. Shepherd that they have to do this without Mrs. Keen knowing. While there at the school Mrs. Keen asks Mr. Shepherd to call the animal control to get Mr. Poppy's Donkey sent away and while Mr. Shepherd is pushing the Donkey into the trailer the Donkey then kicks him in the head and when he wakes up he forgets who he is and now Mr. Poppy, Mr. Shepherd's daughter Laran and all the students have to try and win the competition and get Mr. Shepherd to remember who he is before Bradley Finch steal Sophie from Mr. Shepherd. The story for this movie is awful. The movie has nothing to do with a Nativity at all. The whole show takes a back seat to this whole movie. The main focus of this movie is about Mr. Poppy, Laran and the students trying to get him to remember who he is and this whole story is such a chore to sit through because none of it makes any sense and it's just not interesting because of how annoying Mr. Poppy is and how annoying the songs are playing in the background. Given how Mr. Poppy sneaked out of school with the Mr. Shepherd, Laran and all his students you would think Mrs. Keen would have gotten several calls from the students parents that they haven't came home or that she would have found out about it, but no that doesn't happen at all. Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger had a lot of realism but Nativity 3: Dude, Where's My Donkey?! Makes no sense at all and all the realism goes trate out the window. The sub plot about Bradley Finch trying to steal Sophie is so boring and not interesting because of how generic and predictable it is. The characters in this movie are awful as well. Mr. Shepherd is bad. He is a little bit sympathetic give how he doesn't know where to go with his life since he lost his memory and he doen't know weather if he should marry Sophie but at the same time he acts really dump and stupid at times. Mr. Poppy is terrible because he's so unlikeable and annoying for constantly trying to be funny when he isn't funny. He even goes out of his way to steal Gordon Shakespeare's passports because Gordon and his students won the flash mob. Laran is whatever. Sophie is probably the best character in the movie but that's not saying much. She is a bit sympathetic but at the same time she doesn't have much to her as a character because we don't get much focus on her. Gordon Shakespeare is bad because his character arc he learnt from the second movie means nothing now is this movie because now he's back to being a show off and wanting to win at everything. All the students are bad because of how annoying they are at times and also because of how stupid they all are. Bradley Finch is fine as well but much like Sophie we don't get much forcus on him. The locations overall look fine. The music is bad. The only song from this movie that is actually good is the song Mary Bradley Finch. The acting in this movie is atrocious especially Martin Clause and Kathryn Tates acting. The humour is insufferable because of the amount of fart and poo jokes they have in this movie and guess what it never takes a break at all. All these jokes are for little kids and no one else. Nativity 3: Dude, Where's My Donkey?! 2/10.
Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger! (2012)
Could have been better but could have been worse
Nativity 2 is not bad but it's not good either. The story of Nativity 2 is that Mrs. Beven is trying to get a new teacher for the classroom that Mr. Poppy runs because Mr. Maddens has moved away to america, however when ever a new teacher comes to the school Mr. Poppy does something so bad that it causes them to leave. Mr. Poppy and the students really want to compete in the christmas competition called a Song For Christmas. Gordon Shakespeare is also auditioning for the competition. However when Mr. Poppy asks Mrs. Beven if he and the students can go she says no. Meanwhile a man named Mr. Peterson is coming to the school to run the classroom that Mr. Poppy runs. Mr Poppy try's to convince Mr. Peterson to take them there but says no as well. One the day of the show Mr. Poppy drags Mr. Peterson and the kids on the school bus with out Mrs. Beven noticeing. On there way to the show Gordon realises that Mr. Poppy and his students are going as well so Gordon then decides to move the sigh pointing to windy castle and turn it the other way. This then leads to Mr. Poppy, Mr. Peterson and the students going the wrong way and then running out of petrol and now they have to walk to the consent. Meanwhile Mrs. Beven realises that Mr. Poppy, Mr. Peterson and the students have gone to Song for Christmas so then Mrs. Beven then decides that her, Mrs. Peterson, Mr. Petersons father and the all the kids parents are going to go and look for them. Meanwhile there's a sub plot where Mr. Petersons brother is also entering the competition and he has a plan on how to cheat after he sees Gordon Shakespeare students perform there practice run. The story for this movie is fine. The story of Mr. Poppy, Mr. Peterson and students going through the grassy fields has some funny bits in it but for the most part it's not that dangerous as the title of this movie implies the movie to be but it's safe. There are some scenes in this plot that do drag on for to long but I will say this though the third act of this movie with this plot is pretty good mainly because it connects good with the sub plot about Rodrick wanting to cheat such as taking Mr. Poppy and Mr. Peterson baby and when Rodrick steals Gordon Shakespeares song. The sub plot with Mr. Peterson and his brother and Father is overall decent mainly with the scenes of them all talking together. The characters in this movie are Decent. Mr. And Mrs. Peterson are very sympathetic because Mr. Peterson keeps on being looked down upon by his father. The character arc that Rodrick and Mr. Peterson father go through is really nice because they both learn to respect and appreciate Mr. Peterson for what he has. Mr. Poppy is bad he has some funny scenes in this movie but it feels like they've backtracked some of his character from the first movie. Gordon Shakespeare is pretty funny is some scene and his character arc of learning that it's not the winning that counts it's the taking part that counts. It's also nice that he decides to let Mr. Poppy, Mr. Peterson and there students take his place on stage to try and get them to beat Rodrick and teach him a lesson. The overall look of this movie looks just as good as it did in the first movie and also nothing looks dated at all. The acing from David Tenant is fantastic. All the other actors do a good enough job. The music is decent but the song called counting down for christmas is the best song out of all of them. The humour for this movie is bad. There are some funny scenes but for the most part the humour really isn't funny mainly when Mr. Poppy try's to be funny when in fact he isn't. Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger! 5/10.
Nativity! (2009)
A solid christmas movie
Nativity is no masterpiece but it overall pretty entertaining. The story of Nativity is that a teacher named Mr. Maddens has been put in charge of doing a nativity with all the students in his class but Mr. Maddens tells Mrs. Beven that he doesn't want to do it because the last time he did a nativity play with his class it was a complete disaster, but Mrs. Beven still wants him to do it. Mr. Maddens also getting a teacher named Mr. Poppy to help out with the Nativity. However when Mr. Maddens and Mr. Poppy go to get a christmas tree Mr. Maddens meets his friend Gordon Shakespeare and Mr. Maddens tells Gordon that he is doing a Nativity but he then lies to him says that his girlfriend Jennifer and her team are coming to film there show, however Mr. Poppy overhears this and thinks it's really. The next day Mr. Poppy telling all the kids in Mr. Maddens classroom and the whole school that hollywood are coming to make a film out of there show. When Mr. Maddens arrives at the school and finds out about this he gets angry at Mr. Poppy. Mr. Maddens then decides that he's gonna have to get Jennifer to come and make a film of there Nativity with out Mrs. Beven finding out it was a lie. The story for is movie is simple but it's really good for a movie about a school putting on a play. The adult things in this movie such as Mr. Maddens's problems he's facing while doing the nativity and him trying to get Jennifer to come and film there show are very relatable given how he needs to make sure Mrs. Beven doesn't find out. There's also a lot of funny things in this movie such as Mr. Maddens, Mr. Poppy and all there classroom students seeing a women in the hospital giving birth to a baby and the scene where Mr. Poppy and all of Mr. Maddens class students attacking Gordon Shakespeare and his students. The characters in this movie are also really good. Mr. Maddens has a great character arc in this movie when he learns to appreciate christmas and Mr. Poppy and all of his students. Mr. Poppy is overall decent. Some of the dumb things that he does in this movie can be overlooked since the dumb things he does and his ideas he has do make some sense. Some of his ideas are very stupid like him wanting to go to a hospital with all of Mr. Maddens students to see a baby being born like really and also him making Mr. Maddens students throw there nativity scripts around the classroom, but it is nice that towards the end of the movie he does act more grown up. Jennifer is also very relatable because she has to much work to do in hollywood and she feels sad that she can't come to Mr. Maddens nativity. Gordon Shakespeare is overall pretty good. Many of the scenes in this movie with Gordon Shakespeare are really funny like him and his students spying on Mr. Maddens, Mr. Poppy and there students. Mrs. Beven is also pretty good mainly when she's full of laughter. The overall setting of this movie looks amazing, all the locations in the uk I believe are actual places you can go to. All the songs in this movie are great and the main theme song for this movie slaps. The casting for this movie is great. There are many well known actors in this movie and all of them do a great job. Nativity 7/10.
Mike's New Car (2002)
A funny short film
The short film Mike's New Car was always so funny to me as a kid. The story of Mike's New Car is that Mike buys a new car to show of to Sully. Only problem is, Mike hasn't exactly mastered the controls yet, and they're pretty complicated. The story is simple but it's really funny for a short film. The scenes of Mike getting hurt when something goes wrong with the car are so funny. Another thing that's funny about this short movie is that Sully is the smart one and he try's to help Mike but Mike keeps on saying no. The best part of this short film was when Mike accidentally turned on the music in the car and he then starts to go insane trying to turn of the music. The characters in this short Mike and Sully are pretty good. Mike is really funny especially when he thinks he knows what to do but his attempts to try and work the car go wrong. Sully is also really funny mainly because he's the smart one who try's to help Mike but keeps saying no. The animation for this short film looks just as great as it did in the movie Monsters Inc. The music by Randy Newman is pretty good and the voice acting is great and really funny. Mike's New Car 7/10.
Incredibles 2 (2018)
The most disappointing Pixar movie of all time
Incredibles 2 was really disappointing. The story of Incredibles 2 is that Bob and his family are in trouble because they were fighting the Underminer but while they were fighting him there fighting caused a lot of damage to the town and because of this superheroes are now illegal again and the family has to go into hiding. Bob friend Dicker takes them to a hotel where they can stay but later that night Frozon shows up to tell them that he met someone who not only wants to talk to him but also to Bob and Helen. Later that night Bob, Helen and Frozon all go to Rick and his sister. Rick tells Bob, Helen and Frozon that him and his sister are trying to get supers to be legal again and be accepted again. Rick tells them that he needs Helen for this job and he wants her to prove to the world that we all need supers. However Rick's sister decides that she doesn't want supers to be illegal and so she decides to hypotheses Helen and all the other Superheroes that Rick brought together because her father died when he tried to call for a Superhero to come and save them but her father got no answer and so he died when he got shot. Meanwhile there's a sub plot about Bob looking after the kids at there new house and he has to try and help Dash with his homework, Voilet with boyfriend problems and Jack Jack with his powers. However Bob then gets a call from Rick's sister and he's told that Helen is in danger but then Dash, Voilet and Jack Jack find out that all the superheroes have been hypnotised and so it's up to them so save there family and stop Rick's sister once and for all. The story for this movie sucks because it's the same exact plot as the first movie supers are illegal and the family has to go into hiding, one of the supers goes of to go and do superhero work while the other stays at home with the kids, parent A gets involved with a twist villain who wants to get rid of all supers, parent B goes to save her and the kids are brought along as well and help out and then the day is saved with the family working together as a team it's the same exact story. Incredibles 2 is just the first movie all over again with the two main leads swapped. The main story about Helen doing hero work is sucks because Helen is dumb for the fact she doesn't suspect any suspicious about Rick's sister at all. In the first movie Helen was the smart one but in this movie she's so dumb. Rick's sister is a really bad villain because she blames supers for her fathers death and not the robbers. Her being a twist villain is so predictable and not only that but there is a scene where she explains to Helen her plan, how could you write that scene in the movie when you made fun of that exact senaro 14 years ago in the first movie how. The sub plot with Bob and the kids is pointless all it serves in the movie is just for something to cut back to after a bet in the main plot happens. Dash does nothing in this movie and he has no arc at all. The sub plot with Voilet having boyfriend problems is same sub plot with her from the first movie. There where some funny scenes that where pretty funny in this subplot but it's still pointless. Bob realising that Jack Jack having superpowers really confuses me because right at the end of the first movie Jack Jack is wearing a mask meaning he's going to be involved in the fight so they literally just reconded what happened at the end of the first movie why I don't know. All these Bob and the kids subplots feel like they could be like separate episodes in like an Incredibles tv show but they don't add anything to the movie at all. The characters in this movie are bad. Bob is very out of character because he gets jealous of Helen being the hero. At the end of the first movie Bob learnt to have his family help him out more but now is this movie it feels like he took a complete 180. Helen is very dumb like I said before. Dash, Voilet and Jack Jack are just whatever. Frozon feels like the only character in character from the first movie. Frozon is overall fine he doesn't do much except near the end of the movie but he's fine. Rick is fine he's mainly just the jenerick superhero presenter and nothing more. Rick's sister like I said before suck as a villain and as a twist villain especially compared to Syndrome from the first movie. Edna is fine, the sub plot with her giving Jack Jack a new suit is pointless because she already made Jack Jack and suit from the first movie but at least Edna is not out of character. The animation for this movie really clashes compared to the first movie but the first movie had a very cartoonish look to it but now in this movie noe that the sets look more realer the designs of the characters really don't fit in with this realistic cgi. Incredibles 2 feels like that they took the sets from the first movie and then but like a snap chat filter over them there's something really uncanny about them. While I don't like the new realistic cgi and still over enjoy it mainly with the face expressions especially in the scene when Bob has his brake down. The music for this movie slaps it's just as amazing as the soundtrack from the first movie. The voice acting is overall great and the action scenes are all fun. Incredibles 2 3/10.
Fcb TV Show No.1 (1955)
An amazing tv movie
Fcb TV Show No.1 has been a forgotten tv movie, but it has been found and after watching it I gotta say I had an amazing time watching this. This movie is a great way to show how adverts and promotionals are made. The story of Fcb TV Show No.1 is about an Ad agency Foote, Cone and Belding invented his half-hour of television to persuade clients to buy advertising slots on the new ITV network. The story for this movie is Amazing in shows how adverts first began and how game shows began on ITV network. What makes it great is that they show it to us in a way that doesn't make the movie feel like a documentary type of movie no instead they show it to us in a way that makes it feel like a biography about adverts, shows and also about the main character in this movie. The movie also shows how these adverts and game shows came to be and how they evolved over time. The characters is this movie are amazing. The main character called Peter is an amazing character because of how greatly he shows these adverts and game shows. All the characters is kitcken scenes are pretty good especially the child actors. The story where Peter talks about where someone broke into his house is pretty good, it shows a robber named Squizey Tailor breaking into his house trying to steal some papers, but then Peter then catches him. I love that the Squizey Tailor doesn't say anything because it makes the scene very funny given how Peter comes in and says to him I wouldn't do that if I was you, and then he removes the wires from the safe. The story where Peter talks about what happened when he was at the back of the stage for the game show is also pretty good. It shows a lot of dangers that can happen when throwing a knife at someone and trying not to hit them. All of the characters in the game show scene are all pretty good as well shows us how the show works. The music for this movie is amazing for it time given how this movie came out in 1955. The sets do look a bit dated but they still look great to this day. All the actors do an a amazing job especially Peter Sallis. Peter Sallis role as Squizey Tailor is amazing for the fact Peter Sallis managed to do this acting role through his face express without talking and I gotta say that is amazing. Fcb TV Show No.1 10/10.
The Incredibles (2004)
An incredible super hero movie
The Incredibles was such a fun super hero movie that I loved watching when I was young and now in 2024 I still love it to this day. The story of The Incredibles forces around a family of superheroes who are forced to not be superheroes. The movie features an adult named Bob aka Mr. Incredible, his wife Helen aka Elastigirl and there children in a world where superheroes are deemed dangerous and where forced into retirement and hiding. Bob who continually longs for the glory days is now a depressed broken man who works a boring office job for a company that he hates but he does it to provide for his family until one day Bob is presented with an opportunity to be super again in secret for an undisclosed employer and he takes it. The story forces on his journey to regain the glory days and the stress that puts on his family. While Bob goes of to do this he meets a young adult named Syndrome who wants to kill Bob and every other superhero in the world. The reason is because Bob kept on turning him down and always said fly home buddy I work alone. Syndrome keeps Bob held as his prisoner until Helen finds out that Bob is in danger she and the kids except Jack Jack have to go and save him. I love the story of this movie. The structure for this movie is amazing and I like who the first half of this movie forces mainly on him. They established all the characters at the beginning of the movie but they're not that important to the plot at the time. The first half is all about Bob's midlife crisis and is trying to regain the spark in his life again. Once he optains that and the twist is revealed and we hit around the half minute mark the story renders Mr. Incredible incapacitated so we can sift focus on the rest of his family and his friend and Frozon. I love how the movie brings all the characters together to save Mr. Incredible and also to stop Syndrome from killing all the superheroes. I also love how dark this movie's story is it doesn't feel like there playing down to the kids at all. There many scenes where Helen tells Violet and Dash that these people may kill you. The characters is this movie are amazing as well. Bob, Helen, Violet and Dash are all amazing from there personality's to there designs to just how funny each of them are. I also love Bob's character arc where he learns to have more faith in his family and letting them help him. Frozon is also amazing. The scene with Frozon is the scene where he's yelling at his wife saying where is my super suit. That scene always makes me laugh every time I watch it. Syndrome is also amazing and funny. I like how they show him near the beginning of the movie as a young kid and then 15 years passes by and then we see him again around the half minute mark. Syndrome is also amazing for how threatening of a villain he his. I also should mention that while Syndrome is explaining to Mr. Incredible how he got rich Mr. Incredible starts slowly moving to the side until he then throws a log a Syndrome and then try's to then attack him he fails and Syndrome tases him. I love the fact how this movie made fun of a villain explaining his plan. The animation has a very nice look to it. Given who Pixar couldn't produce realistic looking cgi they used that as a restraint to make the world look cartoonish and I gotta say that was a great distinction to go with animating this movie. The voice acting is great. Every actors sounds great in every way possible. The soundtrack for this movie is amazing. I love the main theme song for this movie and I love theme song for the battle when there trying to destroy the robot. 10/10.
Shrek the Third (2007)
Very Disappointing
Shrek the Third is a movie I used to like as a kid but now in 2024 I really don't like it. The story of Shrek the Third is that Prince Charming the original secondary antagonist from Shrek 2 wanting revenge on Shrek after the death of his mother and take his rightful place as king of Far Far Away. Meanwhile Fiona's father King Harold has passed away and Shrek is next in line to be king but Shrek doesn't want to be king because he thinks an orga running for the kingdom is stupid so instead Shrek decides to go and look for Fiona's cousin Arthur to get him to be king instead even though he's a teenager but while that's going on Prince Charming teams up with all the fairytale villains and takes over the kingdom. The story overall doesn't sound bad on paper but it's bad it execution. The reason's for this is that this movie doesn't world build at all because aside from the college Shrek goes to and Merlin's home all the other locations are literally the same from Shrek 2. This movie's story makes Shrek the Third feel like a half baked sequel because the story of this movie takes a complete backseat to this movie and it's really boring. So yeah the story is bad and really boring. I will say this though not everything is this movie is cringey because there are a few good scenes in this movie here and there. The best scenes in this movie are the camp fire scene with Shrek and Arthur and the ending scene where Shrek and Fiona are playing with there kids. The characters is this movie are also bad. Shrek's amotional journey about becoming a dad is nothing more that just a stupid joke. Donkey, Fiona and Puss add nothing to this movie whatsoever there just there in the background doing nothing other than just to say a few line of dialogue ever once a while. The only thing Donkey and Puss do is this movie is switch bodies that goes no where and doesn't even grow the friendship between them two. Fiona does nothing is this movie other than she becomes a mother at the end of movie when her and Shrek have three kids. Fiona's father is overall fine but only because he seems to be the only character who is the most consistent from Shrek 2. I have nothing to say about Fiona's mother she's just there is background and that's it. The new characters are also bad. Arthur comes of as just a whiny annoying character and Justin Timerlakes performance doesn't really fit for this world. The only stand out thing he does is that he gives two speeches in this movie. The first is after we've just met him so there isn't enough of a strong connection to him yet and the second time he does a speech is towards the end of the movie where he somehow manages to convince all the fairytale villains except Prince Charming to stop being evil how much more backwards can you get from that. Merlin also shows up and despite being played Eric Idle he doesn't add anything to this movie at all. Although the scene where he screams was pretty funny but that's about it. Fiona also teams up with some princess and despite some of the voice actress they got these characters don't add anything to this movie as well. Prince Charming as the villain also sucks his singing hurts to listen to and he through out most of the movie he's just crying for this mother. This is why Prince Charming is better at being a secondary antagonist since in Shrek 2 he had someone to bounce of from. The humour is Shrek the Third is not funny because they like to over play the toilet jokes. The first two movie's only ever had toilet jokes to give of an impression from the characters or to sometimes severt audiences expectations. Here they have many toilet jokes that is just comes of as insufferable. Sometimes some jokes will just drag on for two long and play out to quickly. The part of the movie where Donkey and Puss switch body's is also not funny at all except for when Puss tries to do his happy face while he's inside Donkey's body. The scene where Fiona's father passes away is one of the most distasteful scenes I've ever seen in my whole life because they try to make his death scene funny and even worse they have the song Live and Let Die playing at his funeral why just why. The animation for Shrek the Third does overall look great for 2007 and does still hold up quite well now in 2024. Some of the voice acting is good some of it is fine and some of it is bad. 3/10.
Despicable Me 2 (2013)
Better than the first movie
Back in 2013 I was really excited to see Despicable Me 2 because of how good the first movie was and when it finally came out it was even better than the first movie and now 2024 I still think it's better than the first movie. The Story of Despicable Me 2 is about Gru who is still enjoying his life with the girls until one day a women named Lucy tazes him and gets him knocked out and takes him to the Anti-Villain League. When Gru gets there the head of the Anti-Villain League named Silas Ramsbottom tells Gru that he wants him to help find the villain who used a giant magnet to steal an artic base area made of metal. Gru at first says no until a little later on where he meets a man who runs an Italian restaurant who he thinks in Elmarcho an evil villain who everyone thought was dead and so Gru and Lucy have to try and find catch the guy and stop him. Meanwhile Doctor Nefario wants to leave Gru and go and do villainy somewhere else and so he decides to team up with Elmarcho and help him get all of Gru's minions so that he can inject an evil liquid into them to turn them evil so that he can take over the world. I really like the story of Despicable Me 2 of it being a movie where Gru has been hired to help catch villains. The spy scenes in this movie are all really fun to watch especially the final battle at the end of the movie where Gru and the girls are trying to save Lucy. I also like the sub plots in this movie as well. The sub plot with Doctor Nefario wanting to go and do villainy somewhere else is very relatable and well executed since a lot of people in life like to go and do there work some place else. I also like how the minions are used in this movie for the fact that Elmarcho wants to make them turn very evil by using an evil purple liquid on them. The sub plot with Gru wanting to be with Lucy is very relatable and very funny as well. The sub plot with Agnus wanting a mom is overall decent and works very well since Angus feels very sad that she doesn't have a mom anymore since her mom died years ago although I'd say this sub plot is easily the weakest sub plot in the movie but it's over decent. Now there are some filler scenes in this movie that could have easily have been cut but aside from that the story is really good. The characters are great in this movie. Gru and the girls are just as good as they were in the first movie. I also like how at the end of the movie Angus does end up getting a mother since Gru and Lucy get married at the end of the movie. Lucy's a pretty good side character I'd say in this movie. I really like the relationship Gru has between Lucy when he starts to really like her. Doctor Nefario is pretty good as well is this movie. I also like how the third act of the movie he decides to help Gru defeat Elmarcho and go back and be his assistant. Elmarcho is overall a decent villain he definitely not as good as Vector from the first movie but he's overall decent for what he is as a villain from his backstory to his evil plan he has to rule the world. The Minions are over pretty good for what they are as side characters in this movie. The evil purple liquid situation that they end up in is a good way to get them involved with the story and the characters and it's exacted good enough. The animation does look a lot better that the animation from the first movie. The designs of the human's and and minions do look a lot better than what they looked like in the first movie. The voice acting is overall great and so is the soundtrack. Some of the music from the first movie does play at a few moments in this movie so that's quite nice. The new music is movie is also great. 8/10.
Shrek 2 (2004)
The best animated sequel ever made
Shrek 2 was a movie that I could't stop watching as a kid because of how much I loved it as a kid and now in 2024 I still love it to this day. The story of Shrek 2 is about this shortly are the events of the first movie Shrek and Fiona have gotten married and living peacefully during their honey moon but there return home is cut short when it turns out that they to visit Fiona's parents in order to get their blessing. Naturally both of them are stun to learn that Fiona not only stayed as an ogre but married. Fiona's farther King Harold is particularly frustrated with this revelation and hires an assistant to kill Shrek. The assistant who turns out to be Puss in Boots eventually joins forces with Shrek to make up with attempt of assassination. It turns out that the fairy godmother and her son Prince Charming actually want to seize the throne and have Prince Charming marry Fiona instead of Shrek. So Shrek not only has to find a way to earn the parents blessing but also make sure that him and Fiona are ment to be. I love the story of this movie. This movie's story continues from the first movie and it also continues with Shrek's hole identity crisis. This movie is also great at expanding the universe of Shrek by showing a lot of new locations. This movie shows new locations such as Far Far Away, The Poison Apple and a factory filled with tons of potions and magical spells. The characters in this movie are amazing. Shrek is just as good as he was in the first movie. I love Shrek's character continuation given how in the first movie he said that no one trusts him and he doesn't see himself as worth while and while he's already earned a wife and a friend he's still got an entire kingdom left to except him. He questions if he himself is even go enough to be Fiona's husband what will the world think of him married to a princess. The fact he even goes out of his way to try and look like a human and risk everything he loved doing in the swamp because he thinks it will benefit everyone is real noble move on Shrek's part. Fiona is great for being the character that Shrek really doesn't want to lose. Donkey is once again great as Shrek's friend at helping him out. King Harold is also amazing of being someone who hate Shrek at first but he goes through a character arc and decides to let Fiona decide who she should be with. Fiona's Mother is great at being the women who always keeps on criticising Harold for how grumpy he is towards Shrek. The new characters are also amazing. Puss in Boots is great side character at helping Shrek. Prince Charming as the Fairy godmother's son is a great side kick character to bounce of from. The Fairy godmother is an amazing villain and even better than Lord Farquaad for being more evil, more sneaky and for having one of the best villain songs of all time I Need A Hero. The animation looks a lot better than the animation from the first movie. The designs of the characters do look a lot better then what they were from the first movie. The voice cast is fantastic. The voice actors from the first movie once again do an amazing job in this movie and the new voice actors also do an amazing job as well. The soundtrack for this movie is even better in every way possible. The best songs in this movie are Accidentally in Love, I need some Sleep and I Need A Hero. 10/10.
Who Killed Lamb? (1974)
A great mystery movie
Who Killed Lamb? Is an underrated mystery movie. The story of Who Killed Lamb? Is about a detective named Jamieson who is trying to find out who killed Octavius Lamb since he got shot in the belly and in the back and so it's up to Jamieson to solve the case and arrest whoever killed him. He goes around asking people who know a lot about Mr. Lamb?. The story of this movie is very predictable and very simple but overall works very well as a mystery movie. I like how the movie sets up all that happens on the night Mr. Lamb died by throwing in lots of events such as Lloyd being the basement, Mr. Humber being at Mr. Lamb's place long before Casson arrived with a gun and then by the end of the movie when Jamieson finds out who killed Mr. Lamb it's turned out to be Mr. Lamb's wife Madeleine who grabbed the gun that Casson had left there. All these little sets ups in the movie all work together and help the audience keep on guessing on who killed Mr. Lamb. The twist is this movie with it being that Madeline killed Lamb was something I did not see coming at all. The story doesn't do anything much different compared to other mystery movie stories that revolve around a detective solving the case. The characters are great is this movie. Jamieson is very serious about trying to solve the case by peacing everything together on who could of killed Mr. Lamb?. The side plot with Mr. Humber wanting Mr. Lambs paper work for his business leads to Jamieson going to find out what Mr. Lamb gets delivered to him. The side plot with Madalaine wanting to go and be with Professor Friedland sets up the plot about Steven messing around with Mr. Lamb's other business he owns. The side plot with Casson sets up how the gun got there in the first place and what Madeline used to kill Mr. Lamb with. These sub plots really do help at showing the audience what the characters where doing the night of Mr. Lamb's death. The sets for this film are great especially for a TV movie. The music in this movie is really nice as well. The main music in this movie is the opening and closing credits for this movie is pretty good. The best music in this movie is music when Mr. Lamb starts betting up Steven. 8/10.