TST Film Review Thread

[Mick]

How to Train Your Dragon (cinema) - the new live action one. Really very good and is completely faithful to the original, I just preferred it as an animated film. And I guess that’s the problem with these live action remakes, they’re either so faithful to the original that they’re a bit pointless, or they change too much and lose the heart and soul of the film

Snow White (Disney+) - unlike HTTYD this did change a lot from the original, I found it very watchable despite thinking both the acting and the CGI was really poor for the most part. The musical numbers were class though, put a right smile on my face.

 

[The_bup]

What We Did On Our Holiday
An odd choice of a movie to watch, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. At first, I thought it was going to be one of those “everything goes wrong” movies where they ruthlessly beat this innocent protagonist in the ground for being a male nurse or whatever. This movie at the start made me think it would, and come with a side of birth control PSA to boot, but I was very wrong!

Well, it was an “everything goes wrong movie” but it uses that as a way to unearth character flaws and doesn’t come off as mean spirited one bit. I shan’t spoil anything, as I went in knowing nothing, but it’s one of those movies that are very dark in content but uplifting in its tone and messages - pretty much my favourite kind of movie.

Third act gets a bit… over the top sentimental when it is in fact a bit ridiculous. Although, saying that feels odd in retrospect, because the plot in the middle of the movie is far more ridiculous, but it felt like something the characters would do - so I believed it. I can’t afford that to the third act though, some bits of the resolution feel a tad contrived.

Stick with it, the kids will be your favourite characters in it by the end.

Spoiler: Bonus point

Also, divorce movie where the parents don’t get back at the end. I really appreciate when movies do this.