Posted in: Disc Reviews by Archive Authors on February 26th, 2005
Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 is one of the worst movies ever made. At least...that's what I keep reading. Reviews have torched this movie, and I must concur. This movie is bad. And I don't think the first one was much of a hit either. So why make this dreck?
The plot of the movie revolves around our little genius heroes saving the world from an evil TV mogul played by Jon Voight (need a paycheck?). This baddie wants to submit subliminal messges through kiddie TV and control children (and baby ta...k) all over the world. There's a lot of kung fu between kids vs. adults, and Scott Baio shows up to proclaim to the world that HE IS NOT Chachi. The director Bob Clark has seen better days. Porky's is a masterpiece compared to this pablum.
Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on December 20th, 2004
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Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on December 20th, 2004
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Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on December 12th, 2004
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Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on November 22nd, 2004
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Posted in: Disc Reviews by Archive Authors on November 17th, 2004
The original Around the World in 80 Days is known for its spirit of adventure, wild cameos, and also one of the weaker movies to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. Disney’s remake of Around the World still has that sense of adventure, has a few funny cameos, and is in no danger of winning Best Picture.
Based on the Jules Verne book, Around the World in 80 Days stars British actor Steve Coogan as the infamous inventor Phileas Fogg. His famous balloon is supposed to go around the wo...ld in 80 days to prove a point to his conservative “explorer’s club”. France, China, Turkey, and New York are all stops in this globetrotting trek. But it’s Jackie Chan that steals most of the screen time as Passepartout, Fogg’s partner on this adventure. It seems that the filmmakers designed the film around Chan’s comic antics. Chan also choreographs a lot of martial arts scenes because, well, that’s what Jackie does best. Not sure how Jules Verne would feel about that.
Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on October 15th, 2004
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Posted in: Disc Reviews by Archive Authors on September 3rd, 2004
Sometimes, when I am writing my review and I come to the “genre” section, I wish I could find an entry marked “crap”. If there was ever a serious film effort that deserved such an entry, this is it. Let’s be honest… made for TV movies have a bad reputation for a reason. For that matter, so do films that have child actors as their star. This film suffers from the unenviable fate of being both. Mary Tyler Moore and Burt Reynolds may be on the cover, but the kid is in nearly every frame of the film.
This is on... of those sickly-sweet TNT movies that have been produced time and time again (though they usually seem to show up on CBS). The plot is a familiar one. An older divorced woman (Moore) takes in her free-spirited granddaughter, and the little girl’s presence melts her hardened heart. The point is a simple one, but it takes this meandering film a long, long time to get there. I have heard of films that go nowhere fast, but this one goes nowhere slow. The pace is even more broken up with the added necessity of commercial breaks, which sometimes show up at awkward times.
Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on August 12th, 2004
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Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on July 28th, 2004
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