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Karen Gillan spends most of her time in her nightie...(but that's not to say she spends the rest of it out of it.)

Don't take my word on it. The review(s) I've seen so far have been quite positive.

Madagascar

Funny. Some of the jokes were rather lame, but many were great. The lame jokes don't really ruin the experience anyway, because there are so many jokes so one ends up constantly entertained anyway. The main characters weren't that entertaining, though Chris Rock was ok. What makes this movie are the supporting characters, especially the penguins, the monkeys and the oddball character King Julien, brilliantly voiced by Sacha Baron Cohen (though he's kinda switching between a jamaican and an indian accent). Zimmer's score has some nice moments, for instance the charming friendship theme, and the fantastic 'Zoosters breakout' theme.

My rating: 6 out of 10.


Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

Funnier. Better story than the first one, and the jokes worked better. The score was upped, though no noticable new themes.

My rating: 7 out of 10.


The lion king

God I hate musicals. Every time the singing commences it's like the story comes to a halt, so I go and make coffee or something, as if it's a commercial break. I had heard too much about this movie and Zimmer's score though, so I had to watch it. It's more of a children's movie, compared to the two above, so the jokes were too simplistic to be funny, and I'm not sure whether 'jokes' is even the right term. Zimmer's instrumental score was great, but I wasn't fond of the songs, except for the Elton John song which isn't all bad.

I'm so glad that we've moved past this form of animation, that was mainly directed at children and filled with musical numbers. Today, animated movies are both clever enough and silly enough to be enjoyed by both kids and adults, the graphics are much more enjoyable and the senseless musical stuff has been switched with popular songs used as background music.

My rating: 3 out of 10

Peter

My thoughts exactly ! There isn't any chemistry yet between the main leads . I remember watching Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper in the first episode 'Rose' , it clicked from the start . The same happened with David Tennant . Dunno yet what's wrong here ... Matt certainly does his best and I'll give him a few more episodes before I cast any final judgements . Karen Gillen is certainly lovely to look at and she can be funny at times . I guess I'm still focusing and comparing too much with the previous five years of Dr. Who which I loved dearly . Let's hope the return of the Daleks next week will give it some much needed punch . For some fans this new series finally IS the return of Dr. Who but I'm not convinced yet ...
To be continued ...

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I've never seen it...shall I keep it that way!?

What puts me off is the style of animation, I find it sickly sweet.

....oh, and musical shit...ugh!

The Prince of Egypt may have the same animation style, but the parting of the red sea remains until this day one of the most astounding moments ever to be done by animation

I give this movie 10 out of 10, partly because it has one of the best scores of all time

The Lion King was brilliant! One of the most efficient Disney films in relatively recent history!
If you fast-forward all the singy stuff you can actually get through it in 16 minutes!
Excellent!

I'm ashamed to say that I just saw New Moon. I have checked in my man-card and won't try to redeem it until I see something a great deal more testosterone-filled.

I have more problems with this film than I care to mention. Let me sum up by saying it was poorly written, poorly acted (except for Michael Sheen, whose cameo was awesome just because it was so nice to see someone acting), poorly directed, dull, dreary, and nearly wasted Desplat’s beautiful score. It was mixed so low that at one point my wife turned and said that she hadn’t noticed the score yet, despite the fact that the first three tracks from the score album had already played. If I weren’t so familiar with the score, I’m not sure I would have noticed it either.

The only redeeming feature about this film was that the “dramatic” pauses in between every single line of dialogue were long enough to properly make fun of what they had just said before they started to deliver their next line.

Ugh. 1 star out of four or five or ten, or whatever scale you care to use.

I watched it as well. I´ll burn in hell for it, I know.


Let´s make it simple: CRAP!!


Indeed. A total waste of Desplat´s talent.


Didn´t you have the impression all the characters are high for the full movie (specially Bella)?

You thought the songs in TLK slowed down the movie too much? Just wait till you watch a Bollywood film.

It's been years since seeing TLK but I think all those fond memories will come back in an instant. I agree with keky, the emotional aspect is very much present, much to do with the music and voice acting and the style of animation has never ever bothered me. You have to respect the artists to put so much life into characters completely drawn from hand, unlike current animation, where the computer does a lot of the work. (Not that I hate CG animation, far from it).

The Prince of Egypt is brilliant, nothing less. Zimmer's score is a piece of art in it (and outside of it as well).

Wow, just saw The prince of Egypt. I thought the animation was infinitely better than The lion king. One of the most affecting and beautiful animated movies I've ever seen. And yes, the parting of the Red Sea was extremely impressive.

Just a shame that Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston decided to completely slaughter that wonderful song.

My rating: 9 out of 10

Peter

glad you liked it

Count me in too.

I think you'll find it very schmaltzy and cheesy.