I like the new style of humor that’s showing up. I never really liked the Adam Sandler shit and fart funnies. I like the comedy wave of Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd. There’s always a moral, some intelligent humor and characters that you could imagine running into in the real world.
This was pretty similar too. Like, Kirk, a common name, but who ever really has it? And I think it speaks to every relationship that never seems to add up. The math isn’t in the bottom line, but in the way the numbers work together… How you carry the 2.
Good family style movie about the clashes of culture that happen today in the US. It makes me happy every time I see a mixed race couple or a child who’s mixed. Other than that as a society and as a culture we’re redefining who we are, I’m not sure why exactly it makes me so happy.
And I feel even though my husband and I look the same, we’re in a mixed race marriage. I’m white, despite my Asian body. And it just makes me wonder, who are all the other people? Despite what their bodies make them appear to be? It’s also the main reason I want to keep my maiden name. Because I love not fitting into people’s expectations. Or at least not their initial ones.
I don’t think they lived up to all the hype. The storyline was interesting, a sequel spin into Wonderland, but other than that discrepancy, there really wasn’t that much more enticing about this film.
It was interesting, Alice’s parallel lives, Wonderland and London. And I’m not sure why, if it wasn’t a dream, was her potential mother-in-law similar to the Red Queen and the girl twins like Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee? Is it that we can make parallels between any fantasy and our lives?
But the most enjoyable part of this movie was the Red Queen. I think this is the first film where Helena Bonham Carter has outshone Johnny Depp. She did such a great job on that character, who seemed so innocent and naive, yet so ruthless. I loved her.
I really enjoyed the storyline and the visuals. The humor was funny, I loved the Lotus Palace. For some reason Greek mythology is the new trend and so I’m looking forward to Clash of the Titans. But overall, for a children’s or youth movie, well done and very enjoyable. Although, Percy and his father looked nothing alike, so they should have probably cut that line out of the script.
by Meg Rosoff
I really enjoy her books, because they show a different side of the way life could be. And even though it’s set in a time long ago around the turn of the century, the trappings of our society still exist today as they did then, they’re just disguised differently. And I think it’s important to know that you don’t have to follow mainstream society, that you can follow your own heart and soul, especially for the youth of today.
However, the book was a little difficult to follow. Rosoff seemed to bounce around quite a bit and at times I couldn’t keep track of who or what she was speaking on behalf of. Like, did Esther sell her son? Did she set the Ridley’s house on fire? Things seem to just hang on the pages with nothing ever being completely spelled out. Which I guess can be the way life is.
I usually get a movie in every week or every 2 weeks or so. And I found myself in desperate need to watch a movie after 2 weeks of straight stressed out work. I’m thankful that sometimes life doesn’t always go according to plan, because I ended up seeing this movie because it was the only one playing.
But I really enjoyed it, especially the ‘Defendog’. The dry humor was great and just the innocence of Defendor was touching. I think we are all looking for heroes, for people who touch our souls, but we’re very weary of them when there really is one around. We become cynical and detached. Until they’ve died or gone away and you notice what their absence means to you in a way their presence never did.
