Reviews

After achieving dizzying heights in season 2 everything fell apart. Admittedly season 3 wasn't too bad, but season 4 was forgettable and regrettable that I wasted so much time watching it, hoping that it'd eventually get better but that hope turned into a despair with each episode.

Put it short, what once was a crime fighting super hero show that was both fun and exciting has now been turned into as laborious ill fated love drama which seem to be intentionally catered towards girls rather than faithful fans of previous seasons. For this reason, there seem to be a trend of girls giving high ratings for the season 4, citing their love for Olicity...

If I wanted to watch self centred girls exercising girl power in the form of bossing your loved ones and accusing them at every opportunity of some ill doing and lying, then I'd watch Sex and the City. And yet this is what happens in just about every episode of Arrow season4, with Felicity being its main instigator, who is about a couple of steps away from boiling a bunny. I can understand what the writers are trying to do, create strong female character equal to Arrow, but this isn't the way to do it, they couldn't have made a worse example of it. There is no need to get into how awful the Felicity character has turned into this season, many have mentioned that already, but one cannot get away from the fact that she represents everything that is terrible about season 4.

I have no idea what's in store for season 5, but anything short of killing off Felicity will probably mean the continuation of the same drab that was the season 4, and what a shame that would be to completely ruin what once was a great show.

This movie was so much fun, I went in the theatre knowing nothing about it, and came out with a beaming smile on my face. The movie doesn't pretend to be anything else, it is what it is, a fun Superhero movie for everyone! It has lots of action, lots of effects, many silly jokes, great music and it is to be enjoyed by children and adults alike, yet it was executed to perfection.

Of course it isn't perfect, no movie is, but because you are having such a great time with it you quickly forget about any short comings. What the movie does extremely well is that, it provides us with characters we quickly get attached to and end up caring about. And because of it not only does the movie take us on an epic adventure filled with action and laughter but also an emotional one.

The movie has so many great moments, who could forget the epic dance off at the end? How about the thesaurus joke? But it wasn't just about being funny, how did you feel when Groot decided to sacrifice himself to save our heroes? What about when Groot lit up the inside of Dark Esther? Which was one the most beautiful cinematic moments, only to be quickly ruined, quite deliberately, by Drax's epic speech!

If only every superhero movie was this good and this much fun!

I like this movie, on its own without the original movie, I'd say it was excellent, but unfortunately they didn't do too much with the story, you could have easily called this Star Wars episode IV mark 2. It became pretty clear about half way through, that the story is almost exactly the same as New Hope, interchange the characters, interchange the Death Star with Starkiller and you have almost the same movie. At times the unoriginality of this made me appreciate the story arc in prequels, although I'll never be able to get over the poor execution of those movies. Unfortunately, though, too many critics are getting carried away with the euphoria of having a movie that wasn't as poor as the prequels, most of them seem to just completely loose all their objectivity and professionalism and are making this out to be the greatest Star Wars movie, which this really isn't.

All in all its an enjoyable Star Wars Movie, well executed and well presented, which will undoubtedly immerse you into the Star Wars universe make you excited again, but I just can't help wishing they hadn't simply rehashed the original story. Was JJ Abrhams trying to make a point that the history has tendency to repeat itself? Or were they deliberately trying to make die hard fans so drunk with nostalgia that they lose all ability to complain about the deliberate rehashing of the old story. Either way, although it was enjoyable, when I left the theatre it just seem to leave a bad taste in your mouth and I couldn't help feeling being let down.

This could have been so much more, instead of adding something new and expanding the Star Wars Universe, instead, they just played ultra safe and made it claustrophobic. We can only hope that in next installment we have something that departs from the original story line, because no amount of nostalgia infestation will get them off the hook the second time around.

Pixar is on form again with Inside Out. Reading the reviews here, there seem to be a lot of complains, particularly from parents, that this isn't a children's movie, but if they know anything about Pixar they should know that they never make just "children's movie".

The movie makes a very poignant point about how being happy is such a focus in people's life today that we aren't allowed to be sad anymore, to be sad is to become a something of a social outcast. We are bombarded with imagery of being happy, idea of happiness, and everyone seem to be so busy being happy that they don't have time for people who aren't. I think the very idea that it's OK to be sad has struck a discord with many of the parents, complaining that the movie is depressing and not suitable for children. Perhaps the main issue isn't really whether or not the movie is for children, but the discord lies with the fact that the movie goes against the "Happy idealism" they hold.

The film works on many levels. I watched it with my two sons, the younger one, who is 5, viewed it mostly as a fabulous adventures of Joy and Sadness getting back to the head quarters to fix all the mess they have created, where as the older one who is 7 did understand some of the issues Riley was having.

This is a wonderful movie, which deals with a lot of deep issues, yet its funny, very touching at times, wonderfully creative, and being a Pixar movie, it can be enjoyed by all, including children.