This is a nice animated version of Thor. More specifically it is a young teenage Thor learning some tough life lessons. First lesson: If you are the bosses son, the guys are going to let you win even when you shouldn't. When he's clued in on that, it bums him mightily and he decides to go a quest to prove himself.
His dad Odin says no, but he sneaks aboard an asgardian ship with his brother Loki. Their quest? To seek the fabled flaming sword of Surtur. Along with the warriors three they have a nice bar fight before getting serious. But finding the sword is just the start of things. Frost Giants are not happy and threaten a war, and there is a schemer behind everything. Can Thor learn some important lessons BEFORE he's killed?
It's all very nice animation with a good story. It's not ground breaking or anything but kids will like it and adults won't feel the need to scratch their eyes out.
STRANGE SPANNERS being an accounting of strangeness of the warp and woof of my mind For those of you new here, think of this as 1/2 "Night Gallery" Our Motto: Nos somnium quisnam es futurus fatum quod insolitus tutus vos!
Showing posts with label DVD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DVD. Show all posts
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Saturday, January 29, 2011
Moby Dick 2010
The Asylum is a slick little outfit that tries to be the Syfy of direct to DVD movies. They have two general strategies. The first is to see what's coming out in theaters and then make a quick knock off of it and release it direct to DVD at the same time it is in theaters. Their second idea is to take something that is in the public domain and name rape it enough to direct their version of it to DVD.
Hello Moby Dick 2010.
Ok, they get points for keeping all the names of the characters in the book. Also, there IS a whale so I guess that counts. Other than that, there's no real connection between the book in the movie. Here we have submarines being attacked by a 500 foot long CGI whale. A one foot Captain Ahab is chasing said whale in his custom sub and he picks up a lady scientist because she knows whale sounds and because you need a lady scientist of course. Ships get sunk and nukes get used, and still is fairly boring 90% of the time. About the only clearly cool moment of the movie is where Ahab has lost his foot again so takes an old cross off a grave and puts it on like a size nine. Other than that this is a miss and a whiff.
Hello Moby Dick 2010.
Ok, they get points for keeping all the names of the characters in the book. Also, there IS a whale so I guess that counts. Other than that, there's no real connection between the book in the movie. Here we have submarines being attacked by a 500 foot long CGI whale. A one foot Captain Ahab is chasing said whale in his custom sub and he picks up a lady scientist because she knows whale sounds and because you need a lady scientist of course. Ships get sunk and nukes get used, and still is fairly boring 90% of the time. About the only clearly cool moment of the movie is where Ahab has lost his foot again so takes an old cross off a grave and puts it on like a size nine. Other than that this is a miss and a whiff.
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Caught Red handed
One problem that film makers have with comic books is that they have often gone far beyond what the general populance knows about the characters. Everyone knows, for example, that Dick Grayson is Robin. Well except he isn't. Dick grew up quite a few years ago and is now his own hero called Nightwing. There was a new kid who played Robin but no one liked him. So many people disliked him that there was a 900 number poll to see whether to kill the new Robin or not. Turned out bad for the kid. He ended up getting beaten by the joker THEN blown up.
That's where the latest Batman animation project starts. Batman rushing to save his protege only to come just in time for the fireworks. Years later Batman is even more brooding than usual which rates a good 10 on the Hamlet meter. He finds himself teaming up with Nightwing as there is a new threat in town who calls himself the Red Hood. The Red Hood was originally the first incarnation of the Joker, so Batman immediate suspects the crazed loony. But is it the Joker? Could it be the Black Mask? How about the mysterious Raas a Ghul? Who is the Red Hood?
This is a class bit of animation. Good design and strong character and story. Definitely check out the Red hood.
That's where the latest Batman animation project starts. Batman rushing to save his protege only to come just in time for the fireworks. Years later Batman is even more brooding than usual which rates a good 10 on the Hamlet meter. He finds himself teaming up with Nightwing as there is a new threat in town who calls himself the Red Hood. The Red Hood was originally the first incarnation of the Joker, so Batman immediate suspects the crazed loony. But is it the Joker? Could it be the Black Mask? How about the mysterious Raas a Ghul? Who is the Red Hood?
This is a class bit of animation. Good design and strong character and story. Definitely check out the Red hood.
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Godkiller
Ok, ok. I'm all for experimentalism. I'm open to new experiences and all, but I'm not sure I'm keen on "illustrated film," or "moving books" or what have you. Basically, no matter what they call it, what we have here is a cartoon that really isn't moving. It is a movie of still lifes.
yeah.
For the most part folks, if you ain't got the dough for the show, come back when you don't lack, jack! So that's five to fifty negative points there. But then this little film ha the voice of Lance Hendrickson which is five to fifty points to the good, so I continued watching.
What we have here is a very interesting story that needs a budget. It's set in a bleak future (all the happy futures are obviously being used elsewhere) where life is cheap and so is the animation. Lance is some mystical monky dude who gets off in all senses of the word via sexual magic. So of course he knows some killer whores, literally killer whores.
So then we have our hero, who is "pure," but is also a teenage jerk. But he has a heart of gold and wants to save his sister who's in a coma and needs a heart. So he takes up on Lance's deal to help them find a maguffin square of infinite power and keep away from monsters and monsterous people.
This is pretty weird stuff along the lines of Heavy Metal in its hey day. You can't say the author isn't inventive that's for sure. Also, you can tell that lance is having a ball as crazy sex monk. So if you can dig that you are basically going to be watching someone flip a comic book give it a try.
yeah.
For the most part folks, if you ain't got the dough for the show, come back when you don't lack, jack! So that's five to fifty negative points there. But then this little film ha the voice of Lance Hendrickson which is five to fifty points to the good, so I continued watching.
What we have here is a very interesting story that needs a budget. It's set in a bleak future (all the happy futures are obviously being used elsewhere) where life is cheap and so is the animation. Lance is some mystical monky dude who gets off in all senses of the word via sexual magic. So of course he knows some killer whores, literally killer whores.
So then we have our hero, who is "pure," but is also a teenage jerk. But he has a heart of gold and wants to save his sister who's in a coma and needs a heart. So he takes up on Lance's deal to help them find a maguffin square of infinite power and keep away from monsters and monsterous people.
This is pretty weird stuff along the lines of Heavy Metal in its hey day. You can't say the author isn't inventive that's for sure. Also, you can tell that lance is having a ball as crazy sex monk. So if you can dig that you are basically going to be watching someone flip a comic book give it a try.
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Drawn Together, The Movie
"Drawn Together" definitely wasn't in my lists of favorite shows. This animated effort that claimed to be the first reality tv cartoon show (Actually I'd give that distinction to "Wacky Races" but why quibble?) appeared on the funny tv network (it has to be funny it has "Comedy" in its name). I will say there was a occassion fun bit, the good line and even a good episode or two (They seemed to be able to get their game on when dealing with racism), but over all it suffered two much from middle child syndrome. You can make all the poop jokes you want, but you can't make it look so much like work. You could almost hear the creators thinking.. "We have to top 'South Park,' we have to top 'South Park!'" Dudes, if it is any consolation, even "South Park" had to have it's "The Simpson's Did It First" episode.
Anyhooooo, "Drawn Together" got canned, but they scraped enough dough for a straight to DVD version. Freed of its Network "standards" it is a fest of the unlocked id write in excrement. Again, I like low humor, but guys pace yourself. Naming the little girl character drawn in "South Park" style (see that middle child syndrome is still showing) as Suck-My-Taint Girl is only really funny (?) as a once over. To use that name for an important character who keeps appearing again and again is like being hit by chloroform laced socks laced with quarters. Not. A. Good. Thing.
The jokes were off and on. They didn't do much special with the animation, well except with the effect of being hit with eraser bombs which were interesting. The cast was energetic except for Seth Macfarland who slept through his reading of the killer robot I.S.R.A.E.L. I guess Seth was there for moral support since his own "The Family Guy," was once in cancellation hell. I doubt though that "Drawn Together," will be back on the network. Though, one of the cast members had a point, "Hey Comedy Central, what do you really have on that's better?"
What indeed.
Anyhooooo, "Drawn Together" got canned, but they scraped enough dough for a straight to DVD version. Freed of its Network "standards" it is a fest of the unlocked id write in excrement. Again, I like low humor, but guys pace yourself. Naming the little girl character drawn in "South Park" style (see that middle child syndrome is still showing) as Suck-My-Taint Girl is only really funny (?) as a once over. To use that name for an important character who keeps appearing again and again is like being hit by chloroform laced socks laced with quarters. Not. A. Good. Thing.
The jokes were off and on. They didn't do much special with the animation, well except with the effect of being hit with eraser bombs which were interesting. The cast was energetic except for Seth Macfarland who slept through his reading of the killer robot I.S.R.A.E.L. I guess Seth was there for moral support since his own "The Family Guy," was once in cancellation hell. I doubt though that "Drawn Together," will be back on the network. Though, one of the cast members had a point, "Hey Comedy Central, what do you really have on that's better?"
What indeed.
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