Wednesday, 2 March 2011
Mad March has started...
So I am not at home next Monday - I'm jetting off to the Venice Carnival. Whoo hoo, so we have pulled our next film and are going to watch it on Tuesday instead. Next up is..
Mad March.
Behind. Again. Doh.
To catch up I am going to put up the results of the films we have watched and try and come back later, to write up my reviews.
So....
Sweeny Todd
Mum
Whilst mum and I were on the sicky sofa on our first day off sick in years, we slipped another musical in, out of the tin came Carousel. One I have never seen before (and may never again)
Mum
To catch up I am going to put up the results of the films we have watched and try and come back later, to write up my reviews.
So....
Sweeny Todd
Mum
- Rewatchability 3
- Sing a long 1
- Story 5
- Overall 5
Me
- Rewatchability 5
- Sing a long 2
- Story 6
- Overall 5
Whilst mum and I were on the sicky sofa on our first day off sick in years, we slipped another musical in, out of the tin came Carousel. One I have never seen before (and may never again)
Mum
- Rewatchability 1
- Sing a long 2
- Story 1
- Overall 3
Me
- Rewatchability 1
- Sing a long 2
- Story 2
- Overall 2
Total 14 (eeek)
And, this week was the turn of The Aristocats, another Disney goodie.
- Rewatchability 4
- Sing A Long 3
- Story 5
- Overall 6
Me
- Rewatchability 6
- Sing A Long 5
- Story 6
- Overall 7
Total 42
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Ok, now this week..
This Monday was Cliff Richards turn again (I swear this is all drawn out of a tin!) We're all going on a...
I have grown up with this film, and have lost count of the number of times I have watched it, which was probably proven by me (and mum!) singing along to every word at the top of our lungs last night!
There isn't really one bad thing I can say about this film, well OK, the cheesy cringy moment of Cliff declaring his love, loud (and long) and clear in the middle could definitely have been left out. Oh, and the weird way they get out of the French court when pulled over for carrying passengers, but other than that I love it! I love the songs, I love the clothes, well the girls dresses, not Cliffs amazing string vest (shudder), I love the bus (who wouldn't want to travel across Europe in a kitted out double decker London bus?) I love it all!
Four London bus engineers kit out a bus to travel to the south of France for their Summer Holiday - simple and uncomplicated right? Wrong, not long after getting to France, the boys mange to run three beautiful girls off the road. Now, I don't know when MOT's became a must, but the girls car definitely would not have passed it! The girls need to make it to Athens for a show - of course, they sing. After a quick decision to change destination the girls climb on board and never look back. Throw in a stow away boy (who is actually a famous American girl singer) picked up in Paris, a company of mime artists, a power and fame hungry mother, some confusion in Yugoslavia between bride and bread and a mad dash to make it to Athens in time to be arrested for kidnap and you have the perfect Summer Holiday right? Oh and with four guys and four girls on board - there is just the right number to all pair up and fall in love.
What can I say - brilliant - Love it!
Mum
I have grown up with this film, and have lost count of the number of times I have watched it, which was probably proven by me (and mum!) singing along to every word at the top of our lungs last night!There isn't really one bad thing I can say about this film, well OK, the cheesy cringy moment of Cliff declaring his love, loud (and long) and clear in the middle could definitely have been left out. Oh, and the weird way they get out of the French court when pulled over for carrying passengers, but other than that I love it! I love the songs, I love the clothes, well the girls dresses, not Cliffs amazing string vest (shudder), I love the bus (who wouldn't want to travel across Europe in a kitted out double decker London bus?) I love it all!
Four London bus engineers kit out a bus to travel to the south of France for their Summer Holiday - simple and uncomplicated right? Wrong, not long after getting to France, the boys mange to run three beautiful girls off the road. Now, I don't know when MOT's became a must, but the girls car definitely would not have passed it! The girls need to make it to Athens for a show - of course, they sing. After a quick decision to change destination the girls climb on board and never look back. Throw in a stow away boy (who is actually a famous American girl singer) picked up in Paris, a company of mime artists, a power and fame hungry mother, some confusion in Yugoslavia between bride and bread and a mad dash to make it to Athens in time to be arrested for kidnap and you have the perfect Summer Holiday right? Oh and with four guys and four girls on board - there is just the right number to all pair up and fall in love.
What can I say - brilliant - Love it!
Mum
- Rewatchability 7
- Sing-a-long 8
- Story/Plot 7
- Overall 8
Me
- Rewatchability 8
- Sing-a-long 9
- Story/Plot 8
- Overall 9
Total 64, not quite enough to topple Mamma Mia, but pretty close!
So Far Behind...
Eeek, I am so far behind with this blog. Right, time to catch up!
Last week we watched The Young Ones,
The film tells the story of a youth club who's members are trying to stop a millionaire property tycoon from buying up the club and tearing it down. To stop the club from being taken away from them, the members decide to fight back and need to raise the money to stop the millionaire, so, how do you do it? How'd you do what? How do you put on a show? That's right the members of the youth club long to sing and dance, and are actually quite good at it. When the theatre they have chosen to use, gets bought up by the millionaire they decide to get serious and secretive. By using a pirate radio station they broadcast the dreamy midnight mystery singer to drum up interest in the show, but don't reveal the venue until the day of the show. As soon as the day comes and the venue details are released the millionaire jumps straight on it and moves in to buy out the theatre. A number of the members decide to go after the millionaire to rough him up a little, this causes the star of the show, the mystery singer (who is of course, Cliff) to step forward and defend his father - the property tycoon, after the really really bad fight scenes father and son hug and make up, causing dear old dad to decide to build the youths a whole new youth club, Yey!
There a few catchy tunes in this one, but a good few cringe worthy moments too!
Mum
Last week we watched The Young Ones,
The film tells the story of a youth club who's members are trying to stop a millionaire property tycoon from buying up the club and tearing it down. To stop the club from being taken away from them, the members decide to fight back and need to raise the money to stop the millionaire, so, how do you do it? How'd you do what? How do you put on a show? That's right the members of the youth club long to sing and dance, and are actually quite good at it. When the theatre they have chosen to use, gets bought up by the millionaire they decide to get serious and secretive. By using a pirate radio station they broadcast the dreamy midnight mystery singer to drum up interest in the show, but don't reveal the venue until the day of the show. As soon as the day comes and the venue details are released the millionaire jumps straight on it and moves in to buy out the theatre. A number of the members decide to go after the millionaire to rough him up a little, this causes the star of the show, the mystery singer (who is of course, Cliff) to step forward and defend his father - the property tycoon, after the really really bad fight scenes father and son hug and make up, causing dear old dad to decide to build the youths a whole new youth club, Yey!
There a few catchy tunes in this one, but a good few cringe worthy moments too!
Mum
- Rewatchability 5
- Sing-a-long 6
- Story/Plot 7
- Overall 7
Me
- Rewatchablilty 6
- Sing-a-long 6
- Story/Plot 6
- Overall 6
Total 49
Sunday, 6 February 2011
Sneeky extra....
Along with owning a silly amount of DVDs, I also rent via the post - this week this landed on my doorstep, and as it fits nicely within my musical rules I have had to add it in (although technically we watched it on a Friday, not a Monday)
So, another Disney film, not that anyone could ever get bored of Disney (also went to see Tangled this week - maybe I should include that here to?)
This is a modern twist on the classic fairytale where a Princess kisses a frog and he turns into the prince she has been searching for, although this doesn't quite happen in this film, in true Disney happily ever after style the main heroine Tiana - a waitress, not a princess - does get her prince in the end.
Based in New Orleans we meet Tiana, a feisty young girl who believes that the only way you get anything in life is through hard work and not wishing - especially upon a star. Her dream is to own her own restaurant in memory of her father, and she is working two jobs to get there. Enter Prince Naveen, fresh of the boat from being cut off my his parents, penniless and loving the jazz scene, his only aim is to marry a young girl who's daddy can provide the type of lifestyle he has become accustomed to. The naive young prince is intercepted by the shadow man, who of course, offers him everything he wants - but actually leaves him as a frog and turns Naveens man servant into Naveen as he is far easier to manipulate.
After Tiana has her dream of her restaurant ripped form her she is desperate enough to turn to the stars, when she looks down Prince Naveen, in frog form, is ready with puckers lips (do frogs even have lips??) after a little persuasion, Tiana believes there is nothing to loose and kisses Naveen - but Tiana is only dresses as a princess for a party which means she does not have the power to change Naveen back - in fact the opposite happens and Tiana is transformed into a Frog.
A complete adventure ensues mainly in the bayous of Louisiana to return themselves back into humans, along the way they meet a jazz trumpet playing alligator called Louis, a dopey but adorable and film stealing firefly by the name of Ray and a blind conjurer Mama Odie. Thanks to its sitting this film has a brilliant jazzy, toe tapping soundtrack that really works with the film and moves it along. This was my first viewing of this film and I loved it, the heroine is feisty and modern yet still manages to fall in love and get everything she never knew she wanted or needed! Disney have definitely done it again it lifted my heart and made me believe in magic all over again, I think I will have to add it to my DVD collection!
Oh and Tiana is voiced my one of the dreamgirls - so man can she sing!
Mum
So, another Disney film, not that anyone could ever get bored of Disney (also went to see Tangled this week - maybe I should include that here to?)This is a modern twist on the classic fairytale where a Princess kisses a frog and he turns into the prince she has been searching for, although this doesn't quite happen in this film, in true Disney happily ever after style the main heroine Tiana - a waitress, not a princess - does get her prince in the end.
Based in New Orleans we meet Tiana, a feisty young girl who believes that the only way you get anything in life is through hard work and not wishing - especially upon a star. Her dream is to own her own restaurant in memory of her father, and she is working two jobs to get there. Enter Prince Naveen, fresh of the boat from being cut off my his parents, penniless and loving the jazz scene, his only aim is to marry a young girl who's daddy can provide the type of lifestyle he has become accustomed to. The naive young prince is intercepted by the shadow man, who of course, offers him everything he wants - but actually leaves him as a frog and turns Naveens man servant into Naveen as he is far easier to manipulate.
After Tiana has her dream of her restaurant ripped form her she is desperate enough to turn to the stars, when she looks down Prince Naveen, in frog form, is ready with puckers lips (do frogs even have lips??) after a little persuasion, Tiana believes there is nothing to loose and kisses Naveen - but Tiana is only dresses as a princess for a party which means she does not have the power to change Naveen back - in fact the opposite happens and Tiana is transformed into a Frog.
A complete adventure ensues mainly in the bayous of Louisiana to return themselves back into humans, along the way they meet a jazz trumpet playing alligator called Louis, a dopey but adorable and film stealing firefly by the name of Ray and a blind conjurer Mama Odie. Thanks to its sitting this film has a brilliant jazzy, toe tapping soundtrack that really works with the film and moves it along. This was my first viewing of this film and I loved it, the heroine is feisty and modern yet still manages to fall in love and get everything she never knew she wanted or needed! Disney have definitely done it again it lifted my heart and made me believe in magic all over again, I think I will have to add it to my DVD collection!
Oh and Tiana is voiced my one of the dreamgirls - so man can she sing!
Mum
- Rewatchability 6
- Sing-a-long 5
- Story/Plot 6
- Overall 7
Me
- Rewatchability 8
- Sing-a-long 7
- Story/Plot 7
- Overall 8
Total - 54
Monday, 31 January 2011
The little elephant who could.
Dumbo was released The Walt Disney studios in 1941, at little over an hour long it is one of the shortest Disney films.
It tells the story of a little elephant born into the circus life, who is nick named Dumbo thanks to his huge ears. When his mother is locked up for protecting her baby from the evil human children (moral of the story? I think so!), Dumbo is befriended by a mouse called Timothy. After a sad and short reunion with his mother, Timothy accidentally directs Dumbo to drink from a water barrel spiked with alcohol, (enter the pink elephants on parade - which always have and always will really freak me out) Dumbo and Timothy find themselves in a tree - how did they get there? Timothy's only conclusion is that Dumbo must have used his ears as wings and flew up into the tree, to help with Dumbos confidence Timothy (with the help of some jazzy crows) gives Dumbo a magical feather. In the circus Dumbo had been cast in the clowns performance and has to jump from a burning building - the perfect time to show off his new talent, but half way down Dumbo looses his magic feather, thankfully Timothy is there to help Dumbo realise that he had it in him all along and didn't need the feather at all, at which point Dumbo pulls out of the dive and sores over the audience! Whoo hoo, go Dumbo!
Dumbo builds a huge fan base, manages to make the circus loads of money and even gets his mother a private and swanky carriage on the circus train, amazing work for such a small elephant.
As for the scores....
It tells the story of a little elephant born into the circus life, who is nick named Dumbo thanks to his huge ears. When his mother is locked up for protecting her baby from the evil human children (moral of the story? I think so!), Dumbo is befriended by a mouse called Timothy. After a sad and short reunion with his mother, Timothy accidentally directs Dumbo to drink from a water barrel spiked with alcohol, (enter the pink elephants on parade - which always have and always will really freak me out) Dumbo and Timothy find themselves in a tree - how did they get there? Timothy's only conclusion is that Dumbo must have used his ears as wings and flew up into the tree, to help with Dumbos confidence Timothy (with the help of some jazzy crows) gives Dumbo a magical feather. In the circus Dumbo had been cast in the clowns performance and has to jump from a burning building - the perfect time to show off his new talent, but half way down Dumbo looses his magic feather, thankfully Timothy is there to help Dumbo realise that he had it in him all along and didn't need the feather at all, at which point Dumbo pulls out of the dive and sores over the audience! Whoo hoo, go Dumbo!
Dumbo builds a huge fan base, manages to make the circus loads of money and even gets his mother a private and swanky carriage on the circus train, amazing work for such a small elephant.
As for the scores....
Mum
- Rewatchability 4
- Sing-a-long 4
- Story/Plot 5
- Overall 5
Me
- Rewatchability 5
- Sing-a-long 5
- Story/Plot 4
- Overall 5
Total - 37 :(
Saturday, 29 January 2011
Forget about your worries and your strife...
Better late than never, I have been a little busy this week so it is nearly Monday again (Yey!) before I have managed to sit down and update my blog.
This week was all about 'The Jungle Book', the 19th Disney animated feature released in 1967. This was the last of the Disney films to be produced by Walt Disney as he died on 15th December 1966 towards the end of the production. First of all lets get one thing straight, I am a HUGE Disney fan, so my reviews of any Disney film that fits into the musical category will be a little biased.
This film is based on the stories of Mowgli in 'The Jungle Book' written by Rudyard Kipling and has a number of songs that I would challenge anyone not to know even a couple of lines of. Mowgli is found as a baby by a black panther called Bagheera who takes him to a local wolf pack, who raise Mowgli. The next time we see Mowgli he is 10 years old, Shere Khan (the tiger) has returned to the jungle bearing a grudge against anything human. Knowing this the wolf pack decide that the only way Mowgli can remain safe is to return to the Man village. Bagheera steps up to undertake the task as they all know if will be difficult to persuade Mowgli that this is the best thing for him, and so, the adventure begins...
There are many loveable characters in The Jungle Book, most of all for me is Baloo the incredibly laid back bear who Mowgli and Bagheera quickly run into after leaving the wolf pack. Throw in a bunch of monkeys under the rule of King Louie the Orangutan, a heard of military elephants, the hypnotising snake Kaa, a band of vultures (the inspiration for which were The Beetles) and of course Shere Khan the tiger and the Jungle Book is complete. After all of that, what is the one thing that makes Mowgli leave the jungle, a girl. Typical.
Mum
This week was all about 'The Jungle Book', the 19th Disney animated feature released in 1967. This was the last of the Disney films to be produced by Walt Disney as he died on 15th December 1966 towards the end of the production. First of all lets get one thing straight, I am a HUGE Disney fan, so my reviews of any Disney film that fits into the musical category will be a little biased.
This film is based on the stories of Mowgli in 'The Jungle Book' written by Rudyard Kipling and has a number of songs that I would challenge anyone not to know even a couple of lines of. Mowgli is found as a baby by a black panther called Bagheera who takes him to a local wolf pack, who raise Mowgli. The next time we see Mowgli he is 10 years old, Shere Khan (the tiger) has returned to the jungle bearing a grudge against anything human. Knowing this the wolf pack decide that the only way Mowgli can remain safe is to return to the Man village. Bagheera steps up to undertake the task as they all know if will be difficult to persuade Mowgli that this is the best thing for him, and so, the adventure begins...
There are many loveable characters in The Jungle Book, most of all for me is Baloo the incredibly laid back bear who Mowgli and Bagheera quickly run into after leaving the wolf pack. Throw in a bunch of monkeys under the rule of King Louie the Orangutan, a heard of military elephants, the hypnotising snake Kaa, a band of vultures (the inspiration for which were The Beetles) and of course Shere Khan the tiger and the Jungle Book is complete. After all of that, what is the one thing that makes Mowgli leave the jungle, a girl. Typical.
Mum
- Rewatchability 5
- Sing-a-long 5
- Story/Plot 7
- Overall 6
Me
- Rewatchability 6
- Sing-a-long 7
- Story/Plot 6
- Overall 6
So a total of 48 out of 80.
Ps. I totally rocked as Shere Khan for Halloween :) Judith had an amazing Disney Villan party!
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