Award Season Nominations 2016

Warning: The awards in the above pictures I may or may not be covering and the dates are not current.

Well, what an amazing month it has been. Now, we have got nominations for four big award shows this month. The first of which was the Annies (which I covered in my last blog). But we are here to cover the SAG's, The Golden Globes, and The Critics Choice. I am doing this in the order they were announced. Well, let's begin!

The SAG Awards:

For Best Performance by a Cast for a Motion Picture (A.K.A. Best Picture): Spotlight will most certainly win here. I predict Bryan Cranston in Trumbo for Best Actor. For Best Actress, it's a toss-up. I'm not sure who is going to win so I'm going to go with Kate Blanchett for Carol.

The Golden Globes:

For Best Picture Drama, I predict Spotlight. For Best Picture Musical or Comedy, I predict The Martian (although it was not really a comedy). I predict Bryan Cranston for Best Actor in a Drama for Trumbo. I predict Blanchett again for Carol as Best Actress in a Drama. For Best Actor in a Comedy, I predict Matt Damon for The Martian. I predict Amy Schumer for Trainwreck and Best Actress in a Comedy. For Best Director, I predict Tom McCarthy for Spotlight. For best animated feature, I predict Inside Out.

The Critics' Choice Awards

Now this is kind of momentous because, since I wrote my predictions for the other award shows on this blog, the Broadcast Film Critics Association (which run The Critics' Choice Awards) added Star Wars the Force Awakens to the nominations list for best picture. If you want to know more about this I will post a link to a you-tube video about it. Will Star Wars win, no, I don't think so, but what I predict will win is Spotlight (Spotlight won all of the other critics awards so it will probably win here as well.) For Best Actor, I predict Matt Damon in The Martian. For Best Actress, I predict Cate Blanchett for Carol. For Best Director, I predict Tom McCarthy in Spotlight. For Best Animated Feature, my prediction is Inside Out (again).

As to the answer for my quiz, the answer is How to Train Your Dragon. There is no quiz this week due to the fact that I am getting ready for my end of the year poll (check back for the rules.)

Goodnight and Happy New Year,

By Mr Bee

For the announcements of the more technical SAG categories please visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jquAIyuupuk

For the announcements of the major SAG categories please visit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KmOVyyS-3k

For the complete list of the Golden Globes nominations please visit http://www.goldenglobes.com/winners-nominees

For a complete list of the Critics Choice movie categories please visit

http://www.criticschoice.com/movie-awards/

For a complete list of the Critics Choice TV categories please visit

http://www.criticschoice.com/television-awards/

For Collider movie talk covering Star Wars being added into The Critics Choice Awards please visit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYpTUOpHJ8E 
 

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 image courtesy of NYMag

Annie Awards (Official) Nomination Results

                                        

Well, I did my predictions for the nominations, now it's time to give you my predictions for the winners...

The same rules apply to this one; I am not going to focus on the TV categories. What I will say about the TV stuff is how many nominations Buddy's Musical Christmas got! I would also like to point out a mistake I made. In my earlier blog about this, Studio Ghibli's last movie was When Marnie was There and not The Boy and the Beast. The Boy and the Beast is a movie that came out this year but WAS NOT made by Studio Ghibli. So on to new business.

Overall, I did fairly well on my predictions. All of the movies for Best Animated Feature I predicted to be in there. But, as always, there are a couple of surprises. Like Minions is not on the list. I did give it an 85% chance of making the cut, so I really thought that it was going to be in there. Part of the reason is that there were only 5 nominations instead of 8. Granted, I have a hunch that Minions will get nominated at the Oscars. As to which movie will be eliminated to make room for Minions, it will probably be The Good Dinosaur. And When Marnie was There did not get nominated. However, they did make a new category this year called Best Animated Feature: Independent, and it is nominated there (but I don't what movie will win that category...I would probably pick When Marnie was There just to play it safe).

As to what movie will win? Didn't I already tell you this in my last blog? Inside Out!

As for Best Animated Short Film? I am really surprised that Frozen Fever is not in there. But, it is not really the greatest animated short. But, if I had to predict a winner, It would be Sanjay's Super Team. But, I have not seen it yet (it's Pixar, so it's a safe bet).

Now for best director? No surprises here. My prediction is Pete Docter for Inside Out. Inside Out will also take the best music category as well.

Moving on to voice acting: One surprise was that Louis Black was not nominated for voicing Anger in Inside Out (I'm sure he's ANGY about it). The winner will Amy Poehler.

And now for writing: I predict Inside Out (noticing a trend?).

So those are my predictions...Whether I am right or wrong, we will have to find out on February 6, 2016. What are your predictions? Comment or e-mail me (thatbradley@gmail.com) your predictions.

And as for the answers to my quiz in the last blog, the answer is C. Okay, and as for this week's question, What movie won 10 awards at the Annies in 2011? Goodnight, and Bee Happy!™

For the complete list of all the Annie nominees, please visit http://annieawards.org/nominees#28

By Mr. Bee 

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"Pan"

Welcome! I hope everybody had a wonderful Thanksgiving. My Thanksgiving weekend, I got the “privilege” of going to see Pan. So, this is what I am here to review. So, let's begin my review of one of the biggest bombs of 2015.

Background:

I regret to inform you that I didn't have time to do any research on this movie. So, I guess you can hit me with a frying “Pan”.

Plot:

Now, as you know, this is a prequel. It is about Peter Pan first going to Neverland and, for whatever reason, befriending Captain Hook and trying to find who his mother is (it's as predictable as it gets).

Opinion:

Now for my opinion; This movie suffers the terrible curse of being a prequel! And, personally, I don't really understand the point in prequels. Did anybody finish watching “Peter Pan Live!” last year and say; “Gee, that was good...I wonder what happened before.”? Well, apparently WB did because we got this movie. Now, don't get me wrong – I don't hate ALL prequels. Some prequels are good like “Oz: The Great and Powerful”. Of course, there are other prequels that are pretty bad like the “Star Wars” ones. Now, I know you are waited with baited breath to find out what category this falls into...Well, unfortunately it falls into “Star Wars” category.

First off, let's get the good stuff out of the way. The visual effects were really good. Some of the acting was good. The music was pretty good (I wouldn't be surprised if the music gets nominated for best score at the Oscars). Otherwise, the credits were a relief to see! That's about it!

Okay, now we are getting into the worst of the worst (like the Batman movies I have made). First off, you may be wondering; “How is Hugh Jackman in this?”. This is Jackman's WORST performance yet. Now, I really like Hugh Jackman. But here, I didn't like him. He was not playing Blackbeard! He was playing Johnny Depp playing Blackbeard, and I don't like Depp that much (although I did like him in Ed Wood – he was bad in the last 15 movies he's made though). Garrett Hedlund did a pretty decent job as Hook minus the fact that his voice sounded like a mix between the Crocodile Hunter and Jack Nicholson. And there was no inkling of Captain Hook in his performance. And Levi Miller's performance was good besides the fact that Peter Pan had zero personality (not a very good thing for your lead character). And Rooney Mara was datisfactory despite the fact that she is a white actress playing an African American character.

I said earlier that the effects were good. Let me rephrase that; the effects were good...but misused in a couple of places. They were just playing up some parts to the 3-D audience. And the writing is pretty bad, but there was a little plot twist that I didn't expect. But, everything else in the movie is just plain predictable! (Spoiler Alert) We find out the Peter Pan's mom was a fairy princess, but at the beginning of the movie they made her out to be a total idiot. She dropped Pan off as a baby on the doorstep of an orphanage run by a total witch. She's a fairy princess!!! Couldn't she have done her research to find a suitable place for her child to grow up?!? The time period is a bit skewed as well. The time period in all the previous versions of Peter Pan is set in the early 1900s. But, in this one, it is set during World War II (the 1940s). And, that would mean that when Wendy went to Neverland was in the 1950s...But that is the least of my problems with this movie. I never got emotionally invested in the story. So, I think I even dozed off at one point (but only for a moment or two). (spoiler alert) Peter Pan and Captain Hook never became enemies in this movie. I assume that they were saving that for a sequel that will never get made...So, overall, I give Pan one and a half stars (it's below MEH).

And now the answer to the quiz in my last blog. The answer is TRUE. Beauty and the Beast won Best Picture Musical or Comedy in 1992. And now this week's question; What was J.M. Berry's (the creator of Peter Pan) career?

A. Author
B. Playwright
C. Both A and B
D. Homemaker
E. A Representative of the mud people

You can comment or e-mail me (thatbradley@gmail.com) the answer. Goodnight, and Bee Happy!™And Jackman, I love you, but stick to playing Wolverine, bub!

By Mr. Bee 

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The Annie Awards 2016 Pre - Nominations

We are about 2 weeks away from the nominations for the 43^rd annual Annie Awards. I thought that this blog would be as good as any to give you my predictions. Before I get into my predictions, I would like to tell you that I will only be giving my predictions for the movie categories. Not that I don't like tv or video games, they would just seem out-of-place on my blog. And, since they are not my forte, I would probably get a majority of them wrong. I have only seen two of the movies that we are talking about here. I will tell you what they are later in this blog. Let's begin.

Let's start with the biggest award of the night! Best animated feature. Let's start with the films that I don't think will be on the list. Home: now, it did well in the box office, but it bombed critically. Now, granted, those critics are not the people that nominate Annie Awards – that is done by the professional animators in the industry. Now, I have not seen it (yet), but judging from what I have heard (and seen), it is not the greatest animated movie of the year. But the Annie voters could feel sorry for Dreamworks financial state right now, and throw them a bone. I would estimate Home having a 10% chance of getting in there. The film will get a couple nominations elsewhere in the awards. Steve Martin and Jim Parsons' performances will probably get in there. In addition, it will probably get nominated in several technical categories. The next one that will not get in there is The Spongebob movie The Sponge out of Water. Now this one I have seen. And if you read my blog about it, I enjoyed it. Now, why don't I think it will be in there? Well, judging by what a couple of other critics are saying about the movie, it is far from the best this year. Now, as I've mentioned before, critics are not the best predictors for nominations for awards though. Another thing that hurts its chances is that it was released back in February. The excitement surrounding the movie has died down. So, maybe if it was released this month, it might have a better chance. And, another thing, because it's based on a Nickelodeon show, the Annie voters might look at it as an extension of the show (which I can't argue). But, like I said with Home, it will get nominations elsewhere in the ceremony. Any performance by Tom Kenny will get in there. He will probably get a nomination for the same character in the series. Overall, I think the Spongebob Movie has a 5% chance of getting in.

And, another movie I feel will not be getting in, is Hotel Transylvania 2. Now, why don't I think it will be getting in? The first movie didn't get a nomination. This is based on what I have heard; it is not better than the first. It will be getting nominations elsewhere in the show in some of the technical categories and best story boarding. And now the final movie that I don't think will be getting in, is Regular Show the movie. The big question is where would you nominate it - Because it is a direct-to-DVD movie from the Cartoon Network. It is eligible to get in that category. It did have a very limited release in select categories in Los Angeles in order to be eligible for the category. The question is, will it be nominated. Will they put it with the TV stuff or the movie stuff. Overall, I think that they will probably put it with the TV stuff because it is meant for TV and most likely has low-budget animation. I give it a 3% chance of getting nominated.

Now, for the movies that I do feel will get nominated. Inside Out. This is a movie that I have seen, and it's brilliant. I feel it will not only be getting in but I think it will hands-down win and sweep the awards. There is a 100% for this movie to get nominated. Anomalisa is another movie that I think will be getting in. It “WOWed” critics at several film festivals. Also, it's the kind of artsy material that the Annie voters tend to like. So, I think it will get nominated in several categories an has a 90% chance overall of getting in. The other one is Minions. Minions is the highest-grossing animated movie of the year. But, granted, that does not assure that it gets in, but based on the ticket sales, we do know that it is on the Annie voters' radar. So, it will probably get in in several other categories. So, overall, I say it has an 85% chance of getting in.

Shaun the Sheep movie is probably guaranteed of getting in there as well. Aardman Animation makes Shaun the Sheep, and they have a tendency to get into this category (maybe because they make great movies). In fact, interesting tid-bit here, the academy introduced best animated feature category because of their film Chicken Run. Overall, it has a 100% chance of getting in.

The Boy and the Beast is supposed to be the last Studio Ghibli movie which means it is automatically a shoe-in because the Annie voters can't resist giving them one more nomination. Overall, I feel that it has a 90% chance of getting in.

The Good Dinosaur...well, this is the second Pixar movie released this year. And even though Inside Out has this in the bag (as mentioned), The Good Dinosaur will probably get a nomination here. Overall, I feel that it has a 75% chance of getting in.

And, now my final movie that will get in is the Peanuts Movie. Now, from what I have heard, it is supposed to be the best movie that Blue Sky has made yet. So, hands-down, it will get in there. And the Peanuts are supposed to be going back to their roots in this movie. Overall, I feel that the Peanuts movie has a 95% chance of getting in.

And the nominees are...

• Inside Out
• Peanuts
• Shaun the Sheep
• Anomalisa
• The Boy and the Beast
• The Good Dinosaur
• Minions
• And the last one...to be determined

But, whether or not my predictions are correct, we will have to wait until December 1, 2015 to find out the answer...

And now for the answer to my quiz from my last blog, the answer is TRUE! Steve Martin did get an honorary Oscar in 2013.

And for today's quiz: True or False: Beauty and the Beast won for Best Picture at the Golden Globes?

From all of us here at Mr. Bee's Brilliant Movie Buzz, have a very Happy Thanksgiving and Bee Happy (and enjoy the turkey).

By Mr. Bee  

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The Governors Awards 2015

                                                                                   

In case you didn't know, about a week ago, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) held their 7^th annual Governers awards. Now I'm going to take you back a year ago to last year's ceremony. If you remember, I did a long rant about The Academy's stupid choice of live blogging the ceremony. Fast forward to this year's ceremony and you may be wondering what the Academy decided to do this year. Did they live blog it, like they did last year, or did they come to back to their senses and live stream it? Well the answer might surprise you: They did none of the above. They basically held the ceremony in private. The only thing that they did was post it on You-tube the next day. Granted, they might have live streamed it or live blogged it. If they did, it wasn't advertised it on their website very well because the day of/night of/ the ceremony, I dug deep into their website to no avail (I dug so deep that I found Bob Hope's phone number). Instead of doing a big long rant, I am just going to leave it at this: Congrats to Debbie Reynolds, Spike Lee and Gina Rowlands. Goodnight and Bee Happy!™

Now for my quiz : True or False Steve Martin received an Honorary Oscar ? Comment or email me ( @ thatbradley@gmail.com ) your answer

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The Hollywood Film Awards: Epic Fail

Now, as some of you may know, on November 1, the Hollywood Film Awards were held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. It was live-tweeted on Twitter. Now, if you have been reading my blog since last November, you may know that I did a huge rant about the Academy's choice to do a live blog to cover the Governors' Awards. And, if you read the blog, you would know that I was “none to happy” about it. Here again, this is the very identical thing.

Last year the Hollywood Film Awards were broadcast on live TV for the first time. However, after horrible ratings, they got demoted to a live twitter feed. Now, first off, doing this on twitter it automatically limits your audience because not everyone has a twitter account. There were a couple of things that I could see without a twitter account...but I don't know how much I couldn't see as I do not have a twitter account. Secondly, this leads to another problem; to get through the entire show, you would have to wait 2 hours until after the show was actually over (I may be over-exaggerating a tad) because doing something like this makes them have to post things in multiple segments so you have to wait a long time to see all of it while they're posting it. WHO HAS THAT KIND OF TIME?! I know I don't! Thirdly, in all awards shows there are heart-wrenching moments. And to deny people the right to see that is just inexcusable! Apparently, one of the winners got a standing ovation...but I couldn't see it because it was not shown and I WASN'T AT THE CEREMONY (and, unfortunately, it did not end up on youtube). Only about 3 parts of the entire ceremony went viral for the general public (Amy Schumer winning, Vin Diesel's speech for Fast 7 and Straight out of Compton winning for best casting and part of James Cordin's monologue...those are the only parts that I could see!)

So, on to a more pleasant show topic; The Hollywood Film Awards, as they say, is the start of “awards season”! So, here's some of my quick-picks on the movies going to the Oscars. The Martian will definitely get in there and The Sufferagette may have a chance at the best picture...but it is not doing so well at the box office. This may be weird for me to say, but Inside Out will definitely get in and win best animated feature and it also has a small chance for getting nominated for best picture (winning is another story). I am saying this because I think this year will be a year with 10 nominees for best picture because of the Academy's ratings last year being sub-par.

Now here is the answer to my quiz from the last blog: Louie B. Mayer is the founder of the academy...The person who got it right will get to request a movie that I will review. Goodnight, and Bee Happy!™

By Angry Mr. Bee 

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Chris Rock will return as the 67th Oscar Host

Breaking News!!! The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences just announced today that Chris Rock will be the host of the 88^th Academy Awards ( AKA The Oscars). Now here’s my opinion on Chris Rock hosting, but first cue your Don Pardo impression now because LIVE from Upstate, NY; it’s Mr Bee's coverage of the 2015 / 2016 award season. And Now Your   Host for the 5 months of award season “Mr. Bee” (This is not live).

Let's begin: As mentioned in the title , Chris is the 67^th person who has ever hosted the Oscars (according to Ranker.com). I like Chris Rock's humor quite a bit (but he can get a little risque) in fact, as I mentioned in my blog on the 2014 Hollywood Film Awards, where his acceptance speech was one of the funniest moments of the night (in that blog I put a link to that speech and the only reason why I am not putting in this blog is because CBS decided, for some bizarre reason, to make that video private). As you may know, this will be Chris Rock's second time hosting the Oscars. He first hosted back in 2005 at the 77^th ceremony. He is a little bit behind Bob Hope's 18 times and Billy Crystal's 9 times hosting. Now those of you who follow movie news frequently like me, you might know that when David Hill and Reginald Hudlin were announced as producers of the ceremony, they said that the Oscars will have 2 hosts but with this announcement, it does not seem to be the case. Before you go on the internet, assuming that they lied to us, (which they may have) they may have tried to get two hosts, but only Chris Rock was free to host or the second host could be announced later due to contract negotiations. Overall, I feel that Chris Rock will do a great job hosting, but if that is really the case we will have to find out on February 28^th 2016.

As for the answer to the quiz from my last blog the answer is Ice Age (no one has answered right or wrong) but it's only been one day. As for today's question- Who is the founder of the academy? The answer will be revealed in my next blog. Comment or email me @ thatbradley@gmail.com and the winner will of course get to chose a movie for me to review.

Goodnight and Bee Happy!™

By Mr. Bee                    

                                                     

For Chris Rock's opening monologue @ the 2005 Oscars please visit : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvbFwj__frg&index=2&list=PLJ8RjvesnvDOq5pI9MwC8nxRHVb4d2dl4

For Chris Rock's interviewing normal people @ the 2005 Oscars please visit : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JerPfHYro1U&list=PLJ8RjvesnvDOq5pI9MwC8nxRHVb4d2dl4&index=8

For Chris Rock's presenting the best animated feature Oscar @ the 2012 Oscars please visit : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWsge7BtzQg

For the actual press release please visit: http://www.oscars.org/news/chris-rock-returns-host-oscarsr  

                             

 

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“The Land Before Time VIII: The Big Freeze”

Welcome back : I’m sorry about making you wait 2 months before the next blog but I am here to tell you that Maleficent did not shoot me in between blogs ! You can stop having funerals for me ! We are here today to review the 8^th movie in The Land Before Time franchise.  By the way I would like to point out a mistake I made in the review of the 7^th movie. I said in that review that we were half way done with the series but this is now the halfway point as there is another one coming out next year (WHY?). Let’s begin :

Background  

Like with the last movies there was little to know behind the scenes facts with this movie . I do have a couple of theories on why they may have made this. #1 MONEY . Now it could be that Universal heard about the production of Fox’s & Blue Sky’s ICE AGE  that would  come out the very next year and they wanted to get their prehistoric franchise out first (ironically enough Ice Age is another franchise that has been overrun ) or Universal could have just wanted to capitalize on the Christmas season with a Land Before Time Movie about snow !     ( Thank God they did not do a Christmas Special).

Plot  

This movie is about something going wrong in the Great Valley and the 5 heroes have to go over their parents heads to fix it ( oh wait I just told you the plot of every Land Before Time movie) , yet there is a new element here ( well not really new as it has been done in several non Land Before Time movies). Duckie is for some reason mad at Spike and a migrating herd of Spiketales and Spike decides to go with them.  A new character is introduced  here named  Mr Thicknose and everyone in the valley thinks he knows everything ( He’s the Brian Williams of Dinosaurs ).

Opinion

First of all animation is pretty bad , but not as bad as other Land Before Time Movies but still not good ! The songs were terrible so bad that I would rather take a written test and get a failing grade on it than listen to them again. Voice acting is not particularly good either. I think they just barely passed acting school . Now commenting on the storyline . The plot was about Duckie being mad at spike but there is no explanation why she is mad . The plot is definitely really overused and boring. They added an element from Follow That Bird ( which is a much better movie). They put zero effort into this movie . There was only one part of this movie that effort was put forth and that was the development of Mr. Thicknose. Overall this movie barely escapes the golden garbage can award ! That is why I’m giving it 1 out of 5 star rating.  Now I’m trying something new here and here is what it is ;  at the end of every blog I am going to give a little quiz and whoever gets the question right will get to request a movie for me to write a blog on. Here’s todays question : What is another overrun franchise that stars prehistoric animals ? ( and no google searches please ) and here’s a hint ( it was mentioned in this blog). Please comment or e-mail me your answer @ thatbradley@gmail.com .

The answer will be revealed in my next blog. Goodnight and Bee Happy!™

By Mr. Bee

 

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”Sleeping Beauty “

“ Throughout the course of this Blog I will be reviewing the history of Hollywood past, present and maybe even the future.”  

Mr. Bee August of 2014

That was what I said to introduce you to my blog, about my blog, on my blog (that sentence sounded kind of redundant)... and here we are one year later, and still alive and breathing (well to be fair, a couple of people are dead). It has been one year ago today that I started up my blog!

Since we started with a Don Bluth movie, that being The Land Before Time, I have spent the entire year on the series and fell like I'm going “nuts” (if I haven’t already). I would like to point out a differences between this movie and the last Don Bluth movie we looked at (other than the story line): 1. The Land Before Time was a movie Don Bluth made by himself. Sleeping Beauty. on the other hand, was a movie made by Disney. 2. The Land Before Time was a movie Don Bluth directed; Sleeping Beauty was a movie he had very little involvement with. He was a background artist (which means he just did the backgrounds. In live action films he would have been considered a scenic designer). Before we get into the actual review of this movie, I would like to point out something-- this movie is the first movie Don Bluth made (or the first professional movie he ever made). And before we get into this, if anybody is wondering what I think of the recent blockbuster hit, Maleficent: it was bad. As for the recent Disney Channel movie Descendants, it was what you would expect from a Disney Channel movie.

Background

The production of this movie started around 1949 with the entire storyboard completed in 1952. Walt was not happy with the end result of the storyboard as he thought it was too similar to past Disney movies such as Snow White and Cinderella. Walt Disney hired Eyvind Earle to design the entire movie (and he has been declared a Disney Legend and the ceremony is taking place today). Sleeping Beauty was a major gamble for Walt Disney and this gamble did not pay off. It was a dismal success at the box office, but unfortunately, Walt Disney never lived to see Sleeping Beauty make back its profit. However, when it was re-released after his death, it did become a success and a Disney classic.

Plot

This movie is about a princess under a spell cast by a wicked fairy, known as Maleficent (sound familiar?) and to protect her, she was raised by fairies for 16 years. She fell in love with a prince, the fairies take her back to the kingdom and then (spoiler alert) she pricks her finger on the needle of a spinning wheel and falls into a deep sleep and then (spoiler alert) she gets woken up the kiss of her prince.

Opinion

Let's start with the animation-- the animation is wonderful! The story is about average for a princess movie, but this is what you expect when you make a movie out of Sleeping Beauty. The characters-- the two kings are hysterical and the three good fairies are funny as well. I have always laughed when Flora and Merriweather do the pink a blue fight and when Flora makes the cake the wrong way. The princess and the prince are not that good of characters; their in love with being in love and pretty average for a prince and princess.

Maleficent is the best Disney villain of all times. She mean business. The mistress of all evil. And I never forget the big elephant in the room now-- can you see where Don Bluth might have influenced-- well not necessarily... but you can see where Don Bluth was influenced by the movie because if you look at the style of animation you can see an element of Don Bluth movies later on. All in all it is quite a good movie- if they developed the prince and princess a bit more, it would be have been a much better movie. As for my rating, just to let you know Maleficent has a gun to my head right now, so I guess I will give it 5 stars so I don't have to end my blog immediately.

Well thank you to everyone that has read my blog this year. I will be forever grateful!

Goodnight and Bee Happy!™

By Mr. Bee  
       
                                                                        

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"The Land Before Time VII : The Stone of Cold Fire"

We are dead center of the Land Before Time movies. Now I would like to take a moment and remember what we have been through:

• Good
• Bad
• Meh
• Awful
• Bad
• Awful

Enough said!

Background

There is basically no behind the scenes facts for this movie. I guess the only way to find the behind the scenes facts is to break into the Universal offices and rummage through their filing cabinet. But this movie is directed by Charles Grosvenor (again)-- Moving on...

Plot

This movie is roughly about (spoiler alert!) ALIENS (I wish I was joking)! And then something about Petrie's uncle Pterno being, well let's just say, evil.

Opinion

Okay- Ironically enough, the animation looks surprisingly better. With that said, we have some terrible CGI in this. The voice acting is pretty bad with the exception of Jim Cummings (doing the voice of one of Pterno's henchman). If you don't know who he is, he has voiced Darkwing Duck, Winnie the Pooh and Tigger, and many more (I will put a link to his IMDB page). Petrie is an idiot in this movie because every time his Uncle Pterno does something bad he tries to defend him. Even when Uncle Pterno admits his guilt, Petrie still sticks up for him.

The opening narration is done by Petrie. Really guys? You didn't have enough money to hire an actual narrator? At least with the last movie they had Grandpa Longneck do it, and although I didn't really care for that, it was better than having Petrie do it. I hope with the next movie they have an actual narrator do it. The songs are terrible- I have been to chorus rehearsals that have sounded better than that! With the exception of one song, which is Pterno's song, which is a pretty good villain song (but I do think it would be better suited for Gaston in Beauty and the Beast). As for aliens in this movie, really guys? You were getting this desperate that you had to put in aliens? What's next, Zombies?

Granted, this is not as bad as the last one, but it is still pretty bad. So I am giving it a one out of five star rating. This movie is bad- don't buy for your kids or for yourself!

By Mr. Bee

For Jim Cumming's IMDB page visit http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0191906/ 

                                                    

 

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