Movie(s) Review of the Week 2

So, here goes. I'll be reviewing the 3 latest movies that I have watched over the week titled Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Ratatouille and License to Wed. It sounds like I'm some well-known critic giving out my opinion on the movies, however, I dare say I have watched A LOT more English movies than any of you. So, here goes...

I'll start from the movies I preferred to the least preferred.

Ratatouille

RAT - A - TOO - EE

As always, animation movies that were produced by Pixar have moral behind the story and Ratatouille has its own meaning behind the story that is "Anyone can cook". I personally like this movie pretty much as it follows about a rat called Remy that has an extraordinary sense for taste and he loves food so much that he dreams to be a chef in Paris just like his idol chef Gusteau who just passed away and frequently appeared to Remy as an apparition. Hence, he left his family.


However, he is still a rat and unable to hold knifes and so on. One day, he met a garbage boy Linguini, who gets the credit when Remy attempted to cook a delicious soup at Gusteau's restaurant. Soon, Linguini befriended Remy and "symbiosis interaction" between the two occurs where Remy directs Linguini cooking while Linguini gets the plaudit and love interest. As the story goes on, the chief-in-charge Chef Skinner got pretty jealous of Linguini as he gets better reviews for his food rather than Skinner and developed plots to kicked him out of the kitchen. Remy finds himself torn between following his dreams or returning forever to his previous existence as a rat. He learns the truth about friendship, family and having no choice but to be who he really is, a rat who wants to be a chef.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

The BIG scene. The KISS. Every reporter has been asking Daniel Radcliffe this question. Maybe I guess this is the most significant scene in the entire movie. However, the director, David Yates did a pretty good job by cramming all the events in the 766 pages story book into a 2 and a 1/2 hour movie. As before, I really have no big expectation for the series as the previous 4 films has disappointed me. And Order of the Phoenix, for all its shortcomings, does make clear the sense of loss and struggle that comes with maturity.


However, I have to say that the visuals are getting better as for each movie (Grawp, Centaurs, scene where they flew over London etc). And if you have read the book just like I did, you will see that many things have been omitted (although expected). I feel that he sure cut scenes such as the hearing and shows event such as Hermione and Ron being elected as prefects thus alienating Harry, Dumbledore's explanation to Harry about the propehcy (c'mon, 30 seconds screentime describing it was way too short) as well as the fighting scene between Lord Voldermort and Dumbledore. The should-be most emotional scene (Sirius's death) did not really touched me just like the book as the relationship between Harry and Sirius was not well developed. Overall, the screenplay was good as the plot was intact and easy to follow even without reading the book

Now, I will be talking about the acting skills. I really like Evanna Lynch who potrayed the weird, loopy behaviour of Luna Lovegood. Besides, I feel that Bellatrix character was well played and of course Doleres Umbridge (although she appears to be quite different as described from the book), she really makes everyone hates her and wants to slap her. As for Harry, Ron and Hermione, I have no feel or whatsoever that they tries to command the movie even though they are the main characters and are eventually swallowed by the whole movie franchise. And I dislike Cho's character as well as Dumbledore. I hated Micheal Gamdon potraying a character that is calm and collected (please replace him with other actor such as Ian McKellen (Gandalf))

Luna Lovegood

License to Wed

As for this movie, I seriously recommend people not to watch this cheap romantic comedy that was not even funny at the first place. I really didn't know what to write about this comedy because I fall asleep after 50 minutes into the show (and no, I don't fall asleep easily even the show sucks). Scenes such as robotic infant for the soon-to-be wed Ben and Sadie (Mandy Moore) to practice baby-tending causing a predictable mayhem and of course, the wedding ring inscription "Never to Fart" instead of "Never to Part". I mean who would ever make that mistake on a wedding ring. so LAME...


One word to sum it up..ZZZZZZZZZZZZ...

AVOID IT AT ALL COST...

P.S. I won't be giving ratings for this review as I got pretty tired writing this..So, until next time...