by
Julien Faddoul
Captain
Underpants: The First Epic Movie **
Two mischievous
kids hypnotize their mean elementary school principal and turn him into their
comic book creation, the kind-hearted and elastic-banded Captain Underpants.
A
fascinating, and mostly successful attempt by DreamWorks to reverse-engineer their initiative due to the corporate restructure by remitting a bauble, with stylised animation done on a fraction of the usual budget. The story is
sweet, the jokes are droll, the pace is quick and the animation is typical
high-calibre DreamWorks.
d – David Soren
w – Nicholas
Stoller (Based on the Comic Book by Dav
Pilkey)
pd – Nate Wragg
m – Theodore
Shapiro
ed – Matthew
Landon
p – Mireille Soria, Mark Swift
Cast: Kevin Hart, Ed Helms, Nick Kroll, Thomas Middleditch,
Kristen Schaal, Jordan Peele
The Emoji
Movie
A
multi-expressional emoji sets out on a journey to become a normal emoji. Get
it?
The very
epitome of the inveterate bastardising of the animation artform. Not at any
point is it clear that this was meant to enlighten or entertain people of any
age from any culture in any era. Even as a form of corporate shilling, the
intention seems puzzling.
d – Anthony Leondis
w – Anthony Leondis, Eric Siegel, Mike White
pd – Carlos Zaragoza
m – Patrick
Doyle
ed – William J.
Caparella
p – Michelle Raimo
Cast: TJ Miller,
James Corden, Anna Faris, Maya Rudolph, Steven Wright, Jennifer Coolidge, Jake
T. Austin, Christina Aguilera, Sofía Vergara, Patrick Stewart, Rob Riggle, Sean
Hayes, Tati Gabrielle, Jude Koyaute, Rachael Ray
Victoria
and Abdul *
Queen Victoria
strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk.
Stilted period
stroll with nice moments – virtually all of them from Dench – but little to engage
the mind.
d – Stephen Frears
w – Lee
Hall (Based on the Book by Shrabani
Basu)
ph – Danny Cohen
pd – Alan MacDonald
m – Thomas
Newman
ed – Melanie
Oliver
cos – Consolata
Boyle
p – Tim Beaven, Eric Fellner, Beeban Kidron,
Tracey Seaward
Cast: Judi Dench, Ali Fazal, Michael Gambon, Eddie
Izzard, Olivia Williams, Simon Callow, Tim Pigott-Smith, Adeel Akhtar, Julian
Wadham, Fenella Woolgar, Paul Higgins
Kingsman:
The Golden Circle
When an attack
on the Kingsman headquarters takes place and a new villain rises, Eggsy and
Merlin are forced to work together with the American agency known as the
Statesman to save the world.
Not as annoyingly imbecilic as the first one, but extremely enervating (at 141
minutes!) with essentially the same beats being repeated and filled to the brim
with vacuous subplots. Much of the action is also maladroit.
d – Matthew Vaughn
w – Jane
Goldman, Matthew Vaughn (Based on the Comic Book by Mark Millar,
Dave Gibbons)
ph – George Richmond
pd – Darren Gilford
m – Henry
Jackman, Matthew Margeson
ed – Eddie
Hamilton
cos – Arianne
Phillips
p – Adam Bohling, David Reid, Matthew Vaughn
Cast: Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Taron Egerton,
Mark Strong, Halle Berry, Channing Tatum, Jeff Bridges, Pedro Pascal, Elton
John, Hanna Alström, Poppy Delevingne
The LEGO
Ninjago Movie *
Shunned by
everyone for being the son of an evil warlord, a teenager seeks to defeat him
with the help of his fellow ninjas.
Some nice
animation doesn’t compensate for what has become an exhausted and exhausting
series of films centred on essentially a single joke about the superficial
nature of the Lego product.
d – Charlie Bean, Paul Fisher, Bob Logan
w – Hilary
Winston, Bob Logan, Paul Fisher, William Wheeler, Tom Wheeler, Dan Hageman, Kevin
Hageman, Jared Stern, John Whittington
pd – Kim Taylor
m – Mark
Mothersbaugh
ed – David
Burrows, Garret Elkins, Ryan Folsey, Julie Rogers, John Venzon
p – Maryann Garger, Dan Lin, Roy Lee, Phil Lord,
Christopher Miller
Cast: Dave Franco, Justin Theroux, Fred Armisen,
Abbi Jacobson, Olivia Munn, Kumail Nanjiani, Michael Peña, Zach Woods, Jackie
Chan, Randall Park, Retta, Charlyne Yi
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