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Spider Man English Movie Review

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1 year ago

June 1, 2023

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Release Date : June 01, 2023

123telugu.com Rating : 2.75/5

Starring: Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Oscar Isaac, Karan Soni, Brian Tyree Henry, Luna Lauren Vélez, Jake Johnson, and others

Director: Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson

Producers: Avi Arad, Amy Pascal, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Christina Steinberg

Music Director: Daniel Pemberton

Editor: Mike Andrews

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After a five-year wait since the first installment, Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse, was released in theaters, the second part, titled Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, has hit screens today. Check out our review to find out how the movie is.

Story

Miles Morales (Shameik Moore), Brooklyn’s friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, is living his own life until he reunites with his love interest, Gwen Stacy (Hailee Steinfeld). Miles learns about the Spider-Society, where ‘different’ Spider people from different universes join forces to fight baddies. With Gwen’s help, Miles enters the society, led by Miguel O’Hara (Oscar Isaac), the only non-smiling Spider-Man. However, Miles and Miguel are at odds over something. What is it? What happens next? The film has the answers.

Plus Points

The first part was a huge hit, and thus expectations on its sequel are sky-high. The second installment in the series opens doors to different universes, where Miles meets his fellow Spider-Men/Women/Animals and more.

The computer-animated superhero film is enjoyable, thanks to the neat emotions, conversations, and unexpected characters. The multiverse concept is not new to Marvel fans, but it is different in the Spider-Verse and it is wonderful to witness it on the big screens.

The chemistry between Miles and Gwen is showcased well in this part. Miles’ emotional encounters with his parents and Gwen are watchable, and the dialogues in these scenes are quite nice.

The movie has a surprise, especially for Indian Spider-Man fans. The makers introduce Pavitr Prabhakar (Karan Soni), the Indian Spider-Man, in this sequel. His character, although limited to a couple of scenes, leaves a huge impact. His conversations with Miles and Gwen are funny and enjoyable.

Technically, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is nothing less than its prequel. The film has a wonderful score, animation & VFX, and stunning visuals that make one glued to the screen.

Minus Points

Any film requires an engaging story to capture one’s attention, and it is even more crucial for a fictional film that has millions of fans worldwide. This movie lacks it. The wafer-thin story with just an okayish screenplay fails to engage one’s attention.

The makers should have shown The Spot, a supervillain with unique powers, in a more powerful way. In the first hour, he was seen cracking jokes with Miles during the fights. Later, he turns out to be hard on Miles, and one would expect that something terrible would happen, but it doesn’t. The Spot’s character may have been saved for ‘Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse.’

Characters like Peter Parker, Spider-Punk aka Hobie, and Jessica Drew are good, but showing their emotional backstory could have helped the film big time as they are the other leads.

The makers should have written some more scenes for Miguel O’Hara, the leader of the Spider Society. A few more funny conversations between Miguel and Lyla, his AI assistant, would have made the sequel more enjoyable.

Technical Aspects

The direction and narration are neat, but Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and David Callaham could have focused more on the story. The visuals are stunning, thanks to the wonderful animators, and there is nothing to find fault with their outstanding work.

The sound design is also absolutely good. The production values are rich, and the editor Mike Andrews could have chopped off some unnecessary scenes to make ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ a decent fare.

Verdict

On the whole, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is visually enjoyable, but it lacks an engaging storyline. The makers save the main story for the next part, and this is disappointing. The stunning visuals, some emotional conversations, and the introduction of Pavitr Prabhakar are the positives of the movie. If you are a hardcore fan of superhero and animation movies, you can give this film a watch this weekend.

123telugu.com Rating: 2.75/5

Reviewed by 123telugu Team

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Movie Review – Despicable Me 4

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July 3, 2024

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This is not a Pixar movie that appeals to adults just as much as kids. (BTW, this is a Universal/Illumination production.) It’s pretty much a young kids’ movie, beginning to end. This is one of those movies that mom and dad do rock, paper, scissors to decide who has to sit through the movie with their kid(s).

There were a lot of children in the theater when I saw the movie and they all seemed engaged in the antics. I heard giggles and other reactions throughout. I even heard a young girl say, “This movie was awesome,” to her parent as they walked out of the theater.

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Rated:	(PG) Action and Rude Humor
Genres:	Adventure, Animation, Comedy
Starring:	Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Joey King
Director:	Chris Renaud, Patrick Delage
Writer(s):	Ken Daurio, Mike White
Language:	English
Country:	United States

Plot
Gru, Lucy, Margo, Edith, and Agnes welcome a new member to the family, Gru Jr., who is intent on tormenting his dad. Gru faces a new nemesis in Maxime Le Mal and his girlfriend Valentina, and the family is forced to go on the run.

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Movie Review: 'Despicable Me 4' – Catholic Review

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July 3, 2024

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Movie Review: 'Despicable Me 4' – Catholic Review

NEW YORK (OSV News) – Though it comes across as somewhat unfocused, the animated comedy “Despicable Me 4” (Universal) retains much of the charm that has characterized the whole series of films to which it belongs. It’s an agreeable piece of fun that’s suitable for all but the very youngest.

This latest chapter in the adventures of Gru (voice of Steve Carell), the would-be supervillain whose heart of gold long ago turned him into a loving dad and a crimefighter, opens with him assisting in the arrest and imprisonment of French criminal Maxime Le Mal (voice of Will Ferrell). Le Mal vows vengeance on Gru’s family and manages to escape in short order.

With Le Mal on the loose, Gru and the clan — Kristen Wiig voices his sensible wife, Lucy — have to go into hiding and assume false identities. But Poppy (voice of Joey King), the daughter of their preppy, country club patronizing new neighbors, the Prescotts (voices of Stephen Colbert and Chloe Fineman), discovers their secret and uses it to blackmail Gru.

While the comic chaos wrought by Gru’s trademark Twinkie-shaped minions continues to evoke laughs, director Chris Renaud’s addition to a franchise he helped to establish goes down too many plot paths at once. Some of the details of the story — Le Mal’s goal is to kidnap infant Gru Jr., for instance — also seem a bit challenging for kids.

Genuinely objectionable ingredients are kept out of the mix. And there’s a morally interesting, though underdeveloped, subplot about the refusal of one of Gru’s adopted daughters to use the pseudonym she’s been given on the grounds that it would constitute lying.

Yet scenes of danger, a touch of potty humor and a minion mooning may give the parents of the littlest moviegoers pause.

The film contains characters in peril, a flash of nonhuman rear nudity and a scatological sight gag. The OSV News classification is A-I — general patronage. The Motion Picture Association rating is PG — parental guidance suggested. Some material may not be suitable for children.

Ti West – 'MaXXXine' movie review

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15 hours ago

July 3, 2024

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Mia Goth has reprised her widely beloved role of Maxine Minx in MaXXXine, the third instalment of Ti West‘s X film series, previously comprised of 2022’s X and its prequel Pearl. Modern scream queen Goth is joined by an impressive cast, including Elizabeth Debicki, Moses Sumney, Michelle Monaghan, Halsey, Lily Collins, Giancarlo Esposito, and Kevin Bacon.

Such a roster of actors and musicians proves the kind of reputation West has earned in recent years and shows the increasing calibre of entertainment figures wanting to work with him. The real question, though, is whether the films themselves stand up to those performing in them. Three movies into his 2020s era, West has largely been revealed as a director who knows how to make a horror films look fun and flashy even if they lack originality.

MaXXXine takes place six years after the events of X as Goth’s character has left behind the “Texas porn star massacre” of the first movie to find her fame and fortune in Hollywood. Initially making her way as an adult entertainment actor, Maxine eventually finds herself making a ‘proper’ film; well, at least a dodgy horror B-movie by the name of ‘The Puritan II’, directed by Elizabeth Debicki’s domineering filmmaker, Elizabeth Bender.

At the same time, 1985 Los Angeles is suffering the crimes of notorious serial killer Richard Ramirez, dubbed in the media the ‘Night Stalker’, who appears to be targeting Maxine’s stripper and porn star buddies as his victims. MaXXXine’s Hollywood is generously doused in all the nostalgic expectations of the most excessive decade of the 20th century with neon lights on every corner, shitty horror movie rental stores (including one owned by Moses Sumney’s Leon) and a groovy soundtrack comprised of ZZ Top and, of course, Kim Carnes’ ‘Bette Davis Eyes’.

Narratively and aesthetically somewhat typical, then, but where MaXXXine excels the most is in its many moments of self-aware homage. At one point, our hero Maxine is chased to the Bates Motel (from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho) on the Universal studio lot by Kevin Bacon’s seedy private eye John Labat, while a later moment sees Lily Collins’ dodgy-accented Molly Bennett have her mouth splattered with blood by Bender in a scene likely paying respect to Andrzej Zulawski’s horror classic Possession and its iconic Isabelle Adjani performance.

In addition, West seems to have fun positing the notion that horror movies in the latter part of the 1980s were deemed B at best, toying with the idea that they could never be taken seriously. Judging from the popularity of his X series, though, such a belief has been proven wrong ten times over. Still, there are a handful of issues with MaXXXine, as well as with the films that preceded it, that prevent admittance to the canon of horror greatness.

One of the film’s most engaging and genuinely exciting moments is when Maxine’s past finally catches up with her, and a motive for the entire series, which had been starkly missing (whether supernatural, religious or just downright maniacal), is finally revealed. However, by the time this antagonism finally arrives, one can’t help but feel that it’s somewhat too late and that West has only managed to deliver a pastiche of the horror world’s past with a 1980s gloss rather than provide an effort of originality or even one that genuinely feels scary.

Sure, there are some brilliantly gory set pieces, including the splattering of a man in a car crusher and the decimation of an even more unfortunate gentleman’s genitals (let’s not forget that the X series is undoubtedly feminist in tone). Still, such standout moments do not guarantee a good horror movie and West’s most recent entry seems to suffer from a lack of an overall haunting spectre or suchlike. MaXXXine is exciting, flashy, funny, sassy, self-aware and incredibly sexy, but it fails to be anything more than the sum of its parts: a neon-lit homage to the horrible history of Hollywood horror rather than a fear-inducing glimpse into the genre’s future.