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Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Kiki's Delivery Service DVD (4.5 Stars)

Hayao Miyazaki is like the Steven Spielberg of animated directors.

The story to Kiki's Delivery Service is about a young witch striking out on her own. At her mother's behest, 13-year-old Kiki sets out on a year-long apprenticeship with her black cat in tow. With a shaky command of her broom, she ends up in a charming little coastal town that looks like a cross between the French provincial and San Francisco. Unfortunately, the local hotels have a strict "no witches" policy and the police have taken a dim view of her recent aerial mischief-making. She's saved from the street by a kindly baker's wife, who offers her room and board in exchange for her delivering by broom the baker's wares.

While I still haven't seen Hayao Miyazaki other films yet as I'm slowly checking one out time by time, but the ones that I did watch from him has already amazed me and there's something about his films that makes me feel good about myself and I can't wait to watch his other films because this is hands down one of the greatest animated director of our generation. This guy hasn't disappointed me yet and his films is for everyone even little kids, yeah they might like it by the pretty looking colors, but I think adults can also lock on to this film has well. Hayao Miyazaki always gives you everything you always dreamed off in a anime and that's why it leaves you feeling happy and full of imagination and that most other animated films lack on. Kiki's Delivery Service is another fantastic film by him the master of anime himself.

The animation in this movie...now where do I even began with the animation. I've seen many animated films that blew my mind away with it's visually stunning effect's, but with this I think the animation in this movie and in Hayao movies do top other HollyWood animated films and it deserves to be viewed by everyone and not lifted in the shadow's. Have you every watched a Hayao Miyazaki film and got so sucked it only by the bright blue sky, there's always something about the blue skies in there's films that I could get lost in them (In a good way).

The main character Kiki was such a likable and understandable character that I already understood her and get what she's coming from. Her pet sidekick the black cat was so adorable and funny as well.

Now for the problems with the film: ...?

Overall Kiki's Delivery Service ( or Majo no takkyûbin ) is a fantastically stunning film with beautiful animation. I'm not going to give it the perfect and that's because to me this isn't like a 4/4 movie, but it's still a damn good film.


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Sunday, March 29, 2015

Kingsman: The Secret Service (4.0 Stars)

Hello and welcome to Short Paragraph Review #3 (SPR for short!). Today, I look at Kingsmen: The Secret Service!

Ready. Set. GO!!

Kingsman is absolutely fun. Based on the comic by Mark Millar and directed by Matthew Vaughn (kick-Ass), Kingsmen has the same over the top vibe like Kick-Ass but with secret agents instead of wanna be superheroes and it works really good with the film making fun of the spy genre while also paying tribute to the old spy films including James Bond with a fun twist on the whole "Bond gets the girl" moment that was hilarious. The action is great with Matthew's direction going nuts on guns and knives all over the set-pieces with Gazelle, the chick with the shoe blades, being a huge show-stealer alongside with Samuel Jackson and Colin Firth on delivering some very badass moments including the scene where Colin Firth beats the sh*t out of religious fanatics, which it gave me a huge "F*CK YEAH" moment in the theater. There are a few problems like the pacing being a bit sluggish and the story being completely predictable with an obvious third climax but the manic fun, crazy action, wonderful performances and just the sheer great surprise moments all make up for it. Kingsman is a "Kick-Ass" experience (no pun intended) and I recommend this to anyone for a mood on action comedy films until the big boys come out.


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