Dr. Movie Reviews; Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Jason Isaacs

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If you are a kid or a dog, apparently you can.

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You can if Roland Emmerich's directing.

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New Moon.

hah.

c-

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Anyone here like sparkly vampires who talk about "their feelings"?

Didn't think so.

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x.Bianca.x does.
Much to my sadness and disappointment.

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haven't read the books or seen the films, but to me it looks like some teenage breaks up with a gay vampire to be with an even gayer werewolf

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x.Bianca.x does.
Much to my sadness and disappointment.

"Does"? Last I read her wikiPEELia page I got the feeling she doesn't like sparkly vampires who talk about "their feelings".

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Professor-1: Oh, there's a woman for you! Always changing her opinion about sparkly vampires/feelings instead of not looking in a box.

If you have any poo, fling it now.

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Reservoir Dogs

It was ok. I already knew how it was going to end after the first guy got shot. Pulp Fiction was better.

B

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Dougal and the Blue Cat

I never thought I'd hear the words "take him to the torture chamber" in a U rated film but they were uttered in this Magic Roundabout film. As a child in the '70s I watched the television series but as far as I'm aware I never saw this film. Having heard UK film critic Mark Kermode frequently rave about how great this film is I decided to seek it out and must say he was right it is a great film, the eighty minutes just flew past.

Things in the Magic Garden are a little strange, Dougal is having strange dreams about something going on in a disused factory and shortly after Buxton, a blue cat, appears and is instantly popular with everybody except Dougal. Buxton isn't as friendly as he appears and plans to become king with the help of the mysterious Madam Blue in the factory. In order to carry out his plans he captures everybody except Dougal who is forced to dye his hair blue and call himself Blue Peter in order to try to rescue them.

All of the regular characters are here although the new Buxton steals the show with his evil plotting and diabolically sweet torture of Dougal. The animation may look dated next to today's shiny CGI but it is good enough and the great story and fun characters more than make up for that. It is a shame that this great animation doesn't have a DVD release as it is an utter delight and belongs in the collection of any animation fan.

9/10

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Were you watching the Culture Show last night too?

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Yes, also saw the comment on his blog about animation

Mayo is totally wrong about that film.

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Haven't seen it, but Kermode was right about Curse Of The Were Rabbit, one of the best movies of 2005 if not the decade!