A college freshman dramedy. Tries to be 3 different movies, none of them particularly good.
Month: May 2021
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The Phantom Carriage (1921)
I was recently watching some YouTube videos on Crash Course about film history with my three year old daughter.
An anthology of sex-themed genre pastiches that intermittently takes its stupidity seriously enough to verge into funny and/or subversive, but more often just drifts into nothingness.
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It Happened One Night (1934)
A well-written romcom with a theme and lots of fun details plus good chemistry between Allen and Keaton. Too bad the jokes just aren’t all there and the story isn’t enough of a home run. Still quite good, though.
The animation is peerless, the songs are occasionally invigorating, and Moana herself is one of Disney’s greatest protagonists, but the script and quest suffer a bit from exposition overload, pacing hiccups, and fluctuating stakes that keep it from soaring to all-time heights. Still a strong and memorable outing that I’ll always be keen to revisit.
Not as funny as Allen’s proper debut Take the Money and Run, but a very good sophomore effort.