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Spoilers, Spoilers and erm, Spoilers The Trouble with Harry is a strange one really. It starts with random shots of nature and a boy running up a hill towards Harry's body. His wife then openly chats to a young man and a stranger about Harry and her son Arnie almost gives the game away to the police at the end.

All in all, it's a weird 'un, the plot is a mix of tense drama and black comedy with a town that has a body on it's hands. I don't think Hitch really had a plot with this, as it seems to fit together poorly, but is saved by a wonderful performance from a young Shirley Maclaine.

Worth a watch, But by no means vintage hitch, 2.5/4

I went to see this, expecting a breezy, yet entertaining mediocre comedy. Wow, was I wrong. This film was absolutely hilarious, from the toilet gags, to the salsa, to ben stillers nut ending(how disgusting was that, this film is a comedy classic.

Much better than most of both Stiller and Aniston's comedies, it is clever, in that it makes a good romance, comedy and spoof.

The best scene is where the Hector's boyfriend, is ranted at by Stiller, about taking his girlfriend. Then, he finds out the guy is homosexual. Talk about hilarity.

Claude is also funny, as the scuba-diving instructor who screws Stiller's wife.

The only problem with the film is the moral of the film, is not a great one.

A classic comedy, ***1\2 out of ****

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Unlike "Roland Emmerich"'s 1997 blockbuster INDEPENDENCE DAY, this is quite relevant, because this is sure to happen at some time, but humans will be more prepared and Jake Gylenhall won't be there. This film, is well acted, and also well directed (at times), well acted (especially from Gylenhall), and the effects were overpowering (except from the Ice Break at the start). The films main fault is it is (suprise, suprise) very predictable, except for the section where the guy commits suicide, near Bruce Willis! The film's plot reached this conclusion, however in a nice way, that couldn't be much more exciting, and of course, you all wanted them to live and wanted Gylenhall and female "companion" to get together!

Suprisingly Good Blockbuster from Emmerich, ***/****

SPOILERS!ROYALBED!SPOILERS!ROYALBED!SPOILERS!ROYALBED!

I went on to "www.movieflix.com" (as apposed to a cinema), to see this film, and I was very much looking forward to it. However, the queen in the film was absolutely apalling, and so was the duke (don't remember name), who gets fired at the end. The performance of the character king Eric VIII is exceptional and the actor, I'm sure, will have gone on to great things. Astor is also quite good (and rather pretty), as the young princess Ann who gets mixed up in a web of marriage plans. The plot, is too long for itself and should have probably been made (into a 20/30 minute short feature). This is because the film is mostly a one joke film (though it still packs a couple of memorable one-liners), like, "yes, the queen is a truly remarkable woman, but I just can't persuade her to play checkers". All in all it pans out as merely average, as Shermans directing is not, well, good enough, and for this movie, timing and direction are very important. I mean, they had the timing all right, but the direction was rather woeful.

Hooray indeed, I don't know where I'd be without kung-fu flicks like this, though only part kung-fu (Part actiom, romance, and comedy), everything works except the comedy. The reason the comedy does not work is because Jet is fighting someone and then in the middle of a fight, comes out with a witty (or unwitty), quip, it's so cartoony, it's not meant to be "Superman", it's a damn KUNG-FU, ROMANCE, ACTION, COMEDY, kind of movie. Back to the good bits, Fong Sai-Yuk has some really good fight scenes (except the first one, and the one where all the bad guys bow to him at the end, what a bunch of dufuses, I'm sure I'd never do that). The best thing about the film though is that Jet's character is not the perfect gentleman you see if you catch the first ten minutes (killed a flower lady or something like that). Anyway the fight on the wood was cool. The final battle was cooler! Plus the romance had all the charm and wit it needed. was that of a rom-com (Like Notting Hill), anyway opwer to Li!

The Legend Of Fong Sai Yuk, should be a kung-fu legend, for extreme fun, if you're ever bored!

Summary: Good, solid, Kung- Fu, which amounts to great fun, ***/****

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Takashi "Beat" Kitano had already made "Violent Cop", this was his masterpiece, Kitzu Ritan (Kids Return), is a story about two boys who smoke, drink and skive school, then one gets hit by a local bully and starts boxing, the other one is rubbish at it, but one is less angry (than his friend, who is, angry about the punching incident, cue throwing the bully out of the ring). Kitano makes his most detailed observation, whilst appearing at his most casual, this is not, as you may think it is, like "Rocky II", or "Max Keeble's Big Move", this is a melancholy, story of two kids, one joining the Yazuka, and one becoming a boxer, eventually getting screwed up by taking "Champion Pills", maybe the down and out meant to do him in with them, anyway, like I said, better than "Battle Royale" (only just though).

Superb, ****/****

SPOILERS!NIKITA!SPOILERS!NIKITA!SPOILERS!NIKITA!SPOILERS!NIKITA!

Firstly I must congratulate, "Luc Besson" (The Fifth Element) on his superb directorial work, also the part of Nikita is exceedingly well played, also the scene where she wakes up and asks "Am I In Heaven?".

Anyway, Nikita is a 19 year old Junkie who robs a chemists with protecting guns and shoots a cop, by putting the gun to his head and walking out. Nikita is also the best action film of the 90's and beyond, only eclipsed by The Japanese cinema film "Ying Huang boon Sik" (A Better Tomorrow). Nikita trains to be a government agent, and falls in love with the guy at the supermarket. That is all very cool, but the last line is "Because I Love Only You", which is fine, but how can you make a series on how the film ends, anyway "Nikita" is a masterpiece (see stroke of genius), fantastic.

One of The very Best Films Ever, ****/ ****

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And so it begins with the question, "Who did this to you?", and the reply is "Alfredo Garcia", "Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia", sais the gangleader, and so an incredible cinema legend is born. Car battles, heads in sacks, and gunfights at wedding ceremonies begin, and it is over, it is the kind of movie, like "La Femme Nikita", where you know the gunman isn't afraid and unlike the Bondesque "Nah, you can live", he blows the brains out of the other guy, also there is a woman in this film who for some reason wanders around, completely nude, which is good for some, but I thought was pointless, and her character gets angry at a guy and then starts rolling around with him, which is fine for him, but leaves the viewer scratching their head. Thanks, Sam!

SPOILERS,SPOILERS,"HOORAY FOR CAPTAIN SPAULDING",SPOILERS,SPOILERS

"Hooray For Captain Spaulding, The African Explorer" the Film starts, and it just gets funnier as Chico and Harpo try to build a "Little but comfortable house", on a table! The comedy really gets going when the "Bogarde"? (or something like that) paiinting is stolen, then the Police come and everyone claims they committed the crime to back their friends up (unless i'm very much mistaken). The quips from groucho are really class, though sometimes hard to catch! Captain Spaulding is my favourite ever Marx brothers character (except for Groucho's "Professor Wagstaff", from Horse Feathers"). The film ends with a hilarious touch, that I can't quite remember (even though I only watched it yesterday), anyway, power to the Marx Brothers! But not Margaret Dumont, she's rubbish in it.

Amazing, ***1/2 out of ****

How the heck, can you not love this film, it is superb. The music is fantastic and the acting is unbeliavebly classy, Prince was obviously very talented (though his music is not all to my taste, or cup of tea, if you may). The real asset of this is the performance by "Apollonio" and the classy portrait of the seedy club owner, unforgettably played in a fantastic turn by "Morris Day". With the ending track being "Purple Rain", the ending is also surprisingly Unsentimental.

Though some of it is slightly predictable, and his final bike ride is pointless (you know, when they play "When Doves Cry") and all, overall, cool film, fantastic (if you will)

Incredibly cool and the music rules (especiallly "Baby I'm A Star " and "Purple Rain")

tick...tick...tick..., is a really good film in some ways, well if it had been in the right hands it would have been fantastic, one of the films problems is the bad screenplay and the cheaply used colour which makes it look dated and cheesy, which at times it is. However it tackles it's subject matter considerably well, though at times too strongly. Also, Jim Brown (The Dirty Dozen) gives a good performance as the police officer, who becomes along with his sidekick (who is being a policeman so he can get married) get dollops of racial abuse dropped on them by a guy who looks like Sean William Scott (From American Pie), though this was 29 years before. Good for it's targeted audience, but dull for many.

Slightly Under-rated, **1/2 out of ****

This is the only short feature of Buster Keaton's I have seen, it is funnier than I thought, what with the bear chases and the hot air baloon. However, it didn't seem as sophisticated, clever or as funny as "The General" or "Our Hospitality", it was lacking the usual clever, knowing edge of silent films e.g. Sunrise, The Kid. Which has now been replaced by CGI. Saying ll that, some of the stunts in it are extremely cool and really funny, perhaps the best introduction to Keaton. It is available on "Seven Chances" and on "Buster Keaton Shorts (Volume 1), along with Convict 22 and other things.

Good, not brilliant, ****/****

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This film is surpisingly underrated, seeing as a lot o h jokes are hilarious, especially the ones in the bank. The thing that let the film down however, is that the scenes on planet Venus were stupid and unrealistic and Miss. "New Jersey", was really, really, really, rubbish in it. Bud and Lou are funny though (especially Lou), as the two bumbling, though well meaning civil servants, who go to L.A., and think it's mars (cue funny gags), then they land on Venus and think it is L.A. (cue unfunny gags), silly but excitin, and supeb SFX, considering it ws the 50's, the two bank robbers are quite funny too, but, the custard pie gag at the end lowers the film, because it s a stupid ending.

Classy at parts, Z-rate acting at parts, always fun though. **1/2 out of ****

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Bend It Like Beckham stars Keira Knightley (Pirates Of The Carribean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl) and Parminder Nagra (ER), the film is about a young girl "Jasminder"(Nagra) who meets a young girl (Knightley), who scouts her for her coach (Meyers), the film runs along at a decent pace and contains some fuuny one-liners, but for the most part is just slightly silly light entertainmnet, Nagra and Knightley show good turns but Meyers is exceedingly annoying, the film ends with a predictable and sickly-sweet though funny in a sentimental and happy turn. The film leaves you the wiever your head with the question, What was the point? probably fun or money, I guess. Anyway, like I said extremely fun, light entertainment.

Quite Good, But A Bit Overrated **1/2 out of****

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This in my opinion is the best of the "Fred And Ginger" vehicles in which there is a very amusing case of mistaken identity, though maybe not as clever as "Swing Time" their next feature. It is more lovable, charming and enjoyable and shows all the qualities of a great early musical.

One of the best things about the film is that there are so many amusing mishaps that while not all of them cracked me up, there were enough to keep me laughing a fair amount, especially when Eric Blore puts on a fake wedding and Edward Everett Horton's receptionist falls into the sea.

Undoubtedly though, the best thing is the hilarious tension between the two leads. Though not my favourite 30's musical, that would be "42nd Street" (Incidentally a film where Rogers plays a small role).

Although "Top Hat" slightly outstays it's welcome, it is a truly magical affair with a lovely ending.

Superb, ****/****

American Perfekt stars the "Lovely" Fairuza Balk (Almost Famous, Return To Oz), hitch-hiking to find her sister.

The film is not much good and all the actors and actresses are wooden (just like a stick, which would be a suitable replacement), Fairuza Balk is superb!

A Film Of Chances and percentage, apart from balk there is 0% chance anything in it is worth seeing, For Fairuza fans and people who have watched all their other videos.

Balk Rules, Film Stinks/** out of ****

Mr. and Mrs. Smith is Hitchcock's only addition to the genre of screwball comedy. The plot revolves around the couple of the title, who are informed that their marriage is no longer legal, and that they must re-wed. This is my own personal favourite of the director's films: funny and well-shot, with Montgomery in a league of his own. The movie's only real flaw is Jack Carson, surprisingly poor in a well-written role.

That aside, the film is fantastic! **** out of ****

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There are three redeeming features about this terrible film. 1. An exciting fight scene, ending in sex. 2. A Student riot. 3. A Speedy motorbike chase, ending with a murder.

Apart from that, this film is surprisingly unpromising and McCarthy delivers one of the worst performances i've ever seen he might as well be a plank of wood for all he's worth. The location of rome could be shot well, but in dank, dark colours and photos of run down cobbled houses, he fails at th easiest of opportunities. This is almost as boring as the videos they show in history lessons at high school!

Frankly, Disappointing. **/****

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At the turn of the century, everyone is getting ready for the St. Louis fair, even though it's in a years time. This absolutely class film stars the likes of Judy Garland (The Wizard Of Oz) and Margaret O' Brien (Little Women/1942 version) who was the first ever child star. This film starts in spring with a happy family staring around at the boy next door and holding house paties and singing such great tunes as "The Bamboo Tree", a new boy as (Garland's film family), the Smith's had only lived there 2 days (or vice versa), then to christmas as "Tootsie" (O'Brien) throws a snowball at the man down the road and shouts "I hate you Mr Braukoff", absolute class!

One of the best films ever, ****/****

Leo McCarey has directd many incredible films e.g. "Horse Feathers" the marx's brothers funniest if not best outing. In this he makes his romance film, a weird affair and leaves the viewer wondering, what the hell was the morale there, and it leaves you with a feelng of NO ENDING Like in "Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines" (**1/2 out of ****.) The romance on the boat however is undoubtedly classy, and the bits with the elderley people work exceedingly well.

***/****

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This is one of the great comedies, with an olympic weight lifter doing somersaults and lifting a lawyer in the air. This contains great humour with lines like "Did the family cow take these photos" and Cole Porter's "Dear Amanda" (Or something like that).

The only problem is Hepburn's argument is pretentious and would never overcome an argument in court!

Brilliant Still ****/****

Monster mash sequels, who the hell needs them, not me. In one of the most laughably boring (though you may be too bored to laugh) films ever, not so much a spoof as a rip off that sends itself up, it obviously doesn't take itself seriously enough and that proves costly and it ends up being one of those films that you remember wanting to see to give a bad rating and say you'd seen it, you walk away like you have been completely and utterly un-enthralled, (which is how you will feel after watching this), pure trash, only for the simple minded! Utter Trash

*/****

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Made 9 years before "M" and 3 before "Metropolis", Fritz Lang's true masterpiece about a Gambler Dr Mabuse who tries to possess a gambler's mind, enter a romantic french dancer, her brother named Richard Fleury, yes, Fleury. It was the first ever film to recieve the UK certificate "18", Fritz Lang's film though is no more shocking than "M" in which the main character is a mentally ill child molester! Anyway, back to the point, Mabuse is a stroke of genius, worth watching, whoever you are!

****/****

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Finding Nemo, is surprisigly classy and unsentimental. Following Nemo A clown fish who just doesn't want his dad bugging him dares to touch a ship and gets picked up by a giant boat net with P. Waterman written in it. A truly brilliant adventure with rides on sea turtles, the Sidney ocean, a selfish fish beating but good meaning girl, everyone will love it unless they are afraid of sharks.

***1/2 out of 4

I had the unfortunate experience of seeing "Scary Movie" **1/2 out of 4, "Scary Movie 2" aka "Scarier Movie" or "Scary Movie II" and "The Mummy Returns" aka "The Worst Film Ever" (Though only I call it that) and my brother refers to it as "rubbish", don't be unfortunate STAY AWAY AT ALL COSTS!