Excess of Opinions

reasonably funny, although not terrific. good to watch with a beer in hand for musical biopic fans. Jenna Fischer is extremely good!

like being trapped in a closet with a violent, clearly insane alcoholic for 3 hours. Daniel Day-Lewis was too convincing for this to have been a pleasant experience for me, but the depth of artistry and power can’t be disputed. I hope he uses that Oscar to make a movie about fluffy bunnies and orphans catching rainbows, because i fully regret seeing this.

CHARMING!! delicious and cute and thoroughly entertaining. FABULOUS set dressings and costumes! very light while still being earnest – like “Gentleman Prefer Blonds” with modern pacing.

pretty good, but not much more than a kid’s movie. ILM continues to be pretty but lifeless. OMG, Andrew McCarthy in a cameo!!

excellent and good-looking, with Guillermo del Toro’s unmistakable handprint all over it. not quite as subtle or weighty as del Toro’s own, but suspenseful and well-crafted.

completely adorable and hilarious, in the fine tradition of The 40-Year-Old Virgin. also, free wang! the last act suddenly got a bit forced, but enough goodwill has been built up by then that you don’t begrudge it some unnecessary schmaltz.

i loved it! RDJr. was excellent and frenetic and damaged, which are all things i think superheroes should be. it moved quickly, i enjoyed Gwyneth Paltrow and Terrence Howard in their underused yet appealingly neurotic sidekick roles. and i’ve been waiting to see The Dude be a villain for a long time now. although i did get bent out of shape at the physical impossibility of Gwyneth running on metal grating in stilettos.

George Clooney is a terrible, terrible director who fumbled a clearly tight, snappy script.There is something very wrong with Renee Zellweger’s face. John Krasinski is dreamy, and Stephen Root steals so many scenes he should be arrested. frequently and unforgivably period INaccurate. last and probably least, this movie suffered horribly, pinned beneath the bloated Randy Newman score that he stole from “The Sting” (where it wasn’t much better).

really pretty good! i avoided the first one, but ed norton got me into the theater. the hulk effects don’t do it for me, but the real actors were very sympathetic and engaging, and the plot was simple and not too convoluted. i really enjoyed watching the movie, and i wanted to take bruce banner and betty ross home for dinner. the only thing i really didn’t like was tim roth’s CGI pecs – it was really weird and gross.

completely rad!! the design and backgrounds and textures are completely gorgeous, and the movie just zipped along. really excellent voices filled out a simple, spare plot (like a good martial arts movie ought to have). adorable and really very funny.
maybe not appropriate for small or nervous children, because of Ian McShane’s scary-ass snow leopard. jeebus cripes.