Sentences with phrase «charm of the first film»

Dead Rising: Endgame tries to take a more realistic tone compared to the first film, but in doing so, takes away the charms of the first film.

The ending tries to recapture some of the sweet - natured charm of the first film, but it rings hollow after all that has come before, and we feel bored as a result.

It does not have the charm of the first film and it almost falls apart without seeing the first film.

But the charm of the first film lay in its «good taste be damned» attitude!

Not exact matches

In Tangled, the Walt Disney Company's new animated, feature - length, 3 - D adaptation of «Rapunzel,» critic Armond White finds, sadly, that the story of the girl with the very long locks not only «has been amped up from the morality tale told by the Brothers Grimm into a typically overactive Disney concoction of cute humans, comic animals, and one - dimensional villains,» but also that the film's «hyped - up story line... gives evidence that cultural standards have undergone a drastic change» in the decades since Walt Disney first set out to charm both children and adults with his animated retellings of fairy tales.

And yet, however considerable the film's charms (it's first - rate children's entertainment, to be sure), there's something just the slightest bit disappointing in how pro-forma it all feels: Ghibli geniuses Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki never clung to a house style, making films with wildly different looks and tones over the course of their careers, whereas Yonebayashi's first post-Ghibli effort colors well within the lines of stock Japanese animation.

As charming and gently agreeable as Kung Fu Panda 2 may be, screenwriters Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger, returning from the first film, haven't really upped the ante like we expect a sequel to do — much of what transpires here feels so comfortable as to be overwhelmingly familiar, as if you might have seen this movie before and let it slip your mind — until the very end, with its hint of yet another sequel that has me highly intrigued.

John Cho, who drew my attention for the first time when he appeared in «Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle» (2004), shows another side of his talent here in this film, and he has an unaffected onscreen chemistry with his co-star Haley Lu Richardson, who previously played a substantial supporting character in «The Edge of Seventeen» (2016) and will probably advance further considering her charming presence on the screen.

50 First Dates is a film with a beguiling charm, if only because it relies on the strength of two actors who have done the very same thing years before.

«Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest» (2006) Box Office Take: $ 1,066 billion 21st Century Box Office Ranking: 12 Not as well - crafted as it predecessor, but not as bloated as the films that followed, the first «Pirates» sequel «Dead Man's Chest» was still kind of a mess, but still retained enough of the original's invention and charm to remain somewhat palatablOf The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest» (2006) Box Office Take: $ 1,066 billion 21st Century Box Office Ranking: 12 Not as well - crafted as it predecessor, but not as bloated as the films that followed, the first «Pirates» sequel «Dead Man's Chest» was still kind of a mess, but still retained enough of the original's invention and charm to remain somewhat palatablof a mess, but still retained enough of the original's invention and charm to remain somewhat palatablof the original's invention and charm to remain somewhat palatable.

And I'll be talking about how wonderful it was there, up in the mountains of Colorado in this charming town where everyone has a dog and it rains every afternoon, where I first saw these outstanding films.

The Florida Project doesn't have the hook of Sean Baker's first film, Tangerine (a.k.a «the iPhone movie»), but according to The A.V. Club's own A.A. Dowd, it's got all of the charm.

Bridget Jones used to be adorable and charismatic in the first film, but now it can be irritating to see her behave so much like a retard; besides, the movie has a lot of clichés and doesn't manage to be consistently funny, even if it does have its hilarious moments and some charm.

Being the third wheel on someone else's first date is rarely as delightful as it is in «Southside With You,» Richard Tanne's charming film about two 20 - something lawyers spending some time together outside of the office in 1989 Chicago.

It's not as narratively or emotionally fluent as Mexican director Alonso Ruizpalacios» breakout debut Güeros (2014), another Berlinale debut which won the prize for best first film that year, but looks and sounds just as gorgeous, AND it has the same kind of melancholic charm to it.

Lake Bell)(Grade: B)-- Lake Bell's charming In A World may be the first film to explore the occupation of voice - over artists (otherwise known as the folks with soothi...

Plaza owns the first half of the film as she teases Devine until he practically explodes, and then Kendrick turns up her doe - eyed charm to bring the movie home.

Starring former Downton Abbey star Dan Stevens, the film tells the tale of a hunky veteran who pays a visit to the grieving family of a fallen comrade and turns out to not be the perfect (and irresistibly charming) houseguest he at first seems like.

I don't hate the film, it panders to me like a MFer, but it is not without its charms, just that the schtick wears thin after a while, it gets its points across pretty much after the first act, then it dawdles its way to a sort of silly finish.

Traynor, it turns out, is not so much the manipulative but charming sleazebag he was in the first half of the film, but a monstrous nightmare husband — a torturer and serial rapist; the kind of guy who would literally sell his alleged true love to the highest bidder or, in one horrific instance, several bidders.

The charm of the first Mummy film was that it took nothing seriously.

As soon as the film started, it was clear that July's voice as a filmmaker hasn't changed that much in the past five years — the same irreverence, black humour and playful charm abounds — but the film lacks the bounce of her first feature.

Creatively incorporating extreme sports into the stock action format was one of the most charming and endearing aspects of the first film.

Britain fared better, with my favourite sci - fi horror film in a long time, Glazer's Under the Skin, and my favourite entertainment film of the year, the conventional, but charming Pride, while the flawed Mr. Turner impressively reflects the great painter's sun worship through Dick Pope's widescreen cinematography.Highlights of my year included being on the FIPRESCI jury at the Hong Kong IFF, where I admired Yang Hen's third feature, Na pian hu shui (Lake August), and a couple of first features among others, as well as attending the amazing HK film market for the first time, where I saw one of my three 2014 «films for the ages», Tsai's Journey to the West; and seeing a nitrate print of Hitchcock's Rebecca at the George Eastman House in Rochester (where they are doing a three - day all - nitrate festival in May, 2015!).

While the first two films skirted by on charm and sheer energy, «At World's End» clunks through three hours of excessive characterization and exposition — and none of it makes any sense.

I could add a couple more: Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson, 2015)-- the most original film I saw in 2015 La belle équipe (Julien Duvivier, 1936)-- a great film from this interesting and underrated director Die grosse Liebe (Otto Ludwig Preminger, 1931)-- Preminger's first film, a charming romance with a mother character that could have stepped out of a John Ford film; and does the revelation of Preminger's full name explain why Billy Wilder had a character in One, Two, Three (1961) called Otto Ludwig Piffel?

Low - key and charming, but with a few great chase sequences, the film also features Audrey Hepburn in one of her first roles.

That movie was «aca - awful,» and although it made a whole bunch of money, it doesn't have the same charm the first film had.

The first Spider - Man film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is almost exactly what the haters accuse every MCU film of being: a shallow, uninspired popcorn film that coasts by on jokes and charming actors.

Hanks» folksy charm is captivating in the first film to depict Walt Disney, and Thompson gives an Oscar - worthy turn as her curmudgeonly Travers drives nearly every frame of the film.

Cars 2 - Pixar's first mediocre movie stings most of all for fans of the original film, whose nearly every charm is lost in this wildly incongruous international espionage tale.

If all of «Submarine» had been as good as the first half - hour, it would be high up on this list; as it is, it's still a charming, beautifully made little film.

Although smaller in scale and ambition, and lesser in terms of emotional content, this sequel is lighthearted, comical, occasionally charming, and while, on the whole, it's really all a superfluous money grab, it is well made and amiable enough to garner a recommendation for anyone who enjoyed the first film and is anxious for more.

Still, everyone in the movie gives entertaining and enthusiastic performances — with special mention to Paul Bettany's charming crime lord - and with a stronger, smarter script (you guess the outcome of the movie within the film's first few minutes - not good) and the elimination of some very questionable choices (all spoilers, let's just say we're referring to the third act), «Solo» might have been something to really send a hologram Leia to call home with.

One of the first animated features made in Brazil, «Boy & the World» is a brightly colored, often charming film that juxtaposes simple, hand - drawn animation with kaleidoscopic computer - generated patterns.

A sequel was inevitable after the success of the first Marigold Hotel film, a charming comedy - drama based on a novel about a group of British senior citizens who retire to India and experience various forms of culture shock.

Kyle's Review: Having now sat willingly through (the last) three Harry Potter films, and knowing that I bought the first book at some point and that it rests, unread, somewhere with other books, I continue to blissfully remain ignorant of the charms of Harry Potter.

While I found it charming in his first song, it seemed to get boring and make all of his songs sound too similar by the end of the film.

(Grade: B)-- Lake Bell's charming In A World may be the first film to explore the occupation of voice - over artists (otherwise known as the folks with soothing and booming voices narrating trailers and commercials).

I'd also throw in its first sequel, 2001's «The Mummy Returns,» as a prime example of modernizing these films for sleekness and speed without sacrificing camp, charm and chills.

This is Aardman's first effort with computer generated animation but the look and the charm of their stop - action films is alive and well below the strrets of London.

When: September 16th Why: The first two «Bridget Jones» films are charming, if formulaic, rom - coms that did a good job of speaking to the neuroses of modern life.

Fans may enjoy it, but the charm and wit of the first film have been sacrificed at the altar of character development.

«RED 2» also lacks the breezy pace of the first movie, instead bogged down by an overcomplicated plot for seemingly no other reason than to pack as much talent into the film as possible, but then again, that's part of its charm.

Knightley isn't as charming as she was in the first film, and Bloom, who has proven himself effective in period pieces such as this, still can't act his way out of a paper bag, even alongside co-stars like Depp.

The forgetful but charming Dory, voiced by Ellen DeGeneres, was always the standout star of Finding Nemo — and the first trailer for her much - deserved follow - up film, Finding Dory, does not disappoint.

After checking out that first clip from the film, it's a little too tough to beat the charm of Hiro and Baymax's relationship, but based on this brief preview, the rest of the gang looks as though they'll offer up a fun, fresh dynamic as well.

Even as early as his first feature Spanking the Monkey, it has been clear that much of the charm of his films has not necessarily come from plot, but more from seeing what the characters will do next within the structure of the plot.

All seems charmed, at first, in «Steve McQueen: Ashes,» the artist and film director's new video installation at the Institute of Contemporary Art.