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An intimate and revealing portrait shot over two years, The Weird World of Blowfly examines Clarence Reid’s personal and professional contradictions, explores his legacy and celebrates his musical and cultural significance as a rap and soul music legend.
Films: C · Reviews: C · Sucky Sequels · TV: A-M
More like an infomercial in disguise for the soundtrack.
Despite a couple of uneven parts that may try the patience of some, the whole of Fantasia is a marvel.
Although magnificent and filled with imagination, Fantasia 2000 doesn’t hold up as being particularly ground-breaking or innovative.
So awful it hits the bottom of the bad-o-meter and bounces back up to be sort of good. I haven’t laughed this hard in a while. Of course it was in all the wrong spots and mixed with an underlying groan.
The film remains timely for the themes of fame and success it explores with such great scope and emotion
Boring, annoying and not funny, Pete’s Dragon is one of the dullest films from Disney that I’ve ever seen.
Like the burnouts who stick longer than their leather jackets warrant, the shtick has gotten stale.
Pop fluff intended for kids stuck between Dora the Explorer and Gossip Girl. Consider it a bonus that it’s tolerable, if not fun, for the rest of us as well.
The Disney tween machine continues to plug along mixing sugar-pop ballads with the simple structure of summer camp in Camp Rock. The familiarity makes for something comfortable, nothing spectacular, but mindlessly enjoyable.
