Stephen HerekReseñas

5

This has been my all-time favourite film for at least a decade.

Mr Holland’s Opus is a wonderful, ‘feel-good’ story about a young man who wants to compose music… but takes a job teaching music in a school to provide a reliable income. It’s only ever going to be temporary, or so he thinks at first. But the years roll by, and he finds himself more and more drawn into the life of the school, making an incredible difference to many of the students.

There’s a whole other storyline involving Mr Holland’s wife and son, which is incredibly moving, and brings tears to the eyes at times even seeing it for the second or third time.

If you like films with fast car chases, great excitement, sex and violence, then don’t bother. But for those who like a slower pace of life, who are interested in schools, or music, or great characterisation, I would highly recommend this. Mr Holland is played brilliantly by Richard Dreyfuss, as realistic at sixty as he is at the start of the film.

Most recent longer review here: https://suesdvdreviews.blogspot.com/2019/11/mr-hollands-opus-richard-dreyfuss.ht...

The hot-headed young D'Artagnan along with three former legendary but now down on their luck Musketeers must unite and defeat a beautiful double agent and her villainous employer from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war.
Rated PG-13 for sequences of adventure action violence

The king's former bodyguards try to stop a usurping cardinal.

1/4 (Bad).

Boring and kind of gross. It makes attempts to be charming and fails miserably.½

In lieu of recent years' onslaught of Disney live action remakes, this mid-nineties early attempt is quite interesting in how it stays close to the original, but feels free to expand, update and alter where it suits it to. And the first half of the film is really quite good, if you can get on board for the over-the-top/arch silliness. It loses all its steam, though, when the middle of the film spends 15 minutes on no-dialogue scenes of exposition hijinks of dogs and various other trained animals running around on the screen. While (like the rest of the film) technically impressive animal acting, that would not have entertained me, even as a child. After this, the climax of the movie is unfortunately a weak Home Alone-impression of endless slapstick on ice, which is admittedly probably quite entertaining to children, but unlike the first half of the movie holds little merit for older co-viewers. All in all an uneven film, but considering the animated original is one of Disney's weaker classics, it is still a surprisingly solid remake, with an impressive cast list. Unfortunately, excepting perhaps Tim McInnerny and the extreme performance (at least if you're the sort who don't cringe too easily) of Glenn Close, the cast doesn't get too much of interest to do, but they certainly do what they can to keep you interested, even through the weakest of the slapstick gags. I have a soft spot for the quality animation work in the old one, but that concern aside, I'd probably say they are about as good, and can be watched fairly interchangeably. In short -- the film is entertaining enough for younger children, but in the back half falls a rather short of the entertaining-for-the-whole-family ideal that the beginning of the film made a fair attempt at.

Dalmatians Pongo and Perdita settle into their owners' flat in London to become proud parents of 15 precocious pups. It's one big happy dog family until the evil Cruella De Vil kidnaps the puppies, along with every other Dalmatian in the city. It's up to Pongo and Perdita to unite the entire animal population in a mission to help the courageous pups outsmart their captor.

Two idiots travel through time in order to pass their high school history class.

Wonderfully stupid and absurd.

Concept: A
Story: C
Characters: D
Dialog: B
Pacing: B
Cinematography: C
Special effects/design: C
Acting: C
Music: C

Enjoyment: A

GPA: 2.5/4½

Tough trial lawyer Gorden Bombay ( Emilio Estevez) never losses. But when he's slapped with a community service assignment, he must coach a ragtag team of peewee hockey players who can't skate, can't score, and can't win. Bombay soon realizes there are more important things than winning. Armed with his new attitude, feathers fly as Bombay and The Ducks battle along to the toughest game of their lives. PG 104 minutes

Stupid adaption. Watch the seventies version instead, if you just want to see one.