Bugs Bunny gets the makeover treatment for the “Looney Tunes show”
Jun 9th
Revamped Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck
Bugs Bunny and his gang of loonies are planning to make a comeback in the “Looney Tunes Show”, a half-hour weekly series scheduled to air this fall on the Cartoon Network.
The show will take place in a typical suburb where Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck now live as housemates. Their neighbours will include Porky Pigs, Tweety Bird, Sylvester and Yosemite Sam.
Think “Desperate Housewives” but with cartoon characters instead of, uh…housewives.
The creators of the new show are probably feeling a huge load of pressure, because reinventing those classic characters is no easy task. Read the rest of this entry »
Alice in Wonderland: A Movie Review
Apr 21st
No matter how much you want to like this movie, you’re going to be disappointed. Like everyone else, I had high expectations for Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. They were not met.
Tim Burton must have felt like the rabbit in the story, because it looked like he was in a hurry to finish the story in the shortest amount of time possible.
It’s not that the screenplay wasn’t going anywhere. It went from point (A): “Alice (Mia Wasikowska) falls down the rabbit hole” to point (B): “Alice fights in a battle against the evil queen”. What happened between those two points was really confusing.
The characters, just like the screenplay, kept zig-zagging from one end of Wonderland to another.
The producers probably insisted on keeping the movie under a 2 hour duration.
Lewis Caroll’s Wonderland is a heterogeneous world filled with a multitude of eccentric characters. Within this complex environment, fitting a story in a short time frame (1h48mins to be exact) can be a perilous endeavor. Read the rest of this entry »
Will Epic Mickey induce the rebirth of an icon?
Mar 31st
A little while ago, Mickey Mouse sat down with his bosses and had a long due conversation. As he was no longer content with his only role as Disney’s emblem, he asked to get back into action. A new video game coming this fall will give him that opportunity. The video game is called Epic Mickey and is being developed by Disney’s Junction Point Studios.
Mickey Mouse to star in "Epic Mickey"
The video game features Mickey Mouse sporting his old-school looks of the 1930s. Players will guide Mickey through a world called Cartoon Wasteland in which retired cartoon characters enjoy a peaceful retirement. Among those characters lives Oswald the rabbit, Disney’s first cartoon star and predecessor to Mickey Mouse.
Players will have the opportunity to let Mickey perform good or evil actions throughout the game. The choice of actions will have an effect on the path of the game, and players will have to deal with the consequences of their decisions as the game progresses.
Wait…Good old Mickey Mouse behaving badly? Now that’s quite unusual. Is your mom going to be ok with that? Read the rest of this entry »
Avatar: A Movie Review
Jan 24th
All that was missing were the odours and the mosquito bites.
Avatar is a masterpiece. I can’t remember the last time I felt like this after watching a movie. That time was probably after watching Star Wars for the first time, and that was a long, long time ago.
Avatar made such an impression on me that I had to catch my breath at the end of the movie.
Set in the year 2154, the story takes place on the planet Pandora, where a human colony is attempting to harvest precious metal ressources worth billions of dollars. The mining company encounters a few glitches. Read the rest of this entry »
Disney’s Christmas Carol: A Movie Review
Dec 29th
Did we really need another helping of the classic Dickens story from Hollywood? The answer is an enthusiastic yes! Disney’s version of A Christmas Carol exceeded my expectations by a long shot.
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What I anticipated to be another family-friendly Christmas flick is in fact a thrilling ghost movie, to the point that I actually jumped in my seat a few times during the screening.
You can take your kids to see it but I would definitely not call this a kiddie movie.
We all know the story by heart, but here’s a quick recap anyway: in 1843 London, Ebenezer Scrooge is an old, stingy businessman who has no interest in partying or helping those in need (two things the rest of us normally do around Christmas time). Read the rest of this entry »