In the never-ending and depressing saga of Disney turning all their beloved animated classics into live-action remakes (because $$$), we have The Little Mermaid, the teenage mermaid who wants to be a human. However, with all of the lousy Disney remakes, a light finally shines through! Taking elements of the 1989 animated feature film,…
Movies being made into Broadway musicals that are then made into movies again? Good God! Well, it worked for Mel Brooks’ The Producers but it failed with Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. Yeah, sometimes it’s best to leave well enough alone. Based on Roald Dahl’s 1988 book & 1996 movie (see review below), this popular…
What happens when you combine the writers of the fantastic 1970 musical Scrooge with the cringe-inducing kiddie movie, Welcome to Monster High? You get a mixed bag of silly kiddie antics, musical numbers lifted from better movies, and some very strange adaptions based on the iconic Dickens novel. Everyone on the planet knows the classic…
Based on Erica Schmidt’s 2018 stage musical (she wrote the screenplay and is married to Peter Dinklage), this movie is based on Edmond Rostand’s classic Cyrano deBergerac, the vain and highly-skilled swordsman whose large nose kept him from wooing the love of his life, Roxanne. In this adaptation, however, well. . . Dinklage, of Game…
When I saw the trailer for Speilberg’s vision of remaking the original 1961 musical, I was shocked to see how good it looked! Could the man who gave us Jaws and E.T. actually pull a hat trick, re-do a classic, and make it watchable? If you know anything about this highly acclaimed 1961 musical,…
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