Categories: just-life
Date: 04 August 2008 21:56:32
Two films for me to recommend to you this evening; the first is out on current release and is the new Pixar film WALL-E (or Waaaaaaaaalieeeeeeeee as one friend calls it).
Now I hadn't gone to the cinema to see WALL-E, I had gone intending to see the new Batman movie but due to a broken-down numpty on the M1 I didn't get there in time. And in a way I'm glad it ended up that way for WALL-E is a great film. Which when you consider that the two main characters manage only about half-a-dozen different words between them is pretty impressive.
There are lots of comic japes for the kids, a whole bunch or environmental/health issues for the politically inclined and a healthy dollop of science-fiction references for those who would expect such things. Including the fact that WALL-E looks a lot like Johnny Five from the Short Circuit films!!
The other film I believe could be described as exceedingly lovely. It was the second of BBC1's Renee Zellweger love-in over the weekend and was the biopic about Beatrix Potter (she of Peter Rabbit fame). Now I shan't say that I am the greatest Zellweger fan, the only other film of hers that I can think of was the other one that BBC showed (Bridget Jones) and I wasn't a big fan of that (far too much like an Adrian Mole copy).
I was however completely won over by this film. There was a suitable amount of cuteness, a smidgen of of tradgedy and a generally hopefull ending, which I think that we all (should) agree is always a nice way to end a film.