Disenchanted (dir. Adam Shankman) is the sequel to Enchanted (dir. Kevin Lima) that we never knew we needed. The film starts after a time jump from the first move, where Giselle (Amy Adams) and Robert (Patrick Dempsey) have gotten married and had a child together. Disenchanted shows what happens in the real world after “happily ever after”–and how not everything will always work perfectly.
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Just like the superhero movie and the reboot, video game movies are undoubtedly one of the biggest blockbuster seat-fillers of newer cinema. But video game movies aren’t yet as highly recognized as superhero films or remakes because, the video game adaptation sub-genre has a horrible track record with critical and audiences reviews. The vast majority of these movies rarely reach a 50% score on Rotten Tomatoes, with anything at around a 70%, or a C grade, being seen as a better adaptation. Last month we saw Uncharted, another video game adaptation, and it proved to us yet again that studios sure love throwing money in places and hoping to have it returned to them. The outliers of this genre usually don’t disappoint though, whether it is the animated Angry Birds 2, which weirdly surprised audiences, or Detective Pikachu, a live action adaptation that reminds us why those games should never go hyper-realistic.
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Video game movies are a mixed bag. Some of them, like Detective Pikachu and Final Fantasy: The Advent Children, are good, while others like Super Mario Bros., Assassin’s Creed, and the Resident Evil series are less than stellar. When I first saw the trailer for Sonic the Hedgehog, a film based on a video game franchise I grew up playing, I was disappointed, and a little bit disturbed by the underwhelming plot and by Sonic’s design. I thought it was going to be an ironic masterpiece. Once they changed his design, however, everything changed. I knew right from the remade trailer that I was going to love this film; and nobody on the Internet would convince me otherwise.
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