Special (2006)

Special (2006)
Rating: ★★★★
Aug 15, 2012Man Believes He is a Superhero
Before the likes of Defendor, Kick-Ass and Super, there was this, one of the best comedies about superheroes with no powers. The film loves screwing with its audience and comes with a series of mind-bending flips between drug hallucination and subjective view of the superpowers in action

Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)

Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)
Rating: ★★
Jul 17, 2009Animation/Prehistoric Talking Animals
Another of Blue Sky Studios' interminable animated sequels to its likeable original about prehistoric talking animals. This has little substance beyond a kinetic rush from one gag to the next

Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012)

Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012)
Rating:
Jul 20, 2012Animation/Prehistoric Talking Animals
This is not a film, it is a money-making machine in the guise of a film aimed squarely at undiscerning family audiences that plays to familiar characters and comic routines and has minimal difference to the preceding three Ice Age films

Red Dawn (2012)

Red Dawn (2012)
Rating:
Nov 21, 2012North Korean Invasion of the USA
The idea of remaking John Milus's ridiculous 1984 survivalist fantasy about a Communist invasion of the USA maybe counts as one of the most absurdly unnecessary of all remakes. The film laughably tries to deal with the absence of a Soviet Union by creating a boogeyman out of North Korea