It’s almost like making a $100,000,000 movie based on a half-forgotten series of trading cards was a bad idea. Tim Burton‘s 1996 adaptation of the early 60s trading card series offers ten minutes or so of really great visuals recreating classic scenes from the series chronicling Earth being invaded by Martians. The trouble is, those 10 minutes are spread out over the film’s 106-minute runtime.
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Attempting to breathe new life into the dormant B-movie film series, the new Anaconda casts Paul Rudd, Jack Black, Steve Zahn, and Thandiwe Newton as childhood friends whose combined midlife crisis takes them to the Amazon Rainforest to attempt a low-budget reboot of the franchise. Added to the mix are Selton Mello as the wacky snake handler and Daniela Melchior as a young woman acting as their boat captain and guide (but running from her own troubles).
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This is bad. Inoffensive, but bad. Geared towards younger audiences, and fans of the game which has been around since 2011, A Minecraft Movie is a train wreck of a film that other than it’s design has very little going for it. The story involves people finding their way into this alternate dimension where you can build basically any squarish item you can imagine. We start we Steve (Jack Black) who is the first to find the realm but unintentionally puts it in danger from the equivalent of a failed America’s Got Talent contestant turned evil queen.
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The 8-bit plumber who launched a franchise gets his own big budget animated movie in Illumination’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie. You can tell Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic, the team that gave us the more successful Teen Titans GO! To the Movies, have genuine affection for the Super Mario franchise and the script finds some clever ways to work various gameplay elements into the story. It’s the story, however, that falls a bit short. Even at only 92 minutes, the film runs out of gas, noticeably dragging in spots. You could easily trim 20 minutes off its runtime.
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Having some fun at the expense of the genre, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story offers up an unapologetically goofy and over-the-top biopic of the son of a factory worker turned platinum recording artist (Daniel Radcliffe) who became famous by creating parody versions of popular songs.
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