Shrek 3

Another great film – I’ve liked all 3 in this series and they still continue to find ways to make you laugh really loud…

The story here is not the strong point – I think the first one excelled here & the second one was also a notch higher. However, you still have a very lovable ogre accompanied as always by the annoyingly lovable Donkey and the suave Puss in Boots. And the jokes are still exceedingly funny…

What I find amazing (in Disney cartoons and Pixar films) is the way they are able to layer the films – the way a 6 year old and a 36 year old are able to watch the film together yet find different parts funny, relate to different jokes. Jungle Book, Finding Nemo, Antz and Shrek have all had this uncanny ability and I continue to be in awe of them.

I’ve met people who tell me quite disdainfully that they don’t watch cartoons. And then they give you a superior, once over look, which says ‘its for kids’. I wish they would watch an animated movie like Shrek 3. It’s a great movie and I would have to be reminded that its a cartoon.

Pirates Of the Caribbean 3 (At World's End)

I think they’ve lost sight of what really made the first one successful. In the original one, there were a few, extremely endearing characters, a simple but gripping storyline and some brilliant one-liners.

This has now been replaced by a very complicated yet predictable story, a plethora of characters, none of whom are developed, and an almost obsessive focus on special effects – they fly in thick and fast, and for me, they become boring after a while. Oh ! and they forgot the one-liners. Even Jack Sparrow becomes boring, they dress up Keira Knightley in weird costumes and Orlando Bloom – well, you can't figure out whether he is a good good guy or a bad good guy.

I know i'm likely to be in a minority but I never saw part2 and I wish I hadn’t seen part 3.

Fool N Final

A terrible, slapstick version of Snatch, Guy Ritchie’s brilliant second film. They’ve taken the broad elements of the film, mangled them almost beyond recognition, added some unnecessary love interests (ie cute young things like Ayesha Takia and Sameera Reddy), some even more unnecessary melodramatic situations, some very terrible last year jokes (mostly between Paresh Rawal and Johnny Lever) and worse of all, inserted 4-5 ‘desperately trying to be cool’ songs.

However, there is a set of people who were enjoying this film thoroughly in the audience.
They say you can Fool all of the people some of the time, and for three hours the producer / director maNaged in this apology of a movie. Unfortunately they’re having the Final laugh, all the way to the bank.