Marvyn G

One of the greatest movies on Sasquatch out there. Following the Hendersons on a road trip, who eventually run into a Sasquatch. It doesn't take too long to see the star creature of this film, there is plenty of comedy in Harry and the Hendersons too. Harry is a gentle, sympathetic Bigfoot, and seeing him through George's rifle just made me pity Harry, with his innocent looking face. That's when the film takes it's turn, and they see him as more than a monster. It has a strong sort of anti-fur trade kind of thing, (Which is good, but still people torture foxes for their skins in 2024.) With Harry only disliking their ownership of mounted ungulates and fox fur pelts. Looking it up the movie has a message of respecting nature, which I guess ties into the beginning where Ernie likes shooting things, and he gets that rabbit, and tells his dad to shoot the Bigfoot in case it's not really dead. Other than the Hendersons everybody else has the blind spot perspective of Bigfoot as the savage snowman gorilla man monster, including George's father. I wonder if this matches some audience's reaction to bigfoot movies in real life, or if some bigfoot projects going underrated is because some people can't take Bigfoot seriously enough for a movie. (Though I can, and I like Bigfoot.) A thought I had is the film may have come off to audiences as anti-hunting, and vegan, instead of specifically respect nature. Been awhile since I watched this, like a few weeks as of writing, but yes the ending is emotional, I don't remember why exactly. No CGI used for Harry, just a suit or puppets, it looks pretty good. But yeah, rent this movie on Prime or whatever subscription you use, buy it on DVD or Blu-ray if you got one of those, it's worth it for sure.

The hobbit trilogy is based off of one book and serves as a prequel to the Lord of the Rings trilogy, I think it turned out pretty good. The visuals of Unexpected Journey are beautiful, with the Shire being fleshed out really well, and the lighting effects make really good atmospheric looks for the different areas they venture to. The movie mostly follows a Bilbo Baggins 60 years younger than you would have seen him before, Martin Freeman's facial expressions and reactions were done well, and make for some funny reactions in the character. I like the dwarves, they all have unique personalities written, they are quite fun, my favorite is probably Balin. Unexpected Journey has some comedy and makes itself quite amusing, even in some instances with dark dreary caves, and it lines up well with the feeling of the book, though some parts of these movies are more serious and darker. There are some differences form the book, I don't remember if the Orc Azog in in, I think the book had talking eagles and wolves instead of Wargs and pale orcs. Radagast is another fun addition too. The hobbit movies have been less popular than the original one, for having some deviations from the book. I think it turned out good regardless, one side note here is the production was quite rough with these hobbit movies.

Really good film to watch, it is also really rewatchable. I was not too familiar with D&D and I would mix it up with Magic the gathering. You don't have to be so familiar with the tabletop game however, to watch this movie. You watch the characters and begin to enjoy it and the fictional world they live in from the beginning. It has some lighthearted humor and it's pretty fun to watch, the gags and funny moments in the film with the bard Edgin Darvis was quite hilarious. One of the villains of the film, Conman Forge, seems to know that what he is doing is wrong, he is a little goofy and has a generally bright attitude, and a disgust of people putting their fingers in his tea, and of tentacled creatures, which adds to the comedy. Sophina, the red witch, is the other villain who loathes him, but tolerates him enough to gain ownership of the kingdom he took. Xenk is a heroic wise figure in the film that doesn't like sarcasm so much. The scene with the talking undead was quite a fun part of the film. The few songs put in are nice additions to the film while not making it a musical. If you like action adventure/fantasy films I would really recommend this one, it's worth watching for sure.

Mostly good/okay movie, some of it was quite funny. Susan is transformed into a giant by an asteroid, during her wedding, and she is transported into a secret base to be kept captive with some weird monsters and creatures of various backgrounds. Some of the humor is funny. They have to defeat an unenthusiastic alien which came to earth to enslave humanity and to take the plasma that made Susan giant, (Ginormica). B. O. B has no brain, so he is quite stupid, a lot of the goofs are from B. O. B. In the end Susan realizes Derek Dietl, her fiancé, was really selfish and self important, which she was blind to in the beginning. The ending set up the potential for more, which may have been preparation in case it succeeded enough. While a sequel has never come from this movie, I think sequels could have been fun revisits to this, maybe fixing some things, and exploring more potential with the characters like B. O. B. A sequel could have had some ridiculous and fun transformations, and changes in line with the world this movie built, based on the transformation of Insectosaurus.

Really good movie, and it's only the first of the trilogy. The beginning of the movie is the prologue of course, and the prologue introduces you to the world of Middle Earth, giving you some backstory to what had happened. LOTR was fleshed out really well, the people and creatures to the environments and structures. Sometimes I lose track in my memory of what happens where, like the Rohan stuff I'll forget when it's introduced in the third movie or the second one? But back to Fellowship, this movie closely follows the story of some hobbits, (quite small race of humans or human like beings, if you are new to this Tolkien/middle earth thing) when Frodo finds himself having to leave the Shire to get rid of an evil ring of power and deliver it to somewhere where, he doesn't know yet until later. The characters in the fellowship are quite likeable and have different quirks, like Pippin being the fumbling fool who sometimes creates and avalanche of ruckus, on mistake. Frodo is nervous but quite bold, as he knows what he has to do and why it's important, Sam is his loyal friend who won't let him go alone. The orcs and Oruk-hai can be quite scary foes, and while they are sword fodder in this series, some individual orcs are quite menacing and ugly and they freak me out a little, like that big one in this movie. I do recommend this movie, and actually the whole trilogy, if you are open to some fantasy stuff with an 'alternate' world with it's own different history and lore. You will get sparingly used dragons, which are used to good effect, and big CGI monsters too. The CGI looks great.

Surprisingly good for the 4th installment of Kung Fu Panda, and when I saw the general audience 'score' for this was quite high, I was also impressed then, because I'm used to seeing recent movies of things like Lord of the Rings or Jurassic World getting lower ratings and a lot of negative stuff thrown at them, this one did quite good. Part 4 of this series manages to do things differently from the last ones, to give it a new theme and feel. This one is themed more with shady characters, due to the new character Zhen (or Zheng?), which plays quite an important role in this movie. The furious five are not so present this time, which gives it a different feeling from the last installments, and while Kung Fu Panda 3 started to make the furious 5 part way a little bit and split up, this installment takes that to a new level. Lots of good lines and some cool moments put in. There is nothing too sad in this one like 2 and 3, but it does as usual give you those flashback scenes, to give more understanding to Zhen. The ending is unique from the previous films, and it also makes me question where this could go next, as this probably isn't the end still, though this movie in particular makes for a new era.

Pretty good sequel, it was the third movie with its place justified by the ending of the second one, I found, (by watching it of course). This one opens up with a dramatic entrance of the furious 5 (and Po). In part 3, Po finds himself struggling a bit with teaching, and also with understanding who he is beyond the title name, 'Dragon warrior'. The new villain is actually the oldest one, fitting snug into the timeline. The reuse of that flashback of Po's mother leaving him, and the peacock feathers flashing, still gave me chills, and it was the emotional scene of this movie, which signifies moving on from the grief of the massacre, and almost like a new era for those characters. The Pandas have a fun-loving twist from how they were first observed in the end of the last installment, which was probably done to give the audience a new little twist, and I actually like it, and I like how Po takes them, it is a wholesome thing in this movie. The near ending part of the movie was epic too.

This is a fantastic movie, it has nice messages within it and some nice references and meanings. The story is action packed enough and eventually is quite tragic and sad, but they infuse some comedy, particularly with Beetle, who is forgetful and adds some great funny moments into the film. The aunts are the bounty hunting villains of the story, and they are quite creepy and savage, they are well written and ruthless. The stop motion animation intermixed with some computer effects is beautifully made, one scene in particular has some really good sunset lighting. The ending is nice, though it leaves me somewhat confused, however I liked the twist it gave. second time watching the ending made me feel a little more emotional, because I was less focused on the confusion of it. This is one of Laika's best made films.

The show as fun to watch, not the best one but it worked enough. It was totally scripted from what saw since I indeed in fact watched the show. Alaskan Killer Bigfoot follows a group of Alaskan guys that come from a tribe there, who were supposedly ran off of Portlock Island by the Sasquatch type monster named Nantinaaq. I cannot recall the tribe's name. They go to Portlock to try to reclaim the now perhaps inconveniently placed settlement on the island, and they have to watch out for the infamous Nantinaaq. The show makes some crazy claims, such as the monster killed some villagers in the 70s or 80s or something, however I find it more likely some people may have died at the settlement, due to natural causes, but I don't know anything about it. The thing is it may not be good to confuse viewers into actually thinking a giant monster killed people, because some people are going to believe this stuff. The true history of Portlock goes something like being a village settlement, more western style that an Alaskan tribe lived in, and then they moved out, abandoning the town, due to the road with incoming supplies being inconveniently separate from Portlock. The legend of Nantinaaq was made up in 2000 or 2001, on the internet, and it spread as a myth that Discovery loves to use.

Definitely not as good as Triggerfish's other work, Khumba, being the only other one I watched from them. This movie is set in a desert, Kai is a young Peregrine Falcon who has lived within the limits of an enclosed geographic area, very highly guarded by his father, Tendai. I forget why exactly but he wants to go to more of the world and so he leaves, it's not great to keep him enclosed like that anyway. And Kai befriends other birds, which are weird birds too. The animation feels quite off, the mouths expand on the falcons and detract back shut in a weird looking way, and the birds all too obviously use their primary wing feathers as if they are fingers, which kind of bugs me, I don't think other birds in animation did it that much. It's also quite too obvious to see the stretching of the models at their joints when they move. Another thing I wanted to point out is the dust and dirt of a desert in this movie, the air is quite clear, a detail I would have wanted to see more of in this movie is dust as it's blown up off the ground, I thought I remember Khumba having more of that kind of detail. This film as Triggerfish Studio's first feature film, which started production in 2006, so I can accept that they started here and made Khumba, and in between they got better. In other words it's more understandable that this is the first one they did, and Triggerfish has came a way since this one. The voice overs for these birds sounded annoying to me, Kai's voice in particular, along with a lot of the other ones. The writing wasn't very good, mainly with the dialogue. The attempt at the humor for the marabou stork's dialogue didn't cut it. The feeling of the scene when Tendai finds that feather of his deceased wife, which he keeps mourning over, however was different and for a bit with the darker lighting the scene almost felt like it came out of a better film. The young Saddle billed Stork chick in the basket atop their mother's back was weird to me, they seemed quite 'old' to be a new hatchling, they acted like an energetic adventurous kid instead of a baby bird who hasn't flown yet. One of the last things I saw in that movie was a fat monitor lizard villain, I actually couldn't tell what it was other than it must have been a lizard of some kind. I quickly grew disinterested after what, like several minutes or something before I clicked off, so this one I just didn't finish, (if you're wondering this was free on Prime when I watched it). As far as bird movies go there are definitely better ones out there, first one that comes to mind is Owls of Ga-Hoole. And I almost want to consider the Wild Robot an upcoming bird movie, since Geese are a big part of that one.