Terrible Plan! Movie Reviews

What I liked: I watched this on the flight back from Europe, along with several other movies. I just need to take this moment to point out that the queen is actress and the fairy god mother from Cinderella, and Belletrix LeStrange from Harry Potter. This being the case I feel that she really did not live up to her potential as far as magical possibilities are concerned. Also the speech therapist disappointingly displayed very few zombie pirate characteristics, despite being Captain Barbossa.  Having eventually come to terms with this startling lack of supernatural abilities of the main characters and endeavored to take them seriously, I found this to be a very good movie. It probably helped that I was on a flight back from having just visited England and seen all the major locations where it takes place. I liked the play of the King’s loyalty to his family and to his country and that he struggled with what to do with a brother who would not make a good king. I liked the accompl...

What I liked: It was pretty cool. And NASA saved the day. And the special effects were cool. And it was in outerspace. I liked the characters who went in the space ship I thought they all played their parts really well. Murph was a very cool scientist. Yay science. I liked the robots with seemingly endlessly extending appendages. I kept expecting them to go Hal, but they were actually remarkably helpful. And I now have the dream that on my way to school someday I will be able to chase down an Indian Military drone through corn fields using an truck, a mini satellite dish, and a laptop. Also the worlds that the animators got to create were pretty cool. What I didn’t: Several major concerns. 1) if the world is running out of food because of crop blights and we are launching massive science undertakings to try and fix the problem, wouldn’t it be easier to bioengineer new food than to launch a mission through a wormhole to look for planets we could colonize? Not that I’m advocating...