What I liked: I liked Charles Wallace, that kid was funny. I liked that the ladies in crazy dresses were warriors and that the kids were warriors too. You know me I'm all about a good action movie with awesome fighting, but I liked that at least in this universe the defining characteristics of warriors were compassion, kindness, and love. Similarly, I liked that the bad guys weren't launching a massive military conquest of the universe, I mean everyone is doing that these days. Surprisingly, I liked the Mrs's dresses. They were crazy and over the top but it was fun that they changed with every teleportation and that they were completely absurd. The outfits were rather like the Mrs's wearing them, over the top and fantastical. Knowing all of them from other shows I may have had some unfulfilled expectations. At no point did anyone say "You get a wrinkle, and you get a wrinkle, Everyone gets a wrinkle!" which I must admit was a little disappointing. I also think they could have worked it in through the one who just quotes other people. Most of her quotes were funny. I liked the flashbacks of the Mom and Dad. I liked the challenges they encountered in the creepy evil world. And especially liked doing physics in a tornado, it reminded me a lot of the opening to the most terrible of the Indiana Jones movies.
What I didn't: The visuals of teleporting, it seemed like a cheap haunted house. The flying cabbage carpet. If you are going to create a fantastical vegetable based flying creature, why would you choose cabbage as your inspiration? Oprah's character should have gotten a better of variety of costumes. She changed costumes with every landscape but they were pretty much all the same, someone should have given here some different colors and textures. It's like someone thought the rhinestones filled her cool outfit quota. I'm confused about the whole teleporting thing. Sometimes Meg hijacks the teleport with all the people and takes them to a different place, sometimes she goes nowhere, sometimes they forget to bring the friend and he ends up there anyway. It just seems remarkably inconsistent. The Happy Medium. In his own words "you don't want to end up like me with a weird beard living in a cave." Yes happy medium, you should probably change your life.
Who should watch this? I was a bit outside the target audience, this is probably best for middle and high schoolers. It may be a bit scary for elementary and it felt a little bit episodic for me.
Would I watch it again? It was fun to see, I doubt I'll rewatch it.
I hope when you say "the opening to the most terrible of the Indiana Jones movies" you are not referring to Harrison Ford in a refrigerator at a nuclear test site. In that case, you must me, "the most incredible opening to the ultimate Indiana Jones movie."
ReplyDeleteExcellent opening scene. Most terrible of the Indiana Joneses. But still better than than the late installments of Pirates and than some of the Star Wars prequels.
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