Recent Movies on DVD Reviews: TROPIC THUNDER and WALL-E
November 18th, 2008

TROPIC THUNDER
From the original review: “Perhaps that is the best way to label TROPIC THUNDER. It’s a joy. It may not always be a great film, or even a consistent one, but it will make you laugh more times than not – something we need in the dying throes of summer. If along the way you get a film that is a spot on satire that hits more than it misses, a film that manically engages in compounding meta-ness (while simultaneously folding in upon itself) with irreverent glee, … then all the better.”
Overall rating: B+
WALL-E
From the original review: “Every now and then you come across a film that reminds you exactly why you go to the movies in the first place. Why you time after time invest two hours of your life to be transported to other worlds, hoping that you will become emotionally wrapped up in them. Hoping to find a character whose emotional world you’re so invested in that every step he or she takes feels like your own. Hoping, above all else, for the sheer joy a movie can provide us. With more joy, more emotion in every frame than anything else you will see this year, WALL-E is exactly why we go to the movies.”
Overall rating: A+













