MaestroReviews

Deb and I are artists, painters actually. We go see films as often as once a week. That's right, we go to the theater and sit in a dark room with strangers to see movies. We rarely rent. We like "little" movies, foreign and documentary films. We try to stay away from mainstream and blockbusters whenever possible, but a couple sneak in each year. We seek out the obscure. We try to avoid violent movies, and that really limits our choices, most film makers seem to think violence makes a story interesting.
I try not to give anything away in the reviews, but offer an honest reaction.
We rate them 1~10, 10 being highest.

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Despicable Me

Deb 3 Me 7

This is flat out a kid’s movie. I don’t have much call to see movies for the younger set, and I don’t see that much animation for some reason, but there was an opportunity and I took it. The movie is rated PG for rude humor and mild action. I’m not sure what mild action is, the characters are supposed to move around in a movie, there has to be some kid of action or they might as well fade stills in and out. Anyway, there’s a guy who shoots people with a gun that turns them to ice. I suppose you tell the kids they defrost in about an hour and everything is okay. I just don’t like letting kids think pointing any kind of a gun at people and shooting them with anything is acceptable. Just not a good road to go down.

The thing that kept me going, astonished at times, were the surfaces of things. Metal, hair concrete, everything you looked at was beautifully rendered and it was a very pretty movie to watch. I didn’t recognize the actors voices, which I liked.

The story was complete, more so than many big budget adult movies. There was the overly cute stuff that adults seem to think kids need to see and there was a tender and moral side to it. I don’t know, it was just a nice little movie to see. I didn’t feel ripped off for spending one and a half valuable hours watching it.

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