On the Couch Reviews
Mar. 23rd, 2019 02:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedsitter23Maybe movie reviews will be a thing, as the kids are old enough to allow for a Kids/Adults double header
Peter Rabbit- Is it wrong to like this movie? It's pretty likeable. Starts off with a nod to the Beatrix Potter story and then plays as a riff off of it. It is the bad boy protagonist a la Alvin the Chipmunk and other famous troublemakers. It is a cute story with a lot of action. It plays fine enough for adults to never become boring, even if it hits some familiar tropes. The 5 year old laughed. It played more cute than annoying (remember this was the movie that we were warned would make all of our kids bullies who make fun of those with allergies). It strangely all works. The human actors are all pretty great -led by Rose Byrne and Domnhall Geason. I thought James Corden was fine as the voice of Peter. I didn't have great expectations, but it was a pretty fine movie to split the difference in laughs and entertainment between me and my son.
Instant Family- At its heart, it is a comedy-drama about the joys and trials of foster care. This was sold as a goofball comedy, but it hardly is ever laugh out loud funny. It plays it fairly Hollywood, but I think it is a good movie. Mark Wahlberg and Rose Byrne (again) are likeable in a spot where that could be tough.Support also comes from enjoyable bit parts from Tig Notaro and Octavia Spencer and Margo Martindale in a stereotypical for these kind of movies Grandmas, but really shines at irt The show makes light of the earnestness of The Blind Side, but it follows many of the same tropes, only in this case, played for light drama and easy laughs.
Despite my expectations as one of Wahlberg's string of recent comedies, it is a good old fashioned feel good movie. Given what it is trying to do with conveying real life adoption in a two hour entertainment medium, I think it hits more right notes than anything. It flows well, is never boring, and sends off the viewer with nice sentiments at the end. Never hitting Oscar ambitions, the film hits a lot of family movie marks that it seems like a lot of recent movies have been missing.
Peter Rabbit- Is it wrong to like this movie? It's pretty likeable. Starts off with a nod to the Beatrix Potter story and then plays as a riff off of it. It is the bad boy protagonist a la Alvin the Chipmunk and other famous troublemakers. It is a cute story with a lot of action. It plays fine enough for adults to never become boring, even if it hits some familiar tropes. The 5 year old laughed. It played more cute than annoying (remember this was the movie that we were warned would make all of our kids bullies who make fun of those with allergies). It strangely all works. The human actors are all pretty great -led by Rose Byrne and Domnhall Geason. I thought James Corden was fine as the voice of Peter. I didn't have great expectations, but it was a pretty fine movie to split the difference in laughs and entertainment between me and my son.
Instant Family- At its heart, it is a comedy-drama about the joys and trials of foster care. This was sold as a goofball comedy, but it hardly is ever laugh out loud funny. It plays it fairly Hollywood, but I think it is a good movie. Mark Wahlberg and Rose Byrne (again) are likeable in a spot where that could be tough.Support also comes from enjoyable bit parts from Tig Notaro and Octavia Spencer and Margo Martindale in a stereotypical for these kind of movies Grandmas, but really shines at irt The show makes light of the earnestness of The Blind Side, but it follows many of the same tropes, only in this case, played for light drama and easy laughs.
Despite my expectations as one of Wahlberg's string of recent comedies, it is a good old fashioned feel good movie. Given what it is trying to do with conveying real life adoption in a two hour entertainment medium, I think it hits more right notes than anything. It flows well, is never boring, and sends off the viewer with nice sentiments at the end. Never hitting Oscar ambitions, the film hits a lot of family movie marks that it seems like a lot of recent movies have been missing.
