Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by jbmcb (A) on November 10, 2005 at 20:33:20

Slim pickings at the video store, my friend said.

Holy cow.

1- Amaturish, made-for-E!-movie level directing
2- About 50% of the special effects were laughably bad
3- Insipid, unoriginal story (It's a remake in a remake! Golly!)
4- No sense of pacing, some scenes last too long, others are too short
5- The lead actors didn't seem to know what to do in their scenes, and looked like they were improvising a bunch of random emotions and movements
6- Terrible editing
7- Annoying, poorly used music
8- Seemingly random and unexplained sound effects

I think that covers everything. And now, the good, for those who deserve it:

1- Michael Caine, Steve Carrell, Jason Schwartzman and Shirley MacLaine were pretty good, Michael Caine especially
2- Michale Caine's character would always enter a scene in a pretty clever way
3- There was a short gag about a ketchup bottle that I thought was totally random and kind of funny, in a Pythonesque way
4- When Isabel would use her special witch powers, the special effects were sometimes rather ingenious and well done

Caine and MacLaine had a really interesting, but half-baked, subplot that would have made a better movie than the main storyline. Otherwise it was a pretty bad movie all around.

Score: 20/100, with points going soley to the supporting cast

/*Music is subjective. Sound is not.*/