I find it very hard to fault this movie. It's practically perfect. The new Zealand landscape is absolutely gorgeous and the characters are funny, heartwarming and generally well written. The comedy is great and I laughed out loud a lot of times. The movie also has some sad scenes which hit every single time and isn't ruined by the quirkyness of the movie. The cinematography and editing is so amazing and is something I've never seen in any other movie. The soundtrack is awesome and memorizing. Overall please watch this movie as it is great.
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The Book of Life
(2014)
Not a great movie
6 May 2020
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I didn't enjoy this movie. Its not the worst and I know people like it i just find it pretty pathetic. I lime the design of the movie, it's quite beautiful and I had a few laughs but the rest is just boring. It claims to be a day of the dead movie but it hardly acknowledges that. Its just a generic love story. Most of the jokes are bad and some of the side characters are annoying and only put in there for laughs. They're basically jar jar binks clones. The underworld is beautiful but it's in the movie for like 5 minutes. As soon as the main character arrives and realises his girlfriend isn't there he instantely tries to leave which is just pathetic. It has a narrator which if you removed her the story would play out normally. I learnt nothing about death and when the people in the underworld got resurrected i rolled my eyes. It talks about how the main character doesnt want to kill bulls because it's cruel but when people come to attack the village he doesn't hesitate about trying to kill them which I found a bit off. His father dies and no one acknowledges it like nothing happened which was silly. Overall never watching this movie again cause it's really bad.
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