“Despicable Me 4” Movie Review
07/03/24 • 1 min
Rated PG
Opens: July 3, 2024
Kevin says Despicable Me 4 kinda rocks!
Gru and the gang are back for another Despicable Me movie.
By the fourth film (with a couple stand-alone minion flicks along the way), these movies have hit a stride. They don’t have the emotional sweetness of the first film, but they know their place.
It’s all about absurdity and zaniness. And this one certainly leans into that. Things kick off with a supervillain turning into a human cockroach (without the Kafkaesque malaise) to exact revenge, sending Gru and his family into hiding.
Then we head into sit-com mode with multiple storylines ranging from fitting in a quote-unquote “normal suburban life” to the Minions overrunning a secret base and gaining super powers.
Don’t look for logic or even coherency with this film. Just give into the silly and watch it like a child would. If you don’t expect too much charm, heart, or basic common sense, you can have a lot of fun. For all the two-hour cartoons that Hollywood makes, this is definitely the cartooniest, and that mindset is the only way to enjoy it.
DESPICABLE ME 4 gets three and a half bananas out of five. I’m Kevin Carr, and that’s the way I see it.
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Rated PG
Opens: July 3, 2024
Kevin says Despicable Me 4 kinda rocks!
Gru and the gang are back for another Despicable Me movie.
By the fourth film (with a couple stand-alone minion flicks along the way), these movies have hit a stride. They don’t have the emotional sweetness of the first film, but they know their place.
It’s all about absurdity and zaniness. And this one certainly leans into that. Things kick off with a supervillain turning into a human cockroach (without the Kafkaesque malaise) to exact revenge, sending Gru and his family into hiding.
Then we head into sit-com mode with multiple storylines ranging from fitting in a quote-unquote “normal suburban life” to the Minions overrunning a secret base and gaining super powers.
Don’t look for logic or even coherency with this film. Just give into the silly and watch it like a child would. If you don’t expect too much charm, heart, or basic common sense, you can have a lot of fun. For all the two-hour cartoons that Hollywood makes, this is definitely the cartooniest, and that mindset is the only way to enjoy it.
DESPICABLE ME 4 gets three and a half bananas out of five. I’m Kevin Carr, and that’s the way I see it.
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“A Quiet Place: Day One” Movie Review
Rated PG-13
Opens: June 28, 2024
Kevin says A Quiet Place: Day One kinda sucks!
After two films of a family battling audio activated aliens, the Quiet Place franchise heads to New York City for a prequel.
A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE follows a terminally ill woman who gets stuck in the city when the aliens first attack. She tries to survive and find a way to escape the violence.
While I appreciate the change in location, and the cast is quite strong, led by the vibrant Lupita Nyong’o, this installment doesn’t really bring anything new to the table.
Rather than enriching the ongoing backstory, it again follows new victims as they process their grief and trauma. And that is quickly becoming one of the most overused devices in horror movies today.
The snapshot nature of the films’ installments works to a degree, but I can’t help but feel they are just retreading the same path, almost as if no one thought beyond the initial success of the first film.
Even with good acting with effective scares, A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE still manages to press its own mute button.
A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE gets two and a half jump scares out of five. I’m Kevin Carr, and that’s the way I see it.
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“MaXXXine” Movie Review
Rated R
Opens: July 5, 2024
Kevin says MaXXXine ROCKS!
Ti West wraps up his dark side of fame trilogy with MAXXINE.
The story follows Mia Goth as the main character from X. It’s 1985, and Maxine is trying to jump from adult films into mainstream Hollywood. She lands a role in a high-profile horror film but her past – and the notorious serial killer The Night Stalker – keeps getting in her way.
Like X and PEARL, West uses his encyclopedic understanding of film style to offer a different story while playing with the same darker themes. Where X was a throwback to TEXAS CHAINSAW and PEARL a love letter to early cinema, MAXXXINE stirs together 80s urban vice dramas with a healthy dose of Satanic panic.
The cast includes a bright array of talent used in sparse doses. They all serve Maxine, and we see in her a more wily and deliberate lead. And it has just enough twists and turns to avoid falling into the cliches it pays homage to.
A solid slasher playing into fun nostalgia, MAXXXINE gets four VHS tapes out of five. I’m Kevin Carr, and that’s the way I see it.
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