Review: Cursed

Set within the local Hollywood hillsides and suburban population, Cursed gains the viewers attention by being entirely aimed at the younger audience through the casts’ choices in characters and mildly entertaining scenes.

Cursed follows the lives of two young adults who recently suffered the loss of both parents and are trying to come to terms with having to rely upon each other, when their lives are interrupted through the intervention of becoming werewolf’s.

The werewolf section of Cursed starts with a large beast jumping on the bonet of the car that Ellie (Christina Ricci) and Jimmy (Jesse Eisenberg) are driving home, resulting in their car colliding with another. With the beast gone they try and assist with helping the other driver, when the beast returns, to attack and eat one of sorry victims of this horrif crash.

Within the accident the beast has managed to cut and slash Jimmy (Jesse Eisenberg) and Ellie (Christina Ricci), which starts a none reversible transformation. The transformation stops and becomes complete, only upon the next full moon, which renders some timeframe for Jimmy (Jesse Eisenberg) and Ellie (Christina Ricci) to stop this unfortunate series of events.

Jimmy (Jesse Eisenberg) starts out with the decision that turning to a werewolf, may not actually be quite so bad, the heightened senses and sexual allure make Jimmy (Jesse Eisenberg) the classic high school loser quite happy for a short while, until he realises the consequences that also come along with the benefits.

Watch the movie to discover how they stop this future from becoming a reality. I believe the only criticism to this movie, is that many will think it could have been a lot better if Wes Craven had his way completely, rather than half of the movie being remade to satisfy the production companies aim for a young generation of movie watchers. Never the less Cursed is a good movie and an entertaining watch.

Originally posted by Sycrid on www.eddthezombie.co.uk

Review: Dawn of the Dead

Dawn of the dead. Remaking the classic, was it a good or bad idea?

Well as far as movies go this is what I'd certainly refer to as a Hollywood block buster, but also a Hollywood failure. Rule one is, if a movie is often known and referred to as a classic, then never remake it with the expectations of being more successful.

With the moaning and groaning done, the movie itself is not as bad as I've just made out. It's a modern day zombie genre film where a select group of people have been unlucky enough to survive the introduction of a zombie pandemic. Their hideout being an American mall, whilst they collaborate their efforts to develop a plan. What happens now? Where do we go? How do we survive?

I think if there are to be highlights within Dawn of the Dead, then they would have to be the small slots of humor. Two good examples of the entertainment within this movie, are the mysterious sniper who exists above a gun shop, and shoots the zombies related to their familiarities to the now almost certainly dead famous stars of yesterday, and the zombie child that is born.

Dawn of the Dead, is quite a slow moving movie, but it does build its way up to a dramatic ending where the group, what's left of them, aim at trying to break out of the mall and traveling to a boat, with the hopes that they may set sail and escape the horrible wrath of zombies. What actually happens, I will leave a mystery, so if you do wish to watch Dawn of the Dead, then you will perhaps be surprised.

Originally posted on www.eddthezombie.co.ukby Sycrid

Review: Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

Firstly I have to start off with a completely opinionated point of view. Sid is awesome!

With that aside, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, was a very family orientated theme, about not only members born into a family but how families are created through morale points of view and variation. I believe that this alone to a young child is a very good influence.

The movie itself goes along the lines of, Manny having a child, and trying to create a safe harbour for the young one to be brought into the world, with the misconception that he is the largest creature walking to date. Ironically by doing this, he leaves Sid slightly jealous and results in him finding 3 dinosaur eggs within an undiscovered world below the ice. Sid appropriately names the eggs “Shelly”, “Yolky” and “Eggbert”.

Well, you guessed it, the creators chose the most typical of dinosaurs for Sid to become a surrogate mother to, T-Rexs. This leaves for an entertaining perspective because even though the baby dinosaurs wish to eat all the other children, Sid being stubborn continues to protect them, and even makes one spit out the other child animals he has swallowed whole.

One of the most enjoyable and movie focussed characters within Ice Age this time around is "One Eyed Buck", with the voice over being performed by Simon Pegg, who has managed to portray his comedy very well into the movie as he tries to help the bunch rescue Sid from the angry T-rex mother. One Eyed Buck, is like the animated prehistoric Indiana Jones, that works very well within a story of love, potential loss and fear within unfamiliar surroundings.

I believe that overall this movie, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs is a thoroughly enjoyable family movie with some good laughs for all ages, and worth the cost of a cinema ticket. Go see it!

Originally posted on www.eddthezombie.co.uk by Sycrid