Tag: musical

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Sucker Punch (2011) Third animated short

Lookit, lookit, ANOTHER SHORT. Wow. That looks AMAZING. LOL I'm totally kidding. I haven't even seen it yet, I've JUST embedded it. Whatevs. Kazed.

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17 Again review

Synopsis - To people who have negative feelings toward Efron and his sexuality, I urge you to put them aside for this film. Alright, maybe not THAT much. Putting High School Musical aside, Zac Efron actually did a relatively decent job in 17 Again, although I could see hints of his HSM tenure, alot of the dialogue that was in parts of this film really stood out, like the scene within the cafeteria, a scene which, despite being a little cliché, worked. It worked because Efron managed not to over-dramatise the lines, but at the same time that whole scene was simply redundant. Matthew Perry was, as always, a delight to see, and hasn't rusted one bit since his last outing. As the film progressed, it began to get a little interesting, albeit clichéd. The cheesy one liners, and the romantic speeches were all too familiar, but somehow it worked with this film. Efron wasn't a complete bore in this, but actually had the capacity to show some emotion, something which I thought he couldn't do. The plot was definitely something that caught my attention throughout the whole film, the idea of becoming young again is something that makes an astounding concept, but the way it happened was far too baffling, and it just lost quite a bit of credibility from the moment he became a teenager, simply because of the way it happened. I didn't see Vanessa Hudgens anywhere though, would've been a lovely addition to the film. Leslie Mann, however, was a brilliant side attraction to a film that was average, and made the film just that little bit special. Same goes for Matthew Perry, if he wasn't co-starring in this, I most definitely would have 'second thought-ed' this film, I just wouldn't have enjoyed it as much. I did love how Efron tried to pick up some of Perry's mannerisms, I say tried, because it was like some of Perry was trying to burst out from his younger co-star's character. Despite all of this, it's quite refreshing seeing Efron in a different role, and branching out to different genres, and personally feel he is one to keep an eye on for future projects. Overall, average film, Efron- decent actor, nice to see Perry in an active role, Leslie Mann always a great sight to see, plot was familiar, but not too familiar that it made me want to pull my eyelashes out. 5.5/10 Kazed

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Kazed Blogs #3/High School Musical review

Previously, on Kazed Blogs:

I’m going to watch High School Musical, yes. Yes, I’m going to watch the very thing I’ve been verbally destroying since 2006. <shudder>

So here’s what’ll happen- I’m going to watch them, and once I have, I’ll write another blog. I realise I can never go back on this, which is why it’s been solidified on the internet.

So I watched the first High School Musical, and made 2 sides of notes while doing so. The notes I made were basically comments- negative comments, at that. I'm going to quote them as closely as I can, because they seemed vital to my views of the film. Let's make it easier- I'm gonna bullet this one out. Quicker, easier.

• Zac Efron is SO GAY.
• Starting off- random song. I honestly just have no idea why...or how...it makes prefect sense for Troy (Zac Efron) and Gabriella(Vanessa A. Hudgens) to stop looking at the karaoke screen and start improv-ing. Of course that would happen.
• The teacher is SUCH a cliché, just such a ohh blegh.
• What?! Why everyone is singing is WAY beyond my compehension.
• Oh look, Troy's dad doesn't want him to sing. Oh look, he's a manly man because he plays basketball. Singing is WRONG, in this universe, apparently.
• These two are brother and sister???? Are you kidding me??? A girl who's named after a marker pen and her retarded brother have a weird-ass relationsh-dammit they're singing.
• Oh wow...marker girl is overlooking her kingdom peasants, fellow students, who are prancing around all of a sudden. Now why?? Why are they doing this? Because each clique's peers are doing something that isn't 'normal' according to their status. What?? WHAT??? Now some guy has a cello??? Where the hell did it come from?! Ok this is retarded- some guy complains about singing, yet he SINGS about it???? What a hypocritical juvenile.
• Some guy named 'Zeke' can cook creme brulee, apparrently.
• OMG CHEESY SCENE
• This guy thinks he's so cool because he can shoot hoops, yo
• Ok, seriously, this relationship between this brother and sister is just weird. So weird.
• OH NO PRETTY BOY JUST DESTROYED HOT GEEK'S HEART
• Now she's singing??? Really? Now she's stopped, and everyone suddenly re-appeared from the lockers, maybe.
• Lol pretty boy can only sing in harmony lol.
• Apparently, pretty boy's teammates haven't heard him sing. They have. TRUST ME. They have.
• Oh look, hot geek won her geeky contest. Oh, surprise surprise, pretty boy won his basketball game.

and there you have it. Alot of it was cheesy as your dad's gooch, but i didn't really expect any less from a Disney movie. in all honesty, there were a couple of times where I did actually enjoy the film, I didn't think it was a bad film, I just thought there were ALOT of cheesy and corny scenes. 70%, actually. Make that 89%. The reason why I didn't watch all three of them was because the point of this exercise was for me to find out what the big deal was. I see it now, what all the billion screaming kids and girls are screaming over. I now have closure. So, the movie, 6/10 for me, 100000000000/10 for all the kids in the world. Kazed