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Iron Man and Kung Fu Panda
We had a gift card for the movies, so we saw two movies recently.
The first was Iron Man. Teri and I went during the day. It was good, but after all the great reviews I'd heard...well, Robert Downey Jr. is a very good actor, but most of the others in the movie simply didn't stand out - with the exception of Shaun Toub as Yinsen, who was really excellent. It wasn't a bad movie, but it's not like I'd be that interested in picking up the DVD. I don't know. Maybe I'd have liked it better if I hadn't read so much about it beforehand.
Contrariwise, I knew relatively little about Kung Fu Panda before going to see it. In fact, Sebastian knew considerably more about it than I did. But that wasn't the only reason that I found myself liking it quite a lot. The voice acting was outstanding throughout - I was particularly delighted that James Hong, one of my favorite actors, had a characteristically delightful role (you may remember him as Lo Pan in Big Trouble In Little China, among other roles). The movie was well-written, funny, exciting...the one possible complaint might be that it was too short. But all in all an excellent job, and I tend to be very critical of modern animated movies.
Sebastian totally loved it, of course. And Teri agreed with me that it was better than Iron Man. Which was, as I said, a pretty good movie...it just didn't have any really stand-out moments for me.
The first was Iron Man. Teri and I went during the day. It was good, but after all the great reviews I'd heard...well, Robert Downey Jr. is a very good actor, but most of the others in the movie simply didn't stand out - with the exception of Shaun Toub as Yinsen, who was really excellent. It wasn't a bad movie, but it's not like I'd be that interested in picking up the DVD. I don't know. Maybe I'd have liked it better if I hadn't read so much about it beforehand.
Contrariwise, I knew relatively little about Kung Fu Panda before going to see it. In fact, Sebastian knew considerably more about it than I did. But that wasn't the only reason that I found myself liking it quite a lot. The voice acting was outstanding throughout - I was particularly delighted that James Hong, one of my favorite actors, had a characteristically delightful role (you may remember him as Lo Pan in Big Trouble In Little China, among other roles). The movie was well-written, funny, exciting...the one possible complaint might be that it was too short. But all in all an excellent job, and I tend to be very critical of modern animated movies.
Sebastian totally loved it, of course. And Teri agreed with me that it was better than Iron Man. Which was, as I said, a pretty good movie...it just didn't have any really stand-out moments for me.
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maybe we'll wait for Iron Man to come to video....