July - September

Space Jam: A New Legacy

    The Looney Tunes were second fiddle in the franchise they made famous behind a man who could use a bit more work in the acting department (like his predecessor). Not even fun for nostalgia, but interesting visually.

 

Jungle Cruise

    How do you get two charismatic people and make them dull? That takes some kind of talent, talent that didn't go into the CGI. In reality - they probably didn't pay the CGI artists well enough to not work themselves to death. Or perhaps they simply weren't interested in this slog of a story, and I don't blame them. 

The Green Knight

If you don't like metaphor, fantasy, visuals, and things not making sense in a typical narrative structure, you're gonna hate it.

I, however, love those things a whole bunch. So this was right up my alley. Wish they stuck to some aspects of the story in the later parts a little stronger.

Candyman (2021)

    No impression left.

 

Vivo (2021)

    It's nothing special, but the earlier songs are very good. I didn't expect this to be the movie that sticks in my head months later. It had a wonderful set up that devolved into a typical children's movie. This was Sony's second movie to be sold to Netflix in 2021, and how they thought this justified a theatrical release is beyond me. 

The Suicide Squad (2021)

    I already dislike fantasy movies that are aping heavily from wartime films, so this was never going to land with me. I'm not even sure I finished it, so don't consider this a review.

 

Cinderella (2021)

    A lot of the songs are wonderful, just not any covered by the main actress. "Dream Girl" - I'm not sure if it's original, but it's very good. There's many hamfisted social issues that are undercut by many of the casting choices, the humor borders on too skeevy at points, and it's all in all something to kill time.