Month: July 2013

I may be speaking mostly for the boys here, but what kid (or kid at heart) doesn’t love a giant robot? Especially one you could climb inside and control, and big enough to let you use a cargo ship as a club to bash an equally gigantic alien monster? If that’s your fantasy, Pacific Rim gives it to you, and maybe a little extra, too.

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2010′s Despicable Me was a humourous, heart-warming, and original sleeper hit about James Bond-type supervillains battling each other, more for reputation than world domination, and one such villain who gives it all up to savour the joys of fatherhood. Despicable Me 2 is only occasionally funny, and shares none of the other qualities of the first. Kids may enjoy it, but otherwise it feels like the sort of soulless, quickie sequel that animation houses often churn out on DVD.

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Though they fall in an out of fashion with the public, Hollywood still loves a good Western. And as the studios continue to mine yesterday’s pop culture heroes for new action franchises, The Lone Ranger must have seemed like a safe bet, especially with Johnny Depp starring as the masked Ranger’s companion, Tonto. But, as Tonto himself says here, anachronistically: “Not so much.”

Read the rest of my review at Oakville.com – click the title link.