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Directed by : Hans Zimmer, Amanda Mackey, Ellen Lewis, Robert Greenhut, Miroslav Ondříček, George Bowers, Tim Galvin, Penny Marshall, Penny Marshall, Lowell Ganz

Produced by : Hans Zimmer, Amanda Mackey, Ellen Lewis, Robert Greenhut, Miroslav Ondříček, George Bowers, Tim Galvin, Penny Marshall, Penny Marshall, Lowell Ganz

Starring : Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Lori Petty, Rosie O'Donnell, Madonna, Tracy Reiner, Megan Cavanagh, Bitty Schram, David Strathairn, Ann Cusack

Company : Parkway Productions, Columbia Pictures

Release date(s) : 1992-07-01

Running time :128 Minutes

Country  : United States

Language :English

Budget :  $40,000,000

Storyline : The Drunk and The Babes!

It's 1943 and Baseball in the states has been decimated by all the men being called up to join the services. Enter the ladies who themselves help to kick start a womens league to keep the Baseball fires burning.

The first thing any prospective first time viewer of this piece should note, is that it's not actually a film about Baseball. It's about friendships, challenges and differing off shoots to the complications of war, it just so happens that it's the game of Baseball that brings it all together!

Directed by Penny Marshall (Big), screenplay by Lowell Ganz & Babaloo Mandel (City Slickers/Parenthood) and featuring Tom Hanks (wonderful as drunken coach Dugan) as the leading male, it's no surprise that "A League Of Their Own" booms with sentiment and no little amount of comedy. It is to me a very rewarding picture, the sort that wants you to chuckle along with it whilst noting the need for human interaction during a troubled time.

The lady actors do great impressions of bona fide athletes, asked to parade in short skirts and entertain the watching public, these gals, led by the always engaging Geena Davis, deliver a sparky picture that never veers into maudlin territory. There are of course some sombre moments, but they are placed nicely by Marshall in the context of the films' events, never trite, they serve more as tender vignettes to run alongside the frivolity on offer.

Ultimately "A League Of Their Own" has achieved its aims come the final credits, its not taxing and its not purporting to be an intelligent look at a period in history. It's asking us the viewers to feel heartened by what we just watched, and just maybe to give those girls back in the 1940s a piece of our respect, job done. 7/10

Directed by : Rosanna Norton, Jerry Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Howard W. Koch, John Frazier, Elmer Bernstein, Jon Davison, Joel Thurm, Jim Abrahams

Produced by : Rosanna Norton, Jerry Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Howard W. Koch, John Frazier, Elmer Bernstein, Jon Davison, Joel Thurm, Jim Abrahams

Starring : Leslie Nielsen, Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Lorna Patterson, Robert Stack, Jim Abrahams, Jonathan Banks

Company : Paramount

Release date(s) : 1980-07-02

Running time :88 Minutes

Country  : United States

Language :English

Budget :  $3,500,000

Storyline : An American Comedy _**Classic**_ - Everything about this film screams 'American Cinema Comedy'. A lot of the humor is a precursor to modern american humor, including the terribly cheesy pulp humor. This film is an homage to the comedies that came before it, but is innovative in its combination of wordplay and referential humor. I see vestiges of this film in everything from 'The Hangover' to 'The Office'.

If at any point you are watching this and find yourself saying 'This is really stupid', just remember: Relax. It's supposed to be stupid.

Directed by : Christopher Greenbury, Marc S. Fischer, Marc S. Fischer, Rick Montgomery, Bobby Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly, Peter Farrelly, Peter Farrelly

Produced by : Christopher Greenbury, Marc S. Fischer, Marc S. Fischer, Rick Montgomery, Bobby Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly, Peter Farrelly, Peter Farrelly

Starring : Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon, Ben Stiller, Lee Evans, Chris Elliott, Lin Shaye, Jeffrey Tambor, Markie Post, Keith David, W. Earl Brown

Company : 20th Century Fox

Release date(s) : 1998-07-15

Running time :119 Minutes

Country  : United States

Language :English

Budget :  $23,000,000

Storyline :

Directed by : Christopher Meledandri, Kyle Balda, Ken Schretzmann, John Powell, Ken Daurio, Ken Daurio, Cinco Paul, Cinco Paul, Yarrow Cheney, Dr. Seuss

Produced by : Christopher Meledandri, Kyle Balda, Ken Schretzmann, John Powell, Ken Daurio, Ken Daurio, Cinco Paul, Cinco Paul, Yarrow Cheney, Dr. Seuss

Starring : Zac Efron, Danny DeVito, Taylor Swift, Ed Helms, Rob Riggle, Jenny Slate, Betty White, Willow Smith, Nasim Pedrad, Joel Swetow

Company : Universal Pictures, Illumination Entertainment

Release date(s) : 2012-03-01

Running time :86 Minutes

Country  : United States

Language :English

Budget :  $70,000,000

Storyline : Just not for me. This _Lorax _is almost all filler. The message is still there, but it's lost under a tidal wave of meh.

_Final rating:★★ - Definitely not for me, but I sort of get the appeal._
The Lorax thneedn’t have shoved its colourful environmentalist message so brutally. Well, the live-action ‘Cat in the Hat’ adaptation was a *cough* massive success *cough* so it was only a matter of years before another Dr Seuss family-friendly book would have its zany vivid world transferred onto the medium of film. Then comes the introductory title screen. A despicable minion pops up next to the bold cancerous studio name “Illumination”, and instantly all hope was diminished.

Aside from their initial franchise, they seem to be unable to create animated flicks without treating the audience like simplistic Neanderthals, and The Lorax takes the biscuit. Patience was running thin just from the introductory musical number alone. A young boy journeys outside the walled plastic city of Thneedville to find a living tree so that he can impress a girl, but soon relives a tale that would change his way of life.

This is a mess. Perhaps unadaptable due to Seuss’ imaginative wordplay that inspiringly illustrates a creative warning against corporate greed and destructive deforestation. Illumination on the other hand, whilst consistently producing colourful and vibrant animations, shoved the morality down the throats of its audience. Within two minutes, the civilians are singing about their perfect plastic bubble and capitalistic functionality. The main character, not the titular creature, has yet to be seen. A Kim Jong-Un lookalike imprisoning his people in a miniature North Korean world fuelled by propaganda. Taylor Swift refusing to sing any of the forgettable songs. And an underdeveloped insight into consumerism by showing one advertisement for canned air.

Then the narrative shifts to flashback mode when “The Once-ler” retells his past mistakes. That being the termination of candy floss trees to manufacture his new invention. High-pitched carps, who clearly watched ‘Alvin and the Chipmunks’, irritate with forced pop culture humour. Cuddly cubs scratching their hairy walnuts on display and devouring slabs of butter. Finally, the spirit of the trees gracefully descends from the clouds by awkwardly hoisting his orange derrière in your face. The Lorax.

Danny “Rule Number 95 Kid, Concentrate!” DeVito. A legend if I’m being honest, but terribly mismatched with the moustached beast. In fact, all of the voice acting was generic and forgettable, never truly matching the wide mouths of its unmemorable characters. The, what is essentially two narrative strands, inadvertently produced an underdeveloped arc that had sole intentions on pushing its well-intentioned morals instead of genuine character development and emotionality.

Illumination aren’t known for their subtle storytelling, and it’s evident in this adaptation. Aside from ‘Hop’ (which we shan’t talk about ever again...), this is by far their weakest mess. Understandably I’m not the target demographic, but children will only be hypnotised by the entrancing colours. I guarantee they shan’t remember it after a few days. What a thneed-fest!
Good watch, will probably watch again, and can recommend.

Despite the "Despicable Me" / "Minions" franchise, Illumination seems to do good work, and they really brought the zaney world of Dr. Seuss to life here, regardless of how much sense it may or may not make at the time.

It's been a while since I read "The Lorax", but I'm pretty sure the motivation to plant a tree wasn't to get a girl. For all I remember the Onceler's story was the original storybook with a couple of catchy musical numbers thrown in.

That aside, there is a lot of fun in this movie with a (ultimately) positive message about environmental conservation, thought it's not as strong as it would like to be, but as palatable as necessary. While I won't bored you with the details necessary to convey my view on environmental education, there is an odd bit to the "conducting business" scene series where there almost seems to be a subtle message for capitalistic business during the moments we're being told this is bad, or maybe that was the point: there is a struggle and balance necessary. I just thought it was funny. At least the put message out there for us not to underestimate the elderly.

The world / character creation is very well done, and I'm humming one of the songs as I write this, but there is one problem I have with the writing: that the Onceler breaks the story up across multiple days. Once he has his audience (oh, play with in a play: a Shakespearean device), and the movie has its audience, just tell your story through. I'm not a fan of break up a story into multiple stories if it's not necessary (if you've ever binged a tv show, you know what I'm talking about). At least he didn't flip it all around and tell it out of order (see "Pulp Fiction").

While the Lorax itself is an underwhelming, if subtle, character itself, I can imagine most people will enjoy it.

Directed by : Scott Rudin, Karyn Rachtman, Bill Pope, David Kitay, Mona May, Steven J. Jordan, Marcia Ross, Debra Chiate, Amy Heckerling, Amy Heckerling

Produced by : Scott Rudin, Karyn Rachtman, Bill Pope, David Kitay, Mona May, Steven J. Jordan, Marcia Ross, Debra Chiate, Amy Heckerling, Amy Heckerling

Starring : Alicia Silverstone, Stacey Dash, Brittany Murphy, Paul Rudd, Donald Faison, Elisa Donovan, Breckin Meyer, Jeremy Sisto, Dan Hedaya, Wallace Shawn

Company : Paramount

Release date(s) : 1995-07-19

Running time :97 Minutes

Country  : United States

Language :Español, English

Budget :  $12,000,000

Storyline :

Directed by : Philip H. Lathrop, Martin Ransohoff, John Calley, Maurice Richlin, Alexander Mackendrick, George Kirgo, Vic Mizzy

Produced by : Philip H. Lathrop, Martin Ransohoff, John Calley, Maurice Richlin, Alexander Mackendrick, George Kirgo, Vic Mizzy

Starring : Tony Curtis, Claudia Cardinale, Joanna Barnes, Sharon Tate, David Draper, Robert Webber, Mort Sahl, Dub Taylor, Ann Elder, Chester Yorton

Company : Filmways Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Release date(s) : 1967-06-20

Running time :97 Minutes

Country  : United States

Language :English, Italiano

Budget : 

Storyline :

Directed by : Crys Forsyth-Smith, Michael Chapman, Scott Martin Gershin, Christopher Allen Nelson, Margery Simkin, Sheldon Kahn, Sheldon Kahn, J. Michael Riva, Phil Tippett, Aggie Guerard Rodgers

Produced by : Crys Forsyth-Smith, Michael Chapman, Scott Martin Gershin, Christopher Allen Nelson, Margery Simkin, Sheldon Kahn, Sheldon Kahn, J. Michael Riva, Phil Tippett, Aggie Guerard Rodgers

Starring : David Duchovny, Julianne Moore, Orlando Jones, Seann William Scott, Ted Levine, Dan Aykroyd, Ty Burrell, Andrew Bowen, Sarah Silverman, Katharine Towne

Company : Columbia Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures, The Montecito Picture Company

Release date(s) : 2001-06-08

Running time :101 Minutes

Country  : United States

Language :English

Budget :  $80,000,000

Storyline : Lubricant and the giant product placement.

A meteorite falls to Earth and lands right in the desert at Glen Canyon, Arizona. Two college professors, Dr. Ira Kane and Prof. Harry Phineas Block, take it upon themselves to investigate and mooch around. At the site, they discover worm like insects that are not of this world. Thinking they are on to Nobel Prize type history, they are dismayed when the government takes over the site and shunts them out the way. But as the insects start to evolve in the Earth atmosphere, they take on various shapes and forms of alien creatures. Pretty soon the whole place is over run and the government is at a loss in how to stop them. Enter Ira, Harry, Wayne and Allison to hopefully save the day.

Directed by Ivan Reitman (Ghostbusters 1 & 2), Evolution is a zany sci-fi comedy that achieves firmly what it sets out to do. Using the available special effects for great rewards, and lashing it in Technicolor, all that remained was to have a cast happy to be in on the joke itself. Up step David Duchovny (revelling in none serious X Files malarkey), Orlando Jones (getting all the best lines), Julianne Moore (accident prone) and Sean Wiillian Scott (goofball fireman wannabe). Backed up by Ted Levine, Dan Ackroyd, Ethan Suplee and Ty Burrell, pic is well served right across the cast list. Of course they aren't asked to do anything special, but it's not that kind of film. There's enough here for all the family to enjoy, kids will be awed by the array of alien creatures, whilst the adults should be chuckling away at some of the jokes.

If you are expecting real science then you have come to the wrong place, Evolution parodies the sci-fi parodies, and then some. 7/10