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Excellent: Movies this great are rare, so don't miss it.
Good: At least worth the price of admission.
Okay: See it if you have nothing better to do.
Bad: If you absolutely have to see it, wait for the DVD.
No stars: Frickin' terrible; give us our two hours back,
you director from hell.
Shrek 2 movie (★★★); DVD
(☆☆)
PG,92 minutes
PG, 92 minutes
When Shrek 2 came out in theaters this
summer, I hadn't laughed so much in a theater in a long time. The endless pop-culture and movie references were the highpoint for a confessed movie geek and I was smitten. However, on second viewing it became clear that Shrek
Just want to see Puss in Boots sing "Livin' La Vida Loca."
became clear that driver 2 lacked the heart of the original. In the first Shrek we were waiting with bated breath to see which form Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz) would take at the very end (princess or ogre7), yet in the second installment we don't wonder or care, we
Now, as the DVD is released, it is clear that all those pop culture puns adults loved were just a clever way to get money out of us; this DVD is for kiddies.
Complete with games for kiddies, blooper reels for kiddies, featurettes for anyone who cares enough and Far Far Away Idol, where the characters all have a go singing for an animated Simon Cowell (can I declare the end of a trend yet?) for
fans of American Idol, the single disc release is just a ho-hum of features attached to what is a surface level, but very funny movie.
— Lindsey Ramsey
Dawn of the Dead: The Unrated Director's Cut movie (★★); DVD （★★）
There is nothing worse than a bad zombie movie. If there's one thing you need to
know to enjoy a zombie movie, it's that you should never, ever expect a happy ending. Some zombie movies are done well (28 Days Later) and others make you want to beat your head against the seat in front of you (Resident Evil: Apocalypse). Dawn of the Dead leans more toward the latter. Now there is an unrated director's cut of the movie with added footage, i.e. more gore and other bells and whistles that add depth to a
whistles that used a movie in a genre that is usually shallow.
movie in a genre that is usually snail Dawn of the Dead follows a group of survivors who take shelter in an urban shopping mall after a virus turns humans into
flesh-eating zombies. The standard zombie movie rules apply here: Once bitten it's only a matter of time before you turn into one of them, and shooting them in the head is the only way to put them down permanently. Most notable of the survivors is Ana (Sarah Polly), a nurse, and Kenneth (Ving Rhames), a bad-ass cop with a good heart.
Because this is an unrated director's cut, director Zack Snyder explains that this version has more gore and character development, which is true. We do get to know the back stories of the central characters well, but is that important in a movie where the broken end of a croquet mallet is jammed through a zombie's head? Dawn of the Dead does have its entertaining moments, doesn't follow all of the tired zombie movie clichés
and is full of lots and lots of bloody gore.
— Jon Ralston
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