Review: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Posted by: Mark McLeod • June 4, 2004 @ 11:59am
What is there to be said about Harry Potter that hasn't been said before? The wizard and his universe, created by a then-out-of-work school teacher J.K. Rowling, has gone on to be one of the most successful book franchises in history with massive anticipation for each subsequent book and film release in the series.
I have always been a huge fan of disaster movies, especially the giant all-star cast films of the late 1970s and early '80s. Who can forget the classic disaster moments like Gene Hackman in the conclusion of the Poseidon Adventure or Robert Wagner engulfed in flames in The Towering Inferno?
In the new epic disaster flick, The Day After Tomorrow, climatologist Prof.
Ever since he was a young boy, Nashawn (Kevin Hart) has loved airplanes. Living out by the airport in Inglewood, California, many of the defining moments of his life were accompanied by the sound of airplanes flying overhead.
On the surface, Joe (Ewan McGregor) is a seemingly normal man who prefers sitting alone reading a novel to having a wild night out at a local pub. By day he works for Les (Peter Mullan) and Ella (Tilda Swinton) on a barge that travels throughout the many streams and canals in Scotland.
With Senior year fast approaching for the students at American Eagle Christian High, Mary (Jena Malone) is looking forward to yet another banner year. She's a member of the Christian Jewels, an organization which she describes as sort of a girl gang for Jesus. She's in the "in crowd" and sits next to and hangs out with the most popular girl in school, Hillary Faye (Mandy Moore).
Placid Lake (Ben Lee) is certainly not your normal teenager. Slapped with the unusual first name of Placid and made to wear women's clothes at a young age to question the societal norms, his experience in school has been anything but positive. Bullied at a young age and throughout high school, Placid is about to finally enter the adult part of his life.
Okay. I'll admit it. I'm a fast-food junkie. You wouldn't know it by looking at me, but for the purposes of this motion picture film review and because it is in fact true, I'm a fast food junkie. Or as McDonald's calls us, "Heavy Users". I'm a man on the go and usually can be found at a fast food establishment at least 3 times a week, sometimes even more than once a day.
What made the original Shrek so entertaining was how the animators turned the world of fairy-tales upside down, but without ruining the morals that kept them together. The careful precision and absolute hilarity that was housed in every frame of Shrek made the film an instant classic. It is no wonder it went on to win an Academy Award.
2001 was the year of the Ogre and the year of CG films. After Disney and Pixar had tremendous success with the two Toy Story films and A Bug's Life, Dreamworks and PDI, as well as a host of other competitors, brought forward a number of efforts to dethrone the mouse.
There is certainly nothing small or subtle about Wolfgang Peterson's (Das Boot, The Perfect Storm) latest contribution to the realm of Hollywood blockbusters. Troy is an adaptation of Homer's "The Iliad" that is truly grandiose.
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