Bambi (1945): A bunch of hidden moral messages...

Yes. The dvd cover says 1945...

Critic 1

 

I saw this movie last time about 25 years ago... Or so. It felt stupid then with all the singing and dancing and all. Now I looked it with completely fresh eyes. The movie is drawn nicely with this classic "soft touch" which is missing nowadays. The action scenes are really scary when the characters lose their humanity and are draw as a primitive entities. But the real catch are the dual meanings and hidden moral learning's. Don't mess with the boss, women are easy and it's ok to have a "special" friend (just don't show it off too much) and so on. Tune your head to catch these and this is very entertaining movie. A good date movie... If you and your date are four years old.
    

Critic 2

 

The animation movie tells about lives of forest animals. The movie begins with a leading role a baby deer and his friends. For young watchers the movie may include some exiting moments where support from an adult is needed. Drawings, backgrounds, and animation are excellent, and there are artistic moments as well (in a good way). Also music fits very well into movie. Watching gives very emotional feeling, there are happy, sad, and exciting moments.  

Judgement Star: Bambi is a good movie if you are four.

Star Trek - The search for Spock (1984): A budget cut... No...

Critic 1

 

A solid Star Trek movie with very nice special effects and a reasonably plausible plot. The lack of characters brings up the feeling that maybe the budget has not been so large than before. But this is corrected with (probably accidental) one-lines by Captain Kirk. The Vulcan episode in the end is needlessly long and leaves a bad aftertaste. To be enjoyed with an extraordinary dates.

Critic 2

This movie continues straight after where the previous one in the saga was left. If you didn't see the previous movie there is a short introduction to it. This movie includes first major appearance of Klingons in the Star Trek movies. This brings kind of worthy adversary to humans and vulcans. The Genesis project continues and lessons are taught, otherwise plot doesn't stand up. Computer generated special effects looked very well made taking to into account the year they made.

Judgement Star: A good Star Trek movie.

  

 

The Hunt For Gollum (2009): Orges are coming..!

Critic 1

A short film made in the spirit of  J. R. R. Tolkien crated by an "open source" community (free to watch http://www.thehuntforgollum.com/ ). A mildly confusing bit of story telling if you are not familiar of the minor details in the Lord Of The Rings. Excellent workmanship with the costume design and make-ups. The computer generated bits were not that good but still Ok.  Only for true believers. Choose your date accordingly.

Critic 2

The movie tells the story what happened before the Lord of the Rings movies when Aragorn hunted the Gollum. Movie is actually a very nice short movie and very well made. You can watch it for free! If you don't now anything about middle earth in advance the movie might be a bit hard to follow.

Judgement Star: Surprisingly good movie.

2012 (2009): Sack the engineer!

Critic 1

The end is coming.... Again. A straightforward survival story with some political aspects cooked in. Nothing too bad. The mechanism of the worlds end is almost believable. Too bad that they just found new Mayan calendars that postpone this cataclysm by few years. What I find really disturbing is that Hollywood writers seem to think that  a) It is ok to drag small girls around in a vicinity of a near erupting super volcano while trying to track down a bona fide maniac and b) engineers will design ocean going ships so that you can't start the engines while some loading hatch is open..... C'mon man. A good date movie. It will bring up discussions... Yeah.. That is what you want to bring up. 
 

Critic 2

The end of the Mayan calender has triggered a few movies where the world threatens to end, and this is one of them. Movie includes stunning scenes of cgi-effects, where earthquakes hit the cities and tons of water will sweep the earth. The movie also hints of critics towards to modern society where money rules. Unfortunately there are too many obvious plot twists in the story. This movie should be watched in theater from a big screen. Will world end or not, I will leave to the watcher to see. 

Judgement Star: Not very extraordinary movie.

Transformers (2007): May the Stars and Stripes fly...

Critic 1

 

Usually in the new movies that rely heavily on the computer effects there is at least one "Lets cut some corners" moment where the effects are made with lower resolution or with less details. I just could not spot such a moment in this. A couple of maybe's perhaps. The plot follows the classic outline of the Transformers comics with an obvious "sequel coming" ending. There were some really annoying details that bugged me throughout the movie. As a living robot I would try to loose all the small bits and pieces from my body to ease the transformation. These fellows had done the opposite... Maybe the Industrial Light and Magic needed to make something extra to charge the customer... And the "USA saves us all" mentality. Aaarghhh... Whatever they say Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox did actually a fairly good job with this. Good and easygoing movie for the first dates. Remember that the "we have only one safety belt" trick does not work in ordinary cars....

Critic 2

Alien robots come to earth and meet teenagers. I presume that this movie is targeted to new audience and not to the old transformer fans, who watched animations thirty years ago. Somehow it's a simple and nice idea that living alien robots come to earth and disguise themselves as cars. Story flows nicely, but the movie is a bit too long. A couple of times I even laughed to some bad jokes. Shia LaBeouf makes one of his best roles as a confused teenager who meets a girl from his dreams. Nice visual effects and an easygoing movie, if you don't mind military aspects of the movie.

Judgement Star: Good but not very clever movie.