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Mickey's House of Villains (2002)
Recycling saves the planet; not my memories of classic characters
Might contain possible spoilers (Not that anything in this film is new or will even mildly surprise you for that matter)
Why does Disney feel the need to recycle everything they ever made into oblivion? Sure it's cheaper for them, but after a while, wouldn't you think there overall quality and the way people think of them would drop off. House Of Villains is a despicable display of cartoon crossovers that make absolutely no sense at all. Some signs of the total disregard for previous films in this are: The voices don't even remotely match up and Iago is evil again (Since when?!) I know that these films are directly towards children but there was a time when all could enjoy Disney films. Even the movie's musical number (which had been Disney's specialty for years) stunk. I wouldn't recommend this film to anyone even the very young. All I can is that if more of these movies of the same caliber are released, it's only a matter of time before some small animation studio surpasses Disney in overall quality.
Darkness Falls (2003)
At least the box office results were scary
I went to go see this movie with very low expectations and I was not disappointed. Sure the loud, suspenseful music was scary and the horrible noise emitted by the witch was enough to send shivers down anybody's spine, on the whole it is just another bad movie. The acting is bad, the plot is incredibly thin, and the characters are bizarre and unrealistic, all of which builds up to another cheap, anti-climatic ending. This is a film which is barely better then the entire "deranged maniac with a knife/gun/chainsaw" B horror films which litter the shelves of an otherwise perfectly good wall at your local video store. I'm not saying you should never see this movie, but if you're in the mood for a terrifying horror film this one will disappoint to say the least.
Snow Queen (2002)
Cold Movies Need Cold Reviews
DANGER: Watch for falling spoilers...
Boy, was this a bad movie. I know that they were going for a "true love conquers all" kind of thing, but about all this film conquered was about 3(which felt more like 9) hours of my afternoon which I will never get back. The movie is about two young lovers named Kai and Gerta who live in a remote town in a fantasy world. Kai is the much-abused bellboy at a hotel owned by Gerta's father. At first Gerta ignores Kai's advances but she eventually warms up to him much to the disgust of (You Guessed It!) Gerta's father. As if this obstacle wasn't enough to overcome, an evil snow queen shoots a shard of glass in Kai's eye and he becomes a mean person treats Gerta poorly. Kai is eventually taken to the Snow Queen's fortress (Which is the same set as the hotel just covered in ice, because the good people at Hallmark like to go all out) and Gerta sets out on a mission to get Kai back. Along the way she runs into the 3 other seasons that are evil in their own special way, but Gerta escapes them with the help of some dull and forgettable characters she meets along the way. (All the while you will want to turn it off, but can't force yourself to do it. It's probably the most evil and most effective spells cast by the Snow Queen) Anyways, I will spare you from the ending because anything you can think up in your head right now is probably better then how they ended it. So, in conclusion, the Snow Queen is an incredibly boring movie, which takes the fan out of fantasy.