With the Easter School Holidays just around the corner, you can count on an ark load of movies being released over the coming weeks to capture the lucrative holiday moviegoing dollar - unless you are a mega budget big studio production that is being released this week that you just know will have the staying power to last until the Easter School Holidays and beyond. And so it is this week, with two monster offerings to entice the adults and the kids to your local multiplex. We have a big budget effects laden serve of originality and a big budget effects laden sequel to get your bum on a seat and a bucket of popcorn in your hand!
THE LEGO MOVIE - released off course in 2D and 3D and featuring an instantly recognisable toy that at some point in our lives (as a kid and a grown-up too) we have all played with. Lego is the creative toy phenomenon of the 20th Century that has reinvented itself time & again to keep current, relevant, and in the healthy imagination of every youngster, and young at heart! At an investment of about $70M to bring this to the big screen you could call this a simple exercise in marketing, and on this basis it would probably do very well anyway. But from what I've read, heard and seen this film is rich, colourful, playful and inspired, and features the voice work of Chris Pratt, Will Arnett, Will Ferrell, Jonah Hill, Liam Neeson, Morgan Freeman, Channing Tatum and Elizabeth Banks. The story is simple enough and features Lego construction worker nobody Emmet (voiced by Chris Pratt) who in a case of mistaken identity is unwittingly and haplessly tasked with saving the world. Along the way lots of favourite characters emerge from Lego's world of superheroes, space travellers, pirates, cops & robbers, cowboys & injuns, fantasy and adventure that all meld together to create this original film. A must-see I think . . . for kids of all ages!
CAPTAIN AMERICA : THE WINTER SOLDIER - probably Marvel's biggest release this year coming to a multiplex in your home town delivered straight from the most successful movie production studio on the planet today. It has to be said that Marvel do this stuff well - they have rich source material, they have a huge loyal fan base, and they can spend up big to deliver the thrills and spills on the big screen. And so Captain America comes to the silver screen for his third outing (counting of course the excellent THE AVENGERS), but his second stand-alone film after CAPTAIN AMERICA : THE FIRST AVENGER. Chris Evans is back and starring with Robert Redford, Samuel L. Jackson, and Scarlett Johansson amongst others in a modern setting still struggling to adjust to his new life in the 21st Century. Needless to say his readjustment into some sense of normalcy is short-lived as he and other S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents come under attack revealing ultimately a conspiracy amongst the ranks of the organisation he works for and which protects him. With trained professional assassins hell-bent on disposing of The Cap'n at every turn our hero Steve Rogers joins forces with The Black Widow and The Falcon to save the world from new arch foe - The Winter Soldier. Rip roaring stuff that for lovers of the genre will be a must see!
Go see a movie this week and let me know what you think!
-Steve, at Odeon Online-
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