If you're looking for a movie that makes you think, or challenges you, don't see Transformers 2. It's a self acknowledged all-out effects movie, and gives little of its time over to plot or character development. What it does have is spectacle, excitement and appeals to the kid in all of us. Explosions, robots, Megan Fox, this movie was never going to be Citizen Kane and it knows it. But if you want two hours of epic dog fights, buildings getting levelled and Megan Fox straddling a motorcycle you'll have a great time, anyone who criticises it for it's lack of plot is asking a little too much from the transforming alien robot genre (and Michael Bay of course)
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The Queen's Nose
(1995–2003)
How children's' programming should be.
17 August 2006
The Queen's Nose was one of my favourite shows growing up. A girl named Harmony finds a 50 pence piece which grants wishes when the queen's nose is rubbed.
Naturally, as with all stories with wishes things inevitably go awry, leading to many comic moments which carefully danced the line between being faithful to the book and taking a certain artistic license, maintaining the humour of Dick King Smith's book..
The later series's were not quite as good, probably due to a new and unfamiliar cast. However, with great stories and a fantastic supporting cast, it definitely deserves to be fondly remembered.
If only more shows nowadays could be as clever and witty.
Naturally, as with all stories with wishes things inevitably go awry, leading to many comic moments which carefully danced the line between being faithful to the book and taking a certain artistic license, maintaining the humour of Dick King Smith's book..
The later series's were not quite as good, probably due to a new and unfamiliar cast. However, with great stories and a fantastic supporting cast, it definitely deserves to be fondly remembered.
If only more shows nowadays could be as clever and witty.
100 Greatest Cartoons
(2005 TV Special)
A good show for those wishing to recall low-budget cartoons which aired for a week in 1973...
31 March 2005
As with all of Channel 4's numerous 'Top 100s' you really should read it as 'A hundred, generally good cartoons'. Otherwise the viewer will be sorely confused when top-notch computer animated films such as 'A Bug's Life' are upstaged by nonsensical Japanimation of indiscernible quality. Overall, you have to give the show its dues, The Simpsons did cap it all off, as it should. Plus it managed to give valuable airtime to Z-List quasi-celebrities. I'll leave it up to you to decide who I'm referring to. Jimmy Carr, England's latest comic talent, does not exactly send viewers laughing away on a tugboat of hilarity, but still has the odd spark of genius. I challenge any viewer to watch this and not want to give the 'Top 100' animation a good kicking after two hours of repetitive variations.
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