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Madagascar *** (2005, voices of Ben Stiller, Jada Pinkett Smith, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer) – Classic Movie Review 1560

DreamWorks Animation’s likeable and appealing but very modest 2005 computer-animated comedy unsurprisingly had a mixed reviews but the public loved it and it was a surprise blockbuster box office hit, spawning two sequels so far. It was a very […]

Aug, 17 · in Reviews

Mad City *** (1997, John Travolta, Dustin Hoffman, Alan Alda, Bill Nunn, Mia Kirshner, Robert Prosky, Blythe Danner, William Atherton, Ted Levine) – Classic Movie Review 1559

In director Costa-Gavras’s 1997 thriller, John Travolta plays Sam Baily, a disgruntled natural history museum security guard, who holds visitors, including a school trip group, hostage in an attempt to win back his job when he […]

Aug, 17 · in Reviews

Chicken Run ***** (2000, voice of Mel Gibson, Julia Sawalha, Miranda Richardson, Tony Haygarth, Jane Horrocks, Imelda Staunton, Phil Daniels, Timothy Spall) – Classic Movie Review 1,558

Producer/story-writer/directors Nick Park and Peter Lord’s adorable 2000 Aardman film feature-length animation film Chicken Run stars the voice of Mel Gibson as Rocky Rhodes, the Rhode Island rooster. This lovely, adorable, delightfully funny smash-hit British animated […]

Aug, 17

Antz **** (1998, voices of Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman) – Classic Movie Review 1557

Directors Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson find an ingenious way to find new work for old Woody Allen – as the cartoon voice of an ant! Allen voices neurotic ant Z-4195, a New York Central Park […]

Aug, 17

Shark Tale *** (voice of Will Smith, Robert De Niro) – Classic Movie Review 1556

Will Smith voices Oscar, a young little fish working as a whale cleaner, in this pacey and amusing Oscar-nominated 2005 animated feature from DreamWorks Animation, the makers of Antz and Shrek. But Oscar is involved in the […]

Aug, 16

Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed *** (Freddie Prinze Jr, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Matthew Lillard) – Classic Movie Review 1555

A masked villain plots to take over the Coolsville Museum of Criminology by having fun with a ‘monster machine’. The funny, bendy, appealing Matthew Lillard again raises most of the laughs in this likeable sequel […]

Aug, 16

Equilibrium *** (2002, Christian Bale, Sean Bean, Emily Watson, Taye Diggs) – Classic Movie Review 1554

Writer-director Kurt Wimmer’s intriguing futuristic 2002 thriller is set in a fascist future, where the state has suppressed human emotions by banning books, art and music and punishing feelings by death. Christian Bale stars as cleric John […]

Aug, 16

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