Reviews
Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home (1995)
The Big Blue a la Beethoven ... in dopey
Compared with The Big Blue, Free Willy 2 just have the ocean in common . The rest is more related with Baywatch, except in Baywatch when you're bored you can check out pieces of meat and here it rather deals with fish . Even if the commercial target is the young audience, must the screenplay be a total nonsense ? However, some scenes are so much ridiculous (the guy chatting up the girl by smooching a whale, or recognizing Willy just by hearing his ultra-sonic waves, or practising rodeo on the whale) that you sometimes forget a little how much you're bored . The wreck of the oil tanker is so credible that we can wonder if James Cameron wasn't inspired by it to make Titanic . As for the suspense at the end ... it's unbearable : will the kids die by burning slowly and atrociously in the oil fire or not ? Really, it's terrible . I don't even explain to myself why this movie isn't forbidden to people over 8 .
Léon (1994)
Thank you
It was easy guessing Natalie Portman was going to be one of the best (so to speak THE BEST) teen actress . "Leon" gave her everything to use her whole useful acting ability : Besson directs with his usual mastery annd above all writes a brilliant screenplay ; Reno's absolutely credible as a merciless-but-fair-actually-kind- hearted cleaner ; Oldman shows one more time he's second to no-one in playing the scary and bonkers Stansfeld ; Arbrogast makes a truthful sober image ... action, dialogs, love, tears ... everything's been done to make her the cutest girl, in the best movie, the most talented actress ... and me, the most crying guy, seeing her knocking on this door and sniveling ... I adore you, Natalie, and thank you, I thank you all .
Mars Attacks! (1996)
This is just for fun !
Mars Attacks! is probably the best comedy ever done . Perhaps the parody is too subtle for some people or maybe these people have too much self-esteem to enjoy the movie . "Who are they to mess with the Army of the most powerful nation in the world ? Who are they to criticize Las Vegas business, to treat respectable American farmers as retards or to ruin the sacrosanct image of politicians ?" . They simply are artists who give their best to make people have fun with their movie, which is whatever some might say, darn smashing .