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Disney Princess Film Festival 2014: Pocahontas (1995)

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Review by CJ

Pocahontas

Director:
Mike Gabriel, Eric Goldberg

Starring:
Irene Bedard, Mel Gibson, David Ogden Stiers, Russell Means, Christian Bale

Other notable appearances:
Billy Connolly, Linda Hunt, Frank Welker, John Kassir

Running time:
81 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, Mulan

 

When the English land in the ‘new world’ they are searching for gold and glory. What Englishman John Smith doesn’t expect is that he will find love with native Pocahontas. They must overcome prejudice on both sides before their love can blossom.

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The Cabin in the Woods (2012)

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Review by CJ

The Cabin in the Woods

Director:
Drew Goddard

Writer:
Joss Whedon, Drew Goddard

Starring:
Chris Hemsworth, Kristen Connolly, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz, Jesse Williams

Other notable appearances:
Richard Jenkins, Bradley Whitford, Amy Acker

Running time:
95 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003), The Evil Dead, Tremors

 

Five teenagers head to a remote cabin in the woods for a wild weekend. After venturing to the cellar and reading a latin incantation, the quintet are attacked by a family of zombies. While this may seem like your average horror movie, stay tuned … not all is as it seems.

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I, Frankenstein (2014)

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Review by CJ

I, Frankenstein

Director:
Stuart Beattie

Starring:
Aaron Eckhart, Bill Nighy, Miranda Otto, Yvonne Strahovski

Other notable appearances:
An army of Frankenstein’s monsters

Running time:
92 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Van Helsing, Underworld

 

Victor Frankenstein has created his monster (Eckhart). The monster has killed Frankenstein’s wife. Frankenstein has hunted his monster to the arctic circle. Frankenstein has succumb to the elements and died.

When the monster takes his creators body back to the Frankenstein family home for burial, he is attacked by demons searching for Frankenstein’s journal and the secret of creating more monsters. The monster is saved by two gargoyles (created by Archangel Michael) and taken to the gargoyle queen (Otto). The gargoyle queen dubs the monster Adam and sends him on his way with weapons to fight the demon forces.

Adam survives for centuries fighting demons with the gargoyle weapons. However after a human is killed by one of the demons he is fighting, Adam discovers the demon side has an army of Frankenstein’s monsters ready to unleash upon the world. It’s up to Adam to work out who is friend and who is foe in order to stop the abomination army from being released on the world.

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Disney Princess Film Festival 2014: Sleeping Beauty (1959)

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Review by CJ

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Director:
Clyde Geronimi

Starring:
Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley, Barbara Luddy, Barbara Jo Allen, Verna Felton

Other notable appearances:
The most adorable owl in the history of Disney woodland critters

Running time:
75 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella, The Little Mermaid

 

After years of hoping, King Stefan and Queen Leah finally have a child, Princess Aurora. However, when they present their daughter to the world they do not invite the evil fairy Maleficent and invoke her wrath. The wrath comes in the form of a curse that their baby girl will prick her finger on a spinning wheel and die before the sun sets on her 16th birthday.

Good fairy Merryweather is the only fairy left who can bless the princess, but even she cannot remove the curse. Instead she changes it so that Aurora will not die, but will fall into a slumber only to be awakened by true love’s first kiss.

Merryweather and her fellow good fairies, Flora and Fauna, whisk Princess Aurora off to a cabin in the forest to raise her as a peasant in the hopes that Maleficent will never find her there. When the curse comes true, it is up to the dashing Prince Phillip to escape Maleficent’s clutches and rescue the princess for her happily ever after.

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Sharknado 2: The Second One (2014)

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Review by CJ

Sharknado 2

Director:
Anthony C. Ferrante

Starring:
Ian Ziering, Tara Reid, Mark McGrath, Kari Wuhrer, Vivica A. Fox, Courtney Baxter, Dante Palminteri

Other notable appearances:
Kelly Osbourne, Wil Wheaton, Anne Wheaton, Naked Cowboy, Andy Dick, Billy Ray Cyrus, Judd Hirsch, Richard Kind, Jared Fogle (the Subway guy), Biz Markie, and probably lots more that I missed or didn’t recognise

Running time:
100 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
Sharknado, Sharktopus, Deep Blue Sea, Bait, Dinoshark etc

 

The tagline for this much anticipated film is ‘shark happens’ and does it ever.

Fin Shepard (Ziering) and his ex-wife now girlfriend April Wexler (Reid) are flying to their childhood home, New York City. As they are flying their plane encounters a storm. A storm filled with airborne sharks.

With sharks causing havoc to the plane, its passengers, and the pilots, it falls to Fin to land the plane. As he does this though, April has her hand bitten off by a shark. Once he has landed the plane and made sure April pulls through her surgery, Fin must brave the storm to reunite his brother-in-law (McGrath) and nephew (Palminteri) with their family.

Of course, it is also up to Fin to stop the three sharknadoes that are on courses to collide before they merge into a super-mega-sharknado. A storm of ‘biblical proportions’.

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