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Hrm.

Liked the setting more than the plot. Bit muddy on the moral. Only pulled the anachronistic humour trick once, so it felt kind of out of place. Only really laugh-out-loud funny here and there. While it had some big emotional moments for the characters it didn't utterly stomp on the audience at any point like we know Pixar can. Looked lovely. Quite a few jokes that I imagine people who haven't lived in Scotland will find utterly baffling.

Odd one. More a Rataouille than an Incredibles or a Wall-E or an Up.

May not have been in the mood for it.

Trailers: Frankenweenie, Paranorman, Hotel Transylvania and a couple things that aren't about monsters.

... was something I never really read as a kid, I went the Asterix route instead, as I could never really handle the mix of realistic-ish artwork and plotting with cartoony faces. On reflection, I should, as pulp adventure comics are rather my field of interest these days.

So I was largely ignorant as we went to see the movie, my interest piqued by Steven Spielberg directing, Peter Jackson producing, and Steven Moffat, Joe Cornish and Edgar Wright writing.

It moves at the pace of an Indy movie (and is about as hazardous to life and limb for bystanders - apparently the comics are as action-y as this shows). Most of the character comedy comes from Andy Serkis as Captain Haddock, and much of the slapstick from Simon Pegg and Nick Frost and Thomson and Thompson (or possibly the other way round) although a fair number of folk including Jamie Bell's Tintin and even Snowy the highly capable dog get knocked out in assorted funny ways.

Some great crazy only-possible-in-CG stuff, some heightened-reality cartoony stuff, the odd look-it's-3D gesturing with weapons at the screen. And ironically, the mix of realistic-ish artwork and cartoony faces is retained - there are medium and long shots where it looks like live-action with people wearing Tintin character masks.

Prolly watchable enough in 2D, although there are some fun playing-with-perspective bits, especially in an imposible-to-film-for-real one-shot chase through an entire city.

Trailers: we missed all the ads and 2D trailers (darn) apart from The Muppets (yay!) who also do the new Orange ad (yay!) so just the 3D ones - The Phantom Menace with a curious lack of Jar-Jar being visible for some reason... Arthur Christmas, Puss In Boots, and Hugo, which is a 3D children's film from Martin Scorsese starring Sascha Baron Cohen, Jude Law and HitGirl. Yes, you read that correctly.

Green Lantern was good fun. Light, funny, kid-friendly. It could have done with more aliens (and more of the aliens we got) but I was bound to say that really, wasn't I?

Trailers: Basically Night At The Museum Set In A Zoo, The End Of Harry Potter As We Know It and, finally, Captain America. The skinny-fying effects work. And a bunch of Nazis get hit in the face.

Also: I have to get working on this now. :)

Doug Drexler has gone from sharing gorgeous behind-the-scenes pictures of late Trek CG models to doing new things with them. Includes probably the only three seconds ever of what could have been Enterprise season five.

Give Sally Sparrow an Oscar!

And Up.

Glee episode three, and Will's dad is Victor Garber! (In a somewhat alarming cardigan-bowtie-flatcap combo.) After Eli Stone it's another reminder that we never got to hear Jack Bristow sing.

Add that to the list of great never-happeneds and may-never-have-been-considereds, like an animated Doctor Who special with nice animation. (If the Beeb really wanted to cross the streams, get Aardman on it!)

Not a phrase I ever expected to see, but here it is.

The Doktor explains.

And by the end of the first five-minute episode he's killed two named characters and a major capital city.

Well, that was probably the most expensive stage adaptation of a comic ever filmed.

It's better than From Hell, anyway.

( Cut for length, not spoilers. Unlike the film. )

I'm also aware that seeing it cost me about £2.00 less than buying the book back in the day. Oy.

Star Trek trailer looks like huge silly fun. Something this evening at the cinematograph rather lacked, all told.

WALL-E was lovely, beautiful, funny, heartwarming, and even came with a good short in front of it.

Also, shortest post-credits laugh in a good long while, but still gets a laugh.