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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.

Happy New Year!

Since Summer 2008 at the movies is being replayed on British TV this weekend...

WALL-E is still lovely, heartwarming, funny, beautiful... but you knew that.

Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull is still an hour of a reasonable Indiana Jones movie followed by an hour of a subpar Mummy movie with bloody aliens in it. The motorbike chase is still the best thing in it.

The Incredible Hulk would still have been better without the Hulk.

Iron Man is still awesome.

Give Sally Sparrow an Oscar!

And Up.

Bolt is amusing and sweet rather than funny and loveable. It's kinda like a remake of Toy Story too.

3D is largely used well, although several of the trailers are like "we have 3D, so the credits will be HERE!" at ya. Coraline looks like a particularly big drift from the original on finally seeing the trailer properly.

(Oh, and the short was a Cars spinoff. Nuff said.)