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Reviews
The Chumscrubber (2005)
Haunting and Underrated Look at Suburbia
I just finished watching this movie, and I thought it was brilliant. I had the fortune of going to a Q and A with the director, who explained and elaborated on his vision (maybe that's why I enjoyed it so much). The writer\director grew up in Irivne (like me) so I understood where he was coming from. The movie is on many different levels, and it depicts the relationship most of us here had with our parents. It was like watching a scene out of my own life. Besides that it was wonderfully filmed, and had a old story told from a unique perspective; kids today are not the lost generation, are parents are. I could see a little of the Donnie Darko connection, but it is a lot fainter than most people play it up to be. If you would like to watch a hauntingly real yet surreal vision of how many youth feel today watch this movie. Some may not understand it, but those who do will be in love.
Neverland (2003)
Brilliant story but not taken far enough
Since a young age, I have been in love with the story of Peter Pan. This version of the story is no exception. This movie had the potential to be brilliant, but it does not deliver. I loved the disenfranchised Darling children, but their characters could have been more developed. If the movie had been longer, it may have done this properly. There were so many loose ends that were never explained, such as Tinkerbell's child and who exactly was Wendy's boyfriend and what did he have to do with the story? The acting was horrible in the beginning, but progressively got better, tanks in large part to the actors who played Tinkerbell and Peter Pan. The plot is so wonderful and the ideas and cinematography are enchanting, but if only the director took a little more time on the details, instead of just chain of random events from the book, then this movie could have been on of my favorites. So for shear creativity and story, I gave this movie a 7. Plus the guy who plays Peter is uber dreamy.