Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label circus

A Bugs Life (film review)

Film: A Bugs Life Year: 1998 Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy Directed By: John Lasseter Starring: Kevin Spacey, Dave Foley, Julia Louis-Dreyfus About: A misfit ant, looking for "warriors" to save his colony from greedy grasshoppers, recruits a group of bugs that turn out to be an inept circus troupe. Trailer:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ljk2YJ53_WI My Review: Going back to the first movie I ever fell in love with however haven't seen in years I decided to put on A Bugs Life which came out in 1998 when I was only 2/3 years old! As a favourite of mine when I was younger I was scared to watch this again in-case it didn't live up to what I had remembered and loved. A Bugs Life is about an ant called Flik who after getting rid of all the food the ants collected for the grasshoppers goes out to try and find some warriors to try and help defeat them. However, when he recruits circus bugs he needs to come up with a new idea to stand up to the grasshopper...

The Greatest Showman (Film Review)

Film: The Greatest Showman Year: 2017 Genre: Biography, Musical, Drama Cast: Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, Zac Efron About:  Celebrates the birth of show business, and tells of a visionary who rose from nothing to create a spectacle that became a worldwide sensation. My Review:  As someone who only really likes musicals that are more of a horror nature this film really peaked my interest as it was to do with show business. With a cast I had grew up watching and becoming a fan of I had to see if this film was as good as I thought it would be and I was not disappointed at all. This film has an original soundtrack that not only inspired me in my real life but also that made me feel exactly what the characters were feeling. This film follows Hugh Jackman as P.T. Barnum who was the first person to ever create a circus and do a style of entertainment that was not of the norm. As someone who was not aware of him and did not know his story this really inspired me as he ca...