Don Movie Reviews

I saw this when I was still in highschool, a great film though Fishburne's performance was limited. Most of the focus was on Charlie Sheen but that's what I think was the intention. Private Bean is put with a bunch of black army prisoners during the 60's which would of course be unnerving though most of the film didn't dwell on racial differences and conflict with the exception of the pivotal moment when one of the black prisoners is shot dead. For the most part the focus on adaptation and how the rebellious Bean must learn to deal with the real world as it was. A short but decent movie.

I have loved this sleeper movie since it came out it is a fine piece of work.And the charactors draw you in. You feel the depth of the movie all the way through.You can trust me on this when I say you will laugh and cry.The music was exceptional it was made for the movie.I had a special tie to this movie because of the time I served in the military.It is really hard to explain to people who have'nt served how you have such a kinderedship with the people you served with.I think this movie will help them understand.You feel what it is to be the new guy,and what it is to fit in,and then when it comes time to leave the pain of missing the friends you've made.This movie is magical! ...

i love this movie. everything is pefect about it but i bawl my eyes out every time i watch his friend get shot. i think its wondeful and inspirational.

I used to enjoy watching these with my brothers when we were kids. The full JLA against the Legion of Doom, it didn't get any more exciting than that!!. It definitely beat out the Supertwins nonsense and was even better than the great original superman cartoon series. My kids, who watch and love Justice League on Cartoon Network, really enjoy the simplicity of these toons. Enjoy!!

My 3 1/2 years old son watches this dvd over and over again.

I have bought him all 3 justice league dvd which are the newer version with better color, sound... But, for a 3 years old this does not really seems to matter much since after I got him this DVD I have a hard time playing him the justice league ones.

I highly recommend this one for your kids. They will enjoy this one over and over and over again.

I may yet buy this DVD someday, as I always enjoyed the Superfriends series in all variations especially Challenge of the Superfriends where this comes from. I will review the disc itself when I buy it, but for now I just have one question which hopefully people will take notice of when they do buy it. This is a compilation of "Challenge of The Superfriends" episodes, who is the dumb cluck who designed the dvd case with the "Super Friends" logo of the first incarnation of the series which came out in 1973? In my opinion that will confuse customers who buy it here on Amazon.com or anywhere for that matter. Someone should write to the manufacturer, and tell them to ease up on the red dew (I'm being nice here, could have said something stronger) when they design the package for the next disc.

I've been hurt in the past by a lot of "classic" Woody Allen films. But this one does not disppoint. I think this is one of his best films. A nostalgic look back on his childhood in the good ole radio days. Although for once, Woody was not the highlight of a Woody movie for me. And I never thought I'd utter thses words in my entire life. But...Mia Farrow was the funniest thing about this movie (and it was a really funny movie by itself). I just loved her eating as people are discussing where to dump her body and my favorite line of her's is upon hearing of the bombing of Pearl Harbor at an inconvenient moment, she asks kind of agitated, "Who is Pearl Harbor?" The second stories would switch, and she'd pop up, I'd already be laughing. And I am by no means a Mia Farrow fan. She was just so broadly funny; maybe that's what she should have done more of. Because usually she plays such dry characters...but this was a welcome change. Woody must have loved her role too. He basically recycled her in Bullets Over Broadway with Jennifer Tilly's ditzy character (also funny). This film was just so real and honest and clearly personal to Woody, that his passion showed in the writing and the acting and made this movie one of my favorites of his (and a young Seth Green did Woody justice too).

That special blend of comedic, melancholic ideal world haze---when he gets it correctly, it is great! This is one of those Allen movies that sucks you into the remembered world, sepia toned, more than slightly un-realistic! But how realistically did we think when we were kids anyways! Great flick.

I'm a huge fan of Woody Allen (even his "clunkers"), but this is my absolute favorite Woody film. All of his films are personal, but none as personal and revealing as this...and ABSOLUTELY entertaining. Seth Green, Woody's young character, is perfect, justifying his current success. Wonderful performances from Woody's usual stock troupe (Kavner, Wiest, etc) are all in tune with the goings-on. Mia Farrow, in particular, is a hoot, especially her scenes with Danny Aiello. Woody even managed to squeeze a cameo from Diane Keaton at the end ("You Be So Nice to Come Home To"). Lovely and sweet. It's too bad the Academy eliminated the category for "Best Adapted Score", cuz this woud've won, no question. The greatest songs of the period (1940-1945) were lovingly presented, and anyone who sees this film can't help but be left with a wistful, soft and nostalgic feeling. Yes, this is my favorite Woody film.

This sequel is much better than the original "Carnosaur". Part 2 has some fine special effects & exciting chills.
The plot is about a group of technicians who attempt to restore power at a top mining facility... The best in the series.

I loved this movie.I say that why did he made it short. he should make it 299 minites. when i was 10 years old i saw it.i saw the first one that was not relly good. the dinosaurs are great. they should make carnosaur 4. too bad they stop making carnosaur. thats all

I would give this great movie a rating of R For some Strong horror violence and gore and some language. There is only two gorey scenes, when the women is torn apart by a raptor. The raptor ripes her arm off and ripe opens her chest. Another scene is when the T-Rex is out and picks up a guy by his head and soon enough the head ripes off. Great gore. The close up scenes of the T-Rex are the same scenes from the first one. All they did was take that scene and stick it on the tape after. If you look closely when the T-Rex is suffering the groung is dirt and should be floor. All they did was take the scene from the first one. Awesome movie though. There is no breast, 2 gorey scenes, some swearing and lots of fun.

John Travolta is good, he's darn good. This movie is the one that brought him back from the slums of Hollywood. After an "audit" from the Church of Scientology, Mr. Travolta came back with a vengeance to knock out the first in a legendary trilogy known as the Look Who's Talking Juggernaut. This movie has it all! John Travolta, Kirstie Alley and a talking baby (who grows up to be Bruce Willis). Now I'm not just saying all these good things about Mr. Travolta because I'm a Scientologist myself. I have been a Scientologist for many years and I have yet to meet Mr. Travolta. But when I do, you can bet that I'll let him know how important Look Who's Talking is to cinema. Skip all the pretentious new releases and pick up this classic, you won't be disappointed. You have the Pissed Off Critics PERSONAL guarantee. (the views expressed by the Pissed Off Critic are not those of Amazon.com or their affiliates)

This movie is so cute and sweet and it's funny too, this is Kirstie Alley's best movie and John Travolta and Olympia Dukakis and George Segal are good too and the babies they used to play Mikey are so adorable! Oh Btw: Bruce Willis is the voice of Mikey and he's great and in the supporting cast is Twink Kaplan who played one of Alicia Silverstone's teachers in Clueless, in this movie she plays Kirstie Alley's coworker and best friend Rona.

I recommend this movie it's so sweet and cute!

THIS movie is a classic! Mollie (Kirstie Alley) accidentally becomes pregnant by the wrong man. Seeing that a relationship with the real father just won't work out, she goes on a search to find a suitable father for her new son, Mikey. While she's going out searching for the right one, her babysitter, James (John Travolta), has the time of his life watching over Mikey. Could James possibly be more than a babysitter, or is there a better man?

That's one of the best things about "Look Who's Talking". Kirstie Alley and John Travolta have great chemistry together, and they, along with the baby, make this movie a classic that I'll never forget. The movie takes turns following Mollie around as she meets a bunch of Mr. Wrongs while she tries to find Mr. Right, and Mikey, who has Bruce Willis telling us all what Mikey's thinking throughout the movie.

"Look Who's Talking" has several parts that you'll probably remember for the rest of your life once you see them, such as the opening sequence that shows hundreds of creatures inside the body talking to each other as they race for the endzone, and my favorite, the part where the song "Walking on Sunshine" plays as James shows Mikey how to dance.

That brings me to another point. "Look Who's Talking" has a GREAT soundtrack. From the upbeat "Walking on Sunshine", to the overly catchy "Let My Love Open the Door", you might find yourself jamming along to some of the tunes while both hemispheres of your brain work together to form your overall opinion of the movie itself.

If you ask me, I say that "Look Who's Talking" is one of the best movies of the late 80's, and I'd even go so far as saying it's one of the best in its genre. It's funny, it has good drama and acting, and it's entertaining from start to finish. What more can you ask for? Get it now!

New Orleans...1916, a house of prostitution which raises young girls to become hookers as soon as they turn 12...and Violet (Brooke) wants to become one too. She is "falls in love" with a photographer & marries him. What else happens? Watch & find out.

The photography is great and it is worth buying for that reason alone,But the best reason to buy this dvd is susan sarandon.

Many words have been wasted lambasting this film for lionizing of demonizing issues of childhood sexuality. I can see the reasons in both extremes. What is on-screen here is really very clearly a form of vicarious catharsis for would be pedophiles / ephebophiles. The nude images of the 12-year old Shields are not beautiful in the classic sense. Yes, she is a cute kid, but the effect left on the viewer regarding the treatment of the overt issue of child prostitution and the real issue of adult-child romantic love is completely concrete. The childs nudity is presented as uncomfortably as possible, in a stark light. It highlights how young a 12 year old can look and act. The drama that ensues about how volatile the growing personality of a young woman can be is accurate. It is cold warning to all who might be deluding themselves with a Lolita complex. Heed the warning. Young women, either for sale, or lusting freely on thier own accord are pastries best left in the oven until they are ready.
If this film retains any cultural significance at all, this should be the main reason.

OK, let me first point out that the members of "The Living Dead" motorcycle gang are almost as intimidating as a group of psychotic girlscouts. Alex (from A CLOCKWORK ORANGE) could have defeated the lot of them without the help of his droogs! That said, I still enjoy this movie. Plot? Well, our dreaded heck's angels spend their time causing murder and mayhem. Their leader Tom decides that he wants to be a social liability forever, so he commits suicide in order to come back as an immortal jerk. This all has to do with his mum's involvement with a toad cult (???). Tom is buried, sitting on his motorbike! His funeral involves "hardcore" bikers making flower wreathes while one of them strums a guitar, singing like Cat Stevens with a headcold. Evil Tom comes riding out of his grave, just in time to mow down a meandering pedestrian. He convinces the others to do the same (all but his drag of a girlfriend). The suicides are pretty funny. One guy tosses himself in the river, chained to about a ton of scrap iron, with nothing on but his black underwear. With the whole gang re-animated, the carnage begins. The "Living Dead" cause fatal accidents, ride through a grocery store, and hit-and-run a baby carriage. Great fun is had by all! Yes, they do get there just desserts, but I won't give away the groovy climax. Buy immediately...

Very Creative Plotline!
A true "edge of your seat" thrill-fest!

MUST SEE!
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I have to admit this movie has it all. If you consider your self a B movie afficianado this is for you. The plot is pure pulp, a motorcycle gang transcends death to return to the living world. It even has an evil hero complete with tight leather pants, white turtle neck and bad teeth.

I've watched this movie countless numbers of times and it still entertains.

A: 4/5 Stars

Robin Williams gives an outstanding performance in "Jack", a movie about a boy with an extreme growing disorder.
We first see Mrs. Powell dressed as a witch at a costume party from which she is rushed to a hospital where she gives birth to Jack Powell after being pregnant for only ten weeks. We learn that Jack has a disorder that causes him to grow four times the normal human rate.
We then see Jack spending his days lonely and holed up in his home, a ten year-old boy that has the physical body of a forty year-old man. Bill Cosby plays Jack's private instructor, who homeschools him.
Finally, after prodding from his instructor, Jack's parents allow him to go to school.
Jack is at first shunned and ridiculed by his fellow fifth-graders, but slowly earns their friendship by proving that you can't judge a book by its cover.
The movie ends at Jack's high school graduation. Jack was valedictorian and gives a powerful speech. By this time Jack appears to be an elderly man, but is really 18.
Jack is a heart warming and laughter provoking movie about enjoying life while you have it, and I highly recommend it.

J: 4/5 Stars

"When a shooting star streaks through the blackness turning night into day, make a wish and think of me and make your life spectacular. I know I did." -Robin Willliams as Jack
Jack is a bittersweet tale about a boy who, despite certain setbacks, is determined to live and enjoy his childhood.
The movie begins after an odd premature birth, where we learn that Jack ages at four times the average rate. Because of this he is kept out of society for ten years. Jack is visited by a tutor (Bill Cosby) every day. Although the tutor likes teaching Jack, he realizes that he is lonely and convinces Jack's parents to insert him into the public education system. At first he isn't too popular, but finally he wins over the class by using his condition to his advantage. The ways he gets them to accept him are refreshingly true: he can buy porno magazines and dominate the basketball courts. However, Jack has several confrontations with the adult world. His attempts of getting together with his school teacher fails and ends up getting in a brawl at at the local bar. It doesn't help when he recieves a "what I want to be when I grow up" assignment that truly affects him. When his friends are twenty he will probably be dead. The movie ends with a speech of triumph that is both tear jerking and heart warming.
Robin Williams definitely wins the best perfomance award. Here, he is able to bring a poignancy to the role while capturing the youthfulness of being a kid. Francois Ford Coppolay who is usually the director of hard, serious dramas, (see the Godfather) has taken a different route by making a human drama enclosed by comedy. Because of this, he has made one of the most honest movies in recent years. Jack is a joy to watch and a movie to treasure.

This very funny and touching film has an amazing cast... ROBIN WILLIAMS (Mrs Doubtfire, Good Will Hunting), DIANE LANE (Unfaithful, Perfect Storm), BILL COSBY (The Cosby Show), and JENNIFER LOPEZ (Out of Sight, Maid in Manhatten).

The story is cool and the directing by FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA is very good. Worth checking out for the excellent performances by the all-star cast.

10-year-old Jack is a boy with a unique condition that makes his body age four times faster than normal. He convinces his parents to let him attend fifth grade in a public school, but his 40-year old appearance creates all sorts of havoc for him!

The flaw of this DVD is that the set-up screen where you choose Play Movie, Audio, Screen Ratio, etc, is blurry and the letters are red. The red bleeds in so you can not make out the letters or what the words are. The nice feature is you get to choose full-screen or wide screen in the Aspect Ratio Screen, however it takes too long to flip back to the set-up screen and there is no "play movie" on the screen to click on to. This Cheech & Chong film (their third in a starring role) is probably the most memorable of all films they have been in together. This time the guys have a new job and they drive an Ice Cream truck. This film is heavy on the marijuana. You'll even see a Gilla Monster, er ah, a lizard smoke on a reefer. That Cheech, will he ever get a chance to make love? Memorable performance by Suzanne Kent as "Sidney, the Agent. No, it is NOT Lucie Arnaz. You're tokin' too much, watch the movie. Funniest Line in the film: "My balls itch"!--Cheech Marin in a straight-jacket.

The flaw of this DVD is that the set-up screen where you choose Play Movie, Audio, Screen Ratio, etc, is blurry and the letters are red. The red bleeds in so you can not make out the letters or what the words are. The nice feature is the Aspect Ratio Selection where you get to choose full screen or widescreen, however it takes too long to flip back to set-up screen and there is no "play movie" to jump into. This Cheech & Chong film (the third as them in a starring role) is probably the most memorable of all films they have been in together. This time the guys have a new job driving a "Herbs" Ice Creams truck. This film is heavy on the marijuana. You'll even see a Gilla Monster er ah, a lizard that smokes a reefer. That Cheech, will he ever get a chance to make love? Memorable performance by Suzanne Kent as "Sidney, the Agent. No, it is NOT Lucie Arnaz. You're tokin' too much, watch the movie. Funniest Line In The Movie: "My Balls Itch" --Cheech Marin in a straight-jacket.
The next Cheech & Chong film is THINGS ARE TOUGH ALL OVER (1982). They also appeared in YELLOWBEARD (1983).

Nice Dreams comes in 2nd behind Up In Smoke, in my opinion. The innocent, goofy demeanor of Cheech and Chong are better portrayed in Nice Dreams than in Next Movie. One complaint I have, is they left Sgt. Stedanko out of the main plot. I think it added alot more humor to the story when he was an uptight, though incompetent, police Sargeant in hot pursuit of Cheech and Chong along with his numbskull officers. Though brain-dead things like Chong cashing a check for the Hamburger Dude with NON NEGOTIABLE stamped across the front made it worthwhile.

"X" - THE MAN WITH THE X-RAY EYES is one of the better movies produced by Roger Corman. The DVD gives the option for his commentary and I was intrigued by his remark from the late Ray Milland, that the two movies of which he was most proud, were LOST WEEKEND (for which he won an Academy Award) and this movie, "X". The other reviews give a pretty good synopsis: Milland plays a doctor who uses experimental drops on his own eyes to give him x-ray vision. Either because of obsession or addiction, he keeps taking the drug and when opposed by a colleague, he accidentally kills him. He becomes a fugitive from the law and one could also argue, from himself. He is warned early on that the drops might also affect the brain. This might explain why he goes into quick rages and makes impulsive decisions. Of course, a doctor experimenting on himself is not too swift either, as Dr. Jekyll could say about his Mr. Hyde.

A warning about scientific hubris is given at the very beginning of the film. Is he challenging the gods? At the film's closure he sees through to the light beyond the vast darkness of space. He sees a cosmic eye that sees all and knows all. This element might be lost on the casual viewer. This distant eye sees Dr. Xavier (Milland) and knows he is watching back. This proves too much for Dr. Xavier. While we might know God by faith, represented by the people in the last scene's revival tent, the Old Testament tells us that no one can see the face of God and live. The temptation from the serpent in the garden is realized, "you will become as gods." It was a lie in the beginning and it is still a lie. We are convicted as weak and sinful men and women.

Dr. Xavier says that he has not come to be saved, but to tell what he sees. He becomes a prophet, so to speak. His vision is condemned as from the devil. It may be the truth, but maybe there are some things we are not meant to know?

Can science go too far? Or, is the problem not science, but a lack of caution and discipline? Can faith and science compliment each other? This is only a movie, but it makes us think about many questions.

>No nudity although bare shoulders and legs demonstrate the ability to see through clothes.

>Plot violence includes a man falling out a window and a car crash.

>Little gore although at the very end he does something to his eyes reminescent of Oedipus. Enough said!

One of the reasons that "X - The Man With the X-Ray Eyes" looks half-way decent in Ray Milland's film career is that when he started his spectacular drop from winning the Oscar for his performance in 1945's "The Lost Weekend" he was still almost a decade away from making "The Thing With Two Heads." I always figured this 1963 film from director Roger Corman was inspired by the infamous add for X-Ray specs that appeared inside the front cover of virtually every comic book produced when I was a kid. However, the screen play is credited to Robert Dillon ("Muscle Beach Party," "French Connection II") and Ray Russell ("Mr. Sardonicus"), based on a story by Russell. The plot is as simple as the ad: Dr. James Xavier (Milland), is a world famous scientist who is experimenting with human eyesight and develops a serum that will allow him to see fun things like ultraviolent rays and (gasp!) through objects. Of course, this is one of those things that seems like a good idea at the time...

The film is really much more of a science fiction film than it is the traditional sort of horror film you expect from Corman, who has a script that suits his ability to bring out the weirdness in situations. The film has remarkably little to do with voyeurism and actually more to do with the nature of reality. It is ultimately a psychological drama, because as Xavier sees human beings reduced to their skeletons, he becomes incapable of dealing with them on a personal level.

In terms of movies where the mad scientist goes off the deep end with a god complex, this one makes the main character the victim of his own experiments (contrast this with Claude Reins in "The Invisible Man"). After accidentally killing a colleague, Xavier hides out in a carnival sideshow where he works as a faith healer. Clearly his x-ray vision functions as a metaphor for the ability to have insight into the sad side of life, but, ironically, Xavier cannot see where his own life is heading. His "visions" become increasingly worse until a fateful meeting with an evangelist at a revival meeting in the desert.

Although not a traditional horror or monster movie, "X - The Man With the X-Ray Eyes" has a sense of bleakness that becomes rather overwhelming by the end. As always, Corman is working with a limited budget, and while this does not affect his direction, it does limit the film's effectiveness because the special effects (i.e., optical tricks) can barefly suggest the depths of Xavier's "visions." However, if you get into the spirit of things you can let your imagination carry the load. Considered by many to be Corman's masterpiece, it remains a most atypical Corman film, which makes a kind of sense. Certainly, this has the most unforgettable ending of a Corman film.

Even when told by a colleague that his vision is excellent, Dr. Xavier is not entirely satisfied: he wants to see what no other man has seen before. To do so and close in on the gods, he has created a substance enabling nothing short of x-ray vision; he takes one drop of it in each eye, even though a monkey he tried it on just died. Taking more of the substance, he soon begins to challenge his colleagues's medical decisions, and is forced to flee after accidentally killing one of them. In the film's first half, Dr. Xavier goes from man to semi-god to exploited freak; eventually posing as Mantallo, he becomes a 'healer' who can't even heal himself. In the second half, his substance abuse gets worse: while trying to find a reversal, he uses more of it to better his chances of getting the money he needs. His voyage of self-discovery ends when he reaches a point of no return and recognizes it. This multi-layered film is rooted in a genre of fiction that we could call 'the curse of the (wo)man-god', and which goes all the way back to the Greek concept of 'hubris'; in such works, a human unsuccessfully tries to transcend his/her own nature through his/her specialised branch of knowledge. The most interesting of these inevitably carry theological and philosophical implications, and 'X' is no exception. The way the movie highlights the different stages of the character's downfall is especially effective: everything from the music, the shapes, the colors, and the editing to Milland's acting denotes this degenerative process.