Willie's View Movie Reviews

   If you've read any of my reviews this year, you might notice that I've talked about the emotional disconnect that some movies are plagued with. I'm referring to lack of character development (example-UNBROKEN and FURY, come to mind.)  PIXAR'S latest animated film, INSIDE OUT, almost gets derailed with the lack of character development/character empathy and a flimsy storyline that plays like a re-tread of the Toy Story Movies. Two characters with different personalities find themselves out of their comfort zone and spend the rest of the movie trying to get back. Been there. Done that about a 1000 times over.   But does INSIDE OUT offer anything to write home about? Yes. Two voice over performances that breath life into this "cute" film. Those two are Phyllis Smith (from The Office) as the emotion Sadness and Richard Kind (Spin City) as a stuff animal type creature named Bing Bong. If it weren't for these two supporting characters, I feel we would have...

  22 years ago, Steven Spielberg debuted one of his signature action masterpiece's with JURASSIC PARK.   22 years and two lesser sequels later, movie-goers get the opportunity to return to Isla Nebular and see all those cool dinosaurs once again eating people. During the 20 plus years, INGEN has managed to get Jurassic Park running and operational, capturing the vision of it's founder, John Hammond. But when attendance level start to decrease, the mad scientists go back to the lab to create a bigger and badder dinosaur-Indominus Rex.   Of course, things go horribly wrong and the head of Park Operations,Claire( played by Bryce Dallas Howard) enlists the help of Raptor Whisper Owen(Chris Pratt) to get things under control.  We've seen this done three times already. But what JURASSIC WORLD offers is a BIG star in the lead role-Chris Pratt. This movie really is best described as Chris Pratt and The Dinosaurs. Chris Pratt fully embodies what the previous three movies ...