INKSTAND

Ok, I’m not going to go too much into this movie. It sucked. It just really sucked. I usually try to stay real quiet during movies, but about halfway through I joined in Jeremy’s audible dislike of the movie. I think this might call for some bullets.

-Female lead…way too old for a high schooler. Way too hot for a high schooler. Grand total of 1min, 15 seconds of character development (juvie delinquent w/jailbird dad both for GTA. How convenient).
-That kid from Holes (tee hee) is cute and seems to be a good actor, but they just have him yammering on and on the whole movie for what seems to be comic effect. It is distracting and tiresome. And he and the girl are both dirty and sweaty the whole time.
-Bad edits
-Bad dialogue
-Bad directing
-Bad cinematography
-No real conflict is revealed until about 2/3 of the way in
-A GOD AWFUL fake austrailian accent
-Long scenes. There was one where the robots were hiding from the parents in the front yard…it went on for about ten minutes and included a lot of that yammering from both kids, the parents, and the robots. I knew exactly what was going on but the scene was really pretty chaotic and could have been about 2 minutes long. there were lots of scenes like this.
-Not enough Andrew. Too much fake-accent girl. Totally uneccesary sassy black computer genius kid.
-Robots tended to change size inconsistently.
So, yeah, it was crap. Glad I saw it on the big screen, though. The robots did look cool. But they didn’t really use them wizely. For a more in-depth review, check out Andrew’s take on it.

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