03-11-2018, 02:55 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-11-2018, 02:57 PM by Gaith. Edited 3 times in total.)
I missed Orient Express in theaters, but eagerly await seeing it this Christmas/winter season. Hoping to remain unspoiled on the ending until then, which shouldn't be too hard, I hope. 
Speaking of which, anyone heard any news of Vultural? He doesn't seem to have visited since December 20...
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
![[Image: wallace-gromit.jpg]](https://thefailedcritic.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/wallace-gromit.jpg)
This was my first viewing of Aardman's second claymation feature since its initial release, and I was hoping to find it an underrated masterpiece. Instead, however, I found it charming but unremarkable: it lacks that dash of darkness and genuine peril that makes A Close Shave and The Wrong Trousers so memorable, but does retain the heart largely missing (as I recall) from the overly frenetic A Matter of Loaf and Death. The main problem is neither of the two new human characters are of much interest, and the movie really only has four or five characters total, not counting bystanders. Still, it's pleasant enough, and good clean fun for the proverbial whole family.
B+

Speaking of which, anyone heard any news of Vultural? He doesn't seem to have visited since December 20...
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
![[Image: wallace-gromit.jpg]](https://thefailedcritic.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/wallace-gromit.jpg)
This was my first viewing of Aardman's second claymation feature since its initial release, and I was hoping to find it an underrated masterpiece. Instead, however, I found it charming but unremarkable: it lacks that dash of darkness and genuine peril that makes A Close Shave and The Wrong Trousers so memorable, but does retain the heart largely missing (as I recall) from the overly frenetic A Matter of Loaf and Death. The main problem is neither of the two new human characters are of much interest, and the movie really only has four or five characters total, not counting bystanders. Still, it's pleasant enough, and good clean fun for the proverbial whole family.
B+