The One And Only Ivan:
Synopsis: While trapped in a cage at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, a gorilla named Ivan teams up with a caring elephant named Stella to piece together his mysterious past and hatch a cunning escape from their shared captivity.
My thoughts: Disney dips it's toes into the darker themes at play but fails to take advantage of it and instead simply brushes it off as a small component in the overall story arch where as if they focused on that as the main component it would have made the story a lot more compelling. The live action actors do a fantastic job of interacting with the CGI animals and the voice actors do well also. The emotional climax of the story pays off in a big way and have tissues nearby as you may require them. Not Disney's best offering but if Disney+ can shoot out quality like this even once a month the subscription is definitely worth it.
Final verdict: 3.5 mall circuses out of 5.
Synopsis: Dean, Duncan and DJ Beatroot are teenage pals from Glasgow who embark on the character-building camping trip -- based on a real-life program -- known as the Duke of Edinburgh Award, where foraging, teamwork and orienteering are the order of the day. Eager to cut loose and smoke weed in the Scottish Highlands, the trio finds themselves paired with straight-laced Ian, a fellow camper determined to play by the rules. After veering off-path into remote farmland that's worlds away from their urban comfort zone, the boys find themselves hunted down by a shadowy force hell-bent on extinguishing their futures. From writer-director Ninian Doff comes an anarchic satire of generational politics, hip-hop loving farmers and hallucinogenic rabbit droppings that pits the youth of tomorrow against the status quo of yesterday.
My thoughts: The script is sound and the laughs and thrills are real. Get Duked! mostly suffers through acting problems due to it's inexperienced cast and a certain level of predictability involved in a supposedly off-the-wall bonkers movie.
Final verdict: 3 farmer parties out of 5.
Synopsis: The world's greatest Super Heroes square off once-and-for-all against the despotic Darkseid – with the fate of all humanity hanging in the balance – in Justice League Dark: Apokolips War, the next entry in the popular series of DC Universe Movies.
My thoughts: DC decided to make their own version of Infinity War and Endgame rolled up into one and it works. It's brutal, dark with lots of twists and turns. The negative was the obvious elephant in the room: DC just wanted an excuse to reboot the DC Animated Universe (or end it all together) so they fabricated this movie in order to do it, which is pretty bittersweet as I've enjoyed this incarnation that has spanned 15 main line titles since 2013 Flashpoint.
Final verdict:4 magic incantations out of 5.
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