Peter's Friends
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Movie Reviews of Peter's Friends
Movie Review: Pretty good brit version of "Big Chill" without the suicide
Summary: 3 Stars
Being a big fan of Mr. Laurie, I've been getting everything that he has been in...(have "A Bit of Fry and Laurie" sketch comedies so wanted to continue watching S Fry and him act together)as well as K Branaugh. Pretty good story line with good interplay of characters (clever way of showing time passing) but glad I saw it at home and not in theater. Feel good friend movie.Movie Review: Painful to watch
Summary: 2 Stars
Without including any spoilers to the film:
Just as the title to this review states, it was just simply painful to watch. The movie is about a group of friends who have lost touch over the years and are invited out to the English countryside by one mate from the group for a New Years celebration reunion. As things in life go, they find themselves having grown apart over the years, each 'friend' pursuing their seperate life and each friend having their own set of burdoning problems to deal with.
It's painful to watch because this movie is about a reunion, and we are met with awkward scene after awkward scene of each character battling their own demons that have plagued their after-we-all-lost-touch life. And it's even more difficult to watch when things would get heated and characters would yell things "they didn't mean to say" about other characters while in their presence.
What's even more painful about watching the movie is listening to it. The movie has one of the most annoying and predictable soundtracks making me wonder if the script was actually written around the songs themselves. Every fresh scene we are met with a cliche "reminiscent" song that sums up the previous scene and can pretty much sum up any sort of 80's teen movie.
However, despite my unusually harsh review, the acting in the movie is absolutely brilliant. Those who are a fan of Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, and the rest of that class's Cambridge Footlights cast will be pleased to see old favourites reuniting in this movie. Being strictly familiar with Hugh Laurie's comic career, I was immensely impressed with his big scene (each character in the movie has their own poignant scene where they deal openly with whatever their particular conflict is), that showscases his ability in dramatic roles. You sympathise with Emma Thompson's character and the way she is gets treated by her "friends" in a couple scenes. Tony Slattery, while his character is completely annoying at first, he ends up giving a great performance. And of course, Stephen Fry is simply great (and you really feel for him during those awkward scenes I mentioned earlier), but the conflict that his character is battling within this film is simply predictable; not to mention, once he does reveal his secret to the group, his speech on the topic becomes predictable, as if it was lifted from one of those after-school specials.
While I know this review will be met with rolling eyes, it is simply what I thought about the movie itself, not the actors (some of them which I'm a huge fan of).
It's just one of those movies I would have been better off Netflixing, as it doesn't even have any bonus material making it a worthwhile buy.
Movie Review: DISGUSTING
Summary: 1 Stars
NOT WHAT I EXPECTED - WOULD NOT BUY IT IF I KNEW WHAT IT WAS LIKE !!
WOULD RATE IT AS A MINUS 10 IF I COULD