Rock and Rule
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Movie Reviews of Rock and Rule
Movie Review: A good rarity to own but.....
Summary: 4 Stars
Having long, long wanting this movie. It is indeed a very rare and exceptional movie. A most unique and very hard to find item if your searching for it through conventional methods. I am very thankfull I was able to find it here.
The movie itself is fine to watch and still one of the best Canadian made animated features of all time, to ever be produced and would be near impossible to repeat in my own opinion.
However that being said I do have much reservations about the condition of the movie itself. Which has been poorly treated since it was found where ever it was. A very large lacluster attempt at restoring the images to thier pristine originality is flawed. Which was the biggest dissapointment for me in watching this. Any attempts to restore some of the old picture remain sloppy at best.
While still a good flick to watch and a must have for collectors. I feel this should have been much better treated and improved upon. It is much, much overdue for a complete digital remake. Improving on both the sound and picture quality and is also extremely overdue for a Blue-ray treatment to restore this wonderfull rarity to its original quality that makes it so worth its keeping down the long run.
Though I fear this will never come to be. I do not fault those who found this movie and attempted thier effort to try and restore what they could but largly failed. This movie remains the most ignored, unapreciated and left behind gem of Canadian animation. That it will probably go on being ignored by those at Nelvana and this movie so in sore need of proper restoration. Nelvana will do no such thing and leave it to the wayside of dust and decay. While they idioticly consider a reboot.
Four out of five stars. Still a good rare gem to own and watch but has suffered greatly and the greatest disapointment... the picture remains largly fuzzy remaining in dire need of proper restoration.
In summaration: Purely a collect for collections sake. Nothing more unfortunatly.
Movie Review: Probably the best animated rock musical
Summary: 4 Stars
It's a sparse field. The Wall is partially animated. Yellow Submarine is enjoyable, but too disjoint to beat out this gem for me. Amazon lists this as #57 in rock musicals overall, but it's up against multiple editions of Grease, The Blues Brothers, The Wall and recent items that will probably fade like Repo! The Genetic Opera (though I enjoyed parts of that too).
So, what recommends this? First off, it's a wonderful blend of genres. It's an animated sci-fi/fantasy, post-apocalyptic, rock musical love story. It also has amazing music and some of the most quotable lines in a movie outside of Aliens or Better Off Dead.
On the down side, it is corny as all heck and the ending is a bit too Krull for my tastes (hence the 4 stars).
Mok is perhaps the best over-the-top villain of all time. He's self-obsessed, megalomaniacal, and completely without conscience. The main characters are a bit flat. The male lead is really just humor value while the female lead is only marginally interesting, but they do make beautiful music together and their fights work better than the rest of the dialog by a long shot. The only thing that undermines them is the strong sense that all of the speaking parts were recorded separately. There are some odd pauses and occasionally the rhythm of their conversations just don't make sense.
I'll leave you with just one thought: better get something on that before it festers. See the movie. It's one of the best love-rival lines I've ever seen in a movie. Had me in stitches.
Movie Review: Hey! That sounds......familiar.....
Summary: 3 Stars
I bought this film as a Deborah Harry fan, not really expecting much. Nelvana's animation has always had a bit of a "creepy" edge to it to me (the exception being the Star Wars Droids and Ewoks cartoons), so I knew I wouldn't be blown away by the animation. About halfway through "Angel's Song", something hit me....although the music from this film was never released, there was something VERY familiar about that song. Once I was able to process it, I knew why. Fans of the film that long for music from it would do well to check out Deborah Harry's 1989 release "Def, Dumb & Blonde".....the track "Maybe For Sure" pretty much IS "Angel's Song" (or "Send Love Through"), just with different lyrics.
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