The Company of Wolves
|
List Price: Our Price: $15.74 You Save: $9.21 (37%) Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Buy Used: from $11.42 (click here) Category: DVD See more DVD releases |
|---|
Canada
Movie Reviews of The Company of Wolves
Movie Review: Visually Stunning & Painfully Boring
Summary: 3 Stars
A horror fairy-tale by Neil Jordan (Interview with a Vampire, In Dreams)
Everything about this movie was perfect.
The settings were nothing short of astounding,
the acting was excellent,
the dream-like atmosphere was thick & gorgeous,
the special effects were amazing (for the time anyway)
and yet I was bored to tears.
This flick was like dating a smoking-hot supermodel who has seen the world, but has nothing to say.
The short stories within a dream angle just didn't do it for me.
While a girl sleeps she dreams of a fairy-tale forest
(one in which everything is represented by dolls around her bedroom.)
Within this dream are 3 different fairy-tales concerning wolves,
as told by the girl (in her own dream?)& her dream-grandmother.
Very weird, but very visual. (even by todays standards)
But ultimately I found myself not caring what happens.
MORAL OF THE STORY:
Scotch-tape your eyes open & main-line a near-fatal dosage of caffeine,
'cause it's gonna be a narcoleptic ride.
Movie Review: Freud's Fairy Tales
Summary: 3 Stars
This is a decidely freudian interpretation of classic fairy tales. Both implicitly and explicity, the story is immersed in sexuality; it defines the loss of virginity in terms of fear, horror and violence. Men are protrayed as predatory animals and savage beasts solely driven by lust, who must be killed before they violate their young maiden prey.
This film boasts a talented director (Neil Jordan, who co-wrote the script) and cast (the beautiful young lead, Sarah Patterson, especially deserves praise) but suffers from a lack of focus regarding the plot structure and overall intent. It has a schizophrenic personality, never quite deciding whether it is a quality family film, an out-and-out horror flick or an adult exploration into sexuality. It never wholly succeeds on any of these levels.
Movie Review: Company of wolves
Summary: 3 Stars
The reason I gave this movie 3 stars is because I love the atmosphere it evokes, like little red riding hood meets tales from the dark side. If it were done with more budget in the effects area it would get 5 stars, but for an old school... It rocks:)Movie Review: Lovely concept, poor execution
Summary: 2 Stars
The concept of lycanthropy as a metaphor for sexual initiation is an interesting one, full of implications to keep a graduate student writing for days on end. Unfortunately, this film fails to adapt the concept smoothly, and its jarring visuals (really, could we not find even a couple of wolves for shooting, instead of using Belgian sheepdogs?!) undermine its attempts at real art.
In the end, I couldn't decide if the confused scripting was a comment on the conflicting and tangled mythology of sex presented to most adolescents, or if it were simply a conflicting and tangled screenplay. In the end, it failed to move me.
With its intriguing premise, it should have been better than it was.
Movie Review: A snore...
Summary: 1 Stars
A dull, pretentious movie. When it originally screened in my city, the restless and irritated audience booed it.Originally advertised as a horror-film, the movie now enjoys an undeserved art-house reputation after being majorly championed by one or two well-known film critics. Yet the conceits (e.g., forest as metaphor for dangerous world; awakening sexuality an uncontrollable beast within us) are tired, and the film is repetitious and way too long. The structure is marred by too many stories-within-stories and endless flashbacks, so by late in the film when someone once again says "Let me tell you a story about..." it is absolutely agonizing.
The film also suffers from having been made around the time of the highly successful "American Werewolf in London" and its then-groundbreaking special effects. So the movie's tone is jettisoned at times for extended goopy man-into-werewolf transformation scenes. Nevertheless, these jarring and dated special effects add interest to an otherwise dull movie.
PS: "The Company of Wolves" is not for kids -- don't let the presence of Angela Lansbury mislead you.