http://ambival.net/movies/cannibal-aka-alferd-packer-the-musical Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:25:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://ambival.net/movies/cannibal-aka-alferd-packer-the-musical/comment-page-1#comment-2501 Ambival.net » Movie Reviews » Red Riding Hood [2004] Wed, 21 Mar 2007 02:42:53 +0000 http://ambival.net/?p=659#comment-2501 [...] Come back Hoodwinked!, all is forgiven! Within 10 minutes of this one – which I was actually looking forward to seeing – I had taken back all the problems I had with the ‘updating’ work in the latest animated adaptation of the story. First point: if you’re gonna make a musical anything, don’t use a midi sound module in place of an orchestra – especially if you’re in the 21st century. Nothing infuriates me more than bad music in a movie, and if it’s a musical, well, nuff said. Seriously, musical aside, the music here is horrendously tacky. Only one movie I can think of has got away with dodgy midi-ish sound – and that’s Trey Parker’s Cannibal: The Musical, and the reasoning there is self-explanatory. [...] [...] Come back Hoodwinked!, all is forgiven! Within 10 minutes of this one – which I was actually looking forward to seeing – I had taken back all the problems I had with the ‘updating’ work in the latest animated adaptation of the story. First point: if you’re gonna make a musical anything, don’t use a midi sound module in place of an orchestra – especially if you’re in the 21st century. Nothing infuriates me more than bad music in a movie, and if it’s a musical, well, nuff said. Seriously, musical aside, the music here is horrendously tacky. Only one movie I can think of has got away with dodgy midi-ish sound – and that’s Trey Parker’s Cannibal: The Musical, and the reasoning there is self-explanatory. [...]

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