Wreck-It-Ralph: Ralph breaks the internet.

First movie was incredible. So excited to hear that they had announced another movie!

Wreck-It-Ralph 2 was always going to be good.

So what can we say about the sequel to a superb animated movie? Just watch it. This movie is set inside the internet and sees Ralph and Venelope head to the internet to obtain a controller for her game. Without this controller Candy racing will no longer be part of the arcade and Venelope and her friends will no longer have a game to go to.

This comes from Venelope being bored and needing new tracks in her game, so Ralph makes some for her and she does whatever she wants instead of playing the game when the arcade is open, causing the player to accidentally break the steering wheel and the arcade owner deciding that the game doesn't make enough money to justify the cost of the controller.

This game is sort of like 'Ready Player One' combined with what you would expect from a normal animated movie. Seeing them delve in to 'the internet' is fantastic. I love being able to see someone else's understanding of the internet. It makes so much sense. This is another chapter in the potentially, on-going Wreck-it- Ralph series which has so much potential to continue developing.

In this movie they take on some of the toughest racers out there and fight within themselves to find their places in their lives. Ralph does some things that he may regret, Venelope definitely does things that she should regret and sometimes you have to accept that life moves on and not always with the same friends. The driving is fantastic, the sequencing is fantastic and of course, the laughs that you expect come, as you would expect.

There was never any shame in going to see this movie in the cinema. Some kids movies are fantastic and good work should be appreciated wherever it is found.

Just watch it and enjoy it. I don't want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't watched this movie already.

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

Much debate has been had over the casting of Jude Law as the young Albus Dumbledore. I would like to take the time now to make one thing perfectly clear: he is no Richard Harris but no one was ever going to be and I cannot think of anyone who would pull off playing a young Richard Harris.

This movie does not end. I know that Rowling has already stated her intention of their being several more movies in this franchise but I really feel that they shouldn't do that. This movie, whilst being good, did not exactly follow on with the Potter knowledge that die hard fans of the books already had. There is no other Dumbledore brother and it seems a little stupid with the way that the movie ended.

The first flaw is that the elite magicians in the world cannot see through something as simple as his method of escape. For me watching it was predictable. Predictability did not prevent me from enjoying the movie but did prevent me from watching it another time, which is something that the first movie did not do. The other underlying issue for me is the lack of verbal spells in this movie. There is this idea that once you become an adult you do not need to actually say spells but that takes away from the magic. Historically, people were always scared of words that they did not know and understand and that is what made us believe in magic. Once you remove the words from magic it stops being magic and just becomes visual effect. This movie has been fantastic for visual effects but the magical world mostly exists due to spells, spoken and shouted at each other and once you take that away the world seems less real and more like something we are watching on a screen, which loses half of the audience.

Johnny Depp, what can we say. This guy is one of the very few who can continually change his role when on screen. Recently we had this debate about Depp and decided that he so very rarely plays a 'normal' character that he has probably forgotten how to do it. Grindelwald is another character who cannot, in any way, be considered as 'normal'. He is weird, cruel and actually does very little in this movie. As always, there is supposed to be an epic battle between him and the Skamanders but some of that is lost in the lack of words used throughout the battle scenes, which is something similar that took place in the final movies of the 'Harry Potter' series and David Yates hasn't actually learned from it yet. Depp is a good acquisition to this cast and will play off nicely against Eddie Redmayne, who is perfect for the role of Newt Skamander and will
to be perfect.

They could end this series in two movies but knowing this franchise, they will just drag it out, like they did with Potter, until we are all bored and able to predict everything that is going to happen. The Potter movies got noticeably worse as they went on and I really don't want that to happen with this series as well. The first movie was fantastic and this movie wasn't as good but was still very good. The next movie will probably be slightly worse and then they will continue to downwards spiral until we are all endlessly bored.

For now, they remain a good franchise.

The Girl in the spiders web

Another movie that I watched in preview.

This movie is part of the series 'The girl with the dragon tattoo', however, the movie itself confused me a lot as I have only seen the original Swedish movie and this movie doesn't seem to follow on from the end of that movie. There is no doubt about it that it is supposed to be a sequel but it just confused me because none of it really made any sense. In the original Swedish movie she doesn't have a sister, rather a brother, who abuses her and she kills him along with her father.

This movie is all about Lisbeth Slander, she has been made famous by the newspaper article on 'The Girl with the Dragon tattoo' and she is out to defend women who are abused or mistreated by men. She is still a hacker, a very food one and she makes her money off of targeting rich men who are unfaithful or abusive. In this movie she has a sister and her task is to assist an American programmer who made a programme that is very dangerous. He based the code around his son but instead of letting the American government have it he hires Lisbeth to hack the NSA and steal it back so that he can take it away with him and no one will ever have access to it.

It wouldn't be a movie without double crossing, death, action and an evil nemessiss. Needless to say that he is killed, double crossed by some of the people that he trusted and that Lisbeth is now left with his son to protect, a weapon to disarm and a nation to save, whilst fighting against her psychotic sister. She has friends, she has allies but most importantly, she has herself.

If I hadn't have spent the entire movie being a little confused as to how it followed on, I would have really enjoyed the movie. I enjoyed it but I wasn't able to appreciate it for what it was because it didn't make much sense in my head. The setting is different, the characters are played by different actors to the actors in the Swedish movie and nothing flowed normally for me. I liked the action, I liked the portrayal of Lisbeth but I just found that it didn't work as a sequel and that they should have drawn a line under the previous movies and started again with this franchise.

I haven't felt the need to ever re-watch the original movie and I feel the same way about this movie. I remember it and even now, I don't really remember the original movie unless I try but when I do think about it I really don't need to watch it again. There is a slightly darker tone to these movies that makes them very memorable but equally, not necessarily re-watchable.

Bohemian Rhapsody

We've waited a long time for a movie like this to be released.

I can imagine that one of the greatest difficulties would be finding the right person to cast as Freddie Mercury.

Rami Malek was fairly solid. To me he is known for the Amazon series 'Mr Robot' and will always stand out a little because of the way that he looks. Rami received critical acclaim for his role and I have to say that I enjoyed the movie and even though there will never be another Freddie, Rami is about as close as they will get.

For people like me, who know very little about Queen and their lives, this movie was educational and a lot of fun. It was so hard to resist the temptation to join in with the songs throughout the movie and so hard to not continuously laugh. Freddie Mercury seems like a real character and one that was not easy to work with. I think that the rest of the band really deserved something for working with him. That being said, Freddie was the front of Queen. His vocals, his stage presence and his engagement with fans were really what made Queen. The music was good and they could all play their instruments but Freddie took them to a greater level and made them a world wide name.

Rami has been nominated for several awards and he deserves his nominations. It has taken time to produce this movie and I am very glad that they took the time to get the right cast and the right director for this movie because it is a very, very good movie but could have gone so wrong with the wrong cast. I know that Sacha Barron- Cohen was cast as Freddie but I for one am very glad that they reconsidered as I think that he would have ruined the film. Malek was a much better option.

Probably the strongest part of the movie was the live aid scene right at the end of the movie. Loved it, loved watching the performance and longed to have been a part of that experience. Live aid wasn't really working until Freddie took the stage and engaged with the audience. I loved the fact that Brian May actually made an effort to write a song that the audience could engage with. Queen took audience engagement to a new level and really raised the bar for performers and performances.

I know that they are going to release a similar type of movie based on Elton John but I personally feel that it is too soon for that as Elton John is still alive and the reason why this movie worked so well is because people from all eras either relived moments of their past or learned things about history that they didn't know and everyone got to sing whilst doing it.

If you haven't seen it then make sure that you do.