Movie Review: Watchmen (Spoiler-free)

Who watches the Watchmen? 300 lucky people at WonderCon 2009, that’s who! ComicsOnline was there to bask in the glorious film at the Metrion Theater in downtown San Francisco.

Now there are several questions that everyone wants to know. Without spoiling, we’ll answer at least two:

1. Does it live up to expectations? Yes.

2. Did Warner Brothers do it justice? Oh most certainly yes.

This is the most faithful adaptation of any book and or graphic novel to screen that I have ever seen. Yes there are some minor changes. We’ve all heard how they changed the ending a bit and how they removed the Black Freighter and Under the Hood interludes…but honesty, the film didn’t suffer as a result. Even with the slightly changed ending, the point of the story definitely gets across.

WC08: The Return of the Spectacular Spider-Man! (Part 1)

Sony’s Spectacular Spider-Man is set to return to the airwaves shortly and ComicsOnline is the front line for information on the returning series! Over the next few weeks ComicsOnline will be releasing a series of Exclusive Interviews, Reviews, and DVD giveaways leading up to the exciting season premiere!

The first of these exclusive interviews is with Spectacular Spider-Man Staff Writer, Kevin Hopps:

CO: How familiar were you with the Spider-Man universe prior to working on Spectacular?

KH: I was already pretty familiar with the Spider-Man universe but I eagerly reread all the early comics to get ready for this series since the producers were basing it on the early stuff.

CO: In regards to the Mysterio episode (Season 2, Episode 1): What stands out as a highlight for you? What was your overall goal with the introduction of this character?

WC08: The Return of the Spectacular Spider-Man! (Part 2)

ComicsOnline is celebrating the upcoming Second Season Premiere of the Spectacular Spider-Man with several exclusive interviews, pictures and giveaways!

Below are some exclusive pictures of Supervising Producers Vic Cook and Greg Weisman the Musical Composers for the Spectacular Spider-Man!
 

photo courtesy: Dynamic Music Partners

Dynamic Music Partners is comprised of Kris Carter, Lolita Ritmanis, and Michael McCustion. The trio is responsible for many scores that you should be familiar with including:

Batman: The Animated Series
Batman Beyond- Return of the Joker
Ben 10
Spectacular Spider-Man
Justice League
Teen Titans

Stay tuned to ComicsOnline for more EXCLUSIVES gearing up to the premiere of the Spectacular Spider-Man!

DVD Review Feast III: The Happy Finish Unrated

In the first movie we spent a night in a bar with a faceless Jason Mewes, Henry Rollins as a motivational speaker in pink sweat pants, a decreasing number of patrons and staff, and couple of big horny monsters and a couple of baby horny monsters. A few people survived to see the sun rise.

DVD & Blu-ray Review: Madagascar Escape 2 Africa

Marty: This is not crackalackin’.
Alex: Definitely lacking on the cracking, my friend.
Gloria: Is this place great or what?
Alex: I’m going with “or what”.

Remember how funny Madagascar was? Didn’t you love the trailer for Madagascar 2? You know, where it’s got that great elevator intro building up to the “I like to Move It-Move It” song, then Julien the king lemur pops out of the cake in drag, then the penguins fly the plane and… Yeah, after that? well…

Blu-ray Review: Little Miss Sunshine

“There’s two kinds of people in this world, there’s winners and there’s losers. Okay, you know what the difference is? Winners don’t give up. “

The Academy Award Nominated Film Little Miss Sunshine is now available to own on Blu-ray!

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DVD Review: Tales from the Darkside, The First Season

Idyllic country scenes, lush fields, serene forests, babbling brooks “Man lives in the sunlit world of what he believes to be reality, but, there is unseen by most an underworld, a place that is just as real, but not as brightly lit, a darkside”, as the ending scenes turn to the photographic negative.

And so begins each episode of Tales from the Darkside, a half-hour horror anthology series in the vein of The Twilight Zone. The First Season contains 24 episodes, the pilot (1983) and 23 episodes in the first season 9/30/1984 – 8/4/1985), on three discs.

The episode line ups are:

DVD Review: The Wizards of Waverly Place: Supernaturally Stylin’

Like anything found on the Disney Channel, The Wizards of Waverly Place is a series that is appropriate for all ages, but with its high degree of goofiness, this series in particular shows itself to be solidly among the masses of tween-centric shows out today in that it’s actually a show that only those with patience for light unrealistic morality comedies will likely enjoy.

Blu-ray Review: Friday The 13th 1, 2, 3-D Deluxe Editions

The modern horror classic, Friday The 13th 1, 2, and 3-D has been re-mastered, re-mixed, and re-released for our viewing pleasure. That’s right, Paramount is releasing the tales from Camp Crystal Lake in a Deluxe, Uncut Edition.

The first 3 volumes of this long running franchise have been re-mastered in High Definition, re-mixed in 5.1 Surround Mix, and a load of new special features.

DVD Review: Phineas and Ferb vol. 2 The Daze of Summer

“There’s a hundred and four days of summer vacation, and school comes along just to end it. So the annual problem for our generation is finding a good way to spend it. LIKE MAYBE…”

So begins every episode of Phineas and Ferb. Each episode contains 2 stories, so while this DVD only contains 5 episodes, you get 10 cartoons.

DVD Review: Death Note II: the Last Name

Death Note II: the Last Name is the sequel to the phenomenal hit live-action movie Death Note, based on the hit manga series written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. The Death Note live-action DVD, released in September 2008, was ranked as #1 in Japanese Films in North America and #34 in the Live-Action category. As the sequel of Death Note and once again directed by the renowned monster filmmaker Shusuke Kaneko, Death Note II: the Last Name concludes the titanic battle between the two geniuses Light and L. The DVD is distributed in North America by VIZ Media.

DVD Review: The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)

Paramount brings you another classic movie in their “I Love the 80’s” on DVD series.

“It’s the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy. Boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl. Girl dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year’s Day.”

“Goodyear?”

“No, the worst.”

DVD Review: Choke

Choke is weird: a personal quest of self discovery through worlds of sexual addiction and delusion, occasionally hilarious, occasionally heartbreaking, and absurd throughout. It shares several characteristics with Fight Club, most notably the author, Chuck Palahniuk, who wrote the novels that inspired both films. Choke drips with Palahniuk’s style: it has a clever yet mentally deranged protagonist who constantly makes snarky observations about human nature while surrounding himself with other deranged individuals; it examines the ugly underside of human nature; it has a twist, which managed to surprise because it provides a moment of reality in the midst of complete absurdity.