Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991)
Rating: ★★
Apr 18, 2014Comic-Book Superheroes
The second live-action Turtles film is a disappointment. The Turtles are infectiously enjoyable characters but the script has an indifferent laziness, while parental concerns over violence have mandated that the fight scenes be watered down to an absurd level

Pocahontas (1995)

Pocahontas (1995)
Rating: ★★
Nov 8, 2001Disney Animation/Historical Meeting Between English & Native Americans
Disney bases an animated film on the historical character but warps the story considerably. It feels that this is a Disney animated film made more to adhere to Political Correctness than it is a good one

Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000)

Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000)
Rating: ★★½
Jun 30, 2003Batman of the Future/Animation
Film spinoff of Batman Beyond, an animated tv series set in the future as a youngster inherits a hi-tech Batsuit from an aging Bruce Wayne. The film resurrects The Joker but fails to do anything interesting with the character

Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)

Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
Rating: ★★
Jun 30, 2011Live-Action Transformer Robots
The third of Michael Bay's Transformers films. While the human scenes opt for a ghastly miscalculated sense of humour, the effects houses are at the peak of their game, even if Bay allows them to drag the mass destruction out to a numbing excess

Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)

Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
Rating: ★★
Jun 28, 2014Live-Action Transformer Robots
Are there any new creative directions that Michael Bay feels he he has to explore for a fourth Transformers film? All the Transformers beating the crap out of each other and copious mass destruction has become hard to tell one of the films from each other

Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)

Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
Rating: ★½
Sep 23, 2017Live-Action Transformer Robots
The fifth of Michael Bay's Transformers films. This comes with more of an outright comedy focus than any of the other films where Bay seems to be second-guessing his critics and spoofing his own peccadilloes in quote marks, only to produce the silliest entry in the series yet

Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017)

Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017)
Rating: ★★
Jul 10, 2017Animation/Cute Blue-Skinned Creatures
For their third Smurfs film, Sony have dispensed with the live-action/CGi animation mix of the previous two films and made a wholly animated film. Its' the Smurfs in their more natural element but the film is never more than 3D eye candy for the moppet audiences