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Ferdinand (2017)

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Ferdinand
Director: Carlos Saldanha
Writer: Robert L. Baird, Tim Federle, Brad Copeland
Based on: Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson‘s children’s book The Story of Ferdinand
Cast: John Cena, Kate McKinnon, Jeremy Sisto, Bobby Cannavale, Raúl Esparza, David Tennant, Gina Rodriguez, Daveed Diggs, Gabriel Iglesias, Flula Borg, Sally Phillips [I saw the German language version, so I can’t speak to their performances.]
Seen on: 27.12.2017
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Plot:
Ferdinand (Colin H. Murphy) is the son of a famous fighting bull and is expected to follow in his father’s footsteps. Or rather hoofsteps. But nothing could be further from Ferdinand’s mind: he is more interested in smelling the flowers, bringing him the scorn from the other young bulls. Ferdinand grows up (John Cena) into a formidable bull and as luck would have it, he gets stung by a bee, causing him to go on a rampage that brings him directly to the matador academy to train as a fighting bull.

Ferdinand is a sweet film that works hard to dismantle toxic masculinity in a way that makes sense for kids – and it does so quite admirably.

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She’s Allergic to Cats (2016)

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She’s Allergic to Cats
Director: Michael Reich
Writer: Michael Reich
Cast: Mike Pinkney, Sonja Kinski, Flula Borg
Part of: /slash Filmfestival
Seen on: 29.9.2016
[Review by cornholio.]

Plot:
Mike (Mike Pinkney) works as a dog groomer and loves creating analog video art, the only thing that takes him away from the crappy life he leads. Then he meets Cora (Sonja Kinski), the absolute woman of his dreams. Somehow he gathers the courage to ask her out and to his surprise, Cora actually agrees to a date. But their evening out together doesn’t quite go how you’d want first dates to go.

She’s Allergic to Cats started off well enough, but became a little too artsy fo its own good. The bigger problem was that it simply left me completely cold – I rarely felt so much indifference towards a film as this one.

It feels weird to give a SPOILER warning for this film as the title takes the big twist away already, but still, there will be SPOILERs.

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Pitch Perfect 2 (2015)

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Pitch Perfect 2
Director: Elizabeth Banks
Writer: Kay Cannon
Sequel to: Pitch Perfect
Cast: Anna Kendrick, Hailee Steinfeld, Brittany Snow, Rebel Wilson, Skylar Astin, Ben Platt, Adam DeVine, Alexis Knapp, Ester Dean, Hana Mae Lee, Chrissie Fit, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Flula Borg, Anna Camp, Elizabeth Banks, John Michael Higgins, John Hodgman, Snoop Dogg, David Cross, Keegan-Michael Key
Seen on: 31.5.2015

Plot:
The Barden Bellas have been quite successful for the past few years, when a new catastrophe hits: their by now huge show falls completely apart, right when they are performing for the President. Banned from college competitions afterwards, their only chance of making up for the massive blunder is by winning the World Championship of Acappella. But that won’t be easy: the championship takes place in Europe, where everybody hates the USA, Beca (Anna Kendrick) got an internship at a music studio which takes up a lot of her time and the formerly strong friendship between the women is crumbling.

Pitch Perfect 2 was completely disappointing. I really enjoyed the first film (even with a couple of hesitations) and I even re-watched it before seeing this one, but unfortunately PP2 enhanced all the worst parts of PP and didn’t improve anything else.

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