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My brain's still processing it, so there probably won't be a full review here until next week.  For now I will say it's a good movie, so is the short before it, and don't trust the trailer; it's nothing like it's advertised.
Also, I was dreading the commercial breaks during the Olympics when I started realizing I'd have to endure all the political attack ads, but after seeing this before the movie today, I think I shall be mollified if there will also be commercials of minions doing gymnastics:



I noted while watching both this and the trailer for The Hobbit in the cinema this morning that they're really making these movies nowadays to depend on the 3D, to the point that even in the 2D they'll animate it to short-of include the extra dimension.
I probably won't see the movie, though. I didn't see the first one. I'll just watching whatever various minion vids I spot on YouTube.

But then again, Les Miserables was something I grew up hearing. When I was younger, all I wanted in life was to play Eponine someday, which I suppose will never happen now. I’ve seen it on stage twice, once in London, and also Eric Schaeffer’s Les Miserblackbox production several years back, but this, with Hugh Jackman & Russell Crowe to boot(and fortunately there’s plenty of musical experience in the cast; everyone’s proven their singing ability somewhere), feels like something else entirely.

Went to see this movie yesterday, mostly for the number of British stars in the cast: Judi Dench is the center of this movie, with Maggie Smith trying to steal it from her, and Bill Nighy and Tom Wilkinson also threatening to. I don't think anyone's made a movie before this about a bunch of retirees going to live in a disarrayed Indian palace-turned-hotel, though all the same, it didn't feel unlike a lot of movies I've seen involving this kind of cast. Though it's hard to mind that when the movie's done this well.
Sure, poor Penelope Wilton gets stuck playing a harridan wife(though even she has her moment of redemption in the end), and ( then there was that other kind of cliche... )