Fantastic Plastic People - Jimmy Cliff

Advantages: looks good
Disadvantages: quite bendy, can be pricey

...I am an avid Doctor Who fan, I love it so much! This amazing show is a sci-fi family show about a man called the Doctor, a Time Lord. He travels around the universe in his large blue box known as the Tardis (Time and Relative Dimension in Space), saving all the poor innocent people from the clutches of the evil creatures. Sometimes he will travel alone but usually he is accompanied by a female companion. In 2005 Doctor Who returned after a long break with Chris Eccleston playing the Doctor for one series, along side Billie Piper as Rose Tyler. Then at the end of 2005 he regenerated into out tenth Doctor, David Tennant. Tennant and Piper took us through a second series, and in this we entered a world created for an episode, School Reunion. In this episode a school seems to be doing remarkably well so they go to investigate and find... Read review

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Advantages: great comedy, nice filming, good acting
Disadvantages: quite short, can be silly

..., if you can suspend your disbelief long enough to believe that Jimmy could indeed build a germ-proof, breathable, seemingly indestructible bubble suit, then it?s a much easier film to enjoy. The comedy timing of Jimmy?s parents (Swoosie Kurtz and John Carroll Lynch) is impeccable, and the section where he grows up inside the bubble is by far the funniest bit; it comprises small amusing snippets of his childhood, which whilst very funny also give the impression of the passage of many lonely years. The film?s colour has that slightly fifties sheen to it, which did indeed remind me of Tim Burton. In fact, the whole film has more than a touch of the Edward Scissorhands about it; a loveable misfit, who charms the whole community, and is unable to touch the woman he loves. The people chasing him to Niagara Falls did get slightly... Read review

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Advantages: A more realistic view of high school life
Disadvantages: We don't see enough of the ordinary people

...skirts and make-up by the trowel-full. Her character?s narration illustrates how her viewpoint changes. When we first see her in social situations, she comments on them in voice-over as David Attenborough might, and we see them acting as African animals. By the near-end of the film she is reduced to commenting on how people fit the Plastics? physical ideal. As she?s the lead and is essentially a nice person, she is allowed to redeem herself by the end and never loses the audience?s sympathy. Rachel McAdams makes the most of the role of the aptly-named Regina, Queen Plastic. She makes two-faced, bitchy, back-stabbing sluttishness an art form and is thoroughly detestable. She is an adept at manipulation, mind-games and three-way phone attacks (where one girl phones another, gets the recipient to say something nasty about a third party... Read review

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