I’m feeling a lot better today and decided to celebrate with a film. Well that’s a lie, it just happened to be on when everyone else was watching TV. Actually the only key point you should be taking away from this first paragraph is that I watched a film.

Akeelah and the Bee is actually as good as its 84 on Metacritic suggests. It’s not a clichéd story despite it’s inherent predictability, but that wasn’t what ultimately put me off it. The parent of the surprisingly gifted child seemed to have a vendetta against people learning. Now I’m not a parent, neither will I claim to know everything about parenting but no parent would deny their child trying to better themselves at something, especially something academic. Kind of made no sense and did nothing for the plot of the film. However, I could think of worse ways to spend two hours.

I also watched Up, which everyone should watch in one thousand and eighty pea. It looked very nice to say the least. They did a bad job of the plot twists but the overall story and breath of characters were strong enough to make it another classic Pixar film. Probably as good, if not better, than Toy Story… maybe.

Well that’s enough of me trying to be a film critic for one evening.