Well, I liked them both better than you did, dear. I was not as impressed by Shrek,Sr. as you were so there was less to disappoint in Junior.
I don't think they did enough with the celebrity voices: I had no idea the king and queen were John Cleese and Julie Andrews until I read the credit. (Obviously I haven't read any reviews of it.)
I loved Puss in Boots, who resembles our own sweet Pippin. I laughed every time he brought out his most deadly weapon, the big, big eyes.
Re HP3, they did a few things that I found delightful. I liked the way they did the seasonal transitions to show the changing of time. (They had to sacrifice most of the classroom scenes from the book so you couldn't tell when in time the action takes place.) I also was enchanted by Prof. Mooney putting on the old phonograph record when the students first went up against the boggart in his classroom.
The biggest disappointment to me was failing to explain the origin of the Marauders' Map and, connecting to this, Harry's Patronus being stag-shaped and its significance. I feel this could have been done with just a few lines of dialog. Without this information, it looks like a plot hole that Mooney recognizes the piece of parchment as a map when the squiggles had disappeared.
They also failed to establish that animages must be registered which will undercut a later book when Hermione discovers that Rita Skeeter is an unregistered animage and uses it as a hold over her. (It also means there is no explanation for how Sirius escaped from prison.)
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Date: 2004-06-20 01:54 am (UTC)I don't think they did enough with the celebrity voices: I had no idea the king and queen were John Cleese and Julie Andrews until I read the credit. (Obviously I haven't read any reviews of it.)
I loved Puss in Boots, who resembles our own sweet Pippin. I laughed every time he brought out his most deadly weapon, the big, big eyes.
Re HP3, they did a few things that I found delightful. I liked the way they did the seasonal transitions to show the changing of time. (They had to sacrifice most of the classroom scenes from the book so you couldn't tell when in time the action takes place.) I also was enchanted by Prof. Mooney putting on the old phonograph record when the students first went up against the boggart in his classroom.
The biggest disappointment to me was failing to explain the origin of the Marauders' Map and, connecting to this, Harry's Patronus being stag-shaped and its significance. I feel this could have been done with just a few lines of dialog. Without this information, it looks like a plot hole that Mooney recognizes the piece of parchment as a map when the squiggles had disappeared.
They also failed to establish that animages must be registered which will undercut a later book when Hermione discovers that Rita Skeeter is an unregistered animage and uses it as a hold over her. (It also means there is no explanation for how Sirius escaped from prison.)