As expected Toy Story 3 is another Pixar classic blending kids fluff beautifully with adult resonating themes and yet still finding time for plenty of laughs, po-mo references up the wazoo and buckets of sentiment. Scripting and voice acting are spot on as you'd expect and the animation itself is stunning. Can Pixar sustain this level of quality?
The Monster Squad is other horror spoof from Fred Dekker this time about a gang of young treehouse dwelling kids fighting the classic Universal monsters Dracula, Wolfman, Frankenstein's Monster, a Mummy and er a Fish Thing. It's maybe not quite as funny as Creeps but it's still an enjoyable pastiche of monster movies with surprisingly decent creature effects.
I've got a lot of love for Roger Corman and only recently realised he was behind Battle Beyond the Stars - one of those films from my childhood that had that warm nostalgic itch to it. Well it holds up not bad I guess as a bit of nonsense space opera but it squanders it's first hour with a weak final third. The plot is basically a scifi ripoff of Seven Samurai and the idea is sound (see Samurai 7) this time we've got John Boy from the Waltons recruiting Hannibal from the A-Team, The Man from UNCLE and a few others to defend his home planet from John Saxon, the whitey fighter from Enter The Dragon. Credit should go to the young James Cameron who did a admirable job making the SFX look nice on what was probably a tiny budget.
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