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The Day of the Beast lacks neither a strong idea, an original theme, or excellent moments. But wat it lacks is momentum in several scenes and, above all, better exploited potential. They could have got so much more from such a brilliant idea. Even so, turned out to be an excellent movie where it is glaringly obvious at almost every moment just how much better it could have been.

Variations on Spielberg's ET and especially on Ghostbusters. Just it’s aimed at younger viewers and features characters from monster movies. The pace is pretty good, not all the kids are completely annoying; and it's a pleasant and relaxing family movie. It isn’t much more than a tolerable distillation of something you’ve seen a hundred times before. But, you have to give it them, this is a concoction that works quite well. Still, if you want to see this type of movie, I would recommend watching the phenomenally unbeatable Goonies instead.

When they try to create humor in Hong Kong, it is usually lost on me... Wannabe humorous police scenes are gradually phased out completely, but at first there are more than enough of them. If The Untold Story had been absolutely serious from the beginning, it could have worked excellently. Especially since the movie can rely on the always first-class Anthony Wong.

Not enough Gustav versus a geyser of embarrassment on Purcell's part. It has momentum, aggressive editing, passable CGI effects and lots of color filters. As far as the technical aspect is concerned, there is not much to find fault with. Something that cannot be said about the action or original ideas. These ingredients are desperately lacking here. However, as far as this specific subgenre is concerned, this is relatively successful. But still, expect no miracles.

It is obvious where the creators got their inspiration. And they were more than just well-inspired. Funny Man is a sort of variation on Nightmare on Elm Street. The beginning is needlessly long-winded, but in the second half, ideas and pace come thick and fast. Not all of it is well-made, original and sewn up, but overall that cynical fool’s practical jokes are pretty funny. He-he-he-he!

An excellent parody sequel from the day when this genre was not just all about copying scenes from their more famous colleagues, everybody getting hit in the head and farting. Although Part Deux does not reach the standard of part one, but even so, it has a wealth of original ideas and so the viewer can forgive the creators the very few really lame moments.

A parody from the old days when the genre was not only based on copied scenes of more famous colleagues and a lot of banging heads and farting...

This sequel to an already pretty mediocre picture turned out just as you would expect. In other words, so B-grade that it’s painful. The screenplay has its brighter moments, but that doesn’t apply to the director and the editing. A good indication of Lussier’s qualities is the fact that he is convinced that when he films a scene that costs a lot of money, it should be repeated over and over. The falling piano is just “great". The cast is awful and the desperate efforts of Fillion do nothing to change that. This movie could have been a good average if it weren’t for the closing quarter hour which is seriously flipped.

One flat, no script, hectolitres of blood, a couple of hamsters, a lot of uninteresting shenanigans and above all one long bland and completely condensed borefest. One star for the closing “joke”. Er, did I mention the hamsters?

The best part of this comes before the opening credits, but even that is pure “Boo!" standard. What then follows is unwatchable and absolutely awful. And I hope the creators weren’t taking the movie seriously, because if they were being earnest, that would make this even worse. Unfortunately it isn’t bad in a way that would make it funny...