karalyeva Reviews

These Old Broads (2001 TV Movie)

For those who know these actresses inside and out

[10/10 · 9 May 2007]

This film is filled to the brim with fantastic Hollywood injokes and highly entertaining dialogue for those people who are familiar with the historical private lives of these individual actresses. For those people who don't know the lives of "these old broads," don't bother watching it, you won't get it. I'm sure that's the situation with most of the people who gave this film negative reviews. I understand how this movie could be frightfully boring and meaningless to those people who aren't versed in classic Hollywood lore, as nearly all of the situations and lines are witty remarks about the actress playing the role, but for those of us who get the joke, it is a brilliant, hysterically funny piece of work.

Casper (1995)

Great movie for adults and OLDER kids

[8/10 · 31 October 2006]

We picked this movie out to show to our kindergarten and 1st-graders at the after school care program I work at. Neither my coworker nor I had seen the movie for a long time, but remembered it being quite innocuous, and entertaining for kids. We started the movie and immediately saw why it was so entertaining. There are a great number of pop-culture references (Father Guido Sarducci makes an appearance as an exorcist, and subsequently comes out of the house with pea soup on his robe and his head turned all the way around, a reference to The Exorcist) and very witty dialogue. My coworker and I were in stitches with things that just completely went over the kids' heads. It is a very, very well-done movie, even more than I had remembered as I child.

Now, for the other part. We made a big mistake showing this to our kindergarteners and 1st-graders. There is quite a bit of swearing in this movie (not BAD bad words, but they use "damn" quite a lot, they used the word "bitch" twice, "piss", "crap" etc.), and my coworker and I were worried that the kids were hearing this stuff at their age, we were scared that they were going to go home and repeat these words at the dinner table! I think this movie is great for older kids, as it is witty, funny, sweet and charming, just like a kids' movie should be, but if you have a 5-year-old, I would advise waiting on this one if you don't want him learning swear words so young :)