Lucía und der Sex (2001) Voll Streaming

The animated movie greatly expands on the kids' book on which it's based in a clever and engaging first half. But the second half leaves a foul aftertaste. Slapdash action scenes play against dreary warnings to fear wealth and beauty.. Determined to have their cake and eat it too, writer-directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller first invite us to revel in ice cream mountains and nacho cheese fountains, then clobber us with ham-handed nutritional moralism.. It's not especially filling, but it leaves ...

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Rapunzel - Neu verföhnt (2010) Voll Streaming

Tangled is lovely to look at, but if you're not a pre-teen girl, you may be distracted by the split ends.. It's Wolff and Rourke who have to carry the load, and for the most part they do.. Tangled is the best animated film from Disney in the past 15 years.. Burton might need to get further from blockbuster bloat in order to regain his formal mastery of kitsch. Right now his sense of comic portraiture is too easily mistakable for splatter painting.. A smart, funny, feel-good film -- from Tim Burt...

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Big Stone Gap (2015) Download Voll

Music perfectly fits with the movie, the story can't tear myself away from the screen for hours. Really GREAT movie!!. The film conceals as much as it reveals, and its beauty is that it pretends to do nothing else. It embraces a mystery and protects it, and it’s thrilling to behold.. A masterpiece of genre film-making, really worth to watch.. This movie is an epic action movie that I believe in a few years from now shall be more appreciated than it is today !!. A movie can have a superb story, ...

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All Beauty Must Die (2010) Film-Streaming

Don't look for gravity-bound logic here. This is cartoon fantasy, not a literal translation, although in its way it stays pretty close to Stevenson's characters and storyline.. It's a pretty picture or would be if the ominous music and camera position didn't seem directed at the man portentously lurking in the background.. "All Good Things" has the eerie power of a nightmare.. You watch it wanting to scurry off to read accounts of the real thing, rather than being caught up in the filmmaking.. A...

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Das wandelnde Schloss (2004) Streaming-

What you get, above all, is some enchanting flashes of classic Miyazaki and the nagging sense that something essential is missing.. Miyazaki's animated adaptation of Jones' book is a charming and thoroughly absorbing treat.. An insanely creative work.. Howl's Moving Castle moves -- in short, choppy, jumpy jerks that will never make anyone forget how fluid the truly great hand-drawn cartoons look by comparison.. The whole thing has the heavenly whimsy of Ludwig Bemelmans' illustrations from the c...

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Step Up All In (2014) Online-Streaming-

Reuniting, or really, introducing, the gang is a gimmick. It's also self-destructive-cramming in all these characters chokes up the plot, and who watches a Step Up for the plot?. What a moveable feast of delights.. Even by the standards of this franchise-and this genre in general-"Step Up All In" is pretty laughable.. When the cast isn't dexterously spinning, "All In" turns into a promotional video for Caesars Palace.. What you get, above all, is some enchanting flashes of classic Miyazaki and t...

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Wolkig mit Aussicht auf Fleischbällchen (2009) Download Voll

The animated movie greatly expands on the kids' book on which it's based in a clever and engaging first half. But the second half leaves a foul aftertaste. Slapdash action scenes play against dreary warnings to fear wealth and beauty.. So what could be better than an endless supply of jellybeans and ice cream? Only a multiplex permanently stocked with smart, sweetly silly family films like this one.. . If you ever thought a marshmallow might make a fine crispy torch, or you've wondered what it w...

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Alles erlaubt - Eine Woche ohne Regeln (2011) Film-Streaming

What a moveable feast of delights.. An insanely creative work.. The world it gives us to live in, for a couple of hours, is pure magic. It is one of those places we might wish never to leave.. Why do the Farrellys huff and puff and hem and haw and meander through a full third of the picture before the premise even clicks into low gear? At least the answer isn't long in coming: They don't have clue one where to go with it.. So richly detailed and colorful that one almost aches from the beauty.. T...

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Manolo und das Buch des Lebens (2014) Beobachten Film

Like these indelible cowboys, you, too, may find it impossible not to succumb to the powerful, quiet greatness that is Brokeback Mountain.. The movie has a universal quality because it tells a story of unfulfilled lives and roots it in the well-observed specifics of a vanishing Western culture.. The approach is dry as the Wyoming landscape, and while it occasionally threatens to pull the film out of shape, it's still the right one for these men.. This Pixar knockoff from 20th Century Fox is more...

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Corpse Bride - Hochzeit mit einer Leiche (2005) Film-Streaming

The sweetness, the visual flourishes and inspired pieces of casting carry the Corpse Bride, if not all the way down the primrose path, then at least across the threshold.. Corpse Bride isn't merely eye candy; it's a masterpiece of motion, color and texture that never stops dazzling.. Tim Burton's Corpse Bride is easily the best stop-motion animated necrophiliac musical romantic comedy of all time. It is also just simply, wonderful: a morbid, merry tale of true love that dazzles the eyes and deli...

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Umständlich Verliebt (2010) Wiedergabe Von Streaming-

At its heart, it's really not that different from a regular romantic comedy. Well, except that it's funny.. While Pixar can do no wrong with its cutting edge CGI originals, Disney is falling back on old formulas. Enjoy the spectacle.. The comedy itself suffers from awkward scheduling. Though this isn't its only wrinkle.. This New York-based comedy directed by Josh Gordon and Will Speck distinguishes itself with three-dimensional characters and an engaging storyline.. Don't look for gravity-bound...

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Untreu (2002) Film Abspielen

The movie is called Unfaithful, but it's actually extremely faithful -- to the adultery movie rulebook, anyway.. It's a very cute film, a very accessible work for children and families.. It's nice to know that the studio behind Cinderella can still cast a spell in two dimensions.. Diane Lane is magnificent in this movie.. Penelope was in a trough of trouble before the oink on the script was dry.. This half-baked fairy tale always seems to be on the verge of becoming charming but despite a good c...

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Der Schatzplanet (2002) Film Abspielen

Despite more betrayal and loyalty than a Chris Carabba box set, there's no real good or evil here.. Don't look for gravity-bound logic here. This is cartoon fantasy, not a literal translation, although in its way it stays pretty close to Stevenson's characters and storyline.. There's enough meaty plot and character left beneath the fancy effects to make watching the film a satisfying experience.. While Pixar can do no wrong with its cutting edge CGI originals, Disney is falling back on old formu...

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Plan B für die Liebe (2010) Film-Streaming

A romantic comedy about single motherhood -- or mom-rom-com -- that manages to be both bland and offensive.. No matter how many times director Alan Poul tries lighting the fire, nothing ignites.. What distinguishes Julio Medem's humid, magic-realist eroticon from the average soft-core fare is its writer-director's playful interest in storytelling as a form of sexual sublimation and release.. The Back-Up Plan's blunt honesty about the messiness of pregnancy is refreshing. It's a shame that the mo...

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Küss den Frosch (2009) Voll Streaming

A lovely toon destined to join the Mouse House's best-loved classics.. Director Palansky and screenwriter Leslie Caveny seem to have many of the right ingredients for creating something beguiling, but the film is, finally, surprisingly pedestrian. What a shame, with all these good performers.. An instant if minor classic.. Perhaps the best reason to recommend Penelope is that it offers an opportunity to watch Catherine O'Hara in action as the alarming Mrs. Wilhern.. Randy Newman provides the sco...

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