FrankenScript :: Lee Gabel's Screenwriting Journal/Blog

It really is a wondrous, and ferocious, jungle in the back yard, one which we rarely see, if ever, until watching this film. It effectively conveys what it would be like to smaller than an ant, and how the journey to get back to the house would takes days. Produced before the days of CG, [...]

There are a few problems with this film, the biggest being the two separate stories competing against each other. Other problems are characters that are only there to serve a scene or two and are not woven into the story as well as they could. Everything feels superficial, yet it looks fantastic, as all super [...]

This is a fantastic film from the mind of Jim Henson. Fantastic in that it’s filled with imaginative creatures (and sets!). The care taken to create this world and the creatures within it shows. However, not as much care was given to the story, which seems to have no real direction or logic. But in [...]

Clocking in at 77 minutes (I don’t include the time for end credits), I was left wondering if there was more to this story that was left behind, or if the writer simply gave up. The dialogue is snappy for the most part, but you can’t hang an entire film on that. This is also [...]

Why isn’t Ally Sheedy or Steve Guttenberg in this sequel? Perhaps they realized that the star of this film is the robot, Johnny Five. They could never compete. This cute but dumb sequel is back with boatloads of cliches, whether it’s dialogue, character or plot driven. But it’s not all bad. There are some stand [...]

I found this film largely annoying. Will he or won’t he? Will she or won’t she? It doesn’t help that Sam Worthington portrays almost no emotion throughout. Kira Knightley and Guillaume Canet have chemistry and it’s their relationship that is worth watching here. In fact, the opening of the film says all that really needs [...]