Echeverria Reviews

Christmas time is in full effect and what better way to get into the Christmas spirit than with our favorite Grinch?! The Grinch stars Rashida Jones, Pharrell Williams, Kenan Thompson, and Benedict Cumberbatch as the titular Grinch, and it is essentially everything you would expect it to be. It was the standard formula for what any Grinch tale typically is, albeit with a few modern twists thrown in, but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. To put it simply, is this movie anything special? No. Was it enjoyable for kids and adults alike? Yes.             I can’t tell you too much about the story that you don’t already know. The Grinch has a small heart, Cindy Lou is adorable, Grinch’s heart grows, merry Christmas. That’s basically every Grinch tale, but this particular Grinch tale introduces a new character that adds a nice heartfelt subplot not found in the original, Cindy Lou’s mom. Obviously, something was going to be added to t...

Well, Disney tried to kickstart the holiday season with its new take on the old Nutcracker tale, but unfortunately it falls flat with subpar characters, a forgettable plot, and not much substance to sustain its 100-minute runtime. The Nutcracker and the Four Realms starts off centering around what most Disney Christmas movies tend to center around, family, and it is this message of family that follows the heroine of this journey to fight forward when she discovers a magical realm filled to the brim with snow and wonder. It is in this world where she discovers that she is a princess and that her mother created this world as a young girl, but that an evil woman by the name of mother Ginger is out to cause evil in the four realms.             Overall, there wasn’t much that I enjoyed about this. Keira Knightley is lovely as The Sugar Plum Fairy, and the visuals can be a bit stunning at times, but there just isn’t much depth to this...