Movie Reviews from Sophie... Who Knows Nothing About Movies

With Disney's live action rendition of Mulan  coming early next year, I thought I'd do a review on the original animation. Mulan  is one of my favorite Disney movies, if not my favorite. It has some of my favorite songs and my favorite characters. Warning! Spoilers Ahead.  Mulan  is set in ancient China around the time that the Huns invaded China. Mulan is at the age where she needs to find a husband, but the matchmaker says that she will never bring her family honor because of who she is and an accident that she caused. Later, it is announced that one man from every family must fight for China in the war against the Huns, and her father has to go despite having fought once already and being too old and injured to fight. Mulan makes the decision to go in his place and masquerade as a man to save her father from the war. My favorite thing about Mulan  is the message behind it. A lot of people doubted her and told her that she couldn't bring the family honor...

John Wick  was a movie I didn't think I would like. Reading the description provided by Wikipedia, it sounded like a plotless, mindless movie with a lot of killing. And while it does have a lot of death, there is a plot, and a really interesting and intriguing plot. Warning! Spoilers Ahead.  The movie begins with Wick receiving one final gift from his late wife, a puppy, and a note telling him to find peace in her death. Prior to him marrying her, he was an extremely skilled assassin, and only left that way of life when he found her. While going about his day, some Russian thugs try to buy Wick's car off of him and when he says no, they insult him in Russian, thinking he wouldn't understand. When he does and shoots back at them, they leave. That night though, they break into his house, beat him up, kill his dog, and steal his car. And thus ensues Wick becoming an assassin once again. What drew me into this movie was that the entire reason Wick went back into his line ...

It's almost Christmas (and almost break!!) so I've reviewed today Santa Claus is Coming to Town . This is my favorite Christmas movie and it always gets me in the spirit of Christmas. I think it's because it is one of the only movies that tells a cute origin story of ol' Kris Kringle in a fun, unique, and magical way. Warning! Spoilers Ahead.  Santa Claus is Coming to Town   begins with a mailman in the North Pole reading letters to Santa - and most of them are questions. The rest of the movie is answering those questions, like where he got his name, why he wears a red coat, why he comes at Christmas. In the end, all of the questions are answered and the mailman goes on to drive around with the characters we met throughout the movie. My favorite part of this movie are the characters- from the Winter Warlock, Burgermeister Meisterbuger, Miss Jessica, all of the Kringle's, and Santa himself. The Winter Warlock as a character teaches the importance of gift givin...

In honor of Disney+ coming out recently, I watched the first three Pirates of the Caribbean  movies and I forgot how much I had enjoyed them. And if you're asking me "Hey, Sophie, why didn't you watch the other two? There are five of them after all!" The answer is: I find that the first three were really good, and the last two seem, to me, as a way to try and drag out the series. This is going to be a three-in-one review, so bear with me. Warning! Spoilers Ahead! The first movie, Curse of the Black Pearl , introduces us to Elizabeth Swan, the main character throughout the series, alongside Will Turner and Captain Jack Sparrow. In the movie, we see Elizabeth take the pirate coin from Will, which later in the movie sparks the events that follow. When the coin comes into contact with water again, it sends out a sort of signal to the pirates of the Black Pearl, who are searching for all the coins. Long story short, Elizabeth gets taken by them, Jack and Will embark on...