Meenakshi Rao's Bollywood and Hollywood movie reviews

*ing: Rose Byrne, Domhnall Gleeson, Sam Neill, Daisy Ridley, Elizabeth Debicki, Margot Robbie, James Corden Rated: 8/10 The bunnies are here with their becoming animations and colourful carrot-lettuce-tomato landscape drawn diligently by the animators while Peter Rabbit and his clan of three sisters and bro-pal running amok in a farm taken away from them by a grumpy old man who ate up Peter’s father in a rabbit pie years ago. Beatrix Potter’s 19th Century creation, these bunnies in their 2018 avatar are much too raucous, ungainly, in disciplined and creatures of a chaotic world to honour the originals but for the Indian audience, not very familiar with the before of the story, Peter Rabbit is a funny animated movie which may not be a wonder but is no blunder either. The story revolves around a family of bunnies and their love for the girl next door, a village beauty who has a soft corner for wildlife, the bunnies included. The farmhouse is inherited by a stiff upper lip...

Cast : TJ Miller, James Corden, Anna Faris, Maya Rudolph, Steven Wright, Jennifer Coolidge, Christina Aguilera Rated : 5/10 Full marks for having such a vivid imagination around those icons making cute faces at you on your smartphone screen. Yes, those emojis say a thousand words with just one face to capture and convey your emotional state and this animation film serenades their world in all the colour, drama and fun it could gather around the algorithms. The child sitting next to me knew all the emojis even though he doesn’t own a smartphone. “This is the twitter bird, this is poop which you throw at friends when you are feeling bad or when you are angry. This is the original smiley who can’t stop smiling and this is the hi-5 that we have trashed for new emojis,” he tells me. Besides the fact that kids know what they are talking about, the film which imaginatively centres around an identity crisis assailing the central emoji, has all the props of an arresting animatio...