Absolutely Anything was our first film, it's a 2015 movie by Terry Jones. He wrote the script with Gavin Scott, directed and makes a cameo. Gavin wrote Small Soldiers back in the day. Sadly Terry has recently developed a problem with aphasia and he can't do much of anything. Not something to look forward to, huh.
The rest of the Python gang voice all the aliens in the picture. They're the ones that give Simon Pegg the power to do anything with a wave of his hand. They're testing him as a rep for everyone on Earth. If he does well, the planet is left and the humans asked to join the aliens. If he does poorly, it's toast for us on terraferma. Simon doesn't do so well with his powers, he's just not a very clever or imaginative guy. Lucky for the rest of us, his dog steps in to save the day. Robin Williams voices the dog in his last role.
Sadly the movie is kind of flat, the jokes aren't overly funny, occasional chuckles but no real good laughs. It gets a six on the IMDb but I only gave it a five. I won't bother picking up a copy, I might never desire to see it again.
I would want to see our next movie again, and that's after two viewings. Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre is a 2001 French film with Sophie Marceau. She's lives across the street from the Louvre, with her grandmother, who passes away just a bit into the film. There's work being done under the street and that causes a collapse of a wall in Sophie's building. She chases a cat into the opening and find her way to the Louvre. It's after hours and there's evil a foot. The ghost of a mummy is awake and Sophie becomes his new host. Julie Christie is an archeologist working at the museum. A retired cop, some guards and an electrician are the rest of the players. Sophie's possessed body starts collecting bits and pieces of the ghost's pat life. The ghost will kill if you get in the way. The retired cop, Julie and the electrician join forces to defeat the ghost, while still keeping Sophie alive.
While I enjoyed the movie, the second time around, I see that some on the IMDb aren't too happy with it. The critics were mostly negative, according to the Wikipedia, but I mostly discount critics, often they aren't genre fans. It's got a score of 4.4 and I think that it should be higher than that. I might have given it a 7, but I didn't want to falsely drive the score up. I would recommend it to those that might like a moody foreign horror film.
Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre is based on a 1927 novel, of the same name, by Arthur Bernède. There was a 1927 movie made from the novel. You can watch a 4.5 hour long French TV adaptation, from 1965, on YouTube. It's looks interesting but it's only in French.
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