Jenniffer Wardell
Freelance Writer at Vail Daily
Author of Fighting Sleep, Beast Charming, and more. General fairy godmother-at-large with a taste for wrecking tropes.
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2 weeks ago |
vaildaily.com | Jenniffer Wardell
I’ll admit, I wasn’t looking forward to the live action “How to Train Your Dragon.”I loved the 2010 animated original, and since every other live action adaptation has been mediocre at best, I was sure that would happen here. Yes, it was the same director, and the same writers, but I didn’t think that would make a difference. It would either be pointless or spit on the memory of a movie that meant a lot to me. I was so, so wrong.
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3 weeks ago |
vaildaily.com | Jenniffer Wardell
There’s a better movie lost in the middle of “From the World of John Wick: Ballerina.”The full title is a sign of that, an ungainly thing that loses its own identity in ties to a different franchise. The movie itself has the same problem, too caught up in checking off familiar boxes to play to its own potential strengths. Doing so would have actually made it fit in better with the “John Wick” universe, deepening it thematically and shining a different light on the originals.
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3 weeks ago |
vaildaily.com | Jenniffer Wardell
If you have any fondness for the original Karate Kid movies, you need to see “Karate Kid: Legends.”Instead of re-creating an empty shell of a classic property, someone in the creative team actually bothered to study why the original movies were so emotionally satisfying. The new movie has all that same emotional satisfaction in a plot that delightfully riffs on the original without copying them.
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1 month ago |
vaildaily.com | Jenniffer Wardell
Lilo & Stitch (in theaters)Character dynamics are more delicate than people think. Change too much without thinking about how everything is connected and you can cause a lot of damage. That’s the case with Disney’s new live-action adaptation of “Lilo & Stitch.” Lilo and Stitch are as adorable as ever, and the bond between them just as adorable, but everything else in the movie suffers.
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1 month ago |
vaildaily.com | Jenniffer Wardell
Final Destination: Bloodlines (in theaters)No one watches “Final Destination” movies for the plot. If you’re a fan of the horror franchise, you’re there for one thing and one thing only – gory, creative deaths designed to give people waking nightmares for the rest of their lives. You might never be able to drive behind a logging truck or get laser eye surgery ever again. In that respect, “Final Destination: Bloodlines” sees the series at the top of its game.
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