James Bond Movie: **** Goldeneye (1995)

 We have a new James Bond in Pierce Brosnan.  We also have the first woman M (Judi Dench), and a new actor play Miss Moneypenny (Samantha Bond).  Q is the same showing his gadgets.  Our villain turns out to be 006/ Alec Trevelyan (Sean Bean), who appears to die at the beginning of the movie.  Trevelyan is helped by Xenia Onatopp (Famke Jansen) who has many methods of killing including a good squeeze.  She kills with sexualized passion.  For his part, Bond refuses to die.  He is helped by Natalya Simonova (Izabella Scorupco), who escaped alive from the first use of the Goldeneye satellite, which fries all electronics.  She worked at a satellite dish which was used to control the device, but then targeted.  This time financial markets will be the target allowing them to steal assets without being seen as the device will destroy all records.  Bond's job is to prevent this.  Jake Wade (Joe Don Baker) with th CIA helps.  Boris Grishenko (Alan Cumming) also helps Trevelyan as the inside computer geek who worked with Simonova.  

This movie has a chase scene, Bond in am army tank trying to rescue Simonova.  He runs over lots of car, and even puts the tank in front of a train for a spectacular collision.  

This movie continues the Bond fun and action.  There are plane crashes Bond walks away from, and lots of shooting.  And the effects of electrical pulses.  

Movie Review: **^Spy Kids (2002)

This is the first in a series of five movies.  THe first three feature the original actors.  I can see how this movie might entertain a certain age group of people; but for me it was just too much.  The bad people were over the top as the evil scientist kept designing them that way.  They were actually spies that he had captured and then transformed into strange creatures for his cartoon show.  

Anyway back to the story.  A family of four.  The mother tells the children of a Spy Couple who fall for eachother and are married.  This is Gregorio Cortez and Ingrid Cortez (Antonio Banderas and Carla Gugino).  This is actually their own story.  They pretend to have left the spy game, but keep their toes in the water.  As a resut they are both captured by Fegan Floop (Alan Cumming) and his henchman Alexander Minnion (Tony Shalhoub).

When the parents are taken the children Carmen and Juni (Alexa PenaVega and Daryl Sabara) are accosted by thugs, literally thumb men, and discover quickly they are a family of spies.  They get into their parent's lair and take off in a funny looking amphibious vehicle.  They are on their way to rescue their parents.

Ont their journey they are taken to Uncle Machete (Danny Trejo)who provides spy tech gadgets.  It is Uncle Machete who makes the difference in the end.  There are numerous robots created by Minnion just laking intelligence.  They are made to look like others and the pair that look like Carmen and Juni manage to get the third brain from them.  With this device, after replicating it they are able to give the robots intelligence.  zThey make a formidab le force.  However after Minnion turns on Floop, he begins putting brains in all his robots.  THe brother and sister rescue Floop, who then reprograms the robots to have a conscience.

If you can follow that you would likely enjoy this movie.  

TV Review: 69th Annual Tony Awards (2015)

There is lots of music in this two-part presentation of the Tony Awards.  Kristen Chenoweth and Alan Cumming.  This presentation has many presentations of musicals from the year.  One of the highlights is "Stronger" from Finding Neverland with Matthew Morrison and Kelsey Grammer.  The hosts present a few funny gags.  But another highlight is a musical satire of musicals where people burst into song.  This is very entertaining stuff.  There is some political correctness fa-la-la, but there is lots of talent displayed here.