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Summary: somthing cool this way comes!
Review: This is one of a few movies that is just perfect to watch on a Halloween night, even with the kids, it is rated PG, so maybe for the very young it might be too scary. Its not anthing horrifying but it dose entertain, Jonathan Pryce's perfromance as the evil Mr.Dark is perfect.
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Summary: So good I bought the DVD
Review: This is the best adaption of any Ray Bradbury work to film. That is what happens when you let the author write the screenplay. If you enjoy Bradbury works, and are afraid of the dark you will love this film. The book is great for reading at 3am in the morning. Not for young kids, but still enjoyable as an adult. Another adaption of the story was called "The Black Ferris" and appeared on the TV Series -The Ray Bradbury Theatre-its ok-but watch the film instead!
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Summary: Traditional autumn tale of fear without the gory details
Review: This is the perfect autumn tale of good against evil. The story is excellent with special effects and acting to match. The film demonstrates all the common fears of regret though the eyes of two adolescent boys. It is a prefect film for a night of Halloween fun and fright, but I would not recommend it for young children. This film stirrs many memories of my youth and of the autunm season with blowing leaves and grey, cool days.
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Summary: Fabulous Tale of "the autumn people"
Review: This movie is like a Twilight Zone Episode. It depicts an America we really aren't anymore, but we wish we were.....the small town, the family structure etc etc. I love Jason Robards in this movie, he is really moving and effective. Spiders fall from a boy's ceiling, a carnival comes to town whose leader is called "Mr. Dark", corpses in coffins melt and autumn leaves blow in this classic Bradbury story. Its a great family film for Halloween. I have happy memories of watching it as a youth with my family.
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Summary: It was Aok
Review: This movie was a very strange unusual film like I nothing I have ever seen before. Talking about wo boys who were born on halloween at least one of them was, they had been best friends U'd think they where brothers I thought they where. They where two boys you would have to keep your eyes on and where very nosy.A carnival had come to town and not just any old carnival they had a carousel that they had been hidden in a tent and you already know who had seen it.This carousel wasnt any old carousel neither it was actually a time mahine and for people who wantd to change themselves it would for people who wanted to be younger it would make them younger but not normal and not what the people really wanted. This film was a very fictious story but was ok. Its nothing i would see again but worth the experience. It was really worth seeing also and i reccomed reading the book which is what i didi both had different endings and way more detailed then what I writing about and something you would have to read or see to really understand the concept to the story about how people try to change themsleves but what for these days people are so self cuncience about themselves and to think they are made that way for a reason. so tis movie also teaches you be who you re not what you arent and become what you want not what you think. ~Shaun
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Summary: Underated "Adult" Theme from "The Mouse Factory"
Review: Unlike so many of the live action fare from the Disney studio that preceded it, "Something Wicked This Way Comes" is a genuinely entertaining light thriller. It is not scary but does have its moments (the spider "assault" comes to mind). Jason Robards and Jonathan Pryce are quite good in their adversarial roles. The always-dependable Royal Dano gives support and a silent Pam Grier is seductive as the "Dust Witch" who appears in various forms throughout the flick. Not as good as Clayton's masterpiece "The Innocents," the film is still worth a look. Also, a treat for the ears is an early score by "Titanic" composer James Horner.
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Summary: Mr. Dark and Mr. Halloway
Review: Well this movie was kind of kool, but the main reason i liked the movie because i thought if i was in a situation similar to that one would be kind of kool. Some other reasons i liked this movie is because i liked the carousel and how instead of it being a normal one it was a time machine,but one main thing i didnt like is that the movie and the book had different parts and i think it would have been better for the movie to be acted exactly the way the book was written,but it could have also been a reason for them having diffrent parts, but over all i think this book was better than good but less then superb and i would recomend anyone to read this book just because of how unrealistic it is.
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Summary: Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow
Review: What are Ray Bradbury's greatest works? No, don't answer. It's doubtful that the first baker's dozen of replies would produce two lists with the same works in the same order. My first two choices are "Dandelion Wine" and "Something Wicked This Way Comes," in that order. SWTWC was the earlier book of the two. Both achieve something that approaches uniqueness. They capture an honest-to-god slice of life as it really was in the American Midwest in an era that faded by the advent of the 1960s - a time I was fortunate enough to have experienced when I was the age of the boys on center stage in these two books. In "Dandelion Wine" one forgets all about Bradbury and starts to live his story. The eyes read but the mind is in Illinois. One sits in the summer night on the wooden swing of the front porch (people really did that once), hears the crickets chirping in the night and the steam train whistles singing their siren song as the great locomotives follow their tracks through a river valley somewhere near. In the earlier "Something Wicked," Bradbury nearly realized the same magic level of time travel. The steam whistles also sing their song, but there's a chill on the Midwestern Wind and the smell of burning autumn leaves in the air. "Something Wicked" has one more element that Bradbury no longer needed in "Dandelion Wine," the supernatural. As autumn leaves drift by their windows, two boys in Bradbury's Midwest do indeed hear the steam whistle blow, with the train bringing a fell carnival to town, one run by the Autumn People, a magical and devilish folk who thrive on other people's misery and unfulfilled desires. So far, all of this applies equally in the original book and in the film, but here the two part and travel fascinatingly different paths. With "Something Wicked," Bradbury got an opportunity to tell his story a second time and in a different manner. Both the book and the screenplay are by Bradbury, but the screenplay is anything but a film version of the book. One really would expect more than that from Bradbury, and one gets more. The central characters in the book are the two boys, Will Holloway and Jim Nightshade, who encounter evil and with help from Will's father, the janitor at the local library, conquer it and advance on their own path to maturity. In the film, Bradbury tells his story, really the same story again, but with an entirely different focus, now upon Will's father, Charles Holloway, who in this telling is the village librarian. It's a story of an aging man who at last, in confrontation with the wickedness that has come his way, must deal with his own inadequacies, conquering them as he conquers the supernatural evil, with help, of course, from the boys, who use the lessons of his experience to advance on their own path to maturity. Which is better, the book or the film? That is the question, as Hamlet said.
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Summary: Spooky tale of childhood
Review: What if you could have your fondest wish come true? The sinister Mr. Dark and his Pandimonium carnival answers this question for the residents of Green Town, IL with a "be careful what you wish for" vengence in this atmospheric and fun tale of nostalgia and spookiness. Jonathan Pryce is spot-on as the evil Mr. Dark, while Jason Robards brings his crusty brand of warmth as the town librarian who opposes him. Pam Grier is a lovely vision as the Dust Witch, while character actor Royal Dano has a great little role as Tom Fury, the lightning rod salesman who holds the to the sinister carnival's destruction. Ray Bradbury does a fine job adapting his classic novel to the screen and the film evokes the potential scariness of the carnival very well. See this film as a double-bill with 7 FACES OF DR. LAO, another film which features a mystical carnival. Highly recommend!!!
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