Twelve O'Clock High

Rating: 8/10 (15 December 2007)

Any movie that can quote King Kong and The Sound Of Music without stretching has to be doing something right. It's the ideal film for this time of year, a perfect blend of live action and animation welded together seamlessly and chock-full of references from Alice In Wonderland to Cinderella, The Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and more. Amy Adams was denied the big award for Junebug and she'll probably lose out again yet she is magical in a part that requires the kind of naivety of Leslie Caron in Lili, or the two Audreys, Hepburn and Tautou and she does it effortlessly. The score is tuneful and how often do you find an interior rhyme in a lyric today. It builds up to a stroke-of-midnight kiss and it really is a twelve o'clock high.