Overblown

Rating: 1/10 (25 October 2003)

I was inflicted The Shawshank Redemption in a school trip coach, where a shy girl handed the tape to the headteacher : "Sir please sir ! Can we watch it ?". And we did, gosh, we did. And heard it as well. Spoilers ahead !
A very noisy film - overblown, cheesy, sappy, with ugly slow-motions to make you understand that, hurray, at last the characters are free (and so was I, mercifully), and the bad ones have been punished (and so was I, and so was I...) Yes, at last that does make sense...
Next the students asked for Meet the parents - and - would you believe it ? Ben Stiller WAS a relief. Since that moment I've always wanted to watch Zoolander.