Shorts Movie Reviews

This one's for all those young adults out there. No preaching. No bhashans. Plain and simple buddy talk... on world peace, on global warming, on the flip side of technology, on true friendships, on sibling relationships, on teen-parent bonding. In short, issues we care about. May be, that's why Shorts begins with Jimmy Bennett (Toe Thompson) and Jolie Vanier (Helvetica Black) checking out ``who blinks first'' even as they go to school, dine, fight

He’s a virtual one-man film factory. Ever since his debut feature El Mariachi back in 1992, writer-director Robert Rodriguez has also photographed, edited, supervised the special effects and scored the music for almost all his films. Following the successful Spy Kids trilogy, Rodriguez infiltrates the kiddie market once again with this hyper-fantastic morality-tale. What’s missing, though, is the sense of fun and fertile imagination in his best work

If you've watched Rodriguez's earlier kiddie flicks (the three Spy Kids films) you'll find a pattern: a number of pesky kids, a holy grail (in this case, a rainbow coloured wishing rock), lots of gadgets, misshapen monsters with a heart (in this case, the booger monster), parents taking a backseat and fantastical things going out of control before it gets normal in the end. And yeah, a moral. That said, Shorts is several disjointed, non-linear short segments about