Movie Review

I read a movie review of "Airplane!"  It was written by Janet Maslin in July of 1980 and published in the New York Times.

The review starts by talking about the energy that "Airplane!" has.  The writer states their opinion, calling the movie "clever and confident" as well as "furiously energetic."  The review slowly leads into a  brief synopsis of the plot and then it talks about some of the characters and their best moments in the movie.

Maslin weaves in the three aspects of film, literary, dramatic, and cinematic, by bringing up different actors and different scenes as the review and plot go on.  The review focuses most on the literary aspects of film.  It often mentions different characters, the plot, and the setting.

The tone of the movie review is lighthearted.  Maslin reccomends "Airplane!", as do I, and only speaks highly of the movie.

For our quarterly movie reviews I think we should be given some basic guidelines but mostly freedom.  Some suggested questions that we can touch on if we get stuck would be helpful; however, I think we should have more freedom than we have guidelines.

Here is a link to my annotated movie review: http://diigo.com/0ssum