A sequel against empire, including the empire of niceness. Better than it looks.
The review
Poppy's first idea of leadership is that everyone should sound like her, for their own good. The film spends its runtime refuting her. The hard rock tribe, the classical, the country, the funk — each has a history, and a queen who wants one music is a conqueror with glitter. Barb is wrong. So is Poppy, until she hears it.
That is a better political lesson than most family films will risk. Difference here is not a slogan. It is a repertoire. A house with more than one taste can use this.
Journal
Keep Trolls World Tour in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 58. Yours can differ.
The glance
Industry and Household and Piety are the thin ones.
Adults. The courtroom is the work. What happened and what can be proved are not the same fact.
The review
A soldier shoots a bar owner and says the man raped his wife. A former prosecutor who now fishes more than he practices takes the defense. I am not going to describe the testimony. In 1959 the testimony itself was the scandal, because a courtroom in an American film was asked to say out loud what a trial of this kind has to say. The lawyer is good at the saying. He is also having a good time, and the film lets you see the good time, which is the correction inside the craft.
Adults. A house does not need this as a primer. A house that wants one picture of how a verdict is made, rather than how a villain confesses, can use it. Ask, at the end, what the jury was allowed to know and what the rooms already knew. Those are different piles. The decade's more famous courtroom hours snap the case shut with a witness who breaks. This one is more honest about the gap, and less honest about whether the lawyer is a man to admire. Admire the proceeding. Decline the grin.
