Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie

ShangLuda Admirable film.

ThrillMessage There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

James Create a world out of near-boundless imagination, fuse real history with fantasy quite seamlessly; make it wacky, silly and ridiculous; add in an impending disaster that takes the lives of people we really care about in an entirely serious and moving manner; make sure you've got actors who do their work with utter conviction; and what have you got? The greatest of all time "Christmas Episode" of Dr Who, that's what.One (most especially, but not only, a British "one") could watch this ten times and still not get all the jokes, or pick up all the allusions; still not fully appreciate the wonder that allows us to move from absurdity to sadness, to comedy, to pithy social comment, to an appreciative recognition of meaningful moments of history, all with utter ease.In short, a cosmos-roaming version of the Titanic - which pays considerable tribute to its original model - is sabotaged and is going down fast, not of course to the sea bottom, but towards Earth, and most especially to a very well-known bit of central London. Every ship-based disaster movie you've ever seen is pastiched here, yet also honoured, with the typical motley crew of survivors trying to get through the vessel to some kind of safety.Seen it before? Not like this you haven't. It's brilliant, witty, yet with a surprisingly high body count among people who skilfully establish themselves as major, multifaceted (and mostly very sympathetic) characters through 5-10 lines of dialogue each. It's truly miraculous how it's all squeezed in, in a storyline that has a great many threads and yet hangs together brilliantly and in a way that offers full satisfaction in just 72 minutes.The establishment of David Tennant's Doctor as a particular kind of superhero (even a "John Wayne of the stars") is complete here, but as ever the greatest episodes of this series are made so by the supporting cast. Here Kylie Minogue does well (without even having to try too hard) as one-off companion Astrid Peth, but there are greater stars even than her, with Clive Swift giving some kind of performance of his life as "Mr Copper" (haters of "Keeping Up Appearances" may now be inclined to forgive all, as did I). Jimmy Vee is great as Bannakaffalatta, but Debbie Chazen and Clive Rowe come over marvellously as the Van Hoff couple. In each case a key message subtle but clear to be picked up by viewers young and old, is that a randomly-selected group of people can gel into a mutually-supporting team with a surprising array of special skills, notwithstanding the (flawed) conviction of pathetic ineffectuality and underachievement they may harbour individually. This may be the episode's most powerful take-home message, but there are a great many more - all worthwhile, and none rammed down our throats in any way at all - this is the least syrupy, least preachy and most worthwhile TV Christmas episode we have seen in a long while.Among the ship's crew - and hence perhaps of secondary importance - we also get fine cameos from accomplished actors Geoffrey Palmer and Andrew Havill, as well as a role that holds the whole thing together from Russell Tovey, as Mr Midshipman Alonso Frame.It's tremendous fun, but also leaves a lasting impression that it has all meant something (this is all the more reinforced by a simply stupendous follow-up in this series's 11th Episode "Turn Left") To sum up, brilliance, brilliance and more brilliance.

identitystaysamystery In this Christmas special of doctor who, the always spectacular tenth doctor is traveling alone when he arrives on a luxurious space cruise called the Titanic named after...well, the titanic. The Doctor meets and interesting crew of characters who have to fight for survival, which ends tragically for some. This episode is by far my favorite Christmas special. With all the extra time they have sometimes the writers don't know what to do with it. (The Doctor the widow the wardrobe for example) But in this one the suspense and humor kept the episode lively the whole time. There are some villainous angels (blink?!?) but slightly different in character. These ones can move when you see them. They bring some scary moments in to the episode which I highly appreciate being a fan of the scary episodes who. So long story short, VOTD is frightening, funny, and slightly sad, which is everything a good episode of doctor who needs!

bibimimi These holiday specials can be pretty over the top, this one not so much. I know it was widely viewed by a captive holiday audience in Britain. By the time they air in the states, these eps have usually had all the fun bits edited out of them to accommodate ads. It rendered this particular ep choppy, confusing, and messing up what was a mess already. So you get to see Kylie Minogue in a French maid's getup. I guess it beats waiting for her to wear same in one of her videos. The whole affair left me cold, but I have great hopes for the Tate logs. She's abrasive, sure, but the doe-eyed girlie thing has pretty much run it's course. Viva Who!

lukepic123 I was fairly disappointed with the last Christmas special (co-starring the comedian) and I wasn't expecting too much from this either. Well it wasn't too bad at all, this is a great and fresh instalment into the Xmas specials. The story is strong as usual and the idea of the space titanic wasn't too silly as I had first thought, it felt a little like the Poseidon adventure in parts of the episode but this isn't a bad thing. The acting is another plus here, some new interesting characters that the doctor meets and quite a few deaths also which I was surprised by. Overall the latest entry into doctor who is certainly worth a viewing and I just hope that series 4 won't be ruined by the comedian... 8/10