Category: DAPs Magic Reviews
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Thor: Ragnarok – Home Entertainment Review by Mr. DAPs
Things just don’t seem to be going well for Thor. In Thor: Ragnarok, Thor finds himself facing a crisis that threatens the very existence of Asgard. To top it all off, Thor is up against his greatest foe yet and doesn’t have his hammer Mjölnir. Thor soon finds himself not only fighting against the evil…
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Coco – Home Entertainment Review by Mr. DAPs
What do you do when you absolutely love music but it is forbidden in your family? In Disney-Pixar’s Coco, this is exactly the circumstance that Miguel finds himself in. He is a young boy who is an aspiring musician in a family of shoe makers. He loves it more than anything. He has a secret…
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Solo Trailer: Top 5 Things You Need to Know
With any new Star Wars trailer comes a ton of new information, and we’ve been excitedly pouring over our first real look at Solo: A Star Wars Story. Here are some of our biggest takeaways! 1. A Solo Appearance We haven’t seen much at all of Alden Ehrenreich’s take on the titular character leading up…
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Disney After Dark: Throwback Nite Gives Guests the Present of the Past
On January 18th Disneyland hosted a special ticketed event Disney After Dark: Throwback Nite. This event was a blast to the past as it celebrated the history and magic of Disneyland in the 1950s and 1960s. The event’s tickets were $95 each and allowed guests to enter the park with special maps, a lanyard, Photopass,…
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Review
A good soundtrack tells a story. It picks the listener up from where they are at and transports them to somewhere different. Through the notes and melodies it stimulates the imagination and the heart in a way that only music can do. A good soundtrack should make the listener feel something. For decades the music…
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi is Strong with the Force – Spoiler-Free Movie Review by Mr. DAPs
Star Wars is once again back again on the big screen. In Star Wars: The Last Jedi, the continuation of the Skywalker saga finds Rey search for answers with her newly discovered powers. The Resistance finds itself up against the First Order with the odds not in its favor. Star Wars: The Last Jedi picks up…
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DUCKTALES: WOO-OO! – Mr. DAPs Home Entertainment Review
Scrooge McDuck and his nephews are back! In this new DuckTales dvd, nothing seems to be going particularly right for Scrooge, Donald, and the boys. However, they discover that family really is the key to both happiness and success when they end up going on an adventure to lost city of Atlantis! For fans of…
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Cars 3 – Mr. DAPs Home Entertainment Review
Focus. speed. I am speed. One winner. Forty two losers. I eat losers for breakfast. Or so Lightning McQueen thinks as Cars 3 begins. However as younger cars join racing, McQueen discovers that his mantra isn’t quite as effective as it once was. After a crash, Lightning McQueen’s future in racing becomes increasingly uncertain. He…
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Cars 3 – Mr. DAPs Digital Home Entertainment Review
Lightning McQueen is discovering that he isn’t as young as he used to be. A whole new generation of cars are making him feel his age and wonder about his future. After a pretty serious accident, many wonder if Lightning will even have a future. However, Lightning McQueen decides he wants to decide his own…
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi Trailer Breakdown
Unless you were living on Alderaan (sorry), you know about the latest, and final Star Wars trailer for The Last Jedi that came out yesterday. Now that the DAPs Magic team has had two or three (hundred) watch-throughs, I thought I’d take a stab at breaking it down a bit, showing what we know, and…
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Moana – Mr. DAPs Home Entertainment Review
Moana (Auli’i Cravalho) is the daughter of a chief on an island in the South Pacific. She comes from a long line of navigators and wayfarers, she finds herself setting off on an adventure to save her island. The adventure has her paired up with Maui (Dwayne Johnson), the demigod as they seek to return Te…
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Marvel’s Doctor Strange – Mr. DAPs Home Entertainment Review
In Marvel’s Doctor Strange, Doctor Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) is about the most arrogant doctor imaginable. During surgery he plays name that tune. With a multitude of fancy watches to wear and a Ferrari to drive, Strange has it made. That is, until he has a car accident that renders his hands unusable and thereby…
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Queen of Katwe – Mr. DAPs Home Entertainment Review
Phiona (Madina Nalwanga) lives in the slums of Katwe in Uganda. To say life is a struggle is definitely an understatement. However, everything changes when she meets Robert Katende (David Oyelowo), a missionary who teaches her to play chess and also helps her change her life. Queen of Katwe is a heartwarming story about hope and chasing…
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8 Biggest Movie Annoyances
There are two things movie geeks love more than anything else: Movies, and complaining about movies. I myself enjoy/loathe many aspects of the moviegoing, and am more than happy to get in to heated debates over the cinema experience. Still, there are a few common things I find nearly unforgivable, that leave me shaking my…
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Sherlock Series 4 Returns With ‘The Six Thatchers’ – Review
Sherlock Holmes is back and is facing one of his most daunting cases yet in The Six Thatchers. Sherlock is eagerly waiting to see where Moriarty will return. Scotland Yard has another case that is baffling them, however that isn’t what is interesting Sherlock. A seemingly insignificant detail in their case catches his attention. Someone…
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Soundtrack Review
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story continues to make money at the box office and prove that a Star Wars stand alone story can be a success. Rogue One shows the harrowing adventure that a group of Rebel spies went on to obtain the plans to the Death Star that eventually led to the events…
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The BFG – Mr. DAPs Home Entertainment Review
In The BFG, ten year old Sophie is an orphanage taken by a giant to the land of the giants. However, her presence attracts unwanted attention from giants who aren’t as friendly as the one who took her. This sets her and BFG (big friendly giant played by Mark Rylance) on a quest to defeat…
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Pete’s Dragon – Mr. DAPs Home Entertainment Review
Pete’s Dragon is back, but a little bit different than you remembered if you saw the 1977 Disney musical version. In this modern day Pete’s Dragon there is still a young boy named Pete (Oakes Fegley) and a dragon named Elliot. Elliot happens to be green and that’s about where most of the similarities stop. Instead of being…
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Doctor Strange – Review by Mr. DAPs
The Marvel universe, or should I say multiverse, just got quite a bit bigger with the introduction of Doctor Strange. The movie is about Doctor Stephen Strange, an incredibly successful neurosurgeon, who’s life is turned upside-down after a car accident robs him of his ability to use his hands. Following the accident Strange goes on…
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Finding Dory – Mr. DAPs Home Entertainment Review
Dory, Marlin, and Nemo are back but this time Nemo isn’t the one who is lost. Now Dory is lost in Finding Dory and goes on an adventure to find her way home and also find herself. In Finding Dory Ellen DeGeneres (“The Ellen DeGeneres Show”) and Albert Brooks (“This is 40”) reunite as Dory and…
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Why IMAX 3D Will Be The Way To Watch Doctor Strange
Last night I had the opportunity to see 15 minutes of IMAX 3D footage of the upcoming Doctor Strange. The day before I saw it in a fairly regular 3D screen at Disney California Adventure. I got a little pumped up seeing it at DCA. I was chomping at the bit for tickets after seeing…
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The Lion Guard Unleash the Power – Mr. DAPs Home Entertainment Review
The Lion Guard Unleash the Power continues the story of The Lion King with the adventures of Simba and Nala’s son Kion. Kion is charged with protecting the Pride Lands with his team called “The Lion Guard.” This group of friends with individual talents come together to join Kion. This DVD shares six episode of The Lion Guard that…
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Beauty and the Beast 25th Anniversary Edition – Mr. DAPs Home Entertainment Review
25 years ago Belle first sang abutter dreams for more. Little did she know how much more different her life would become. Soon she finds herself living in an enchanted castle full of charming characters and a terrifying master. Beauty and the Beast is a musical masterpiece that is still as magical today as it was…
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The Savior – Once Upon A Time S6E1 Review
Once Upon A Time has premiered its sixth season, and it picks up right where it left off. Mr. Hyde has taken over Storybrooke. The Evil Queen has been expunged from Regina. Where things begin to seem calm (because Hyde has not been discovered yet) it all goes south when a dirigible flies in from…