My Top 5 Best And Worst Films Of The Year 2025 Version

It's that time of year again where we look back on the year that's been and well since we have a little tradition over here. That being every single year I go through what were my personal best and worst films of the year and well this year there is a lot of strong competition for the best film of the year if you've been following the various versions of this post you'll know what the rules are but just to make it clear the rules are that the film has to have had a UK release date of 2025 and I have to have seen the film so enjoy.

WORST

5) Wolf Man 2025

For some odd reason Hollywood really liked to give us a bunch of bad horror remakes and sequels that's when they weren't giving us a bunch of bad horror films that are based off of popular characters. With this film being a good example of just how bland alot of the modern horror remakes are as to be blunt this films has nothing to do with the original film outside of the name and that's really it as the film is more focused on giving us a father and daughter drama then it is in giving us a well done werewolf film as there are large portions of the film where nothing happens which is something that would be fine if the makers of the film bothered to make it's characters good or even interesting for that matter but they didn't do that which is something tat does leave us with a bland a boring film that did have some good horror pedigree behind it and even then that goodwill wasn't enough to make the film good as the film failed at doing alot of the most basic things done well and while the film does try to do something new and different by focusing the film around a father and a daughter that's not what you want to see in a Wolf Man movie rather you want to see some good werewolf action something that can't be possible due to the fact that alot of the film is set at night with alot of the film being at best very hard to see which might be a good thing given just how boring that this film looks as this is a film that looks very visually dull to look at with the acting being slightly bit better then what it would it really should have been as by all rights this films acting should have been really bad and yet you can tell that this films actors are doing there best to turn in a good performance.

While this film might be bland and boring to look at the film does have some good looking werewolf effects. With the werewolf action in the films third act being not that bad either with this being due to the fact that the film does spend alot of time in building up tension and in making you feel for the person that's turning into a were wolf but none of that matters if the films characters are lackluster which is something that's sadly the case here as while the films does do a good job of building up tension the film should have gone the extra mile and made itself still entertaining to watch as then we the audience would have a reason to keep on watching the film in the first place and yet as things stand it would be understandable if people did check out of this film before the third act as the rest of the film is just that dull and boring to watch and with this film being a remake of a classic Universal monster one which granted isn't as well known as alot of the others Universal themselves should have put more effort into giving us a better remake and while getting the writer and director of The Invisible Man 2020 to fill those same roles for this film was a step in he right direction asking him to do the same thing with this film that he did with that film was never going to work as you can find different ways to tell the story of The Invisible Man as along as you keep the concept in it you can't really do that with this film as the core concept of the original film really is a key part of what made the original work so well in the first place and therefor this film really needed to be treated differently then what The Invisible Man 2020 was.

4)Star Trek: Section 31

For some strange reason even tho the casts of the last three Star Trek movies have been trying for years to get a fourth film made. Paramount instead chose to make a film spin off of a Star Trek that not alot of Star Trek fans actually like and while basing a film off of what is more then likely the most popular character to come from Star Trek: Discovery what doesn't make sense is to make a movie from that show when you have a perfectly good set of actors who have already starred in three Star Trek movies to begin with all of whom are begging Paramount Pictures to pick a script for the fourth film and get that fourth film made in the first place which they very easily could have done as they have alot of scripts for that fourth movie being worked on and yet they instead chose to make a made for TV movie based off of a show that caused alot of division amongst the Star Trek fanbase which makes no sense it would make sense if Star Trek: Discovery was popular enough to warrant a movie being made about but it was never that popular in the first place with it only just scrapping by and only just getting renewed alot of the time and while it's not needed to watch that show to understand this movie you should at least have a basic knowledge of the Emperor Philippa Georgiou character which even then really isn't all that needed to watch this film and to understand what's exactly going on in this film either.

To be frank this film felt like it was put together in five minuets as it's just this cheap and lazy looking of a film. With this film not really having that much working for it outside of the fact that it stars Michelle Yeoh and that's really it as there's really nothing about this film that makes it stand out and yet Paramount have spent YEARS trying to make a Star Trek 4 on the big screen whereas here it felt like that just said yes to the first script that they got and to this films credit it did start out life as a TV show and perhaps that's where it should have stayed as in a feature film format the film is all other the pace and a mess and yet if the film did stay as a show then it would have had the chance to further develop it's characters and it's story instead of just leaving them effectively as blank pieces of paper that are about as interesting as a blank of wood with it being made crystal clear that the people that are in charge of Star Trek have no interest in making shows that people actually like and are instead just throwing a bunch of ideas at the wall and seeing what sticks when if they listened to the fans they would tell them right away what it is they want to see in a new Star Trek film and TV show but that would actually mean showing respect to the fans and that's something that sadly modern Hollywood has forgotten as there more focused on blaming the fans for not going to see there bad movies and not watching there bad TV shows and yet the few times that Hollywood does listen we get gold like for example the redesign of Sonic in the 2020 film and now Hollywood is scared to ask the fans what they want for no good reason whatsoever.

3) I Know What You Did Last Summer 2025 AND Smurfs

That's right we actually have two films in the number three slot for the worst film of the year as there both equally bad in different ways. As while Smurfs put more thought and effort into letting you know that Rihanna was in the movie then in actually promoting the movie but had a decent plot for a little kids film I Know What You Did Last Summer 2025 whilst it did put more thought and effort into it's marketing took was already a blatant knock off of the Scream franchise and made a knock off of Scream 2022 except this film spat on the legacy of the last two theatrically released movies by turning one of the heroes into one the villains in a twist no one wanted all for no good reason whatsoever and while yes there are some good things to be found in both films like for example the animation in Smurfs was pretty decent and the kills in I Know What You Did Last Summer were pretty cool just because you have cool kills and good looking animation doesn't mean that you have a good film as you still need to have the basic things done well for the film to be good and that's sadly where both films fail and fail hard with both of this films even being really forgettable as well so much so that i'm willing to bet that alot of reading this post straight up forgot that both of these films came out this year and I can say that because I was one of them as that's how little of an impact that both of these films left on there audiences as there nothing more then generis trash that's not even trying to be something other then generic trash and when the makers of both of these films make is crystal clear to us the audience that there not even going to try and make a good film then they shouldn't be surprised when there film gets terrible reviews and flops at the box office.

While there are alot of good thing to be found in both of these films there are sadly alot more negative things to be found in both of these films as well. Like for example the acting in both films whilst you can tell that the actors in both of those films are indeed trying there all just not right for there respective characters with even Rihanna continuing the tradition of singers that can't act being in a movie in a leading role with the thing that let Smurfs down the most was it's poor attempt at marketing as there was next to nothing interms of marketing done for that movie and while that wouldn't have stopped the film from being a bad film it would have helped to get a few more eyes on the film and thus earn a little bit more at the box office and yet there was nothing for it and therefor people didn't go to see it and while the I Know What You Did Last Summer movies have always been bad movies they've also been films that you can find some level of enjoyment out of and yet here in this film there was none of that as the twist ruins not only this film but also the other two theatrically released movies as well as they spit on the legacy of those films and yet if the makers of that film really wanted to be like Scream 2022 and have something be done to one of the legacy characters then why not just straight up copy it and have either Ray or Julie be killed off by the new killer as then your at least embracing the fact that your Scream knock off movie and are not afraid of that fact and heck even by doing that your not disrespecting what's came before it nor it's legacy characters and are then also telling us the audience that now any of the main cast of characters can now get killed off with Smurfs all the makers of that film needed to was include some funny jokes and actually market the film and that's it.

2) Snow White 2025

This film commits the biggest sin that alot of these live action Disney remakes seem to commit and that's by having the exact same plot as the original film say what you will about both The Jungle Book and 2016 and Alice In Wonderland 2010 but they at the very least had different plots to the original films or added enough things to there own plot that it makes them feel new and different again where as here nothing new is added to the plot of the film to make this films version of the plot interesting or even worth watchin for that matter with the films plot elements playing out the exact same way and in the exact same order which does make this film rather pointless not only to watch but also to make as well as why would you want to watch a lesser version of a story when you can just watch the better version of that exact same story as everything about this films plot is just the exact same as the plot of the original film which is something that does make you wonder why we the audience should pay to see this film when we can either load up Disney+ or put in our DVD or Blu-Ray of the original film and get the same plot only done because it was made by people that actually wanted to make a good film as it was clear from months before this film even came out that this film was going to be trainwreck and while the film is still as bad as you'd think that it was going to be alot of that isn't down to the films actors it's down to the films writers , directors and producers as they had the power from day one to make changes to the films script and demand that it be better but chose not to and yet none of them got the hate for this film bombing rather it was Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot who don't get me wrong are bad in this film but there not the ones that should have been getting the hate for this film being as bad as it was in the first place.

While alot of the other films in this post have at least some qualities in them that make them worth watching. This film on the other hand has nothing that makes it worth watching as everything that's good about the film are things that could also be found in the 1937 original film with this film just being lazy and uncreative and yet Disney not only threw alot of money at this film so much so that the film was rumored o cost anyway around $300 million dollars but they also threw a boat load of marketing at it as well which is still a good thing but when your film costs alot of money to make and you have CGI that is enough to give people nightmares then it makes you wonder where all the money went to in this film as you don't get to see any of it on screen say what you will about the films that are number one or the ones that are joint third in this post but you at least see where the money went in those films here you don't see it as the film isn't pretty to look at Rachel Zegler despite her having a really good singing voice in her own right just look at the remake of West Side Story as proof of that is auto toned to the high heavens in this film with the film not being helped by all of the production troubles that plagued the film be they Peter Dinklage getting so upset that he himself wasn't cast in the movie that he got several actors all of whom are little people fired from the movie as he convinced Disney to instead remove the dwarfs as characters only for the for the fans to get upset about what Disney was doing and demand that they put back in only now there CGI as the film was pretty much done at this point to anything that Rachel Zegler has said online all of these things and more combine to make a film that is not going to be remembered anytime soon.

10 The Works Of Writer Harry Boxley

Really it was hard picking just one film to be the worst film of the year as alot of the really bad films that I saw this year whilst they were bad you could at least see the effort that went into making them. Where as with the films that are written by writer Harry Boxley you really can't. As out of the countless films that he's released this year alone i've managed to see and review EIGHT of them with his films ranging from Piglet , Hook , Fairest Of Them All , Wickedness and Mouseboat Massacre among many others and they are all really painfully bad and yet he has the gall to call himself an award winning writer and yet his turning in bad script after bad script it would be one thing if one of his films was bad as then you could argue that he was just having an off day and that he tried to make the story work but he just couldn't do it which would be fair enough plenty of people who have wrote good movies have also written the odd bad one as well but when a huge amount of the films that he wrote this year are bad and predictable movies then the problem clearly isn't the story of the film it's the person writing the script and heck his films are so bad that I now straight away know that i'm in for a bad movie the second that I see his name appear in the films credits or on the films IMDB page as he's just that bad of a writer with his films being so bad that it was hard to pick just one to be the worst film of the year so by default because there all equally bad and yet he's got at least four movie due out next year two of which are as of this writing being filmed and a further two are in post production so it does look like that we will be seeing more of him on next years list as well.

Alot of the film that Harry Boxley wrote this year all have one thing in common that being that they all based off of beloved characters. Heck even Wickedness has a poster design and colour scheme that is designed to confuse people into buying that movie when they what they really wanted to buy was either Wicked or Wicked: For Good and yet he still gets to make these movies all of which are really bad and while granted on some of them you can tell that they trying there best to work with the small budget that these films do typically have with even Wickedness having some small amount of VFX in it but there all just bland scripts so much so that to call them generic horror movies would be a n insult to generic horror movies as then you can at least tell that there's some effort to make those films good and yet here there there's none of that in any of these films with it feeling like that he had about five minuets per film to write a script and so he just wrote the first thing that came to his mind and turned in what should have been his first draft of the script as it's final draft as there no way that he can turn in this level of a bad scripts and still be called an award winning writer now granted he might get called that when he has more then five minuets to turn in a script but when you have several films released in the same year all of which make it look like that your a really bad writer then you really do need to reconsider having that be the first thing that comes up on your Google bio as it just makes you look like a completely lazy person who doesn't know how to turn in a decent film script.

Best

5) Weapons

Just to be clear the entire best of lost was so hard to put together as really any film including this one could have right fully taken the top spot and as such some very tough choices had to be made so you won't be seeing Avatar: Fire And Ash in this post. With this films plot being just so good as it was actually something new , different and original which means that we the audience have no idea just where this films plot is even going because it's something that we really havn't seen done before now with the plot of this film being one that is perhaps the best plot for a newly released film this year regardless of it's a horror film or not because it is something that does keep you invested all throughout with it's slow burn approach which yes granted could be seen as being grating for some but here it does serve a purpose as it adds to the plot of the film by making us wonder just what is going to happen next and because of that we as an audience do get more of a chance to become invested in the films plot as simple as it is but in saying that tho the plot of this film could also be viewed as being unfocused as for alot of the time we don't really get to find out all that much about the kidnappings but at the same time tho it could be argued that that makes this films plot all the more scarier as now we have to use our imagination which could make thing all the more scarier then what they actually are as by all accounts this films plot should have been really bad and yet for one reason or another the makers of this film managed to pull it all together and make a film that is not only wholly original in concept but also one that does prove that people in Hollywood still do know how to make not only good films original films but also original films in general.

This film along with Good Boy and one more film that WILL be showing up in this post made it perfectly clear that this was a shockingly good year for horror films. As while yes we we did get alot of bad horror films as well those where very few and far between with the year instead giving us films like Weapons and Good Boy which have wholly original plots and ideas to them and guess what they both turned out to be really good as the makers of those films knew that they had to create something good in order for their film to land they way that they did with this film being a really good example of that as while it burrowed elements from other films like the idea of telling the film in chapters it also made those ideas feel fresh and new by ending each of them on a cliffhanger much like you would end a chapter in a book an while yes granted this film could be seen as being boring at times as not alot does happen to advance the films admittedly thin plot the film is more bothered in creating tension and keeping us in a tense place so that when something that's genuinely creepy does infact happen we feel it alot more and while the makers of this film could have spent more time on giving us memorable characters it really didn't have to do that as the reason we stayed watching this film wasn't for the characters it was for the mystery and while the mystery of why these kids ran away in the first place isn't built up all that well as it's really only in the films final chapter when we get anything surrounding the films mystery the film does do a good enough job of making us want to know more about what's actually happening with the film even having plenty of really good an unique kills to it as well all of which do work well in the film.

4) Superman AND The Fantastic Four: First Steps

This was also a fairly solid year for comic book movies with Marvel proving that the MCU isn't quite dead yet and Warner Bros launching it's DCU as well. With both The Fantastic Four: First Steps and Superman being really good films as they both managed to capture the tone and the spirit of what it was that made those characters so well be loved in the first place and while weather or not these films were that good depends on who you ask as the MCU lovers will say that First Steps is good and that Superman is a bad movie and some of the DCU fans will say it's the opposite that's true with the few remaining Zack Snyder fans hating on both movies the ones things for sure they both managed to prove that if you stick with what made the characters work so well in the comics then people will still love them in the movie as this is the best Superman movie that we've had for years now and this is the best Fantastic Four film ever and while yes granted both films do have alot of flaws to them no one is ever going to deney that but both films also have plenty of things going for them as well be it the CGI , the acting or the action there's plenty of things to like in both of these films but with this being said tho there are things that don't work in both films like for example the plot in Superman is a little bit on the weak side not so much that it becomes hard to tell just what the main plot of the film is even meant to be in the first place but it's enough for you to notice and with the fantastic four the films plot moves to fast for us us the audience to rally take any of it in so much so that by the time we have caught up with he film the film is good as well almost over.

While there are plenty of bad things to be found in both of this films both films are a case of there's more good to be found in both of them then bad. As you can tell right away that First Steps is going almost out of it's way t make sure that you know that this is a different universe to the mainline MCU something which is going to appease alot of people given he fact that in recent years the MCU has been sinking faster then the Titanic with this film fully embracing it's more sixties looking aesthetic as we get to see the characters both talk and act like people that are from that time period all whilst still being a film that's vert much in the MCU. With Superman we get to see the closest thing to what alot of people think Superman should be like and act like as for years now we've seen Superman be this depressing person and that's just now who Superman is as he's the kind of the character that does always look for the best in everyone and will always try to do the right thing no matter what the cost is and that's something that Zack Snyder didn't give us rather he instead chose to give us a Superman that's much like Batman and while being this depressing kind of character works for Batman as that's who he is it's not something that works for Superman and James Gunn did understand this and while that might make alot of the Zack Snyder fans unhappy it's also something that's true as if you want prove read alot of the classic Superman comics and then watch the classic Christopher Reeve Superman movie before watching this as this version of the character is pretty much how the Christopher Reeve version of Superman was.

3) Sinners

In Hollywood it's a very rare thing to find a film that is wholly original any more as alot of modern hollywood films are either remakes , sequels or prequels. As such it was something of a shock when this film came along and was not only an original film but was also a hit film to boot so much so it forced Hollywood into burying this film as it was getting so many rave reviews from critics and was making alot of money at the box office with it being very easy to see why as this is a film that is just so good to watch and while it's not hard to see that this film is a fully original idea as it does take some inspiration from From Dusk Till Dawn the film itself has enough original elements in it that it makes you wonder why Hollywood aren't producing more original films and why the people that are doing these fully original films are getting there films buried by the major studios so much so that you have to look really hard be it on DVD and Blu-Ray or on streaming websites to find fully original pieces of film as there just that hard to find and yet this film proved that original films can be hit films if you have the right creative making it but they won't do that as that will force Hollywood to be creative and to try new things and that's something that they are scared of doing as they'd rather just give us what we know we like and want then give us something that we don't know we like and want and while it's hard to say if this film is the best horror film of the year as both Good Boy and Weapons are also very strong contenders for that title what can be said is that this is a film that got alot of and deserved all of the praise that it got for being just that damn good of a film in the first place.

This film is one that is damned new perfect with it only really really being held back by a few things and that's it. With those being he fact that the film does take a good while to get going which is something that wouldn't be a bad thing where it not for the fact that the leading up to that the film has the characters do nothing that's all that important to the plot of the film and while this is done to set up the characters and the world that they live in there could have been a way to do that whilst still adding things to the plot of the film like for example we could have seen the Twins run into the people who would get turned into vampires early on in the film just to set up the fact that there could be some tension there between the two groups of people something which there would be anyway due to the time that this film does take place in in the first place with another thing being the fact that the film does spoil the twist of the film in it's trailers when this sis something that would have been best kept hidden from us the audience much like what Marvel sometimes does with there trailers as that is something that would have made the fact that is actually a vampire movie be all the more surprising as we the audience would have had the time to get to know and maybe even like these characters in the first place and now we have to see them take on creatures that aren't the easiest to defeat in the first place and while the film is still a really good film in it's film heck it's the best horror film to come out this year which is really saying something it's those little things that would have made it a great film to watch and also one that would have made it even more popular then what it already is in the first place.

2) Wicked: For Good

While it is shocking to see this film placed above Sinners what did it even tho there both really good films in their own right. Was the fact that this film had more of a lead up with it's story and the fact that it was telling one long story over the course of two films meant that the overall plot could have more room to breathe and yet whilst this film isn't an original film at all due to the fact that it's both a sequel film and as is based off of both a book and broadway stage production it is still a really good film in it's own right and granted it's not as good as the first film was as that film was like catching lightening in a bottle this is one that does really need to be seen on the big screen whereas with Sinners that's more of a film where you can watch it on your TV screen and still get the same expirence whereas with this film you need to see it on the biggest screen possible just so that you can belt out all of the films songs and just enjoy the film with other Wicked fans and while yes this films songs aren't as good as the first films songs were as those songs where more fun the songs in this film feel more moody in a way as there not trying to make you laugh like a song like "Popular" is for example rather there trying to tell you that the characters that you know and love from the first film are in a deeply serious situation that is quite literally life or death for them with the songs reflecting that change and growth with the characters therefor it would have felt out of place for there to be a more comedic song in this film when this is film that really doesn't demand it and while the fans took there love for this film over board with them confusing the continuity for these films with that of The Wizard Of Oz something which does show off how obsessive that these Wicked fans can be that doesn't change the fact that this film is one that is still a really good film in it's own right.

With this films plot being just as fun and as enjoyable as the plot for part one was with this films plot being alot more darker in tone when compared to that of the first film which is something that really does make alot of sense as the characters are now no longer teenagers with the fact that this films plot being more darker also serving as a good way of showing just how epic that this films plot is for the characters and while the plot of this film isn't that strong in the first place that's more due to the fact that the plot was cut into two and therefor of course the plot will come across as being weaker as while there is a natural cut off point for both films it does also make both films plots feel all the more weaker as a result of that but in saying that tho this is a story that really could only have been told in two parts as to do it any differently would risk doing more harm to the plot then good with this films plot being one that could possibly make alot of fans of both the stage adaptation and part one really happy as it does give you all of the things that you'd expect from this film from a plot point of view as both this film and its plot give you everything that you'd want to see in a film that's the second part of a two part film as it does tie up all of the characters plot arcs from the first film in ways that feel natural and true to there characters with the only thing that was keeping this film off of the number one spot being the fact that the songs in this film feel like they were written in a few minuets as they don't add all that much to the plot of the film aren't as well written as the songs from the first film were where as with the songs in the first film it felt like that more time and effort was put into them and that is something that really did show in the final product.

1) F1 / Frankenstein

When I tell you that it was hard to pick just what I thought that the best film of this year I really do mean it with there not even being that much in for both of these films. As both of them are damn near perfect films that do not only try to do something new and original with there characters be it by telling the same story story from two different points of view of view as was the case with Frankenstein or in the case of F1 it quite literally puts you in the drivers seat of an F1 car in a bunch of really tense scenes that work really well with both films being so good despite the fact that one of them is a made for streaming film that very easily could have been a film for a major studio and F1 kind of flew under the rader and really hasn't been talked about since it first came out this is despite the fact that it is a really good film in it's own right with both films having plots that are engaging and that make you want to know more about there characters and in the case of F1 makes you want to be an F1 driver as it does go into great detail about that world and what it takes to make as a driver for F1 and while it could be argued that that film is a bit on the long side as it's almost three hours long it does make up or that by giving us some well done driving scenes that was actually filmed during F1 races and with Frankenstein we get all of the typical flair and love that you expect from a film by Guillermo Del Toro with it being made clear as day that he does have a passion not just for the book that Frankenstein is based off of but also for The Monster himself and while that love for the character could be seen as being a bit typical for him as he does usually show alot of love for monsters it is something that does work for that film as in both the book and the film you are meant to care for The Monster.

The fact that it was hard to chose just what this years best film of the year was is always meant to be a good thing. As it does mean that we had alot of really good films come out in the past year from the likes of Avatar: Fire And Ash to Thunderbolts and even some of the films that did make this list with the two chosen as being join first only being chosen because of the fact that they were a good example of just what it is that Hollywood can do when there really pushed as both films used more practical effects then CGI and both films show that Hollywood does know how to still be creative something that they've seem to have forgotten about and yet when they do give us a film that's filled with creativity and is actually good we get films like F1 and Frankenstein with that being something that always needs to be praised and why Frankenstein wasn't released by a major studio is something that no one well ever know as that is a film that could have made a ton of money for whichever studio chose to release it as it has alot of really bankable names in it and yet for some odd reason it got a very limited two week release before going straight to Netflix where it still got alot of really positive reviews from people that saw it and with F1 that film was a huge risk because of the fact that the sport of F1 isn't as well as say football is for example and therefor there was always the chance that people might not buy into a film surrounding it and yet not only did they go and see it they went and they told over people to go and see it as that's just how good that that film was with it being made clear as day that the makers of both of those films really knew what they were doing and set out to make a film that would not only please them but would also be really good in their own rights as well as that's just how good that both of those films are in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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Doctor Who: Resolution Review

Whilst Doctor Who has done quite alot of Christmas specials since it first came back in 2005 there was a time when the show did abandon that tradition and move instead into doing yearly New Years specials instead. Whilst it could be very well be argued that The End Of Time Part 2 is technically a New Years Day special given that the first part aired on Christmas Day is does kind of fall into a grey area however the episode that i'm going to be reviewing for you all today is the first official New Years Day special as this episode did actually air on New Years Day itself back in 2019 and so then join me as I review the episode that sees The Doctor and her friends come up against an old and very deadly foe with the episode in question being called simply just "Resolution" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when two archaeologists accidentally awaken part of a monster that was buried n Sheffield many years ago its up to them and The Doctor and her friends to save the say before it's far to late. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad with alot of the plots from around this time in Doctor Who being noting more then OK at best and that is very much the case here as well as the plot doesn't really feel all that special and instead feels like just another episode of the show as there's nothing all that special about the plot of the episode with the episodes plot being at best thin as the episode doesn't really spend alot of time on focusing on it's plot with the episode instead giving us alot of time with Ryan and his dad and even then the episode doesn't really fully commit to their plot either but in saying this tho for a New Years Day special this is the kind of plot that does oddly work as it gives you everything that you'd want to see in an episode of Doctor Who and yet the plot of the episode does feel like that it's lacking that extra special something to make it work as a special episode of the show as the episode isn't campy enough to work as a special episode and yet it's not as serious enough to work as an episode of the show itself with the plot of this episode also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Jodie Whittaker as The Doctor ,  Bradley Walsh as Graham O'Brien and Tosin Cole as Ryan Sinclair. Also starring in this episode is Mandip Gill as Yasmin Khan , Charlotte Ritchie as Lin , Nikesh Patel as Mitch , Daniel Adegboyega as Aaron Sinclair , Darryl Clark as Police Officer Will , Connor Calland as Security Guard Richard , James Lewis as Farmer Dinkle , Laura Evelyn as Call Centre Polly and Nicholas Briggs as The Voice Of The Dalek.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With it being made clear as day that not only are all of this episodes characters perfectly well cast with ach of their respective actors brining something unique to there characters but that all of this episodes actors are having a blast with this episode with that fun coming through in their performances on screen and while the Jodie Whittaker era does rightfully get alot of flack for it's lack of actually good stories the one thing that alot of the episode in this era got right was it's acting and that is something that is also true for this episode as while it is expected that the main series actors would turn in a good performance what wasn't expected was for the episodes guest actors to be just as good as the shows main actors excluding of course Nicholas Briggs who is reprising his role as the voice of the Daleks as all of this episode actors are just so perfectly well cast that it is hard to picture anybody else playing these characters and while it would be easy to say that Jodie Whittaker is the episodes best actor as she really is on top form as The Doctor in this episode the best actor in the whole entire episode has to be Charlotte Ritchie as Lin as if you've seen her in the UK version of Ghosts then you'll know that she can do comedy and yet here in this episode she proves that she can do drama as well as she gets alot of the episodes more drama heavy scenes and she pulls them of so well and so effortlessly with the acting that's in this very episode not really being helped by the fact that this episodes script is just so bad as it gives none of this episodes actors absolutely nothing to work with interms of what it is that there actual characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does hurt the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.

Doing the CGI for this episode is the legends and the greats that are currently over at DNEG and REAL SFX. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good as while the show has never really had good CGI in it even in the early 2005 series the CGI was at best wonky looking you can tell tho that in this special there was a huge budget given to it given the amount of effects that are in the episode as not only do we have standard effects of a Dalek blat and the TARDIS dematerializing and rematerializing but we also have a Dalek removing it's balls to reveal rockets inside it's casing and a Dalek taking off and while those are some decent looking effects the episode does have some really bad looking effects in it as well as they make alot of use of CGI sparks in the TARDIS which is something that does stand out a mile with even the effect of the Dalek flying looking pretty bad but that may be more due to the fact that the effect has aged badly as it is something that would have looked really good in 2019 and yet because of how fast the world of CGI moves effects from back then even great looking ones have started to show there age when it would have made more sense for them to the scenes with the Dalek flying practically as they have a practical Dalek in the episode so it wouldn't have been that hard to hang up either a blue screen or a green and put in whatever background was needed at the time as while Doctor Who will always be an effects heavy show that doesn't mean that you need to do everything in CGI as even tho alot of this episodes effects do look really good alot of them are things that could have been for real and they would have looked alot more better if they were done for real.

This episode is one that does carry on the tradition of having The Doctor face the Daleks with it just being the one scout Dalek this time around. With the Daleks getting a new design as they now look like they've been made out of spare bits and pieces that someone has found lying in their shed which is something that does make sense given the fact that this particular Dalek was sent on a mission to scout Earth during a war and the fact that he was destroyed by humans only to come back decades later which is a pretty good way of bringing them back without it feeling like that there just treading on the same grounds which is something that they very easily could have dine and even saving them for a special and not just a regular episode of the show does make there appearance feel just that special with the only thing that lets them down in this episode is the fact that they make The Doctor look dumb as this Dalek doesn't know that alot of other Daleks have been killed off by The Doctor and yet when this Dalek says that it will send a message out into space to tell more Daleks that Earth is ready for them The Doctor should have said that there are no more Daleks as alot of them have been killed and as far as this Doctor is concerned that would be true and yet she says nothing she just lets it continue with it's plan thus putting the Earth in more danger which is something that The Doctor wouldn't do granted she was pretty much blinded by rage which was most likely clouding her judgement but it is something that makes this version of The Doctor seem a bit dumb when it would have been in character for her to put the Earth first and tell the Dalek that there's no Daleks coming to help it.

There was one thing that was kind of missing in this episode and that's the fact that we don't get to see The Doctor get angry at the sight of there being another Dalek still alive and well. As while she does look kind of angry and shocked when she first finds out that the DNA that she's been scanning does infact belong to that of a Dalek she doesn't get outright angry or show really any kind of emotion towards the creature which is something that The Doctor should always do as this is the creature that killed billions of her own people and drove her to the point where the only way they she could end the time war was to blow up her own planet thus killing all known time lords and given the fact that alot of the previous Doctors in modern Doctor Who have always shown some level of anger towards a Dalek when they first see them it is something that would have worked really well with this version of the character as this is a character that is still carrying that guilt of what she did during the time war as don't forget she doesn't know if she saved Gallifrey or not so for all she could know the Daleks could still be on the planet killing them and she might have failed in her task of saving her own planet so she would get angry at the very thought of possibly seeing a Dalek and yet we get nothing from her even tho Jodie does try her best to put across that anger it's not something that the episode goes deep into and with her Doctor basically being the final Doctor to face the Daleks it would have been perfectly in keeping with her character if she did show some sort of emotion towards them as they are the ones that would demand the biggest emotional reaction from her due to all of the pain and suffering that they've caused her to go through. 

For one reason or another this episode basically has two different endings as they have the ending where the team think that they've destroyed the Dalek and then they have another ending on boards the Tardis where Ryan has to save his Dalek controlled dad from being sucked into a sun. With it being this second ending that really isn't needed as while yes it is very cinematic to look at it also does two things the first of which being the fact that it makes The Doctor look even more dumb as she willingly brings an out of its casing Dalek on board the Tardis and it also feels like a filler scene with that also being true for Ryan's subplot in this episode as all his plot is him trying to reconnect with his long lost dad and that's it and while that is great for the character that's also not something that needed to be seen in the episode as it adds nothing to the plot of the episode as if the makers of this shoe just ended this episode with the lone Dalek being defeated in the tower it would have been a perfectly serviceable ending and yet for one reason or another the makers of this episode felt like that they had to include another ending when they really didn't as while the stuff with Ryan and his dad was pretty good it's something to base your whole ending around as people would be waning to see The Doctor find a creative way to foil the Dalek's plan which is something that we already got in the original ending and by having her bring the Dalek on board the Tardis it makes The Doctor look dumb as now the Dalek could've just taken control of her and thus taken control of the Tardis sometimes doing less with your ending is alot better and that's something that the makers of this episode should have done they should have just stuck with the one ending which was really good and had some cool moments in it then stick on a pointless ending just to get this episode to over a one hour running time.

Now then this episode has / had a really exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and two seconds. Which to be fair to this episode is a perfectly solid running time for the episode to have with this running time pretty much being the running time for alot of the Jodie Whittaker era episodes with this episode having the right amount of plot there to cover that amount of running time in the first and yet this episode is one that really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely as the episode doesn't take the time that it needs to fully develop it's plot as it does feel like that things are just happening for the sake of happening and not because of the fact that they effect the main plot of the episode when the episode should have taken time away from the subplot with Ryan and his dad as that's mostly filler anyway and given to the main plot of the episode as by doing that the episode would then be able to reach that one hour long time limit with the episode not even taking the time to fully develop it's characters and while this wouldn't be seen as being that big of a deal if the main characters were developed in the main show the main main shoe itself doesn't take the time to fully develop it's characters with Yaz being the best example of this as we know just just as much about her coming out of this episode then we did coming in to the episode and she's a main character of the show heck the inside character guide in The Thirteenth Doctor comic books give us more information about her character then this episode and shoe did with even the episodes new characters getting nothing in the way of character development as well as we know as much about them coming out of the episode then we did coming into the episode but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is an action show that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With this episodes action being one of the best things about the episode as a whole as it's just that much fun to watch with it being made clear as day that the makers of this episode put alot more thought and effort into the episodes action then they did the actual writing and plot of the episode as this episodes action is just that fun to watch with them all having alot of really cool moments in them with the best action scene in the whole entire episode being the episodes third act as we get to see The Doctor an her friends work together to take out the singular Dalek in a really creative way with us even getting to see just how powerful that one singular Dalek is something that we have seen before but is always nice to see again and heck it's even during what should have been the episodes ending where we get to see The Doctor actually melt the Dalek casing which is just so cool to see and is perhaps the coolest moment in the episode due to the fact that we don't get to see that happen at all in the show and while the extra ending in this episode is pointless it also is a really cool action scene that is tense as Ryan does struggle to stop his dad from being sucked out of the Tardis and into a sun with all of the rest of this episodes action being really good as well as you can tell that the makers of this episode really did know how to create some really cool looking action scenes in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.  

Overall this episode is nothing more then the stereotypical Jodie Whittaker era episode and really nothing new then that as while the idea of having one love Dalek on earth is such a cool idea the episode does nothing interesting with that idea as it wastes what is a cool idea on an episode that could have been so much better then what it actually was as this episode is just that average in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Amazon . Co . Uk and Tardis . Wiki. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very review being the really great Tardis . Wiki really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very episode with alot of them being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Tardis . Wiki are also all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Thomas & Friends TV Series "Thomas's Christmas Party" Review

This review is being written on Christmas Day over here in the UK and well with Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends still being a big institution over here in the UK it made sense for me to review one of there Christmas specials. With there really being only one choice for this particular review as it does have an images that is for lack of a better word magical and it's that very image that made me want to review this episode and so then join me as I review the episode that is the only episode of the show to be purposefully written by Rev. W. Awdry with the episode is question being called simply just "Thomas's Christmas Party" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when Thomas gets the idea to through a Christmas party for a friend that once helped him and Toby out the rest of the engines get a party together. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good with this episodes plot being the kind of plot that you'd want to see in a kids TV Christmas episode as it's just fun and charming with there not really being danger to the story as the characters have to just get a party together for this one person who has helped them out in the past and that's really it and that's all that's really needed for this plot to work as this isn't the kind of plot that requires you watch several other episodes just understand one line of dialog or one joke and while yes the plot of this episode is a bit on the thin side this is something that not only could be said for the rest of the shows episodes as well but is also something that does work well enough to this episodes advantage as the only thing that this episode really needs is a good premise and that's it and when the premise of the episode is this good it really doesn't matter then the plot of the episode is wafer thin as we the audience are already hooked on what's going on in the first place and with Christmas specials in general you don't really want a deep and thought provoking plot you just want something simple and really that's what the plot of this episode is it's simple in all of the best ways possible with the plot of this episode also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is of course Sir Ringo Star as The Narrator with Ringo being his usually quite happy and joyful self. Which is something that is a big off putting in other episodes but here it is something that does work due to the episodes setting with even the fact that the engines are describes as being happy around Christmas time being something that does work as well and while he doesn't give any of the characters any kind of accent like her would do in Series 2 of this show there is an effort made to make each characters voice stand out as when he's doing The Fat Controller for example he gives him a slight booming voice and when he voices Thomas his voice sounds more youthful it's when we get to the other engines that we start to have a problem as none of the other engines in this episode have very distinct voices to them which does mean that you have to pay attention to the episode alot more otherwise you'd be confused as to who is talking with this being a good example of where the CGI series trumps the model series as in the CGI series they have a full cast for the episodes where as here it is quite literally just the one person doing all of the voices and while that does have it's own unique charm to it as it does come across like he is reading us the audience a bedtime story it does also have it's drawbacks as well as it is something that does require The Narrator to put on different voices for the different characters as don't forget this shows main audience is little kids and there not going to be able to tell who is talking at any given moment and therefor giving the characters more distinct voices especially in this episode where there are alot of speaking characters would have gone a long way into making this episode alot more better then what it already is in the first place.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. As even tho for alot of this shows history they only have one person doing all of the voices and telling us the episodes story much like there reading us a bedtime story that person in this case Sir Ringo Star do still have to put in an actual performance with that being something that is overlooked alot of the time by the more casual Thomas fan and yet it is something that he does do really well in this episode as he is by default the episodes best actor as if he himself doesn't believe that these characters are real then that is something that would show through in his performance and yet it's because of the fact that he does believe these characters to be real that he manages to turn in a performance that's as good as it is as while yes this episode is basically a Christmas special and those don't typically have that good acting in them here you can tell that Ringo is still trying to turn in a good performance this is despite the fact that he's not a trained actor and yet you can still tell that when a character is meant to be sad or happy that those emotions really do come through in his voice with the acting that's in this very episode really being helped by the fact that the script for this episode is so good that all this episodes actor has to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out him naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.

Believe it or not this episode is actually written by Rev. W. Awdry as both show creator Britt Allcroft and show director David Mitton wrote the idea for the story they then took it Rev. W. Awdry to be written and published in the book of the same name. With this episode being the only episode of the show that he technically wrote an episode and you really can tell that it was written by him as it has that charm to it that you only find in The Railway Series books with the characters having an almost old fashioned way of talking to each other with the story being a sequel to another story called "Mrs. Kyndley's Christmas" which was published in the book "Toby The Tram Engine" with the characters feeling more like there book selfs then they do there TV selfs which s something that does make sense as this episode was written by the original author but at the same time tho when the story was being adapted to the series there should have been more of an effort to make the characters feel like how they are in the TV show and not how they are in the book as characters like Thomas and Gordon for example are vastly different in the books when compared to the TV show and yet you can tell that even tho this episode was only written to be nothing more then an episode of the show that there was still a great amount of love and detail put into it as while Awdry doesn't go into that much detail like he does in the books he still does make this railway feel like an actual railway which was something that he was always proud of doing as he was a train enthusiast and that amount of love and care for trains is something that did shine through in his books and it's something that does shine through in his writing for this episode. 

As was just mentioned this episode is a sequel story which wouldn't be a bad thing were it not for the fact that the original story "Mrs. Kyndley's Christmas" never got adapted into an episode in this first series. Which is odd as both Toby and Thomas act like they are good friends with Mrs. Kyndley and yet as far as we the audience are aware there've never had any screen time together and as the original story never got adapted that does mean that the makers of this episode have to shoehorn in flashbacks to the events of that story just so that we the audience know who this character is and why alot of the engines like her so much when it would much more easier to just adapt the story in the first place and heck given it's title it very well could have been the episode that aired prior to this one and yet for one reason or another the makers of this episode didn't adapt it with it feeling like that this episode was an afterthought almost as if they decided at the last possible second to do a Christmas episode and so instead of doing a proper adaptation of a story that introduces a key character in this episode they instead just went straight to the sequel and while the shows kid audience most likely wouldn't have noticed that there's a new character that all of the engines seem to really like that's not really an excuse as kids are alot more smarter then what we give them credit for and when you have a show that's usually very good with it's continuity it makes no sense for them to suddenly do a sequel episode when they havn't even done the original episode in the first place and given that alot of the of the stories in "Toby The Tram Engine" were adapted for this first series it's weird that they would suddenly skip over a story in favor of doing it's sequel adventure.

The best word that can be used to describe this episode is magical as that's exactly what it is and that's exactly what this Christmas special needed to be. As while it doesn't have the typical Christmas message that all kids Christmas specials seem to have this one does fully embrace the Christmas season and isn't afraid of being this cheesy and sickly sweet episode and to be fair that's exactly what a Christmas special should be especially when it's aimed at little kids as all they want to do is see there favorite characters being kind to one another during the festive season and to see them spread some goodwill and that's it and that's exactly what we get in this episode with the episode billed filled to the brim with snow and Christmas cheer and while that make alot of people's inner Grinch come out to play it is something that does make this episode feel unique as all of the other episodes in this very first series were all busy on trying to tell this one season long story arc with the trains getting used to each other and all of the changes that are happening in their lives and yet in this episode all of that gets put aside for something more fun and light hearted which is exactly the kind of thing that you want to see in a Christmas special and while yes this episode could have done with having a character who is set against Christmas at first but then over the course of the episodes comes round to the idea of the holiday that's also something that really isn't needed in this episode as Thomas the main character of the episode is already fully on board with the holiday and is just there to do something that's genuinely nice for someone that he cares for and at the end of the day dont we all want to something that's genuinely nice for someone at Christmas time.

Whilst this first series of the show wasn't all that known for doing alot of cool camera moves with them mostly having a static camera. There was one shot in this episode that did stand out and that's when we first see the other other engines in the shed and the camera slowly starts to pan over the set with it landing firmly infront of the other engines that is a shot that that's not in the rest of the first series and yet it's hard to see why it is a really cool shot and one that does make this episode stand out even more due to the fact that you can tell that the makers of this episode are willing to try and do new things with the camera instead of sticking with what they know for a fact works which is something that they very easily could have done given the fact that this episode was produced alongside the rest of the first series and yet the fact that they not only pulled of a really complicated camera move to do on a model set but also made it look good does show that there is some willingness to be creative and to try new and different things in this episode when that's not something that they really needed to do in this episode as this is the episode that would have been on to shut up the little kids while the mums and dads go off and do other things and yet its the fact that they did do something that's this creative that makes it stand out with it being something that does make you wonder just how managed to pull it off in the first place as this was made during the model era of the show and therefor they wouldn't have been able to go into a computer and animated the camera that way rather they would have had to have worked it out themselves and thank the heavens that they did as while this first series wasn't known for having alot of creative camera moves this is one that does prove that this team could do a verity of camera moves when there pushed to do so.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly five minuets and thirty five seconds. Which is pretty much the exact grand total running time for the alot of this shows very early episodes as well and to be fair this episode really does have the right amount of plot there to really cover that amount of running time in the first place and while the episode not really using it's time all that wisely to fully develop would usually and quiet rightly be seen as being a bad thing here tho due to the fact that the plot of the episode is that simple in the first place it really doesn't need any kind of plot development as this is after all a show that's made for little kids and while it would have been nice for this episode to have some kind of plot development in it its not really something that's all that needed as the plot of the episode works just fine without it with the plot of the episode being charming enough and magical enough in the first place that it does make you forget that the plot of the episode is as simple as it is with the same thing also being true for the episodes characters as well as not only are they simple enough to not really need that much character development in the first place alot of the episodes main characters got there character development over the course of the first series so it would be pointless to give them more character development in this episode but at the same time tho it is something that would bog this episode down and stop it from being as enjoyable as it is as the episode would have to shoehorn in character development when this is a story that really doesn't doesn't need it but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a comedy that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With alot of this episodes comedy stemming from the fact that Thomas is just being cheeky to his coaches and that's really it and that's all it needed to be as that's true to Thomas's character as he is the kind of character that would make a quick joke to his friends with that being his character arc in the first series with the best joke in the whole episode being when Annie and Clarabel say that they always feel full at Christmas time and Thomas just asks them where there festive spirit which granted isn't a laugh out loud funny joke but at the same time doesn't need to be it just needs to be cute and that's exactly what it is it's a cute joke that will make little kids and adults smile with that also being the case for alot of this episodes jokes as well and that is all that they needed to be as the main focus of the episode is getting across that it's Christmas time and in getting us to a wonderfully magical image with the engines at the end of the episode at the shed with Christmas lights all around them and each engines having a Christmas hat on them whilst being surrounded by Christmas trees and to be fair if that's the ending image then the episode has already succeeded as a Christmas special and while it would have helped the episode if the episode did have more funny jokes in it the jokes that the episode does gave do work really well for the episode in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this magical episode does exactly what it sets it to do and that's make you feel warm and fuzzy inside with the episode being one that's fun to watch with this episode giving us all of the things that we love in Thomas & Friends with the only difference being that this episode is filled to the brim with Christmas cheer and that's really it and that all that it really needed to have to be a good episode in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Amazon . Co . Uk and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very review being the really great Google Images really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very episode with alot of them being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.