Berri's Couch

Yes we of course are talking about the quintessential musical and why it is IMPOSSIBLE to actually adapt it to film. We base our knowledge on the 1998 film (?) and what we have found from filmed live performances comparing it to the Hooperian nightmare that was allowed to be released in cinema.

NICHE!!! The word of the day regarding the few times a musical movie gets made with o stage adaptation prior or even made into one. We discuss the 2 major camps that this happens to and why perhaps this has occurred at all.

A movie that is not a musical to a musical stage show and now to musical movie, a story as old as.......at least 2 decades. The pitfalls of this form to create musical movies, using a couple of failure and successes, and the most recent venture with Matilda.

The adaptation of a beloved stage musical to screen more often than not is a barbaric butchering of source material. Why is that? Surely having another live medium makes an easy transfer? NOPE. The mediums are different and we're going to map it out where and why they fail or succeed adaptationally.

*TW* Talks of S.A to children and adults, fire, the Victorian mental health plan.

Finally we address the rare (and arguably) only well done adult adaptation of Alice in Wonderland. We delve into American McGee's Alice: Madness Returns and what makes it a stand out visually and as an adaptation.

There be a lot of rambling in this one, it's very hard to discuss a ballet interpretation of a classic children's story that then became movies and tv shows and is now a ballet. We do our best to surmise why one should see this and why audience etiquette must be taught.


Please forgive audio we've gotten a new device and are trying to make it work.

It's a Disney fight off between Victorian women and their adaptational choices. We have angry stimming, a series of decisions that shouldn't have been made and an almost good movie hidden in some grim yoghurt-y garbage.

Look the books exist and we have YET to see an actually accurate adaptation of either. We discuss what actually gets from the book to media adaptations, why there has never/will never be a wholly accurate adaptation, and what the benefits of the book to a child audience.

Australians like goon and that surprises no one. To finalise the month we look at the last and by far oddest addition to the Don Bluth collection. The sci-fi movie Titan A.E along with all it's warts and where we feel it should have expanded itself.

These are not just seemingly cheap knock-offs, they are expensive not knock-offs. We look at two of Don Bluth movies that are oft unfairly compared to their Disney contemporaries and why we feel that is an unfair comparison.