★★★★★
Hans Zimmer is one of the superstar Hollywood film soundtrack composers of the 21st Century. Having composed the scores to some of the greats including Gladiator, the Pirates of the Caribbean series and The Dark Knight trilogy, Zimmer puts his epic talents into developing the sonic landscape to the Superman re-boot, The Man of Steel. Listening to the soundtrack is like re-living the film, minus the moving pictures...
- www.theaureview.com
2013-07-16
★★★★★
To be sure, Hans "Long John" Zimmer didn't do all the composing himself. He's the team leader of a number of musical maestros, including John Sponsler, Henry Jackman, Blake Neely, Geoff Zanelli, and others. After all, even Captain Jack Sparrow needed his crew to keep the Black Pearl afloat. But the flow of this album has a certain "oneness" about it, a uniformity that evidences a single musical vision...
- www.the-trades.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
We recently braved the horror of cellphones and incessant chatter that is our local theater (spoken like true grumpy old men) to see the latest Guy Ritchie movie Sherlock Holmes, and while we were prepared to be disappointed, we were actually pretty blown away. Classic Ritchie, as in the best thing since Snatch and Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, it was stylized, the sets were incredible, it was funny, clever, Downey Jr...
- aquariusrecords.org
2010-02-11
★★★★★
To embellish The Simpsons' leap from television to cinema screen, creators Matt Groenig and Jim Brooks have taken the surprising step of bypassing Danny Elfman, who wrote the show's sublimely anthemic theme, and Alf Clausen, longtime composer of the show's incidental music, to call in Hollywood royalty in the shape of Hans Zimmer. Zimmer is as Zimmer does: a master of subtle and often deliciously sly musical references that ricochet between parody and pastiche with gleefully inventive abandon...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2009-06-12
★★★★★
Alf Clausen, you will be avenged! Clausen, the longtime composer of all original music for "The Simpsons", has long had to suffer the indignity of being responsible for all tunes Groening except for the theme, which Danny Elfman receives exactly one giant money bag per day for...
- pitchfork.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Label: Dreamworks
Suggested Retail Price: $11.99
Grade: A
If the lesson of KUNG FU PANDA is not to judge a book by its cover, then don't think that a cgi flick about a goofball bear (voiced by Jack Black no less) means that the music should be satisfied to go for the green belt...
- www.filmmusicmag.com
2009-05-18
★★★★★
Since Alan Jay Lerner wrote the libretto for the Broadway musical Camelot in 1960, presentations of the legend of King Arthur and the Round Table have tended to focus, as that version did, on the romantic triangle between Arthur, his queen Guinevere, and the knight Lancelot...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
The soundtrack to James L. Brooks' edgy romantic comedy As Good as It Gets mainly consists of Hans Zimmer's lightly swinging, occasionally melodramatic score. Zimmer's fine score is balanced by five pop songs: Nat King Cole's "For Sentimental Reasons," Danielle Brisebois' "Everything My Heart Desires," Shawn Colvin's "Climb On (A Back That's Strong)," Judith Owen's "Hand on My Heart," and Art Garfunkel's bizarre interpretation of Monty Python's "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
Hans Zimmer's melancholy yet romantic The House of the Spirits captures the magic realism of Isabel Allende's source novel with a clarity absent from the accompanying film adaptation. Accenting his brooding synthesizers and ghostly strings with elements of South American music, the composer brings to life the tragic downfall of an aristocratic Chilean family with uncommonly poignant precision...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27