GRINDHOUSE; THE HOST; FAUTEUILS D'ORCHESTRE; HOT FUZZ; SPIDER-MAN 3; INLAND EMPIRE; VIVE LE TOUR; HUMAIN, TROP HUMAIN; SHREK THE THIRD; PARIS, JE T'AIME; PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD'S END; THE BIG LEBOWSKI; ROBIN HOOD; KNOCKED UP; EMPEROR'S NEW GROOVE; OCEAN'S THIRTEEN; ONCE; SURF'S UP; PAPRIKA; FANTASTIC FOUR: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER; THE ARISTOCATS; BATMAN: MYSTERY OF THE BATWOMAN; RESCUERS DOWN UNDER; LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD; THE RESCUERS; RATATOUILLE; JULES ET JIM; BATMAN: MASK OF THE PHANTASM; OLIVER & COMPANY

GRINDHOUSE

Friday, April 6th, 2007

The movie i saw was Grindhouse, the Rodriguez-Tarantino co-production. It wasn't as gruesome as i thought it would be (i got sqeamish at the 'medical' bits in the first half).

I enjoyed both pieces, though i thought the first part (Planet Terror), Rodriguez's was more fun, more outlandish, pulpier, more lurid. I read a funny comment about Tarantino, how he's more comfortable with violence than sex, which makes him popular with fanboys. Interestingly,. it was true, it was the sex scenes that were the "missing" reels, and the two main pieces had no toplessness. Again, Rodriguez made use of the "missing" portion to reset the story a bit, with certain characters showing up again, etc.

Don't you hate it when zombies use power tools? Other zombies seem to be more superstrong and fast, whatever the plot requires.

How does she even control the gun?

Tarantino's portion (Death Proof) annoyed me a bit, mainly with the excessive dialogue. It's like Tarantino doesn't know how women talk with each other - for him, they talk like men, but just a lot more. He also spends a lot of time establishing characters that end up gone from the story, and then is forced to reestablish more, and without a link between the two groups. Still, i enjoyed it.

Oh, boys and their cars!

How do you walk with feet crossing over each other so much? And < 3!

THE HOST

Saturday, April 7th, 2007

I don't think i've ever reviewed a movie 8 days after i saw it. Anyway, the movie i saw last Saturday was Gwoemul, called The Host in English (for no obvious reason, by the way). It's the Korean monster thriller, based on a real incident of an American officer ordering a Korean subordinate to dump harmful chemicals into a river. It's a little odd, because while mostly it was a thriller action movie (little girl gets taken away by the monster, her family try to get her back), it's also got this farcical Shaun Of The Dead feel, and some moments from Dr. Strangelove (there's a shot of an American military which is too goofy to believe). Anyway, i really enjoyed it, except just the very end, which i didn't find quite satisfying. The fist appearance of the full-grown monster was horrifically amazing. None of this hiding in shadows sudden motion stuff - it was in bright sunshine in a riverside park, probably owing more to Godzilla than American movies. I loved the way the monster moved.

Dad, you're a flake (see the blond hair?), but don't let go.

"Lurking" it says - more like thundering towards you.

The family grieves at a community centre, while the media take pictures. There's satire in this movie too.

HOT FUZZ

Saturday, April 2st, 2007

I totally forgot i saw Hot Fuzz on Saturday! It was great, but i don't know about better than Shaun Of The Dead. I don't think so.

Timothy Dalton was a lot of fun, but damn that looked painful at the end. And the way the journalist died was almost grindhouse.

FAUTEUILS D'ORCHESTRE

Sunday, April 22nd, 2007

The movie i saw today was Fauteuils d'orchestre, called Orchestra Seats or Avenue Montaigne in English, which one depending on the opposite of what i'm looking for in listings (and Front Row Seats might be a better translation - it relates to the idea of trying to rush to the front to get the best seat, without realizing you're so close you can't see what's going on). It's a light whimsical farce, set in Paris, with a charming gamine lead. She becomes a waitress at a cafe near a concert hall, auction house and play house. Sydney Pollack did a cameo as an American director. It actually reminded me of a 1950s style Hollywood comedy. It's the perfect movie for a bright sunny spring day.

SPIDER-MAN 3

Friday, May 4th, 2007

"Give me some of that web action. " Or not.

Half the day was spent being bored stiff. We had a big faculty meeting in the morning. Then i went to see Spider-Man 3. In retrospect, the meetingwasn't so bad. To be fair, the movie wasn't exactly boring, but it wasn't what you'd call good either. Sam Raimi is awful. Never lets an opportunity for a cheap laugh sit. There's never any explanation for where the Venom goo comes from. Gwen Stacy is a pointless character. Plot points come along and are executed without the need for explanation ("Now it's time for Harry to remember the past." "Now it's time for Harry to learn about the truth."). Venom looks cheesy on its own. What's with the girl living next door to Peter? I'm bored of the relationship problems between Peter and Mary Jane - same junk from the last movie. About the only thing with energy are the scenes with J. Jonah Jameson.

"I said, NO MERLOT!"

INLAND EMPIRE

Sunday, May 6th, 2007

"Look at me, and tell me if you've known me before."

"Wake up and find out what the hell yesterday was about. I'm not too keen on tommorow, and today's slipping by."

Yesterday i saw David Lynch's latest movie, Inland Empire. Could i make sense of it? No, not really. But i enjoyed it a lot more than i did Spider-Man 3. Really, it's crazy. What's with the full-grown rabbits? Meta-fiction? More like an inversion of meta-fiction, whatever that means. It involves making a movie, and watching TV, so you're never really sure what you're dealing. Is Laura Dern always the same character? I think the best moment comes when two characters are embracing, and speaking, and one of them gets up saying the dialogue their speaking is like the movie they're in, only to see they're being filmed on stage. What?

"Bam! I Kicked him straight in the balls so hard they go crawling into his brain for refuge - he went down like a two dollar whore."

"Disappeared where it's hard to disappear."

"With tits like yours, there's always a chance."

"When the police came and they asked what happened, I told them 'He's reaping what he's been sowing, that's what.' They said 'Fucker been sowing some pretty heavy shit.' "

Crazy dancing hookers. Crazy neighbour lady.

Crazy rabbit people.

VIVE LE TOUR & HUMAIN, TROP HUMAIN

Saturday, May 12th, 2007

What i saw was two documentaries by Louis Malle, Vive Le Tour and Humain, Trop Humain (Human, Too Human).

The last is set in a car factory and auto show in 1972. There is no voice over or direct commentary, and it is relatively non-political (controversial in those political times). It's divided into three sections, the first set in the factory, showing rather mechanical and repetitive wideshots. The second watches people at an auto show. The third returns to the factory, but focusses more closely on individuals doing their particular jobs. I worked in an auto factory for three summers when at university, and the differences struck me. The workers seemed busier than we were, having to work faster, yet things seemed slower and less automated. There was a lot of hands on fiddly work, some of it verging on artisanship. I suppose part of the movie's point is to show the boredom of factory work, but it was hardly Metropolis. There were some obvious touches, like workers going off for a smoke, or getting undressed or washing up after a shift, or the guy who grinned widely when a female inspector came round (who was oblivious to him). But the heart of the film was the auto show, and while most of the factory work had little dialogue, the show was nothing but talk, talk, talk. It was pretty funny from an observer's point of view. Personally, it didn't seem so much a critique on capitalism, as a commentary on how humans remain essentially the same. Anyway, modern factory work is hardly that dehumanizing.

The other movie was a 1962 documentary about the Tour de France. It's not some historical sports movie - who wins or loses isn't important - it's more about the people being people around the event than the event itself. Kind of a motion version of a photo essay. It was sharp, funny and short (while the other piece was perhaps too long). It was also quintessentially French. The factory could have been anywhere, but where else do athletes raid cafes for champagne during an event? The music was stereotypically Parisian - i love it (though i wouldn't dance to it). I couldn't help but think of The Triplets of Belleville. But that movie didn't show different techniques for pissing on the way.

SHREK THE THIRD

Friday, May 18th, 2007

The movie i saw was Shrek the Third. It was enjoyable enough. The series has never been great, but it delivers some laughs. There's something that remains unlikeable about the humans when they don't behave human-like.

PARIS, JE T'AIME

Sunday, May 20th, 2007

I was finally able to see Paris, je t'aime. a movie i'd planned to see at the Film Festival, but was sold out. I can see why - it was a lovely film, maybe sloppily romantic sometimes, but what else do you want from France? It's actually a collection of 20 shorts, tied together by the theme of love in Paris (not always romantic love), not really connected narratively. It could actually be considered a French-British-American co-productio, giving how many non_french stars are in it - one segment, about what i believe are old American movie stars or somesuch, was actually a little too American, and could've been set anywhere.

The pieces were pretty short - i liked that, some movies drag on, as if just being longer or having nothing happen implies more meaning. These were snappy and succinct.

Best bits: the American tourist speaking broken French, the one with the Muslim girl, the man about to leave his wife and finding out she's terminally ill, Bob Hoskins & Fanny Ardant, the two strangers who meet in artisan's shop, and especially the Steve Buscemi (Coen Brothers) piece, the heavily stylized one about the salon. If ones that might be insufferable on their own, like the mimes one, had their charm. The only one i didn't like was the one about vampires.

Natalie was also in the movie. Her bit was okay. But, it's Natalie (minus the cigarette).

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD'S END

Friday, May 25th, 2007

The movie i saw was Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. I was a little disappointed. There was lots of action, but not a lot of sense of what's happening or why. I enjoyed the previous one more. I didn't quite like how it ended for Will & Elizabeth - there was another solution they didn't consider - i'll let you figure it out. Keith Richards part didn't amount to much. It was gruesome in parts - the hangings at the beginning, for example. It's still pretty odd trying to cast the pirates as the good guys (let alone what the East India Company is doing in the West Indies). Oh, and they seem to move around the planet fast, from Singapore to the Caribbean to the whichever polar region it was.

"Ladies! Will you please shut it? Listen to me. Yes, I lied to you. No, I don't love you. Of course it makes you look fat. I've never been to Brussels. It is pronounced "egregious". By the way, no, I've never met Pizzaro but I love his pies. And all of this pales to utter insignificance in light of the fact that my ship is once again gone. Savvy?"

I decided to see Pirates Of The Caribbean III again, and enjoyed it a lot more - i was able to pick up on plot points i missed the first time through. It's not as fun as the first two, grimmer, but i think is a fitting finale. I could swear the kid about to be hung at the start had braces (they did not look like metal teeth like Jack has).

THE BIG LEBOWSKI

Sunday, May 27th, 2007

The Dude abides

Sunday i mainly hung around the house - i think i went to the store to pick up rolaids, and also nabbed some raspberry gelato from the gelato bar. Then forgot about it until yesterday. It's so good.

But i had rented some videos the night before, so with all this talk of bowling, i saw The Big Lebowski again. I'd forgotten a lot of the details, having seen it when it came out. I'd forgotten how much John Goodman's character annoyed the fuck out of me. Which i guess he was supposed to do. But the Dude is priceless. Not sure why The Stranger thinks he's a hero exactly.

"I'm the Dude. So that's what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing."

ROBIN HOOD

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

"Ah, milord, the esteemed royal sovereign of the realm. The head man himself. You're beautiful."

Yesterday was just a half work day, because work itself has been painfully slow - that is otherwise i'd've taken the whole day off.

In the afternoon, i listened to Global DJ Broadcast and A State Of Trance. I also finished off most of the comics i got (not quite finished Nana).

I watched one of the other movies i'd rented, this one Disney's Robin Hood. Not sure why all the English people had southern accents. Still, it was good fun. It's not really one of the classics, but it has that what i think of a typical traditional Disney style, something which is still exerting influence on animator's today (although it's being transformed somewhat by anime). But you could see they also used short cuts, which weren't so nice (one scene of a waterfall was awful).

He throws an angry tantrum if he cannot have his way.
He calls for Mom and sucks his thumb and doesn't want to play.
Too late to be known as John the First,
he's sure to be known as John the Worst!

KNOCKED UP

Friday, June 1st, 2007

It's a Knocked Up life.

I went to see Knocked Up, by the same director as The 40 Year Old Virgin. My one hesitation about it is that it tends to stereotype, all the women being shrill and hysterical, all the guys being selfish and useless. The nice thing about The 40 Year Old Virgin is Steve Carrell's character played against the stereotype.

That being said, Knocked Up was very, very funny. The biggest trouble with most Hollywood comedies is that they aren't funny enough, often taking barely enough humour for one barely funny SNL sketch, and stretching it out to feature size. Here the humour just keeps on coming, and truly funny, not Scary Movie stupid-funny. The characters are pretty likeable too, although knowing Anne Hathaway was originally supposed to be the lead makes me kinda wish she'd been in it. Plus, you get the Canadian connection, with the pot-smoking semi-porn webmaster slackers. And you get to see a shot of a baby crowning. Not sure why, but you do.

"Do you want to do it doggie style?"
"You're not going to fuck me like a dog."
"It's doggie style. We don't have to go outside or anything."

Know what the difference between Knocked Up and Pirates III? Knocked Up made 31 million in its first weekend, but only cost 30 million to make (the studio's cut being about half). Pirates made 115 million in its first weekend, but cost 300 million. What will save it is foreign box office (Pirates has yet to reach 300 in North America). (None of these figure includes marketing costs.)

EMPEROR'S NEW GROOVE

Friday, June 1st, 2007

"Ninety-nine monkeys jumping on the bed. One fell off and bumped his head."

Friday evening i was home. Same old boring stuff. I read some Nana, and i watched the final DVD i picked up. The movie i saw was The Emperor's New Groove. It's one of Disney's modern style animations, with celebrity voices (i kept seeing David Spade and John Goodman, rather than their characters) and smart-assed characters. But unlike the most recent crop of non-Pixar ones, this is actually good. I didn't see it when it came out, because the ads and trailers didn't sell me. It was pretty funny, and the animation and dialogue were sharp and snappy.

"He was born and raised to rule
No-one has ever been this cool
In a thousand years of aristocracy
An enigma and a mystery
In Mesoamerican history
The quintessence of perfection, that is he."

"Whoa! Look at those wrinkles. What is holding this woman together?"
A fun villain.

OCEAN'S THIRTEEN

Friday, June 8th, 2007

Ocean's Who's Counting Now

The movie i saw yesterday was Ocean's Thirteen. Meh. It was okay. Ocean's Twelve was a lot more fun. Here, they set up the plot, then follow through on it. And George Clooney and Brad Pitt smirked through the whole thing. I had originally wanted to see Surf's Up, but for some reason, a pile of kids weren't in school. Ellen Barkin's face looks all plasticky.

"Are you alright?" "Yeh, um, I just bit into a red pepper." "Is that... are you...... are you watching Oprah?"

Fatty

ONCE

Sunday, June 10th, 2007

Falling Slowly

The movie i saw today was Once, an unpretentious Irish movie, a sweet and bittersweet love story, of sorts, between a Dublin busker and a Czech rose street seller (both unnamed). Burdened with broken hearts and poverty, they find salvation in music. It's not a musical, yet there are few films i've seen in which music is as important as the story. And the lead actors also wrote the music. Great! Amazingly, it had a budget of only 150 000$.

"Who'd you write the song for?"

SURF'S UP

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

"Dude, she's totally into you! She called you crap!"

I saw Surf's Up, the latest 3D penguin movie. I was impressed actually. I hated the last one, which had a preachy message crammed into it, Robin Williams doing his annoying schtick, and a character so alienated that it seemed unreasonable. This one was subtler - he doesn't have the typical "loving family". It was done in the style of a surfing documentary, and Surf's Up managed to capture the joy of surfing those movies conveyed. The character animation was great (if not at the Pixar level), and it was full of funny little moments. Jeff Bridges' acting was great.

"Do you have any other talents?"
"Heh, you mean like, singin' and dancin'? Naw, man, I just surf."
The life preserver is a live squid - ha!

This is awesome.

PAPRIKA

Friday, June 15th, 2007

The movie i saw was Paprika, the latest anime from Satoshi Kon, who did Millennium Actress a few years ago. Scientists invent a machine that allows us to enter and record dreams, as a form of therapy, but then the boundary between dreams and reality begin to fall apart. There's an interesting 'cinematic' angle, as characters discuss filmmaking (including the 180 rule). The plot is something of a thriller, but it's more interesting for its startling visuals, including the creepy character parade (a peculiarly Japanese vision - see Pon-Poko). There's an interesting dichotomy between the only two female characters, the hard-edged female scientist, and 'Paprika', the dream character (who's a little too annoyingly kawaii, at least in the credits). There's one scene which is about the creepiest sexual imagery without any nudity. Definitely not an animation for kids.

FANTASTIC FOUR: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER

Saturday, June 16th, 2007

Rise of the Chrome Surfer

I bit the bullet and saw Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. It wasn't very good. It tries to be light hearted and goofy, but it doesn't work with the extreme threats they face. Wasn't Sue Storm supposed to be a more serious person these days? All she was really interested in was her wedding. What do she and Johnny do? At least Ben is a pilot. The Surfer wasn't all that bad, though he was not silver. Von Doom looks creepy and sleazy than scary (more like a model angency svengali than an imperious ruler).

At least they look good, except for Sue's weirdly flat hair.

THE ARISTOCATS

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

The Aristocats was a bit weird - it's set in 1910 (set design and so on match), but the jazz music is mostly 30s into 50s style, and there was one cat who was very beatnik looking. The accents were weird - Duchess had a Hungarian accent, most of the cats had American accents (Thomas sounded like Baloo, Roquefort like Pooh), the dawgs were drawlin' their accents all over the places. The Siamese cat's accent and design was painfully racist, like it'd been cribbed from Breakfast At Tiffany's. The black cats got more respect.

The plot doesn't quite make sense - what's the point in getting rid of the cats before they inherit the money? Some moments were weirdly sexual - like, you have to wonder where the kids came from in the first place, Duchess being awful eager to hook up with the strange male. Although Marie swooning on the geese's description of Thomas's bad boy rep was funny. Anyway, it was all pretty fun, and you don't have to take the issues too seriously. As a friend said, it's got CATS and JAZZ - how bad can that be? Too bad Disney did make hem like this (and Robin Hood, Sword In The Stone, Jungle Book) anymore - they have such a light touch. Not EVERYTHING has to be so smartassed and smarmy all the time.

My real complaint is that the DVD had scratches, so i missed a chapter and a half (when they started back on their trip with the geese). People should not let their little brats touch the DVDs. It's okay if you own the DVDs, but not if you rent.

Amelia Gabble: Obviously a philanderer who trifles with unsuspecting women's hearts.
Marie: How romantic.

EDIT: I got a credit from Blockbuster, and rented it again from a different store - i'd missed essentially the entire bit with the drunk old goose (i wonder if they'd do that in a movie any more?).

BATMAN: MYSTERY OF THE BATWOMAN

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman is the first full-length movie i've seen from the now-classic 1990s Bruce Timm designed series. It was pretty good, not suffering too much from being stretched out to more than triple a normal episode's length. Batgirl and even Robin's appearances were a little superfluous, and we're left with the impression Bruce Wayne was interested in one of the characters romantically, which is a little odd (since we know it can go nowhere, and she must be a whole lot younger than he is).

Batman is gonna pop a cap in your ass.

Bruce Wayne: The last thing Gotham City needs is a vigilante running amuck.
Alfred Pennyworth: As they say on the streets, I'm not touching that one.

RESCUERS DOWN UNDER

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

I watched the DVD i'd rented, Rescuers Down Under , which was not that good. Razorbacks in Australia? Wonky accents without the folksy charm of a medieval setting.

Crazy Yank.

LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

Whatever happened to adverbs? Shouldn't it be "die hardly"?

Then it was Live Free or Die Hard (won a free popcorn, for no particular reason). I haven't seen the first ones, but i knew it wouldn't matter. It was reasonably entertaining. A couple of complaints - i know everything in it is implausible (surely someone would break a limb or two falling those distances*), but my objection is to mere stupidity. One, assuming entire phone and other networks are down, why is the On Star network still working when it was convenient for the plot? And worse: there's a scene where cars are going both ways in all lanes in a tunnel, when the lights go out. Don't American cars have daylight running lights? What would you do? I would break rather quickly - i might expect to be rear-ended. What do these people do? They keep flying forward at full speed, so they can be launched into the air. How fricking fast were they driving, anyway? Traffic has been brought down to a crawl. That reminds me of that execrable Jimmy Fallon movie Taxi, in which Fallon's character, a cop, makes a gesture to stop traffic at an intersection. What happens? Do the cars slow down, because, hey it is a fricking intersection? No. Do they suddenly brake, and maybe get rear-ended. No. Only the first few cars stop, while the ones behind take it as an excuse to step on the gas and smash their vehicles. Because, like, you NEVER have to slow down in city traffic. It was supposed to be funny or something. It just annoyed the fuck out of me. Of course, i only saw the trailer, so perhaps i'm harsh in my judgement. I liked the Mac guy. Couldn't figure out where i'd seen the daughter before.

"All you gotta do is go pick up a kid in New Jersey, and drive him down to D.C. How hard can that be, huh?"

THE RESCUERS

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

Whatever happened to talking vermin?

This morning it took me a little while to get going. Stupid me. Actually, i started early, cataloguing my comics, reading the paper, checking off my credit card statement (it got my 1000$ car repair bill and 500$ parking bill for the next year), and doing some web search, etc.

Anyway, eventually i got out, and did a tour of the non-Blockbuster video stores in the area. Lemme tell you, pickin's is slim. No one has Quadrophenia or Sid & Nancy. I asked the twerp at a Blockbuster why no one had The Rescuers. He made up lame answers (uh, yeah, it has been released on DVD). I also ended up buying some used Pizzicato 5 CDs.

I got home a bit later than i'd hoped, but i still got more than 3 hours of Global DJ broadcast, a nice change of pace.

I rented a VHS copy of The Rescuers (and considering it was a couple of decades old, pretty clean too). I enjoyed it more than the sequel. It has a lot more heart and charm, although maybe the story isn't so slick. The animation is off too, sometimes they're trying to emulate the golden age feel (especially at the beginning, and in the Bambi scenes they reused, and other times, it was clearly in the veins of the other 60s and 70s Disney animations. The early humans are obviously rotoscoped and look realistic, quite a contrast with the villain. Speaking of whom, apparently she was going to be turned into Cruella DeVille. The author of the books was British, so i wonder if it was set in Britain. Apparently the two crocs were based on bloodhounds, and they really should've been dogs - they acted like dogs (reptiles don't have the ability to smell like mammals do). There were some bits in there that i don't would make it into a movie these days, like the drunken moonshining southern hick, Penny showing her underwear (twice!).

"Didn't you bring somebody big with you? Like the police? "

Money shot!

RATATOUILLE

Friday, June 29th, 2007

Then it was off to meet J, first for lunch at Milestones, where i had the foccacia sandwich and caesar salad (but they had no cider, blagh), and where we were actually paying for the service (i.e. extreme chipperness), then to see Ratatouille . It was amazing. Pixar is leagues beyond any other animation studio. Some of the other studios (including non-Pixar Disney) can make reasonably entertaining animations, but there's no comparison to what Pixar does. Even from a technical point of view, for modelling, texturing, lighting, effects, believable character animation, no one else is in their league. The best thing was, when the movie was set up, i had no idea where the story would end up (happy ending to be sure, but what would that look like?).

"You know, once you muscle your way past the gag reflex, all kinds of possibilities open up."

JULES ET JIM

Friday, June 29th, 2007

"We played with life and lost."

The movie i saw was Jules et Jim , by Francois Truffaut, about two friends and the mercurial woman (Jeanne Moreau) they love, set before and after WWI. I'm not sure how i feel about it - it was good, challenging, but i'm still wondering about it.

'You said, "I love you," I said, "Wait." I was going to say, "Take me," you said, "Go away." '
Frankly, anyone who'd believe this disguise makes her male doesn't know what breasts are.

BATMAN: MASK OF THE PHANTASM

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

In the morning i watched Batman: Mask of the Phantasm. It was okay, although Bruce Wayne is acquiring a long series of romantic involvements from before he became Batman.

"What rot, sir! Why you're the very model of sanity. Oh by the way, I pressed your tights and put away your exploding gas balls."

What is Andrea doing? Look away Alfred.

OLIVER & COMPANY

Saturday, June 30th,2007

In the evening i saw Oliver & Company , a late 80s Disney movie loosely based on Oliver Twist Not a classic by any means - the animation itself was pretty uneven and weak (some of it essentially TV quality), and only notable in that with some characters they pushed the design in a different direction. The story had elements that were derivative of Lady and the Tramp and 101 Dalmatians, and The Rescuers to which it was supposed to be a sequel (with the girl, not the mice). Still, with all those problems, it was reasonably enjoyable

"Isn't it rather dangerous to use one's entire vocabulary in a single sentence?"