'Shindig'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
I'm re-reading The Phantom Tollbooth. IMDB tells me there was an animated version made of this. Anyone seen it? How was it?
It was okay. As JZ notes the animation wasn't Feifferesque enough. But there was a dearth of animated movies back then anyway, so I was glad to have it.
Nevertheless, I stand by my Meh.
Agreed. Wholeheartedly. I think it's the live-action that bugs me. Plus I saw it in a skeevy theater, packed to the gills with summer camp kids (hell, I was one of those kids, but one who thought that movie-going was a special occasion not a playground), during a hot, hot summer so that may color my opinion. I mean, it should be great! Chuck Jones did the animation, it's got Mel Blanc, June Foray and Daws Butler doing the voices. Maybe it's my unholy hatred of Butch Patrick that makes me dislike this movie.
ita, it's funny that you are reading PT, as I just handed it to my son to read. He just finished Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach. He's on a kid classic book roll!
Feh to your mehs, I say! I love that movie to pieces -- I think I saw it at exactly the right age though. I don't know that I'd recommend it to an adult (unless they had kids to show it to).
It's probably just my unholy hatred of Butch Patrick (he threw a lit sparkler at me one 4th of July for no reason, I was just 11 or 12!)
I want a mixed media version of it, and I want it NOW.
Meh. Completely different animation style than the Jules Feiffer illustrations, which probably does not bug anyone but me, but it bugged me a lot.
No, I'm with you. Feiffer's Tollbooth is my Tollbooth and that's that. It was my favorite book as a child and will always be a favorite, but I doubt I could enjoy a film depicted as you describe.
Never heard the term "Janus word" before, but it's a keeper.
I read "resigned for" as "resigned to" and thought it was unusually un-political for Mr. Oldman to say something like that.
V is being majorly advertised here, which is unusual. Not even Star Wars 3 got any adverts, but there are billboards everywhere, and floor stickers in Metro stations, and stuff, for V. Can't wait to see it - a friend who's never read the book has not stopped messaging me about the movie. He was totally blown away.
It was okay. As JZ notes the animation wasn't Feifferesque enough. But there was a dearth of animated movies back then anyway, so I was glad to have it.
As much as I love Chuck Jones, he was definitely a better fit with Ted Geisel than with Feiffer.
Jackson's Farce Spoofs Penguins
ThinkFilm has set a late-summer release for Farce of the Penguins, a parody of the documentary March of the Penguins to be narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, Variety reported. Bob Saget is producing with David Permut.
Saget wrote the script and is directing a feature that transforms the documentary's depiction of penguin survival and mating rituals into the story of one bird's search for love while on a 70-mile trek with hedonistic buddies obsessed with getting laid, the trade paper reported.
Saget voices the lovestruck penguin protagonist; Lewis Black, Mo'Nique and Tracy Morgan the other leads. Supporting roles will be voiced by Jason Alexander, James Belushi, Jason Biggs, Dane Cook, Harvey Fierstein, Whoopi Goldberg, Gilbert Gottfried, Norm Macdonald, Carlos Mencia, Alyson Hannigan, Jamie Kennedy, Jon Lovitz, Adam Duritz and Saget's Full House co-stars John Stamos and Dave Coulier, among others.
Penguins on an Ice Cap?