Mal ,'Shindig'
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Sucks to be Sharon Stone:
1. Ice Age: The Meltdown, $70.5 million
2. Inside Man, $15.7 million
3. ATL, $12.5 million
4. Failure to Launch, $6.6 million
5. V for Vendetta, $6.5 million
6. Stay Alive, $4.58 million
7. She's the Man, $4.57 million
8. Slither, $3.7 million
9. The Shaggy Dog, $3.5 million
10 (tie). Basic Instinct 2, $3.2 million
10 (tie). Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector, $3.2 million.
The strategy of having the actors sing the songs themselves is not optimal, but better than the alternative.
Ths is true. Although I do like to see vocal flexibility in actors, it's probably unreasonable to ask a tenor to hit bass notes (at least, without liquoring up significantly first). I can't think of a lot of successful voice-changes in actors, or I guess the ones that stand out in the mind are unsuccessful ones, like Tootsie.
I mean, it's intentionally unsuccessful, but who would be fooled by that??
Ice Age: The Meltdown, $70.5 million
This pains me, as I thought the first one was incredibly mediocre and terribly overrated.
This pains me, as I thought the first one was incredibly mediocre and terribly overrated.
I found the first one very meh, but just saw the second with Emmett yesterday and found it... well, really rather enjoyable. Way, way better than the first, and better than most non-Pixar computer animation films. I'm positive it will turn out to be infinitely better than the painfully unoriginal-looking Finding Nemo/Madagascar mashup that's coming next month, and the painfully unoriginal-looking wacky barnyard hijinks thing that'll be here sometime this summer.
The child-free may cheerfully scorn IA: The Meltdown, but when you're stuck with kid's movies or nothing, you gotta strain for whatever crumbs of comfort you can find.
Heh. Sharon Stone couldn't even beat Larry the large and hairy and unfunny Cable Guy.
In the event of Snakes on a Plane...
Haaaaa. Awesome. "Flailing will not save you. It won't even help."
really rather enjoyable
I will concur. I really did NOT like the first IA at all, but this one? It had a certain je ne sai quoi that was missing from the first. I'm thinking it was Queen Latifah or the fact that I haven't seen a movie that was rated higher than PG in almost a year.
but when you're stuck with kid's movies or nothing, you gotta strain for whatever crumbs of comfort you can find
nods
Interesting that so many people disliked the first Ice Age. Husband and I laughed and laughed. We have a sneaking affection for the skrat, though.
I didn't dislike it exactly, but it didn't much grab me. Also, I got irritated because it used two of the same pieces of music that Matilda did, and I started getting all misty and sentimental the minute they started playing, and then felt all manipulated and disgruntled. It wasn't awful overall, though, just meh.
This one I'll happily watch again.
It is perhaps a sign that our TV spends way too much time on Nickelodeon that when the end credits rolled I completely ignored all the bigger names and squeed, "Oooh, Emmett, look! Josh Peck!"