Quick comments!
Cars
is definitely the worst Pixar movie. It's actually kind of BORING, and the main character is insufferable for half the movie.
Lilo and Stitch
is awesome. "Oh, good, my dog found the chainsaw."
Emperor's New Groove
is also awesome. "Llama faaaaaace."
If I were to make a list, I would fail and just throw things at people. Except
Ice Age
would not be anywhere on it. Sorry, I cannot deal with prehistoric humans who shave and wear jewelry and have modern family social structures. Also, the movie had approximately two funny jokes. I will admit that the Skratt scenes were the best thing about the movie.
It's a rare film that makes a reviewer consider giving up the movies altogether.
Remember when Siskel & Ebert reviewed that Tony Danza movie She's Outta Control and Gene's response was "Maybe I'll just quit"?
"...Jessica Alba... is to acting what Dame Judi Dench is to sex..."
Regardless of people's opinions of her attractiveness, I would at least imagine that Dame Judi Dench knows how to have sex.
(Not that Prince of Egypt was going to make my list.)
I'll give 'em credit for one thing, though. The Angel of Death from that 10th Plague sequence was way creepier than even the Devil from "Night on Bald Mountain."
That Trix rabbit still needed to just start shanking some kids, though.
What he needed to do was sick that cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs bird on the damn kids and eat himself some cereal while it was freaking out and making them run for their lives.
That Trix rabbit still needed to just start shanking some kids, though.
Read "Breakfast Cereal of the Gods". No actual shanking of kids, but if you read along through book 2 ....
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Okay, WALL*E just jumped to the top of my list. It's indescribably wonderful. I want to see it again right away. The robot characters are AWESOME. They're so well-developed and funny and cute and real and OMGILOVEROBOTS. I spent the entire movie with my hands clasped in front of my face in a 90-minute long silent squee. (Except for the sad/scary parts where my hands were clasped in front of my face because I was so worried something bad might happen to one of the robots. I cried more than once.)
The WALL*E/EVE love story is basically Crichton/Aeryn, if Crichton were a DRD. It's THAT AWESOME.
The humans, whatever. Don't care so much about their story, and it's nowhere near as well told. I mean, it's fine, but it's hard to care about a bunch of useless humans when there's a faulty robot beach umbrella to pay attention to, you know?
The WALL*E/EVE love story is basically Crichton/Aeryn,
Heh. Well my friend at Pixar did say that EVE totally rocked.
The WALL*E/EVE love story is basically Crichton/Aeryn, if Crichton were a DRD. It's THAT AWESOME.
That may be the awesomest thing I've ever heard.
Actually.... possibly just the second awesomest thing ever, but that's only because I heard a pretty awesome thing the other day.
Heh. So S put on
Flower Drum Song
on TCM. I'd never seen before.
And who should I see on my screen as the handsome young asian leading man? James Shigeta,
Die Hard's
Joseph Takagi! Okay possibly cool to just me, but it made me instantly like Flower Drum Song, which already has lots good going for it.
Oh, and the short is fantastic this time around too. I don't think I've enjoyed a Pixar short this much since the original Luxor Jr one.
