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Matilda has seen both the Muppets (with JZ) and Hugo (with me) this weekend.
I really enjoyed Hugo, but it probably helps that we actually own a disc of Melies films and have watched them more than once. It's pretty much a big Scosese valentine to Melies with more gears than a Steampunk convention.
I saw it in 3-D but it wasn't necessary. Some nice effects but it was no Coraline in that respect. OTOH, Matilda wore her 3D glasses all day and looked pretty boho chic in them.
I liked The Muppets, but I admit I didn't adore it. It did seem to sag a bit in the second third, and I felt some second-hand embarrassment for Chris Cooper in the rap sequence.
Still, I enjoyed it and all the throwaway references. I loved that Sweetums went running after them just like in the first movie. And wasn't that Christopher Walken walking into the theater near the end?
And they didn't sing my favorite part of "Rainbow Connection", which is the bit where they go, "Life's like a movie/write your own ending/keep believing/keep pretending/we've done just what we set out to do..."
Still, it was fun, and most of the voices were mostly right.
BetweenThe Muppets, Hugo, and The Artist, it's nostalgia week at the movies.
I saw Breaking Dawn this weekend. If you're in it for the emergency teeth section, you will be disappointed; if you're there for emotional pedophilia, it's brief, but blatant that and the rough sex (my man can't help it!) apologia, you're in the right place.
I really really dislike the franchise and its elevation in some people's eyes. it's womangirl as willing chattel and...
I can't even...
Damn, I was hoping for emergency teeth.
I completely disagree about Hugo in 3D. I think it's the third movie I've ever seen that is absolutely worthy of the technology, the others being Avatar and Coraline. I felt like the 3D really added to the movie. Which is wonderful.
I was bummed they skipped that part of the song in The Muppets, too, Consuela. But it was so much fun anyway -- Sara absolutely loved it.
um, no emergency teef?
They ain't getting my $$.
most of the voices were mostly right.
The voices were the major element that kept me from really loving the movie - without Henson and Oz, none of the main cast sound like themselves any more. There's a part of me deep down that views the post-Henson Kermit as an impostor, and I just can't suspend my disbelief fully enough to enjoy him. My Kermit died when Jim Henson did, and you will never convince my lizard brain otherwise.
I didn't have a hard time with Kermit, but Fozzie was really off to me a lot of the time.