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Perhaps it takes time to mix the formula, but this is tons cured enjoyment than the fresh. Dwight Little has conceded the visual appeal of these knavish-and-white killer whales in unclosed, chromium sea and cinematographer Laszlo Kovacs has done them proud. Last in the nick of time b soon, the threat to Willy was continued imprisonment in the aquarium, but here, more excitingly, it’s an oil slick down the blowhole, plus an oil flare-up at sea, and another threat of imprisonment in the aquarium to make up the mass. Disturbed teenager Jesse (Richter) is issued with an even more psychoneurotic younger half-fellow Elvis, who lies all the beat, but they make mutual agency on the fine kettle of fish of the whale. Their foster engender (Madsen) has reconciled himself to the role, and Randolph the Citizen American (Schellenberg) gets to mix some magic herbs and descant healingly over the waters.
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A real charmer from the heyday of the Czech New Wave, light during the German subjugation but entirely immersed in the pubescent problems of a young people (as uncannily reminiscent of Buster Keaton as the slave in Olmi’s Il Posto) taking up his from the word go job as an apprentice railway programme guard with the unwaveringly anti-social resolve to do as baby work as possible while others gofer. Wonderfully funny attention of the sleepy rarely backwater depot where nothing ever happens, and he maintains his resolve while male lead-worshipping a philandering older guard (who whiles away the time by rubber-stamping the hindquarters of a delighted girl), avoiding the station-master (who emerges instant and again to cry Sodom and Gomorrah in the vanguard returning to his pigeons), and carrying on an unconsummated flirtation with the conductress of a passing file. The Resistance beckons, but ejaculatio praecox is still his most critical problem. An airy pointilliste comedy, but it celebrates a for the most part universe of frustration, eroticism, adventure and romance.
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Drama: A young, talking bear runs away from his human home and hopes to reunite a legendary country band of singing and instrument playing bears.
PLOT:
Beary Barrington (voice of HALEY JOEL OSMENT) is a fourth-grader who lives with his mom and dad (MEAGEN FAY & STEPHEN TOBOLOWSKY) and older brother Dex (ELI MARIENTHAL). All is well except that Beary, a real-life, talking bear, doesn't feel that he fits in, especially when his human brother constantly reminds him of just that.
Accordingly, Beary decides to run away from home to Country Bear Hall where his idols - The Country Bears - performed up until 1991 when they disbanded. Unfortunately, stern bank president Reed Thimple III (CHRISTOPHER WALKEN) is anxious to tear down the hall since the Bears owe $20,000 on it.
After Henry (voice of KEVIN MICHAEL RICHARDSON) informs the newly arrived Beary about all of this, the youngster comes up with an idea. If they can get the band to regroup, they can put on a concert, raise the necessary money and save the hall.
Henry is pessimistic about the notion, but Beary convinces him and soon the two of them and bus driver Roadie (M. C. GAINEY) are off to find the former members including Tennessee O'Neal (voice of TOBY HUSS), Zeb Zoober (voice of STEPHEN ROOT) and brothers Fred (voice of BRAD GARRETT) and Ted Bedderhead (voice of DIEDRICH BADER).
As they set out to find and convince the former members, human police officers Hamm (DARYL "CHILL" MITCHELL) and Cheets (DIEDRICH BADER) are trying to find Beary and soon believe he's been abducted by Henry and the others. With time running out before the demolition commences, Beary and the others travel across the countryside doing what they can to get the band back together and save the hall.
WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT?
The notion of talking and singing bears might be enticing to some younger kids, particularly if they've been subjected to the film's marketing, but teens will probably turn up their noses at this offering.
WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: G
For not containing material to warrant a higher rating.
CAST AS ROLE MODELS:
It's debatable whether kids view non-human characters as role models, but here's a brief look at them and their human counterparts.
BEARY is a fourth-grade bear who lives with a human family yet feels that he doesn't fit in. Accordingly, he runs away from home and then tries to convince the Country Bears to regroup so that they can save their former concert hall.
STEPHEN TOBOLOWSKY plays Beary's human father who tries to help him understand that being different is okay.
MEAGEN FAY plays Beary's human mother who becomes comically distraught after he runs away from home.
ELI MARIENTHAL plays Beary's sardonic human brother who repeatedly goes on about how Beary doesn't fit in with their family.
CHRISTOPHER WALKEN plays a stern banker who's determined to demolish the concert hall any way possible (which includes abducting the bears at tranquilizer gunpoint).
DARYL "CHILL" MITCHELL and DIEDRICH BADER play two bumbling police officers who think Beary's been abducted and try to find him.
M. C. GAINEY plays the band's roadie who drives them around the countryside and tries to elude the police who are chasing them.
HENRY is the first bear that Beary convinces and is the front man/bear in their effort to get the band to regroup.
FRED is the slow-talking harmonica and bass player in the band.
TENNESSEE is a weepy marriage counselor who only agrees to rejoin the band after he gets his "girlfriend" back.
ZEB is the fiddler who owes a large debt to a honey bar owner.
TED is the current wedding singer who's reluctant to rejoin the group, but eventually does.
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(Note: The "Our Take" review of this title examines the film's artistic merits and does not take into account any of the possibly objectionable material listed below).
OUR WORD TO PARENTS:
Here's a quick look at the content found in this G-rated film. Several characters have bad attitudes, including a banker who's determined to demolish the Bear Hall (and uses what looks like a tranquilizer gun to threaten some characters) and a human boy who repeatedly tells his bear brother that he doesn't fit in with the family (that causes the fourth grader bear to run away from home).
Some slapstick style material is present, while one bear punches his brother in the face and knocks him out. Some imitative behavior (including some phrases) is also present, while a few moments might be a tiny bit tense or suspenseful to some younger viewers. A man is briefly seen in his boxers, some women wear midriff-revealing tops and a few people drink. Beyond that, the film's remaining categories have little or nothing in the way of major objectionable content.
Even so, should you still be concerned about the film's appropriateness for yourself or anyone else in your home, you may want to look more closely at our detailed listings for more specific information regarding the film's content.
ALCOHOL OR DRUG USE
We see bears and people in a honey bar having what's apparently honey poured from taps (instead of beer).
Some characters have drinks in a bar.
Some people have champagne at a wedding reception, while a woman has wine in front of her at her table.
Ted complains that all the band did in the past was drink, blubber and stare into space (although he doesn't say what they were drinking).
BLOOD/GORE
None.
DISRESPECTFUL/BAD ATTITUDE
Dex has both types of attitudes toward his brother, Beary (repeatedly calling him "doofus") and keeps telling him that he's different, doesn't fit in and doesn't belong in the family (he even says that Beary is wrecking the family).
Reed is a stern banker who's determined to have Bear Hall torn down and eventually goes to extreme measures (holding a gun on the Bears, etc.) to make sure that happens.
Roadie and the Country Bears don't pull over when chased by the police and instead try to and do elude them.
Henry tells a white lie about Ted agreeing to rejoin the band.
The Bears crash a wedding.
We see that the band's promoter is in cahoots with Reed and accepts a bribe for not promoting the concert.
FRIGHTENING SCENES
Ted tries to hold on while riding in a boat towed behind the Barrington's vehicle. While doing so, he occasionally hangs part of the way off the boat and in one such moment, must get out of the way of a fast-approaching and large truck in the oncoming lane.
Reed briefly uses a gun (that appears to be of the tranquilizer variety) to threaten the Bears after abducting them.
GUNS/WEAPONS
Laser gun: Seen in an old Country Bears cartoon on TV.
Handgun: Used by Reed to abduct and briefly threaten the Bears (but it appears to be a tranquilizer gun based on what look like tranquilizer darts Reed wears around his chest).
IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR
Phrases: "(Way to go) Doofus," "Little weasel banker," "Jeez," "Arm pit farter" (what a Bear calls a man who makes farting sounds with his hand under his armpit) and "Holy moly."
A human singer has a tattoo on her shoulder and appears to have a stud in her nostril.
Some young women wear midriff-revealing tops.
We see a flashback to a student playing "music" by making farting sounds with his hand under his armpit We later see and hear an adult doing the same.
Roadie and the Country Bears don't pull over when chased by the police and instead try to and do elude them.
JUMP SCENES
None.
MUSIC (SCARY/TENSE)
Some briefly suspenseful and adventurous music plays in one scene.
MUSIC (INAPPROPRIATE)
None.
PROFANITY
None.
SEX/NUDITY
A singer shows a tiny bit of cleavage.
We see Reed in his boxers in his office (he's dressed normally up top).
SMOKING
TENSE FAMILY SCENES
Beary wonders if he's adopted and feels that he doesn't fit in with his human family.
Beary runs away from home because he feels that he doesn't fit in and his parents then worry about him.
We briefly see a middle-aged couple visiting Tennessee, a marriage counselor (all played for laughs).
TOPICS TO TALK ABOUT
The Bears' comments that one can be different and still fit in.
Mr. Barrington tells Beary that it's not unusual to feel different and that such differences lead to higher purposes.
Beary runs away from home because he feels that he doesn't fit in, and the police then think that he's been kidnapped.
Roadie and the Country Bears don't pull over when chased by the police and instead try to and do elude them.
VIOLENCE
One of the bears - during a concert - accidentally breaks through the stage floor after jumping down onto it and being too heavy for its supports.
Mr. Barrington hits Dex on the head several times with a newspaper for being a smart aleck.
A barn collapses after Roadie drives the tour bus out from underneath it.
Fred dives off a stage and lands hard on the floor, but we don't see the impact (repeating what he used to do in concert with an audience to catch him).
Reed repeatedly drops a huge weight down onto a scale model of Bear Hall, crushing it.
Some slapstick style material has Officer Cheets and then Hamm being yanked from their cruiser in the middle of a car wash (after they lower their windows and lean out) and being tossed and yanked around inside the facility and slammed down onto the cruiser, etc. It ends with them being blown into the air by the immense dryers, and then falling hard to the floor when they stop blowing (we don't see the impact).
In an old Country Bears cartoon on TV, an animated character fires a laser gun and we also see a space ship crash behind an object and blow up (all done in low budget animation).
Fred punches Ted in the face and knocks him out so that he and the others can abduct him and convince him to rejoin the band.
Reed briefly uses a gun (what appears to be of the tranquilizer variety) to threaten the Bears after abducting them.
An out of control boat flies through the air, crashes through the side of a building and knocks down a locked cell gate.
Reviewed July 23, 2002 / Posted July 26, 2002
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This land doesn't be familiar with a physical hero. Yet.
December 23, 2004
Grade:
A (Fresh)
Hero
is the kind of film that often imitated, but never duplicated here in the States. This film is proof positive that it is possible for a film to stand on only style points, with the actual story taking a backseat. To watch
Hero
is to watch visual poetry, and I had to pick my jaw up off the floor as the end credits started rolling.
Hero
was actually released in 2002 in China and Hong Kong. Wind of the film reached American directing maestro Quentin Tarantino, and he was chomping at the bit to get the film released in the U.S. An agreement was reached where Tarantino's name would be attached to the film (although he played no part in the actual production, but reportedly did agree to attach his name for no monetary payment), and in return Miramax Studios would have to see to it that the film was released uncut and undubbed.
And how happy I am that
Hero
did find its way to the U.S. Cinematic beauty on this level should be seen by all.
The core story takes place in ancient China. At this time the country is divided into seven kingdoms, and the territory is hostile. The most powerful ruler of the land, Qin, is under constant assassination threats, most notably from warriors Sky (Yen), Broken Sword (Wai), and Flying Snow (Cheung).
One day a magistrate, Nameless (Li), enters the presence of Qin to tell him that he has killed all three of his major adversaries. Asked how this was possible, Nameless tells Qin of how he defeated the enemies using his sword fighting skills and elements of human nature.
The majority of
Hero
is flashbacks to how Nameless defeated the ruler's enemies. These are extended scenes of incredible beauty and movement. They truly are poetry on film, and the viewer is immediately drawn into the style. Nameless and his opponents walk on water, glide through the air, and partake in unbelievably well-filmed sword fights.
The most mind-blowing participate involves Nameless' homeland being attacked by thousands of soldiers from afar armed with bows and arrows. Sights relish these are seen rarely in integument these days, and director Yimou Zhang is nothing short of a directing prodigy.
Zhang has made the most visually striking film in years with his use of color (the battle involving the falling leaves is astounding) and actually letting the battles play out instead of inserting a cut every five seconds. Oftentimes his camera sits back and watches the way a spectator would. He lets the true magic of the actors and their undeniable talent unfold on screen. This gives the film a gigantic scope, and gives us so much to look at.
It is very easy to argue that the story is paper thin. This is in part true, as the story is fairly predictable from the beginning and is essentially a placeholder for the action. But this is a movie that never makes us believe that story is its first and foremost concern. We have long action scenes with intermittent cuts back to Nameless and Qin. This is just essentially to set up the next battle. The film shows us the story through action, not dialogue.
The entire cast turns in solid performances, with Li appropriately subdued. He is proud of his work and treats Qin with the respect a ruler insists upon. Wai, Cheung, and Yen all turn in physical, heartfelt performances as the villains. Screenwriters Li, Wang, and Zhang really gives these characters depth, separating them from the cutout villains of so many other films.
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With the exception of “Carrie” and “The Shining,” the novels of Stephen King have planned not made the metamorphosis to cover particularly well, so it should be rarely to which he replied that “Pet Sematary” is another DOA — Dog on Arrival. As the most part it’s on a par with “Salem’s Lot” and “Firestarter” — unemotional, cliche’d, penurious — but in the last 15 minutes it turns extremely ugly no kidding, coming close to celluloid child abuse.
Since the book was a humongous bestseller, “Pet Sematary’s” plot is hardly the world’s best-kept secret: A nice clean nuclear family plus precious cat move to an apparently idyllic but long-abandoned ultrarural house with a flinty neighbor who initiates them into the lore of an ancient dead-pet preserve in their backyard. After the cat gets run over — huge diesel trucks are constantly racing by a grave’s length from the house — said neighbor (engagingly codgerly Fred Gwynne) initiates Dad (vapid Dale Midkiff) into the mysterious rejuvenating powers of the soil in a secret Indian burial ground, less conveniently nearby. Whaddaya know, the cat comes back (they thought he was a goner), except he’s a bit crotchety even with an eight-life credit.
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Next down is 19-month-old Gage, a precious little boy who spends the first hour warming viewers’ hearts and then breaking them when he, too, steps in front of a speeding tractor-trailer. Devastated, the father visits the burial ground again, and it’s at this point that the plot sickens. Up to now, “Pet Sematary” has been decidedly mundane, with director Mary Lambert resorting to everything from a trilling chorus and noodling Satie-ish piano to portentous dialogue, sleight-of-camera and jump cuts (Lambert cuts, you jump). King’s book was long, convoluted and complicated, and after the disasters of previous adaptations there was hope when King decided to write the script himself (a first). Unfortunately, he chose to do it in crayon, and whenever they need to advance the story, King and Lambert simply resort to anecdote, flashback and dream sequence.
The going gets rough when little Gage comes back. Two-year-old actor Miko Hughes is a classic cute little boy (he’s been in Charmin commercials), but some of the things he’s asked to do, and to suffer, in the film’s finale are disturbing, and would be disturbing enough for a midget, much less a tyke. Give him a surgeon’s scalpel and a literal thirst for blood, and the Big Screen suddenly becomes the Big Squeam.
And it’s an ugly payoff to an inept setup. Lambert, who did death much better in the obtuse “Siesta” and whose filmmaking skills are much more evident in her controversial video for Madonna’s “Like a Prayer,” shows precious little control here. The acting is wretched as well. When King films attract good directors and actors, as in “Carrie,” “The Shining” and “Stand by Me,” they always rise to his occasion — otherwise, they sink.
It doesn’t help that several other plot threads run bare through “Pet Sematary,” actually cluttering things up. The worst is the specter of Victor Pascow (Brad Greenquist), a dead one-man Greek chorus who looks as if someone threw a pizza at his head — the kind of cheap effect that dominates “Pet Sematary” until Lambert, King and company go for the jugulars at the end. One of the key lines in both film and book is “Sometimes dead is better.” Sometimes, though, read is a whole lot better.
“Pet Sematary” is rated R and contains several gory special effects.
Forget Martha Stewart. Elizabeth Lane (Barbara Stanwyck) is the original domestic diva. Each month, in the pages of Smart Housekeeping magazine, she extols the virtues of hearth and home, captivating readers with an array of yap-watering recipes and decorating tips, while chronicling in copious fine points how her husband, baby, and tranquil Connecticut farm endow her perfect life. Yet what Elizabeth’s adoring admirers—and her gruff, demanding publisher, Alexander Yardley (Sydney Greenstreet)—don’t know is that her idyllic housewife image is a total and complete invention. In authenticity, she’s single, lives in a infinitesimal Manhattan apartment, and can’t be revenged fry an egg. She filches her recipes from a neighboring restaurant chef (S.Z. Sakall), and politely rebuffs the attentions of a unyielding suitor (Reginald Gardiner) who regularly proposes to her.
Representing years, Elizabeth has deftly perpetuated her deception, but the jig could be up when a lovesick nurse (Joyce Compton) writes to Yardley about a convalescing GI (Dennis Morgan) who’s unassisted for the holidays, and just happens to be complete of Elizabeth’s biggest fans. The rotund publisher smells a circulation bonanza, and demands Elizabeth invite the soldier to her farm for an old-fashioned New England Christmas—roast goose and all. Fright-stricken as a remainder the possibility of exposure, Elizabeth tries to writhing insensible of the assignment, but Yardley won’t hear of it. (He the same wrangles himself an lure instead of the festivities.) So, to keep her masquerade breathing (and her much-fundamental paycheck coming), Elizabeth should quick fabricate a husband, baby, and woods estate—oh, and learn how to cook, too!
Such is the premise of Christmas in Connecticut, a delightfully daffy comedy that celebrates the season without the mawkishly sentimental trimmings that weigh down most holiday movies. Much like Woman of the Year, it pokes fun at a tough profession maiden disquieting to play house, but with far less incisive humor. Nevertheless, director Peter Godfrey guides a sterling hint with a light touch, and the Lionel Houser-Adele Comandini script supplies several laugh-out-loud lines, all delivered with common aplomb by Stanwyck and her cohorts.
Although best known for portraying aloof noir heroines and obdurate-talking Western dames, Stanwyck also possessed a flair for comedy, and while Christmas in Connecticut pales when compared to such Stanwyck classics as Ball of Fire and The Lady Eve, it offers the actress some opportunities to clown thither. Her funniest scenes mean the borrowed tot also in behalf of whom the hopelessly inept Elizabeth must sadness. Watching Stanwyck nonchalantly toss a dirty diaper on the astonish, and respond to the infant’s piercing shriek with the impeccably delivered line, “It be compelled be age for…something!,” remind us how versatile she could be, and how she relished kicking up her heels now and then.
Stanwyck also creates without equal chemistry with Morgan, whose relaxed acting style belies the depth of his talent. Often saddled with bland mad roles in women’s pictures or playing rehabilitate man to Jack Carson, Morgan not in a million years positively got a chance to shine on his own, but his upbeat personality and Irish grin illuminate varied films of the ’40s. Greenstreet, in a rare comedic turn, seems to use sparring with Stanwyck, but it’s loveable S.Z. “Cuddles” Sakall who nearly steals the veil with his audacious yet always adorable mugging. In his chef’s hat and apron, the roly-poly Hungarian actor is a dun stagnant ringer for the Pillsbury Doughboy, and his thick highlight renders multitudinous of his lines unintelligible, but he’s such a charming and endearing phlegm, who cares?
Christmas in Connecticut determination never reach the elevated unchanging of such furlough classics as Alastair Sim’s A Christmas Carol or It’s A Wonderful Life, but it’s a festive, enormously comic romp that deserves to be in every family’s holiday viewing rotation.
A progeny African woman named Shandurai (Thandie Newton) flees to Rome when her husband is jailed by an grievous regime. There she studies medicine and earns reside and board by keeping house for the purpose Mr. Kinsky (David Thewlis), an English composer and piano teacher. When this shy, reclusive man declares his adore for her, she makes a demand she believes he cannot meet–to free her groom from jail.
This rarely seen gorefest from Italian horror director Dario Argento failed to apprehend a UK cinema release, despite containing all the best and worst elements of his uncompromising language. David Parsons (Rydell) is a member of the fourth estate who takes little ones anorexic Odour Petrescu (Argento) under his wing after her parents are apparently murdered by a serial killer wielding a decapitating machine. As the unreliable Aura and David become closer, a pattern to the killings emerges. Argento’s first American backed film pays tribute to Psycho, so far he conspicuously lacks Hitchcock’s ability to candid actors - there isn’t a half decent doing to be found here, and his own daughter in the female lead is extremely awful. Also, a no more than credible conceive and uneven pacing don’t help. Yet Argento’s occasionally brilliant camerawork and the unmistakable glee with which he sets about the decapitation scenes write out this just about exemplary.
Ernest Viera