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2012
Director Roland Emmerich has become this generations Irwin Allen. Where Emmerich has given us Independence Day, Godzilla and The Day After Tomorrow, Allen gave us The Towering Inferno, Flood! and Fire!. (If only he had made Fire! first…the Flood! could have put it out.) Emmerich has made a cottage industry out of destroying cities and countries. In his latest “epic”, he raises the stakes by giving us what amounts to a planetary snuff film. The Mayan calendar has predicted that the world will end in the year 2012. As the film opens, those predictions appear to be coming true as the Earth’s core is heating up while the Sun is throwing off high amounts of radiation. If there’s a greater reason than that, I couldn’t make it out amongst all the pseudo-scientific gibberish. But who are we kidding? A movie like 2012 is more akin to an “adult film”. We’re not here for the story, just get to the money shot.
Read the full review here.
Where the Wild Things Are
Director Spike Jonze has been tasked the unenviable undertaking of adapting Where the Wild Things Are, one of the most beloved children’s books of all time. The book, for those of you unfamiliar, is about a boy named Max (Max Records) who, after being sent to his room for misbehaving, escapes his punishment by creating a wild world of monsters and adventure within his mind. It’s beautifully illustrated and, for a filmmaker, frighteningly short. Clocking in at a mere 10 sentences, it doesn’t give Jonze much to work with but he finds in roads by expanding Max’s back story. The book revealed only that Max had a mother. In the film we discover that Max’s mother (Catherine Keener) is divorced and attempting to date again. His sister Claire (Pepita Emmerichs) is a teenager and, as such, not concerned with the world of little boys.
Read the full review here.
Ponyo
Hayao Miyazaki is often called the “Walt Disney of Japan”, though he hates that moniker. His films are synonymous with Japanese Animation, having created such works as Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Kiki's Delivery Service, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle. His films were out-of-print for years in the United States, due to a poorly dubbed and even more poorly edited version of Nausicaa. After seeing the hatchet job done to his film, he refused to allow U.S. distribution. However, Walt Disney Studios was able to secure a distribution deal with Miyazaki by agreeing to his strict demands regarding translations and editing. His latest release, Ponyo, is the story of a fish (Ponyo) that desperately wants to become a human girl (Ponyo-cchio?) and ends up befriending a human boy named Sōsuke. The Disney name, combined with the Miyazaki pedigree, has assembled a star-studded voice cast including: Cate Blanchett, Matt Damon, Tina Fey, Frankie Jonas, Cloris Leachman, Liam Neeson, Lily Tomlin and Betty White.
Read the full review here.
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