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Week of June 10, 2016
The safest place for hunting wild animals
is the zoo. First up…
Zootopia
No one has a problem with all-animal
metropolises as long as citizens always remember to pick their pet human’s poop
up.
Mind you, there aren’t many squatting
Caucasians in this animated-adventure.
Believing you can be anything you want to
be, no matter your genetic disposition, Judy (Ginnifer Goodwin) forgoes carrot
farming for police work in the big city.
But instead of protecting the populace,
Judy’s issuing parking tickets because her buffalo boss (Idris Elba) doesn’t
think rabbits can be cops.
To prove she’s more than her genus, she
pairs with her species sworn enemy, a street-wise fox (Jason Bateman), to solve
a rash of unsolved missing mammal cases.
Ingenuously devised, strikingly rendered
and wholly hilarious, this anthropomorphic whodunit has all the earmarks of
classic Disney but with a modern message on diversity and tolerance.
Furthermore, contrary to popular belief,
the worst drivers on Zootopian roadways are not always female pandas. Green Light
Anomalisa
Stop-motion animation is arduous on
voice-actors because they can only say their lines in very small increments.
Fortunately, like with this stop-motion
dramedy, it all comes together in post-production.
While on a book tour to Cincinnati,
unhappily married self-help author Michael (David Thewlis) meets an old flame
for a drink in his hotel. When that doesn’t pan out he flirts with an insecure
groupie Lisa (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and takes her back to his room.
Inspired by a fevered-dream, he suggests
they run away together. But her annoying idiosyncrasies and his increasing
anxiety towards society may end their elopement before it begins.
A surreal, yet substantial, look at a
mid-life crisis through the meticulous method of stop-motion animation,
esoteric writer-director Charlie Kaufman brings his awkward insight and doleful
humor to this Herculean effort with unprecedented and depressing results.
But at least this Claymation mid-life
crisis has a lower body count than the California Raisins'. Yellow Light
Hail, Caesar!
Disgracefully, in the 1950s only white
actors were cast for communist roles in Hollywood movies.
Fortunately, this comedy offers some
enlightenment on the cultural insensitivity of “Redface”.
Employed by Capitol Pictures to protect
their stars from public scandal, Mannix (Josh Brolin) faces an array of
back-lot indignities, including: a pregnant starlet (Scarlett Johansson), an
inept heartthrob (Alden Ehrenreich), twin sister gossip columnists (Tilda
Swinton) and a leading man (George Clooney) who has been shanghaied by
communists within the studio (Channing Tatum, Fisher Stevens).
The Coen Brothers’ ambitious but aimless
attempt at lampooning the low-end genre pictures of post-war Hollywood and the
escalating red menace therein, Hail Caesar does have some noteworthy odes to
old Hollywood. Unfortunately, they never coalesce with the larger story, which
seriously lacks the siblings’ eccentric brand of humor.
Besides, the best way to catch commie
actors is to stakeout the pot of borscht at craft services. Red Light
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
The best part about the US embassy is that
you don’t have to remove your footwear when you invade it.
Mind you, the Islamic militants in this
true story don’t seem to care either way.
On the 11th anniversary of the 9/11
attacks, contract soldiers (John Krasinski, James Badge Dale, Dominic Fumusa)
working in Benghazi must protect the US Ambassador to Libya (Matt Letscher) and
the embassy from hoards of angry rebels.
But as their defenses fall and their
supplies deplete, these former Navy SEALs must prepare for the inevitable.
The dramatic retelling of the 2012 events
that inspired the bestselling book on the anniversary attacks, 13 Hours is a
surprisingly humane story from the usually bombastic Michael Bay. Not to say,
that it isn’t draped in patriotic pap.
However, honouring the anniversary of the
11th anniversary 9/11 attacks on the anniversary of the actual 9/11 attacks
could get confusing. Yellow Light
***Stop-Motion Detector***
The Wind in the Willows
If animals did have human qualities, humans
would have gone to war with the cows years ago.
Fortunately, none of the anthropomorphic
fauna in this animated movie are edible.
Suffering from spring fever, Mole (Richard
Pearson) emerges from his subterranean home. During his constitutional he
encounters his woodland colleagues Rat (Ian Carmichael) and Badger (Michael
Hordern). Together, they arrange a picnic, followed by a visit to Toad Hall.
The latter, however, proves a wild ride as
the lead footed Mr. Toad (David Jason) takes the trio on a whirlwind tour of
the countryside in his roadster, which lands Toad in hot water.
Featuring an unforgettable Mr. Toad
performance and finely detailed characters that are masterful manipulated, this
brilliant stop-motion BBC adaptation of the misadventures of upper-crusty
critters is now a classic in its own right.
More impressive is that foxhunting dogs
haven’t torn any of these beloved characters to shreds.
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