Movie Reviews catch-up

[yesthattom]

King Kong: Long, an hour of fight scenes. Total eye-candy crap. Though, Jack Black demonstrates he can do a role without being "the wacky guy".

Munich: Awesome.

The Producers: LOVED IT. I now feel like I have had the entire $300/ticket experience of broadway, but I didn't have to drive into NYC.

Fun With Dick and Jane: Oh ouch. It was "ok" but not very edgy. As if they had too many committee members watering it down. If you really love the actors, go see it.

Comments

[qnetter]

Sorry, but you so *didn't* have the whole $300 ticket experience. It was better than I'd feared and heard -- more than just a static filming of the stage experience -- but not really a great movie musical or a great movie of the musical.

Nathan Lane's mug-for-the-balconies performance seemed atrociously over the top to me on film, and simultaneously too derivative of Zero Mostel's -- someone should have spanked him when he combed his hair in the waking-up-on-the-couch bit to look like Zero's garish combover. (While, curiously, Matthew Broderick's performance took on the dimensions of the classic silent-movie comedians and was 10x better on screen as on stage).

And Stroman's very stagey choreography was too small by far on the screen -- except when she wrecked it by opening it up excessively, for "Little Old Lady Land."

[mg4h.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen the movie yet, but gootmu and I got front-row seats to the opening of the touring production here in Pittsburgh. I even got flirted with ;) It was awesome.