Thursday, March 1, 2012

Talking Pictures: 'The Lorax' | 'Undefeated' | 'Project X'

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'The Lorax' gets the look right, but Dr. Seuss book's heart gets short shrift ✭✭
'The Lorax' is close, but not quite Dr. Seuss ✭✭

The new animated feature "The Lorax,"known in its entirety as "Dr. Seuss' The Lorax" to keep it straight from "John Grisham's The Lorax," does a few smaller things right but the bigger things not quite. I've come to fear these movies. I love Seuss so much, even his second-shelf works. Who doesn't feel protective of authors and illustrators they love? And not just because we were young when we made their acquaintance.

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'Undefeated': A season with Manassas Tigers means much more than just football ✭✭✭✭ 'Undefeated' more than just football ✭✭✭✭

"Undefeated" presents itself as a look at a single season in the life of a striving high school football team.
'Project X' like 'The Hangover' for teens -- and just as sensitive ✭✭ 'Project X' like 'The Hangover' for teens ✭✭

"Project X" is the movie equivalent of that good-looking, well-off teenage boy your gut tells you to keep away from your teenage daughter.
'Tim & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie' adds screen time while subtracting laughs ✭ 'Tim & Eric' subtracts the laughs ✭

Proving less is definitely more, cult comics Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim torture their purposefully inept, short-form sketch work into feature length.
Oscar spoof was closer to 'Wizard of Oz' reality than parody Oscar spoof was closer to 'Oz' reality

Nostalgia and navel-gazing dominated the Academy Awards broadcast Sunday, including a spoof featuring "The Wizard of Oz."
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