Just wanted to bump this thread after seeing the movie last weekend – it was really, really fun! The visuals were great, I was surprised by how sharp the writing was, and there were a ton of laugh-out-loud moments (it had a great handle on balancing adult humor with kid humor the way Pixar does).
Plus, y’know, Neil Patrick Harris and Mr. T. And James Caan. And Bill Hader and Anna Faris.
Good stuff.
Now that it’s out on DVD, I’m curious - in the 3D theater trailer, it looked like one of those movie’s that’d be really irritating in 2D, with all the things obviously shot for 3D effects. This really bugged me all throughout watching Journey to the Center of the Earth when it came on HBO. It takes work to intergrate that successfully into a movie - Coraline and Up both did it beautifully. Now that you’ve seen it on DVD, is it an issue? Cuz if it is, I’ll just wait for it to show up on the premium channels.
I’ve never seen it in 3D but 50 bujillion times in 2D. I’ve never noticed it being all that bad. As far as I can tell, the 3D is more foreground/background than things flying out of the screen at you. My 2.5 year old son loves this move and would watch it non-stop if he could. It is definitely entertaining and enjoyable. I think I can recite the whole movie. Or if I miss a line, my wife fills in.
“Steve!” “Excited!” “Gummi Bears!”
I liked the movie, and was quite surprised at how good Mr T’s performance was.
Mr. T is always awesome.
“This contact lens represents you! And my eye represents my eye! I got my eye on you, Flint Lock-WOOD!”
This was a really funny movie. Kids movies are invariably much more funny than actual “comedies”, imo.
I had a problem with the main character though. Wasn’t he a pretty terrible human being? He got the food generator into yellow in order to impress that girl. He got it into red in order to be liked. Then when it goes awry, he just sits and mopes, instead of trying to prevent all the disasters he himself caused. Play up the father issues and the scale of his inventions just a tad, and he could just as well have been a villain.