I liked Steve Zizou and the Life Aquatic it had some great moments and some slow moments. But overall, a thumbs up for a mockumentary-ish farcicle flick. The whole kidnap-rescue on the high seas thing was funny.
Shark Tales just failed to even hold my attention or my kids. The story line was too adult for kids and too desperate to make a Godfather of the Fishes connection without realizing that that kind of thematic is not going to work with your target demographic, you know, children.
Madagascar was seriously bad in a way of a lack of enthusiam for the story line, the characters were shit in the blandest way and the worst of it all were the voices. Just because someone is a celebrity does not mean they are automatically qualified to do voice over work. Every time I hear this movie, I want to send hate mail to Chris Rock, Ben Stiller, Jada Pinkett Smith and David Schwimmer. I was hoping all of them would end up getting tagged by Marlin Perkins just to end my misery.
[spoiler]It turns out it was aliens all along conducting experiments about the paranormal/psychological link between moher (occasionally father) and their child. They’d take their kids and slowly convince them that they were crazy, going to elaborate lengths. The gummint was in on it, of course. It worked on everybody except that one mother, who finally met the lead alien scientist conducting that experiment at the end.
It turns out he was a rogue with a wild theory who wanted funding for his research, but the aliens were going to pull the plug on the whole thing unless his theory was right (he wasn’t).
Everytime someone found out about the scheme there’d be a loud noise and they would be sucked up into the sky, like abduction only with a supposed twist. The same thing happened to the head alien at the climax.
I think the point where the movie lets itself known that it’s a piece of schlock is when the mother is hiding out in a hotel with the father of another vanished girl and the camera looks at her undressing to get into bed, but really it’s just an excuse to get Julianne Moore into a thong shot. :dubious:[/spoiler]
I liked Steve Zissou and the Life Aquatic though not quite as much as Wes Anderson’s pervious movies.
I couldn’t stay awake though Anchorman though some of the jokes may have been funnier if I was drunk.
Biodome has whiskers but since somone mentioned it. A shitefest from an objective POV but I didn’t objectivity as I saw it opening night in a 1/4 full theater with some people from work. Oh, we all worked at Biosphere 2. At least four were people who lived inside as the second crew. We were the only ones laughing but not at any of the sorry ass jokes. We figured they must have had someone on the inside help with the script because there were too many characterizations and inside jokes that no one else would get.