Friday, January 17, 2014

Best Bad Review Phrase - EVER

(Okay, not EVER.  The best ever was the LA Weekly Review of Geraldine Page in A Trip To Bountiful - "Ms. Page's performances is filled with enough ticks, stutters and mannerisms for three movies.  You cannot wait for her trip to be over."  But that was a long time ago and kids today don't remember.)
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The New York Time's Review of "Nut Job" a new kid's movie is short and not sweet.  The reviewer (Miriam Bale) sums it up thusly "… "The Nut Job" features muddy-colored and often ugly animation, a plot that feels too stretched out and loaded with details to hold the attention of most children, and more flatuence jokes than anyone deserves."
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But that is NOT the funny part.  Here is the funny part - you might have to read it twice…
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Will Arnett and Katherine Heigl provide voices for characters that will be familiar to those who know the actors' live-action work.  Mr. Arnett plays Surly the squirrel, a self-serving loner banished from the park at the urging of an evil raccoon leader.  And Ms. Heigl is Surly's love interest, Andie, who has no remarkable characteristics of her own.
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Ouch.
Surly (center) and Andie (pretty in the background doing nothing on the right)