This week in film
BORAT, FLUSHED AWAY, SANTA CLAUSE 3: THE ESCAPE CLAUSE
Ben Carver
SANTA CLAUSE 3: THE ESCAPE CLAUSE:
Why has this film been made? Does anybody here care? What happen to Martin Short? I guess little kids will see it, love it and never realize how sad this premise really is. With Tim Allen (Galaxy Quest, Shaggy Dog) graciously returning to his role as fat-suit Santa Claus and Martin Short (everything from Saturday Night Live to Arrested Development) as his icicle heir nemesis Jack Frost, this reviewer just hopes it will be the end to a trilogy of Santa Claus movies no one ever asked for.
BORAT: Cultural Learnings from America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.
If you've seen the trailers, the sneak previews at many college campuses, or the Kazakhstani protests of this film, then La Voz "need no more explain," as Borat would say. Brit funnyman Sacha Baron Cohen adventures away from the "Ali G" character to bring another of his many identities onto the silver screen. Borat explores American culture from driving, to dinner parties, even comedy in the 'mockumentary' style from Cohen's critically acclaimed series, Da Ali G Show. As Borat said in an episode of that show "America national sport is called baseballs. It very similar to our sport, shurik, where we take dogs, shoot them in a field, and then have a party."
FLUSHED AWAY
Here's another digitally animated film with starpowered voices, this time from the other side of the pond. Directed by David Bowers (Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were- Rabbit), the movie features the voices of Kate Winslet, Hugh Jackman, and Ian McKellan. This movie is expected to blow the lid wide open on Britain's long-hidden secret society of vermin who have learned to walk upright, talk and get into crazy misadventures. They've come a long way since Chicken Run.
2008 Woodie Awards
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Mariya Kisina
posted 11/04/06 @ 3:23 PM PST
I love the first question of the Santa Clause review except I probably want to shout it from an intercom while simultaneously screaming into one of those cone things you see lying around in various obscure gyms and sports closets. (Continued…)
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