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The Tide Turns
Miers overkill? Have conservatives become what they despise? Plus more, including nuke power and losing it at the movies.
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What a crock! The review, that is. I saw the film yesterday with my three-year-old grandson. I managed, maybe, a half-dozen genuine laughs, my grandson about half that. Nobody else in the theater, who were of every age, was laughing much either.
To be sure, the film is visually stunning. And yes, it has more than a bit of wit about it, especially the take-offs on King Kong and some of the classic horror flicks, assuming that one is old enough and cinema-savvy enough to get the allusions. But it just isn’t very funny. And much of what humor is there is lost on people below a certain age, and on anybody who doesn’t have an understanding of the stereotype about the British passion for gardening.
p>On the whole, the movie made me wish that Chuck Jones could be brought back from the dead and start once again producing Looney Tunes cartoons. br> — Chuck Vail /p>
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