Not Pixars best work but still a blast. Badicall revenge of the nerds for kids. Theater I watched it in was packed full with kids. Sold out. And the kids loved it. B+
A couple of shots at the beginning of The Blue Umbrella short looked 100% real to me.Sam Favate said:...and some spectacular animation.
Yeah. My wife and I agree that ever since the opening credits of Forrest Gump...that idea's already been done to death. Feather, paper, umbrella...whatever. I'm sure it was done before Gump, too.Sam Favate said:BTW I liked the Blue Umbrella, but I thought it was reminiscent of Paperman in terms of subject matter.
Think that comment hits the mark. I don't see it till tomorrow, so I can't speak for how much of RotN we get in the script in the Cars = Doc Holywood sense, but to answer one of Mike's knee-jerk questions: Are high school and college-campus comedies ever pitched at the same age demographic that experiences the real thing?...Was "High School Musical" pitched to 17-18-yo.'s, and Nerds 1 pitched to 20-yo. political-science majors?mattCR said:Not Pixars best work but still a blast. Basically revenge of the nerds for kids.
I'll agree with this. CARS 2 is actually a better classic-style "Bond" film (minus the sex) than most of the Bond films in the last twenty years. CARS 2 didn't pretend to be anything more than a lighthearted action comedy. The trailers for BRAVE made it appear like it was going to be an epic action adventure with a girl as the main protagonist ala MULAN. The actual result was a big letdown. A lot of the humour was pretty flat too. For example, the comic relief with her brothers.TravisR said:I think Cars 2 gets something of a bum rap. It's not a great movie but I think it's successful in being simply a kids action movie. I'd even argue that it's more successful in being what it wanted to be than Brave which aimed high but didn't quite make it for me.
I happen to like the Flintstones, thank you very much, although I can think of only two or three Jetsons episodes that were actually funny. (Tried to indoctrinate the younger generation on classic Flintstones, and while they asked for it by name, it didn't resonate as longer afterwards as the Looney Tunes.)Mike Frezon said:Kids like the Flintstones and the Jetsons, for example.
MU was a good example of What Pixar Does, namely what Brave didn't do when Brenda Chapman took her toys and went home: They're never what you expect them to be by the end, and usually happens when we start sympathizing with the characters.Adam_S said:that's comedy for you, I feel like in terms of comic relief and jokes landing perfectly Brave and Incredibles are the two movies with Pixar at their absolute best. I don't think there's a single thing in either movie that fails, comicly, for me.