Boyle swears like Bale, but she won’t bail

noreply@blogger.com (Mandy Chin) — Fri, 29 May 2009 03:25:00 +0000

By Courtney Hazlett

The Scoop

msnbc.com

updated 9:15 p.m. ET May 28, 2009

Courtney Hazlett

The Scoop

An unfortunate encounter with a fan and a mild Christian Bale moment, and suddenly Susan Boyle might back out of “Britain’s Got Talent?” No f---ing way.

“The producers of the show are going to do everything in their power to make sure she is there on May 30,” said a source close to the show. “Whatever Susan wants between now and then, she’ll have.”

The source said that the possibility that Boyle could back out is real because at this point, her participation isn’t necessary for her success. “She’s already proven to every record label that she has the vocal ability to do anything — she doesn’t need the show any more for that. The longer she stays, the likelier it is for cracks to show, and they obviously already have,” said the source, alluding to Boyle’s outburst.

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night at the museum 2

noreply@blogger.com (Mandy Chin) — Sun, 24 May 2009 05:24:00 +0000

The director and producer Shawn Levy is a man whose films many critics loathe, but the accountants of Hollywood film studios adore. They make money. Big money. I’m informed by the press notes that accompany Night at the Museum 2 that they “have grossed over a billion dollars worldwide”. That’s a lot of gross, especially when you consider that he’s the guy who brought us the infamously unfunny 2006 remake of The Pink Panther. Box-office grossness is, however, no measure of greatness. And Levy, true to form, has come up with another turkey — albeit one that will no doubt lay another golden egg.

Once again, our hero is Larry Daley (Ben Stiller), a former museum night guard who has gone on to become a rich and successful businessman, owning a company that sells devices like those glow-in-the-dark torches in infomercials. When Larry pops into New York’s Museum of Natural History, he discovers that his old exhibition buddies from the first film — Teddy Roosevelt (Robin Williams), the miniature cowboy Jedediah (Owen Wilson), Octavius (Steve Coogan) et al — are being packed up and sent off to the Smithsonian Institute for storage. It seems children today want holograms, gimmicks and noisy gizmos instead of silent and informative exhibitions. Yet Levy’s film caters to that same jazz-it-up-and-dumb-it-down view of the past, whereby museums become like theme parks and films are all special effects and no story.

Anyway, Larry gets a distressed call from Jedediah and heads off to the Smithsonian, in Washington DC, to find out what’s going on. He discovers that the Egyptian ruler Kahmunrah (Hank Azaria), with the assistance of Ivan the Terrible (Christopher Guest), Al Capone (Jon Bernthal) and Napoleon Bonaparte (Alain Chabat), plans to unleash his Army of the Underworld and take over the world. It’s up to Larry and his new sidekick — and romantic interest — Amelia Earhart (Amy Adams), to stop them.

What’s so disappointing about Museum 2 (and was also true of Museum 1) is that its basic premise is full of rich possibility: what would happen if, after dark, all the exhibits came alive? Sadly, instead of coming up with something fresh and funny enough to entertain kids, yet smart enough for adults to enjoy, the screenwriters, Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon, have opted for a tired old tale about a grand battle between goodies and baddies.

Because the action has transferred to the largest museum in the world, Levy assumes bigger means better, and fills the screen with set pieces, such as seeing Amelia fly off in the Wright brothers’ plane. None of the new characters or whizz-bang sequences, however, can compensate for the fact that we’ve been here before. Even Stiller has said of his character, “Larry isn’t amazed by the exhibits coming to life.” Neither are we. Yet 90% of the film’s exoticness relies on this spectacle. Yes, there are a couple of cute new moments, as when works of art — Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks and Eistenstaedt’s photo of the sailor kissing a girl on V-J Day — come to life, but we’ve seen this elsewhere.

The film has no interest in the events or the great figures of the past; the only knowledge it celebrates is self-knowledge. Its main thematic concern is with Larry learning an important life lesson: that friends and fun are more important than money and being a successful businessman. It’s a bit rich for a film whose raison d’être is to make money — and one full of actors who have obviously done it for the cash — to start wagging its finger at the hard-working Larrys of the world who want to get rich.

If the film had been really funny, all would have been forgiven. This is one of those films chock-a-block with good comedians — but with not an amusing gag in sight. So many of the so-called funny bits are based on tedious repetition; for example, Kahmunrah’s touchiness about his tunic being called a “dress” is repeated three times. The film just cruises along on a kind of slapstick silliness, with pantomime-like villains. Kahmunrah talks like Boris Karloff with a lisp, thus robbing the film of any bad-guy menace. And the good guys aren’t the kind of characters you can take to heart, like the ones in the Toy Story films. Okay, kids will love the slapping scene between Stiller and two monkeys, but there’s nothing here for adults to enjoy. The comic potential of the romance between Larry and Amelia is never developed, and Stiller seems cold and distant from his material, as if he couldn’t be bothered to develop his character.

So, sadly, Levy’s film is neither fun nor exciting. He’s stuffed it with special effects, star names and big numbers, but it has none of the exuberance needed to lift us out of our seats and take us on a thrilling ride.

PG, 107 mins

sources : http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/film_reviews/article6327720.ece

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