[raccoonradio]

I just saw and enjoyed Fantastic Mr Fox, but this Williams movie looks dead on arrival. Posting because I heard a clip on the radio of Robin Williams lambasting Sarah Palin on The Hate Show with aBitterOldMan, IIRC...well, for the record, Mr. Williams movie looks like a colossal dud. But I guess he's a real expert on politics.

[raccoonradio]

As for Fantastic Mr Fox:
A lot of work went into the design and stop motion animation and a lot comes out. Mr Fox promised the wife he’d give up his wild animal ways and stick to newspaper columns, but you can’t take the chicken-stealing ways out of a fox. Ultimately it leads to war with humans, and it’s vulpes vulpes’ ingenuity and pluck that might just give them a chance.

With a son and nephew (Ash and Kristofferson) learning to appreciate each other; a piano playing mole; Willem Dafoe-voiced security rat; Bill Murray’s lawyer/badger; a fast talking rabbit chef and rabid beagles (don’t forget the blueberries! Beagles love blueberries.) Visually looks great (would have to watch again to catch various in jokes, etc) and it was funny.
Enjoyed.

[raccoonradio]

[hometoroost]

I must have mmissed the part of his career where Robin Williams had dignity.

[skinkinthegrass]

For adrenaline junkies, there's "Ninja Assassin." The action film, produced by Andy and Larry Wachowski of "Matrix" fame, scored mixed reviews. Some critics were surprisingly positive. Chris Nashawaty of EW gave the film a "B" and applauded the film's "very cool" fight scenes.
Unless she herself is a ninja, you may want to leave Grandma at home.

...w/ a review like that, I'll see it on early sat...

[Blood of Tyrants]

I completely ignore the critics and rely on the ratings of ordinary people.

[februus]

Inglourious Basterds is still running - in my locale it’s at the $2.00 cheapo place. (I have no regret about liking this brutal, tender, violent, mad and dangerous neo-exploitation flick.) My dad took me to a whole slew of this stuff as a kid in the ‘60’s (Dirty Dozen, Omega Man, Deliverance, Planet of the Apes, Willard, The Getaway and on and on.) We also went to every John Wayne flick up to the last, every action flick, every WWII flick, Civil War, Western,Spaghetti Western, Sci Fi, Hammer horror, the whole lot. That’s not very high brow I know, but there’s a certain energy in those flicks (flicks - not even ‘movies’) that can’t be had watching The English Patient or My Left Foot. Now that I have a kid, a boy of 11 - I’ve seen plenty of crap that’s strictly aimed at the kid market that makes my braincase melt with irritation, but also some pretty good stuff too. It’s just not like the crazy eye candy I got as a kid back then.

[DollyCali]

did not see the other two but saw Old Dogs on Friday. It was a packed house & there was a lot of laughter. I laughed myself many times. It is a light ,trite, easy movie. No heavy message or need for deep thought.

I tend to agree that I go more with IMDb(peoples choice) over Rotten Tomatoes (critics evaluation).

I had gone to see Precious but it was sold out.