Roger Ebert's Gratuitous Snowmobile Slam

Chicago Sun Times ^ | 12/20/2002 | Roger Ebert

[JennysCool]

The movie reaches just a little further than we expect with the addition of characters such as Nigel Thornberry's parents (his mother is not amused to find worms in her tea) and the poachers Bree and Sloan Blackburn (Marisa Tomei and Rupert Everett), who are not simply villains willing to exterminate hundreds of elephants, but so unashamed about it that their attitude is scarier than their actions. Will such people stop at nothing? Next thing you know, they'll be permitting snowmobiles in our national parks.

[JennysCool]

Thought the snowmobilers might "appreciate" this gratuitous slam from Mr. Ebert, the last paragraph of his review of The Wild Thornberrys"

[Paul Atreides]

I think that he wrote a sneering column about W removing the R-rated movies from Air Force One.

[Antoninus II]

My last name happens to be Blackburn and I've never had the privelige of harvesting any elephant!

I haven't snowmobiled either....