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Along the way, Rodney befriends a ragtag team of down-on-their-luck robots, voiced by Robin Williams, Amanda Bynes, Drew Carey, Paul Giamatti, and Jennifer Coolidge (better known as “Stifler’s mom”). The innovative Rodney becomes a hero to the downtrodden, rusty robots and, with the help of love interest Cappy (Halle Berry), takes on the bad guys and saves the day. The story’s naive morality might cause viewers to stand and cheer at the end, if only the film were even remotely bearable to watch...
Wednesday, February 16. Harvard Bookstore presents An Evening With Peter Carey. Brattle Theater. Tickets free and available at Harvard Bookstore, 1256 Mass...
...conference, which is expected to draw about 200 participants, will screen a number of science fiction movies, organize role-playing games and feature guests like New York Times best-selling author Jacqueline Carey...
...Carey's concerns about his son are the heart of Wrong About Japan. One of the writer's most persistent misunderstandings comes over the term otaku, which typically describes fans so devoted that they all but lose touch with the rest of the world. Carey sees a metaphor for the otaku in the characters of Mobile Suit Gundam?kids who fight battles from inside giant robots, alienated from everything outside them. As Charley interacts more fluently with the ticket machines on the Tokyo subway than with the people around him, it's not hard to understand what Carey fears...
...Carey never gets Japan quite right, but his writer's eyes always appreciate what they see. Near the end of their trip, father and son luck into a meeting with filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki. The language barrier, the cultural barrier, every barrier falls away as the delighted anim? master shows flip-books of his early work, the characters dancing with life on the corner of the page. "Thank God we had no language," muses Carey. "Thank God there were no questions to ask, just the privilege of sharing the joy of a great artist telling a story to an audience...