Word: cartoon
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Hollywood, like McDonald's, knows it's just good business to hook the customers when they're young. So when school's out, studios push their cinematic Happy Meals: cartoon fare like last summer's Shrek 2, which proved to be the top-grossing film of 2004. And since the wee ones don't buy their own tickets, filmmakers try to insert enough wit and sass and retro references to keep the grownups amused. A children's movie, never forget, is an all-family baby-sitting device...
...hide,'' the trooper says. The leader disagrees: "There was nowhere f______ else," he tells Time. He stood firm, the hides were built, and the men took their places, three of them lying behind and partly under each bush. "They were the sort of bushes you see in a cartoon," says the trooper, "where you could pick them up and walk around." Some of the men were convinced it was only a matter of time before they were discovered. As the rising sun revealed other gun emplacements on the hills around them, they grew more and more uneasy...
Brendon Small is a soccer-playing grade-schooler, but what he really wants to do is direct. Cartoon Network's animated series trails Brendon and his pals as they shoot and quibble artistically over some of the worst B movies ever committed to home video. Quirky and unsentimental, this is a rare, sophisticated cartoon that truly understands the weird power of childhood imagination...
...Demon Days, out this week. Albarn says he and Burton had "loads of music" in common. They are also both willful eccentrics; Gorillaz, which is made up of, usually, Albarn and a few friends, doesn't actually appear in its videos or onstage. Instead Gorillaz is represented by postapocalyptic cartoon characters, none of which are gorillas. Gorillaz also happens to record for Virgin Records, a division of EMI. "The label was very concerned that I was working with someone who had just hijacked a Beatles record," says Albarn. "Oh, well...
...geek, well, that's because he is. He loves making fictional territorial maps of the galaxy. He can tell you how many extraterrestrial races have been featured on Star Trek. His latest hobby is collecting outdated Soviet space equipment. But his inner nerd is hardly humorless. Wright's cartoon-like sense of the ridiculous--familiar to all Sims players--is still much in evidence in Spore. The opening stages of the game, in which a player must eat or be eaten by other microbes, is a deliberate homage to Pac-Man. Later, after your amphibious creatures have acquired enough limbs...