Word: cartoonish
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Americans inhabit, so to speak, two parallel realities. There is the virtual reality created by media spinning and cultural circuses and gladiatorial spectacles of exemplary pseudomoral combat (Harding v. Kerrigan, Bobbitt v. Bobbitt) -- an intimate cartoonish universe where the member is severed and sewn back on. And then there is the reality of . . . reality. Places like, say, Bosnia and Haiti belong to the reality of reality...
...video), a sound track, a theme-park attraction, an ice show, a lunch-box and T-shirt decoration and, as of last week, a Broadway musical. Actually, not just a Broadway musical but the costliest and most complex ever, not to mention maybe the most vapid, shallow and, yes, cartoonish...
...this storyline carrying your average "entertainment venture" with quick scenes, bright colors, beautiful people, an inspirational soundtrack, and a cartoonish treatment of violence. Instead, Tarantino locates about three fourths of his film in a huge, dismal, echo-y warehose. There, ugly guys scream at each other for so long and with such intensity that we feel like we're at a play. The lack of background noise (no violins or "Jaws" sounds to screw with our feelings) is broken up only by a few funky songs from a "Super Sounds of the Seventies" radio show. And the violence...
...even get into the whole West Coast "gangsta" genre) have little to offer to people who think hip-hop means more than just wearing baggy pants and jumping around. And when Cypress Hill's latest album Black Sunday marked their full transformation from edgy hip-hop innovators into cartoonish potheads, A Tribe Called Quest seemed to be one of the last hopes for the hip-hop nation...
...Burton's movies are continually faulted for being visual feasts without plots. More like cartoons than live-action films, they are heavy on surreal style and light on story development. Luckily, his leads are generally more cartoonish than real anyway: Pee Wee Herman, Beetlejuice and Batman. But as "Batman Returns" hinted, even these films are too limiting for Burton. With "The Nightmare Before Christmas," Burton may have found the ideal vehicle for his sensibilities: an actual animated feature totally free from the constraints of actors...