Word: cartoons
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...written; it shoots at fish in a barrel and still manages to miss. On NBC's My Name Is Earl, by comparison, Jaime Pressley's Joy may be a moron, but she's an interesting one, with a kind of admirably feral greed. Blair's Kim is just a cartoon idiot. ("It's over!" she declares about her marriage. "O-V-U-R!") If you can't even make your characters believably dumb, you've got problems, and while Shannon does her best with what she's given, the mother-daughter dialogue plays like bad Oscar-presenter patter...
...near the end of the video having fulfilled Luda’s earlier request to “get some ice.” This appears to be their only function. The soul of the video is, of course, the women’s thoughts that pop up in cartoon bubbles throughout. They range from predictable (“He got money!” and “Come and get it!!!”) to mildly insightful (“I’m pretending to be bored!” and “That?...
...heard throughout my life - exaggerated, certainly, but true. The Coen brothers are very smart about people who do stupid things. I especially loved the scene in which the detective tries to speed away but has parked between two cars and cannot get out - right out of a Road Runner cartoon. Wile E. Coyote is alive and well. Judith Canaan, Kalamazoo, Mich...
Star Wars: The Clone Wars Cartoon Network; Fridays, 9 p.m. E.T. If you judge this series by the standards of the original trilogy--i.e., if you expect it to be good--then yes, it's as disappointing as the summer movie it follows. If you think of it as a kid-oriented spin-off product--well, it still suffers from characters with all the vibrancy and pizazz of a PowerPoint marketing plan. But a successful marketing plan, since the vivid CGI (and lots of Yoda) will draw the younglings...
...theater where I saw Burn After Reading, everyone laughed throughout. The Coen brothers are very smart about people who do stupid things. The scene in which the detective tries to speed away but has parked between two cars and cannot get out is right out of a Road Runner cartoon. Wile E. Coyote is alive and well! Judith Canaan, KALAMAZOO, MICH...