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...high expectations for Robots, after thoroughly enjoying the CGI-created Ice Age, Dreamworks’s Shrek franchise, and Pixar’s Monsters, Inc. and Finding Nemo. But as the first twenty minutes of Robots mechanically rolled by, all I could think was why any filmmaker would have created this monstrosity of a family-fare flick, torturous to those over the age of eight, and just plan boring to the under-four-foot crowd...
...ones with electronic bytes, but computers just don't have the charm of the anthropomorphized tin men from science-fiction past. To borrow a line from A Mighty Wind, they're so retro, they're now-tro. Will Smith proved that last year with I, Robot. Now the CGI cartoonmakers, having run through their bug, monster, fish and human evolutionary phases, are into talking gadgets. Pixar has Cars next summer. And the Blue Sky team, which enjoyed a hit with Ice Age, is offering the busy, fizzy Robots...
...apple-cheeked, gangly-limbed young girl. An adorable canine with a CGI-ed grin. A daughter and her estranged father. What could go wrong with this tried-and-true feel-good recipe of friendship and adolescence? Not much, but clearly not much can go very right either. With a clichéd plot and cardboard cut-out characters, 20th Century Fox’s Because of Winn-Dixie, based on Kate DiCamillo’s New York Times bestseller novel of the same name, is an anti-climactic wallow in what never quite approaches small-town charm...
...apple-cheeked, gangly-limbed young girl. An adorable canine with a CGI-ed grin. A daughter and her estranged father. What could go wrong with this tried-and-true feel-good recipe of friendship and adolescence? Not much, but clearly not much can go very right either. With a clichéd plot and cardboard cut-out characters, 20th Century Fox’s Because of Winn-Dixie, based on Kate DiCamillo’s New York Times bestseller novel of the same name, is an anti-climactic wallow in what never quite approaches small-town charm...
There are black actors on the A-list of box-office draws (well, two: Denzel Washington and Will Smith). There are dozens more laboring in trendy CGI thrillers, doomed to bolster the old joke that "the black guy always dies first." And there are comedians, who anchor movies destined mostly for black audiences. Then there's Don Cheadle. He plays the guy, the seemingly ordinary guy, who turns out to be the most colorful bloke in the bunch. "For the most part, character roles are more interesting," Cheadle says. "And more mine." Cheadle, 40, doesn't have Washington's looks...