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Robots were due for a comeback. In the scientific world, creatures made of metallic bits may have been replaced by ones with electronic bytes, but computers just don't have the charm of the anthropomorphized tin men from science-fiction past.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...
...acclaim (with US Weekly calling it “even better than reading our Brad & Jen commemorative issue”), I will become a regular on David Letterman, appearing three times a week. Move over Harvey Pekar. Audiences will fall in love with me so much —charm, intelligence, good humor, mature hair line—that Academy voters will begin to fear for their lives if they don’t vote...
...really rumble towards the end, the song fails to capture the Wedding Present sound. It’s too polished—understandably, of course, because by this time around the Wedding Present are a chamber-pop band without the roughness around the musical edges that puts so much charm on a record like their ’87 debut George Best...
Robbins’ good humor is all the more surprising considering the powerful moral conscience that goes along with his earnestly dapper looks and rakish charm. Those qualities could have bought him a breezy, pleasant kind of stardom, but Robbins has chosen the high road with weighty films like 1995’s death-row drama Dead Man Walking and 1999’s Cradle Will Rock, about leftist theater in the Great Depression, both of which he wrote and directed...
...some jokes are just carried a little too far in HPT157— as in one scene during which several characters sorting through a laundry basket speak in puns about the articles found therein. The exchanges work well for about the first four items, but the banter loses its charm by the time the characters come to discuss “tidy-whities,” at which point the humor of the situation has long passed...