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...election. Charlie I. Miller ’08, director and co-author, relied heavily on his cast’s willingness to make fools of themselves and the audience’s willingness to let them. But the obvious good intentions of the play combined with a few bright comic moments to make the show a success...
...dysfunction, the movie brings on its supervillain--Mr. I's onetime groupie Incrediboy, now the cunning, gadget-obsessed Syndrome (Jason Lee)--and explodes into the year's wittiest, zippiest adventure, with each knockout action sequence eclipsing the last and with echoes of '60s James Bond films and Fantastic Four comic books. But it's still unusual: in its length (nearly two hours), in its rating (PG for "action violence," a first for G-loving Pixar) and in its cast of human characters...
...which to fashion a near great movie. But writer-director Mike Leigh's Vera Drake is just such a film. He's famously a realist (Life Is Sweet, Naked, Secrets & Lies) and never more so than in this film. He simply recounts the story with unblinking objectivity. The almost comic cluelessness of Vera's family, the phlegmatic spirit of the policemen processing her case, the attitudes of her patients, ranging from the hysterical to the cool--they are all there. Yet there's nothing forced or movieish in Leigh's treatment...
...calls." "I was just shocked by how sanctimonious he was," Carlson later told TIME. "I thought, This must be some elaborate routine, and there's going to be a punch line at the end." Which there was, sort of. "You're more fun on your show," Carlson told the comic. Shot back Stewart: "You're as big a [male appendage] on your show as you are on any show." Easy there, guys. That kind of talk can get a TV star sued nowadays...
...heavens. The resultant scenario finds the two reacting in unexpected ways to the discovery, amidst “cameos” by Gwyneth Paltrow and J.D. Salinger and a screwy, violent climax. Humorous references to the duo’s headline-grabbing history pepper the play and provide rich comic fodder...