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...Demokos (Ben C. Cosgrove ’10), the ancient president of the Trojan Senate, provided much needed comic relief—and a reminder that human folly ultimately governs the play. And compared to the fatuous Helen, Andromache (Courtney G. Bowman ’11) and Hecuba (Caitlin Lowans) gave compelling performances as paragons of strong and virtuous women who desire peace and stability for their children above all else...
...father Stanley Johnson, an environmentalist and a former Member of the European Parliament, calls this "the fight against crooks and nannies looking into nooks and crannies." Like son, like father. Both Johnsons make a humor pit stop every few minutes. But, says Johnson senior, beneath the comic exterior, his son has a "solid, philosophical outlook" and a "real, substantial core of belief...
...signs of the apocalypse must be this stupefying Star Wars hysteria. This is a puny epic for people with no life. It is filled with crummy acting and dialogue and not a minute of intelligence or beauty. Our new "religion" is a horrendous mishmash of recycled comic strips, dreary Saturday-morning serials and half-baked mysticism and mythology. DAN O'NEILL Los Angeles...
...These movies, ritualistically recycling their subjects' most famous hits and their more infamous falls from behavioral grace, provide the last sentimental postscripts to their subjects' celebrity arcs. They have for years deserved parody, and Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story is that long-awaited - by me, at least - of comic commentary on breathless mythomania. Not since This is Spinal Tap have I had such a good time watching amiable idiocy stumble on toward uncertain glory...
...visually to Sweeney Todd is Sleepy Hollow, the 1999 fable about innocence trapped inside malevolence. The desaturated color scheme of that film, set in 18th century New York City, is here applied to the streets of London a few decades later. But whereas Burton bent an old legend to comic-horror ends, this time he's not kidding. The shadows aren't faux-ominous, they are expressions of the city's pestilence of selfishness and cruelty, where the motives of virtually everyone - both lowlife and high-born - are venal and verminous...