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...fictional Krumpet's life epic, from his Polish pine-forest birth before World War II to his Alzheimer's fug in a Melbourne retirement village, garnered his Claymation creator a nod for Best Short Film (Animated) at next week's Academy Awards ceremony. Up against toon titans Pixar, Disney and Blue Sky, Elliot and his tragicomic creation, who endures Tourette's syndrome and testicular cancer before seizing the day as an avid animal liberationist and nudist, is perhaps the ultimate underdog. (Seven years ago, an Oscar went to a similarly off-kilter outsider - Shine's Geoffrey Rush, whose presence...
...movies. Sometimes that can be done creatively, as with Terry Johnson's Hitchcock Blonde. Sometimes, though, the need to shoehorn TV and film celebrities into a production, as with Matthew Perry and Minnie Driver in Sexual Perversity in Chicago, is simply awful. The best screen-to-stage adaptations - like Disney's The Lion King, which uses puppetry to inspired effect - are reinvented and freed by the live medium...
...Hannigan may be one of Hollywood's most compelling young actresses - onscreen she has a delicious, quirky sense of humor and a rare ability to show depth in even the most shallow characters - but her inexperience on stage is palpable. She looks lovely, lashes fluttering appealingly over her big Disney eyes, but spends much of the evening trying to master basic technique, such as voice projection. You care about Hannigan the actress trying to win through, but Sally gets lost. Perry's Harry is far more comfortable, his comic timing easy and confident. He lacks the neurotic edge that Harry...
...None of us remembered the Enchanted Tiki Room as it now exists ?under new management.? I guess Disney felt the ticky-tacky tikis needed an update, and now there are hints of rap instead of ?Hawaiian War Chant.? Bad mistake. The kitsch was right at the heart of the old room?s charm - it was cheesier than the Vegas it parodied, and therein rested its modest charm...
...least Disney has left ?Jungle Cruise? largely alone. If anything, the jokes are even cornier, the puns even more egregious, than they used to be - and this is all for the good, since the animatronics on display by the riverside now seem sweetly old-fashioned. In the 21st century, ?Jungle Cruise? is devoid of any ?wow? factor, and must seek to entertain in other ways...