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...fall of 1998, all anyone wanted to talk about was the pyramid. It was a giant motorized contraption that dominated the stage during the Atlanta pre-Broadway tryout of Elaborate Lives: The Legend of Aida, Disney's musical retelling of the tale of ancient Egypt that was the basis for Verdi's famous opera. The pyramid opened, it closed, it transformed itself into different sets. It seemed a suitably dazzling follow-up to Julie Taymor's innovative production of The Lion King, Disney's Broadway hit. The trouble was it didn't work, at least not very often. "Every time...
...helped win the largest civil judgment ever, Roberts gets to tell off lawyers, clerks, her decent boss (Albert Finney) and her faultless boyfriend (Aaron Eckhart) from the righteous perch of her 3-in. heels. And the bras that peek above her sweaters--they're more colorful than a Disney cartoon production number. They also provide the movie's only true uplift...
Suddenly people all over the country are talking about "ecstasy" as if it were something other than what an eight-year-old feels at Disney World. Occasionally the trickle from the fringe to the heartland turns into a slipstream, and that seems to have happened with the heart-pulsing, mildly psychedelic drug called ecstasy. To get a sense of just how far and fast "e" has moved into American communities in the past year or so, talk to Mark Bradford, a junior at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign...
...that the original 1969 moon landings were faked on a soundstage in Arizona, having a special effects driven movie just doesn't cut it any more. The budget has gone to securing high profile talent and the gorgeous special effects, but amid all the self congratulations going on at Disney, someone forgot that a movie must be founded on a script. It has been said that an infinite number of monkeys typing on an infinite number of typewriters for an infinite amount of time will eventually write all the works of William Shakespeare. With _M2M_? One monkey, one hour. What...
...With that in mind, it's hard to fault the cast given that they've been given such empty and stale material, but each member really doesn't seem to want to be there. Tim Robbins must be appearing either because of blackmail, contractual obligations to Disney or a personal favour to Brian De Palma because he phones in most of his performance (probably when he realized how bad the whole project was going to be). Don Cheadle, who has previously been a solid bit player, lacks charisma here and Jerry O'Connell has the dubious distinction of being upstaged...