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Stage Beauty is a raucous, vulgar mess. Between two rather abrupt (and unsatisfying) oral sex scenes, cliché moments of Maria finding her on-stage presence (again with the doe eyes) and its hamfisted themes of gender identity, the filmmakers abandoned any attempt to make a coherent and entertaining film??or to give viewers a taste of the 17th century, as Shakespeare in Love did so well...
Still, Paulina eventually warms to “Mr. Clark” enough to dance a sultry rumba with him at the film??s aesthetic climax. It’s easy to relish their pairing, sharply choreographed and luxuriantly filmed in a suffusion of yellow light. It’s harder to understand what impelled Chelsom to edit the dance by periodically slowing motion to a crawl—a technique better suited for action sequences in films like The Matrix. Whenever it speeds up again Lopez’s neck whips across the screen, evoking back pain...
...that you don’t need an overt representation of Bush in this movie; Team America—with their shoot from the hip, ask questions never tactics—are the Bush administration. If their actions don’t make this connection clear enough, than the film??s subtitle, World Police, should eliminate all doubt...
Robert Hock, a manager at Loews’ Harvard Square 5 theater, characterized the film??s box office performance as “okay,” despite fairly high expectations for its performance in the liberal, Kerry-friendly Cambridge area. Hock speculates that the timing of the film??s release was poor; strangely, he notes, “it might have been too late,” despite the rapidly approaching election, perhaps suggesting that cashing in on the massive public awareness generated by Fahrenheit 9/11 might have been financially beneficial...
...long after the chaos, we meet the film??s main villain—a petulant Kim Jong-Il who sounds like Cartman and sings a song about being “ronery.” His character resembles that of Satan in the South Park feature film, in that his notorious evil nature is softened and made absurd by an overblown sensitive side...