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...tracks four kids in a quaint northeastern seaside town the summer after they accidentally run over the town recluse. With its superficial storyline, cast of adolescent unknowns and a serial killer armed with a lethal fish hook, Summer keeps the suspense to a minimum and the plot to a formula. It makes a perfect 80s slasher flick but pales in the wake of Scream's splendor...
...this last element--the villain of the story's formula--that falls hopelessly flat. The most outstanding animated features are those with the strongest villains; think of Cruella de Vil, Ursula and Jafar in Disney's best. Rasputin, however, is a bumbling idiot. He shrieks and whines and has the further distasteful attribute of losing his bodily limbs every so often (apparently, the animators want to make it very clear that villains must be repulsively ugly). Moreover, he seems to have absolutely no motivation for his curses. He constantly howls "The Romanovs must be destroyed!" but there seems...
...salesperson recommended Echinacea Special Formula Tea with peppermint leaf, scintillating wild cherry bark and lemon grass (tangy!) for $3.99. An alternative is the Wellness Formula ($10.98) made of, among other things, garlic powder and ginseng. "It makes you sweat" explained the bespectacled assistant, "You sweat out all the toxins." Hmmm. Another option is the honey-based homeopathic cough syrup...
...summer after they apparently run over the town recluse. Filled with a superficial story line, adolescent unknowns for actors and a serial killer armed with a lethal fisherman's hook, I Know What You Did Last Summer keeps the suspense to a minimum and the plot to a formula. The movie sounds perfect as an 80s horror flick, but pales in the wake of Scream's splendor...
...Love & Special Sauce's sound refreshing and fun. But Yeah, It's That Easy, instead of building upon and refining the successful elements of his first two albums, introduces unsuccessful new ones that mask the old. This is not to say that G. Love should stick to a formula; any good artist must try new things and unsuccessful attempts will often precede successful ones. Yet his self-titled debut, or--if hearing a white guy rap badly but charmingly is too much--his sophomore release, Coast to Coast Motel, would be a more fitting introduction to his music...