Word: icing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...high expectations for Robots, after thoroughly enjoying the CGI-created Ice Age, Dreamworks’s Shrek franchise, and Pixar’s Monsters, Inc. and Finding Nemo. But as the first twenty minutes of Robots mechanically rolled by, all I could think was why any filmmaker would have created this monstrosity of a family-fare flick, torturous to those over the age of eight, and just plan boring to the under-four-foot crowd...
Most cartoons feature scenery that is a fantastical version of the real world, with extremely bright colors and curvy shapes. Instead, Blue Sky Studios has relied on cooler, deeper colors to contrast their work from Disney’s “rose-colored glasses” animation. Ice Age succeeded in this degree, but its landscapes were vast expanses of neutrally-colored arctic; Robots’ futuristic mechanical world is visually distracting to the point of nausea...
Parents congregated this weekend at Eliot House Dining Hall for the Annual Junior Parents’ Weekend Ice Cream Bash, giving up quality time with their children for bragging opportunities, whipped cream, and M&M’s—all over 60 gallons of ice cream. Some of the highlights...
...08p.m. It’s past closing time, but a few ice-cream diehards remain. A lonely husband and wife sit along the wall, separated by a chair. The wife looks away, and her husband hunches like an eagle, his dark eyebrows and bald forehead scrunched into a neutral frown. Beside them, a small puddle of chocolate sauce and lonely napkins lie on the floor, waiting to be scooped...
...majority of students, on the other hand, matched Prince’s penchant for the comic with their own interpretations of numbers from lighter shows such as She Loves Me and Carousel. Karlin sang a particularly effervescent aria on the joys of vanilla ice cream and the tribulations of love, while other performers continually had the audience chuckling over pre-teen melodrama and starry-eyed romance, even as they marveled over performers’ vocal power...