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...Which would make Fred Claus the third comedy-star vehicle to tank this fall, after Ben Stiller's The Heartbreak Kid and Owen Wilson's The Darjeeling Limited. In this movie, the usual shaggy energy that makes Vaughn so appealing - he's a louche cannon - is hardly evident. The actor has to be surly, then sanctified, and neither plays to his strengths. Will Ferrell could play it cute-innocent in Elf; here, Vaughn just looks snowed under...
...child could predict what happens: Fred will learn the spirit of Christmas from his bro, and he'll use his street smarts to help Santa survive in the modern age. And if I were to tell you that, before going to the North Pole, Fred befriends a young black kid from an orphanage... But no, it's all too painfully predictable. Halfway through the movie, I gave up hoping it would display a modicum of logic, a sentence of sense, a subordinate clause of sanity. Besides, as Chico Marx so acutely observed, "There ain't so sanity clause...
...There's no naughty kids, Nick," says born-again Fred. "Every kid deserves a present on Christmas." His scheme is to mass-produce one toy for each gender: baseball bats for all the little boys (so they can smash things), hula hoops for all the little girls (so they can learn to wiggle their hips). In 10 years they'll be able to star in, or at least appreciate, Judd Apatow comedies...
...first quarter: Penn RB Michael DiMaggio (great last name, huh?) meets a crowd of Harvard defenders on a short game. Shouldn't this kid be number...
Starting lineups: Big hand for local kid Jeremy Lin, starting at guard tonight. The rest of the starting five will be Housman, Pusar, Harris, and Magnarelli. For Stanford, the student section is announced...