Word: knocking
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...eight songs in Away We Go! are full of imagination and snap (be forewarned that they will linger far too long in the heads of grownups), but this is not the sort of children's entertainment that will knock you out with its sophistication. Larson was not aiming to educate here nor to be hip--don't expect to see the wee stars exploring a divey apartment with a bathtub in the living room. He was only trying, it seems, to breezily delight his young audience. And that he has certainly accomplished. --By Ginia Bellafante
Fortunately, to keep us distracted, Mary Kay Place has a hilarious turn as the eminently calm and collected adult (further skewing things). As she repeatedly declares that she has never been wrong ("Knock on wood..."), we realize that if she were just a tad overdone she could well be a secret basket case. She delivers several of the most memorable lines of the movie, lecturing to her "captors," as she calls them while serving them her signature culinary creation, known simply and ominously as "Hot Dish...
...themselves. The school has been touched by drugs, guns and gang violence, but teachers believe the worst problem is kids who come from troubled and broken homes, kids who cannot or will not communicate with their parents, kids who seem unable to get up again when life's waves knock them down...
...overprotectiveness. Boys? "Don't even get me started," she says, rolling her eyes. "My mom's a little better. But mention anything about boys, and my dad goes crazy." She has weird rituals. Ask her about her injury-free career, and she scurries for a balance beam to knock wood. Most refreshing, unlike so many world-class gymnasts, who sound as if they've spent too many hours in airless gyms inhaling chalk powder and practicing the mantra "I just want to do the best I can," Moceanu is forthright. She admits she wants to win--but is prepared...
...thought I heard another grunt, but it might have been a knock coming out of the transmission...