Word: meandered
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...Technicolor and imagine some particularly sappy European comedy, like the best music of similarly-inclined U.K. band St. Etienne. Voice enters only very late in the mix, and slowly the lines “I wanna stay with you / for the rest of my life” meander in such a manner as to somehow make them not seem trite...
...almost immediately, the central storyline is shoved out by a series of subplots that meander in and out of the movie’s consciousness, rarely gaining enough thematic momentum or significance to justify their existences. A rivalry with fellow oceanographer Alistair Hennessey (Jeff Goldblum) offers a handful of barbed laughs, but ultimately devolves into plot-driving filler. Utterly superfluous segments about the expedition’s financial woes cheekily squander the ample talents of actor Michael Gambon (Gosford Park). To decry an Anderson film for its sideline prattling may be missing the point, but where seemingly nonsensical scenes might...
...ImClone stock; in Alderson, West Virginia. Stewart is appealing the verdict, but last month asked to begin serving her sentence immediately. DIED. PETE McCARTHY, 52, English-Irish travel writer and broadcaster; of cancer. He was best known for his keen observations and deadpan humor in McCarthy's Bar, a meander through Ireland in which he "never pass[ed] a bar that has your name on it." He followed that book's success with The Road to McCarthy, in which he pursued the Irish diaspora around the world. McCarthy wrote in 2001 of his "childlike pleasure" in seeing his books...
...main DJ stand last year was behind a Model T constructed entirely of CDs. Boats shaped like dragons, with snouts that spout fire, float across the lake. Fire twirlers on stilts meander around with no evident purpose...
That's the thing about this movie. It takes the time--all right, sometimes too much time--to meander up paths that are not strictly germane to its main narrative. But mostly that pays off--in funny tossed-off lines and quirky situations and a nice warm glow at the end. We're not dealing with Jamesian complexity here. But we do have something almost as rare to contemplate: a big Hollywood machine that's unexpectedly full of wit and--dare we say it?--intelligence. --By Richard Schickel