Word: oaf
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...cynical and angry enough to break up a bar fight, let the bad guys go, and beat up the mouthy kid who demands justice. That would be Tyler. Hence the motivation for dating Ally: a revenge scenario devised by his roommate Aidan (Tate Ellington), the kind of wisecracking, sleazy oaf that always hangs around the hero in romantic comedies. Of all the tired, unrealistic means the movies use to get characters together, this ploy is the worst. I would rather be forced to swallow the notion of Tyler and Ally meeting through sheer coincidence than watch this unfold...
...daughters attending performances. Ten minutes into any production and it's easy to see why women of all ages flock to these romances. They are infatuated with the otokoyaku - female actresses in male roles, playing the part of idealized men to perfection. Gone is the belching, unkempt, groin-scratching oaf of everyday reality; in his place stands an elegant, considerate dandy, ever ready to open doors and produce bouquets. "Not just any man, but more like a man than men," says one senior Takarazuka staffer...
...plot should remind you of Kung Fu Panda, last year's excellent DreamWorks cartoon about the clumsy bear, employed in his father's noodle shop, who becomes a martial-arts expert and saves his village from a villainous tiger. Chandni Chowk is more a Kung Fu Pandit, with the oaf-hero Sidhu (Akshay Kumar), chopping away in the shop of his Dada (Mithun Chakraborty). Some visiting Chinese folks ID him as the incarnation of their nation's greatest warrior, Liu Sheng, and think Sidhu is just the fellow to rid their village of the oppressive Hojo (Gordon Liu). Accompanied...
...below expectations; that movie courtship is a process of stumbling into sex, not the suave negotiation of seduction; and that, after decades when Hollywood offered the likes of Clark Gable, Cary Grant and Steve McQueen were the emblems of masculinity, it now proposes the mentally and emotionally challenged oaf as dreamboat. What woman could look at Ferrell in this scene without salivating, and thinking, "I want to be his snare drum...
...movie will also remind more recent Hong Kong fans of Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle, the story of an oaf who becomes a hero against by battling a long-imprisoned supervillain. KFP shifts into high gear when its big baddie, Tai Lung, escapes from his prison dungeon, breaking chains, bones and the law of gravity with equal finesse. Many of the fights - Tai Lung vs. the Five Furies, or vs. Shifu or, finally, against a certain panda - are so smartly thought out and spectacularly executed that they might have been designed by an ace stunt coordinator like Yuen...