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...Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)”: basically a bunch of impish little kids cutting power lines around town, pissing off the adult-types. The animation is second-rate, mostly “Triplets of Belleville” cribbing drawn with the finesse of a “South Park?? episode. Now here comes the fugliest monstrosity of them all, “Neighborhood #2 (Laika).” Boy is this thing unbearable to look at. Just look at that screen shot. The video is that murky, unpleasant, and nonsensical, for three and a half minutes...
...Iraq—and don’t you think it’s bad? Is that Tom Cruise, or a working-class sex robot from “A.I.”? Haven’t I seen that scene in “Jurassic Park??? Wait, it’s over? Where can I get my money back...
...latest work to sprout from Park??s fertile mind is “Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit,” the first full-length feature starring the titular team. Their initial appearances in a series of celebrated short films in the ’90s have amassed a fan base that adores their wry, unmistakably British humor. The formula is straightforward but enchanting. Wallace is the bald, big-grinned inventor with a different job in every film but two constant passions: wacky, necessarily unnecessary contraptions and a good hunk of cheese. Gromit...
...give a more intimate sense of the global destruction, Spielberg and his screenwriters David Koepp (“Jurassic Park??) and Josh Friedman (“Chain Reaction”) set the action in a small New Jersey town. We can identify with an inhabitant of this anonymous location, finding redemption in the midst of an alien invasion, much more than we could with a suave New Yorker. That explains why Spielberg introduces us to Ferreira, a barely involved father...
Perhaps unsurprisingly, many scenes in the movie are similar to Spielberg’s other films in the action genre. A digital eye on a metallic stalk that tracks the characters around a decrepit basement acts very much like one of Jurassic Park??s velociraptors in one scene. The aliens are two shades darker than...