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...They gather at a surprise going-away party for young Rob Hawkins (Michael Stahl-David): his gal pal Lily (Jessica Lucas), his would-be girlfriend Beth (Odette Yustman), his best bud Hud (T.J. Miller) and a pretty stray named Marlena Diamond (Lizzy Caplan). Early on, Hud is given the job of documenting the event with a video camera. The movie spends its first 20 mins. introducing you to a bunch of people, most of whom will be dead by min. 30. All you have to know: Rob had a brief affair with Beth and wants to get back...
...They're all meant to be cool, attractive, upmarket young professionals - Rob has just been promoted to vice president of some company that's sending him off to be in charge of Japan - but their behavior is, tops, adolescent. The men in attendance clumsily hit on pretty girls they don't know; they mope about an old love (Beth) showing up with a new guy; they frantically pass along gossip about who's been sleeping with whom. A suspicion forms in viewers' minds that Cloverfield has been rated PG-13 "for the emotional age of the characters...
...Iditarod race from Washington, D.C., to the 42nd Street Library in New York to save his stranded son, Jake Gyllenhaal. Tom Cruise went on a similar suicide mission to reconnect with his family in Spielberg's War of the Worlds. Here in Cloverfield Rob decides he absolutely must save Beth, trapped in her midtown highrise, even though she's a four-mile trudge away, the rest of the town is being smashed, trashed or eaten alive by crazy creatures, they have no access to food or water, and Lily's wearing high heels...
...Rob and his posse head into the subway tunnels, hoping to elude Cloverzilla and get uptown alive. Here's where the movie's one inspiration kicks in. Earlier, we saw the monster shedding parasites that had attached themselves to its hide like barnacles. These dog-size, cricket-faced, crablike creatures can bound like kangaroos, stick to ceilings and attack people without so much...
...Still, don't assume private equity chiefs can't work fruitfully in the creative industries. Since Permira, another leading U.K. private equity firm, took a majority stake in ALL3MEDIA in 2006, the British TV production company has been performing well, says Rob Donaldson, head of private equity at consultants Baker Tilly in London. A bigger worry for EMI: the publicity generated by the shakeup pushes more artists to withhold their music. "It's difficult for artists to invest in a company going through such change," says one record industry exec. "Will the A&R man who believes...