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...growth, ethnic solidarity, the meeting of true hearts - that Mad 2, like virtually all animated films, feels compelled to teach. Maybe that's salutary for the wee ones, but I'll bet they, and their elders, prefer the subsidiary creatures, who in the movie's better moments crowd the screen and take over, like the Preston Sturges rep company in The Miracle of Morgan's Creek and Hail the Conquering Hero - or like Scrat the Sisyphusian squirrel in the Ice Age pictures. In Mad 2 we get some penguins and a lemur, all balm to the comic spirit...
...Here's what you have to ask about scene stealers: Are they funnier than the star characters because they're not on screen as long? Alex, Marty, Gloria and Melman all have the heavy lifting of story lines; Julien and the penguins (and a couple of cranky monkeys who serve as the movie's Statler and Waldorf) have only to shake their shtick, deliver their bright lines and get off. (Also, they're smaller in stature, hence cuter.) Liberated from the burden of consciences or backstories or any recognizable feelings; they have no obligation to audiences other than to make...
...rise of guitar- and rhythm-based games was similarly hampered by awful music. “Elite Beat Agents,” a 2006 Nintendo DS game that involved tapping and dragging a stylus on the screen in rhythm with pop songs, had surprisingly addictive gameplay but suffered from both awful musical selections and the fact that only cover versions were used. (Trust me, “Sk8er Boi” was bad enough when just Avril was singing it.) The first “Guitar Hero” games were similarly plagued by their inability to use officially licensed...
...avid sports fan, Obama sat in the back of his campaign bus last Saturday relaxing on a Lazy Boy and watching some ESPN News. As the ticker on the bottom of the television screen rolled through college football scores from across the nation, it finally came across the Ivy League...
...There’s always been—not a love/hate relationship—but a push-and-pull between Hollywood and Boston,” says Paul Sherman, author of the book “Big Screen Boston.” “There are obvious reasons that have made Boston not necessarily one of Hollywood’s favorite locations...