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This delirious send-up of the international save-the-world action genre spoofs every movie from the Star Wars trilogy to Knightrider to The Matrix and unsympathetically mocks every public figure from Michael Moore to Kim Jong-Il to, curiously enough, Matt Damon. And they do it with puppets...
...spilled covering last summer’s Spears-Madonna kiss than the entire Democratic presidential race up to that point. This was, in many ways, perfectly understandable: despite Madonna’s false conflation of middle age and the loss of femininity, the performance was a clever and timely send-up of the outdated “something borrowed, something blue” wedding clichés that even the Democratic nominees have been too cowardly to dismiss as part of a repressed, discriminatory past...
...surprising that London's hottest musical is a send-up of America's looniest talk show. Of course, its creators clearly love their trash TV, even as they skewer it. The opera skillfully parodies the TV show's demented-circus atmosphere, and star Michael Brandon does a bang-on impression of Springer's smarmy solicitousness ("Chuckie, I sense you're not too happy about Shawntelle's pole-dancing dreams"). Even the backstage scenes ring true, with Springer trotting out knee-jerk defenses to his critics: "I don't do conflict resolution." At times the musical even makes you care...
...Unlike nearly all of Gilbert's previous work, "Grip" has been published in color. This makes sense for a send-up of the old four-color books. The bright color scheme combined with Hernandez' thick-lined, cartoony drawing style makes for a more punchy comedic effect than his black and white work...
...inflict his misery on the rest of the world. Rather than develop characters and move the story, Solondz would rather caricature detractors of his bleak worldview, and one is left wondering why even indulge them? There is even a sequence in Oxman’s documentary that is a send-up of American Beauty, where Oxman comments over images of the New Jersey suburbs that there is beauty in a lamp post. Here again, Solondz’s can’t help himself and he ridicules American Beauty the tamer, watered-down version of Happiness. As Nonfiction draws...