Word: seussian
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...leave the movie with Seussian anapests dancing in your happy head. Here's mine: A treat for the eye, an epic event/ This film is delightful, one hundred percent...
...Bollywood than Hollywood.Steven Chbosky’s screenplay also disappoints. He does little more than transcribe the musical’s libretto: almost all of the film’s dialogue—even that which is not sung—rhymes. This gives the movie an unfortunate Seussian feel, and drains the tension from the film’s darker scenes.Stephen Goldblatt’s murky and colorless photography won’t be winning any awards either. Because one of the central characters (Mark, played by Anthony Rapp) is a freelance filmmaker, I half expected a plot twist...
...contours, it constantly surprises with the richness of imaginative detail. The film begins in the soot and bustle of an old European city, with a design scheme both grim and dapper: even the evil blobs who chase Howl wear straw hats. The castle, which treads back roads on four Seussian legs, is a spectacular jumble of ship parts, old wooden houses and gigantic barrels. Palaces and shimmering lakes, warplanes and fire sprites all come to life at the breath of Miyazaki's graphic genius...
...museums," says Bryn Parchman, CEO of Port Discovery in Baltimore, Md., which recently shifted its focus from tweens to the under-5 set. Its new programs include a petting zoo with parrots, llamas and potbellied pigs, and a cooking area where toddlers help a chef whip up treats like Seussian green eggs...
...asks, "You mean he has to keep beating that drum forever?" Dr. T. blithely sneers, "Oh, that isn't the man I'm punishing. My man is inside the drum." And we see, in silhouette, a figure pressed against the drum skin, pleading for Terwilliker to "Let me out!" - Seussian whimsy at its starkest and darkest...