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...star someone just a little bit too old and too good-looking to be playing in a fake fort, who manages to save the world despite the bumbling of some idiotic grown-ups who don't understand the true power of the fort. The inevitably successful Fort Movie would spawn Fort Movie II: The Sleeping Bag of Secrets, with a bigger special effects budget and fun new sidekick, The Cardboard...
...island's residents would agree. The energy projects have been raised environmental concerns over potential damage to the habitats of the endangered Western grey whale and the streams where salmon come to spawn. Dmitry Lisitsyn, an intense geologist who has emerged as the voice of Sakhalin's environmental community, also fears that the pipelines could rupture in the event of an earthquake - Sakhalin is seismically unstable -causing a catastrophic underground oil spill. "This project is too large for such a small island," he warns. (SE says that it has responded to environmental objections, including earthquake risks...
...pretty quickly, as viewers' jaws drop, along with their resistance, at the movie's brain-bursting visual density. Elaborate backgrounds flash by in a nanosecond. A million film references - Basic Instinct, Aliens, half of the Spielberg oeuvre and probably lots of Asian movies I don't know - collide and spawn a zillion more. Director Jo wants his picture to be hip to cultural references high and low (Diaper King to Beautiful: "Stop acting like Paris Hilton") and especially aware of itself as a gaudy artifact. Toward the end of a long string of traded insults, Ssipak tells Aachi...
Rogen might seem a spawn of Woody Allen, but he's closer to Cheech and/or Chong with a bar mitzvah. He hasn't the Woody whine and inferiority complex. Like the Martin stage persona, the characters these guys play don't have self-esteem problems; indeed, that is their problem. The only star who simmers with comic angst is Stiller. He's the put-upon loser, a jocular Job, in films like There's Something About Mary and Night at the Museum, when he's not taking roles as the pompous, uptight bad guy (in, say, Dodgeball) or the preening...
...Amnesty doesn't have to spawn even more illegal immigration...