Archive for March, 2005
Spongebob Squarepants (2004)
I wasn’t sure about this movie. Whether it was even going to be worth the drive to the cheap theaters some Tuesday night. But Christine and her girls love Spongebob, so they bought the movie and we got to watch it.
I liked it. I wouldn’t watch it over and over again, but I liked it. There is this peculiar feel to this type of animation. It isn’t classic at all, in fact every time I see an episode I am reminded of Ren and Stimpy with all of the over exaggerated emotions and their gritty bodily effects.
But there were some very funny lines, some were in previews, some you’ll just have to watch the movie to see. I liked the use of live motion blended in with the animation, it wasn’t clunky but fit the tone. I just didn’t really care for the scene with David Hasselhoff whisking Spongebob and Patrick away to the middle of the ocean.
If you are in a silly mood, and enjoy good animation (this was good animation, it wasn’t that highly stylized corner cutting crap that is out there today) then check this out. If you are the type of person that is easily offended by naked starfish butts, or have small children, I wouldn’t recommend this. I don’t think that the humor is so much “adult” as it really isn’t for children under the age of like 7-8.
Ocean’s Twelve (2004)
I loved this movie. I don’t barely even remember the first movie when it was redone in 2001, but I remember liking that one too.
It was hilarious. Perfect off the wall dry humor. Perfect cast to deliver it. What a growing cast it was. Bruce Willis and Catherine Zeta Jones joined in this time around, as well as many other notable stars. It seems to be kind of perpetuating itself.
The only reason I didn’t give it a perfect score, was that some of the things were just a bit unbelievable, or time lapsed too quickly. Like how they set up jacks underneath a house to raise it so quickly, and the zip line into that house with the key code cracker.
But Clooney and Pitt were awesome as usual, and Casey Affleck, Don Cheadle, and Scott Caan provided great backup characters. Twists, turns, and the team of 12 American’s who tell the French to go and kiss it. What else could you want in a movie? I’m done. I’m fa-clemnt.
Dreamwave Productions closes its doors.
This is another article that I was late on.
In early January of this year, Dreamwave Productions closed it’s doors for operation. There isn’t a lot to be had on this subject, other than the official posting, but if I would have to guess I would say that licensing killed them.
Co-Founded by Pat Lee, I can still remember just over four years ago when he did the pin-up of the Transformers in Wizard magazine. How that really grabbed everyone. Including Hasbro. He won the licensing rights, and away they went, taking the industry by storm. Topping the sales charts. Everyone wanted Transformers books in that nostalgia craze. But that has since subsided. The books were never very well written, and that is why good art never replaced the story, especially when Pat Lee stop drawing after the first couple of series. In such a short time he because my definitive artist for them, and I didn’t care to see anyone else draw the books.
Too many are going down. Who will be the next great casuality?
