May 18, 2004
IT'S A KID-FLICK FOR CRYIN' OUT LOUD:
The New Son-in-Law's an Ogre, and Hollywood Is the Target: The sequel to "Shrek" is slick and playful entertainment that remains carefully inoffensive beneath its veneer of bad manners. (A. O. SCOTT, 5/18/04, NY Times)
And here we all were hoping it would be really offensive so we couldn't take the kids who've been bugging us to go see it for a month...
MORE:
-REVIEW: of Shrek2 (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times)
Mr. Judd;
Obviously you let them watch too much TV. They shouldn't even know that Shrek 2 is coming out.
Posted by: Annoying Old Guy at May 18, 2004 10:20 AMGot to do something with them when the Ritalin turns them to zombies...
Posted by: oj at May 18, 2004 10:26 AMBe Very Afraid
May 18, 2004
CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK
History and Outrage in Films at Cannes
By A. O. SCOTT:
"The content of "Fahrenheit 9/11," which begins on election night in 2000 and was completed only 10 days before arriving in Cannes, is not entirely unfamiliar. Its bill of particulars against Mr. Bush can be found in a number of recently published books, and it is unapologetically polemical. It is also the best film Mr. Moore has made so far, a powerful and passionate expression of outraged patriotism, leavened with humor and freighted with sorrow...
I will not summarize or quarrel with the movie's points here; there will be time for that when it arrives in the United States. I will say what surprised me most about it. We all know Mr. Moore as a polemicist and a muckraker, and according to our views and tastes we revile, lionize or equivocate about him as such. (For my part I've mostly been among the equivocators).
"Fahrenheit 9/11," his most disciplined and powerful movie to date, suggests that he is also, arguably, a great filmmaker. Using interviews and archival video clips (including a tape made by the staff at the Florida elementary school Mr. Bush was visiting on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001), he has assembled a moving and invigorating documentary. Is it partisan? Of course. But there are not many important films that haven't been."
Posted by: Robert Schwartz at May 18, 2004 10:47 PM