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Kind of neat, and sort of funny -- NOT
Dec. 29th, 2010 08:03 pmЛучшие на моей памяти некрологи -- в The Daily Telegraph; лучшие рецензии на фильмы (so far) -- в Washington Post. Вы только посмотрите, как они не оставили камня на камне от нового "Гулливера":
Imagine a contemporary update of "Gulliver's Travels" in which the titular hero - an unambitious pop-culture addict played by Jack Black - finds himself in a Lilliput whose pinkie-size denizens are only too willing to place themselves at his beck and call. What if this slacker were thrown into a miniature pre-industrial society filled with industrious and highly trainable workers - literally the size of worker bees - who were able to replicate, through ingenuity and effort, an elaborate if slightly low-tech simulacrum of the world that Gulliver left behind? A world of Guitar Hero and "Star Wars" DVDs? Of La-Z-Boy recliners and grande lattes, built not to their scale but to his?
That might be kind of neat, and sort of funny.
The new "Gulliver's Travels" is not that movie. For a brief, shining moment or two, there's a suggestion that it might just be headed in that direction. But then the movie takes a sharp turn, heads due south and never comes back.
In this unnecessary and unfunny re-imagining of the classic satire by Jonathan Swift...
...Initially, Gulliver is captured and imprisoned. But after extinguishing a raging fire by urinating on it - and, collaterally, on several Lilliputians - he's quickly declared a hero. (Just imagine that scene. On second thought, don't.)
...The movie, by the way, is in 3-D. Other than enhancing the bathroom humor, it doesn't help.
ETC.
Imagine a contemporary update of "Gulliver's Travels" in which the titular hero - an unambitious pop-culture addict played by Jack Black - finds himself in a Lilliput whose pinkie-size denizens are only too willing to place themselves at his beck and call. What if this slacker were thrown into a miniature pre-industrial society filled with industrious and highly trainable workers - literally the size of worker bees - who were able to replicate, through ingenuity and effort, an elaborate if slightly low-tech simulacrum of the world that Gulliver left behind? A world of Guitar Hero and "Star Wars" DVDs? Of La-Z-Boy recliners and grande lattes, built not to their scale but to his?
That might be kind of neat, and sort of funny.
The new "Gulliver's Travels" is not that movie. For a brief, shining moment or two, there's a suggestion that it might just be headed in that direction. But then the movie takes a sharp turn, heads due south and never comes back.
In this unnecessary and unfunny re-imagining of the classic satire by Jonathan Swift...
...Initially, Gulliver is captured and imprisoned. But after extinguishing a raging fire by urinating on it - and, collaterally, on several Lilliputians - he's quickly declared a hero. (Just imagine that scene. On second thought, don't.)
...The movie, by the way, is in 3-D. Other than enhancing the bathroom humor, it doesn't help.
ETC.