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03 Dec, 2008
Dukes of Hazzard: Jokes?
4 of 4 found this helpful The Dukes Of Hazzard is the latest old TV series to get resurrected and given the big screen treatment. As in most cases, including the recent Starsky & Hutch and Bewitched, the film does the small screen version a disservice. It could be that nostalgia and a faltering memory bathe the original series in a more flattering light, but even so it's hard to believe that had it been as dreary as this, anyone would have suggested updating it for the movies.
Early on the curvaceous Daisy Duke (Jessica Simpson) talks about always having to rescue her cousins Luke (Johnny Knoxville) and Bo (Seann William Scott) whenever they get themselves in trouble. "Then I'm gonna have to shake my ass at somebody to get them out," she moans. It's the same tactic director Jay Chandrasekhar resorts to whenever things start to drag, which is all too often. The frequent shots of Simpson busting out of a skimpy outfit are testimony to the shortcomings of a film which, unlike the General Lee, fails to take off.
Watching endless scenes of the famed orange 1969 Dodge Charger, with its signature confederate flag on the roof, wheel-spinning round the fields of Hazzard County is, surprisingly, not as absorbing as it sounds. Nor is seeing the umpteenth police car flip over and crash. All of which might be forgivable had the moments inbetween the vehicularcide (or whatever is the phrase for the annihilation of hundreds of cars) been remotely amusing. But alas, they were not.
Both Seann William Scott and Johnny Knoxville have the ability to be funny, but unlike say Owen Wilson or Vince Vaughn, neither is inherently comical. Instead they are reliant on good material, something singularly lacking in The Dukes Of Hazzard. The plot hangs loosely around the plan by the sartorially splendid but corrupt commissioner Boss Hogg (a very leathery Burt Reynolds) to turn Hazzard's rural beauty into a strip mine. It's a plan opposed by the Duke clan which also includes Uncle Jesse (a self-conscious Willie Nelson), and Pauline (Lynda Carter).
The feisty Daisy has a well-earned reputation for handling herself in the face of the crude advances of Hazzard's redneck males. So when a newcomer to the bar she works in froths at the sight of her in her skimpy shorts, a local warns "look away, look away." It's a caution that could equally be aimed at The Dukes Of Hazzard.
21 Dec, 2008
X-Men - United
As trailers go, X-Men made quite an impression. The original, which director Bryan Singer refers to as "almost like a preview for X-Men 2", took $300 million and injected new life into the superhero genre. The upside of its unexpected success was that it made a follow up a forgone conclusion (Singer stresses "X-Men 2 is not a sequel"). The flipside was that it raised expectations to an almost impossible level. Though X-Men 2 doesn't quite achieve the impossible, it comes pretty close.
Singer has rounded up all the usual mutant suspects from the first movie while adding a few new ones to keep things fresh. In the intervening three years Rogue (Anna Paquin) has grown up, Storm (Halle Berry) and Jean Grey (Famke Janssen) have had makeovers and the X-Jet has had an upgrade. The most significant change is the addition of a new enemy, which comes in the formidable form of William Stryker (Brian Cox) and his more alluring sidekick/back kick/front kick martial artist Yuriko Oyama, known more menacingly as Deathstrike (Kelly Hu).
The action begins with another new face: a blue one, with yellow eyes and pointy ears belonging to Nightcrawler, aka Kurt Wagner (Alan Cumming). Wagner's prehensile tail is more convincing than Cumming's cod German accent, which lends the hoofed teleporting mutant an element of campness. When he breaks into the White House and threatens the President, it is Stryker who is brought in to deal with the mutant problem.
One story line that was touched upon in the original, but is developed more fully here, is Wolverine's (Hugh Jackman) search for his past which haunts him in flashbacks and takes on a fresh clarity when he encounters Stryker and his base underneath a dam at Alkali Lake. The bunker proves a poignant setting for the film's finale and the site for Wolverine's showdown with Deathstrike whose powers are not only equal to his, but provide further proof of his origins.
Having spent the first film feeling their way, in X-Men 2, everyone from the director to the terrific cast, to the production team convey a greater confidence and, with more time and money to play with, the results are a slicker, more sophisticated film. In addition Singer has succeeded in his desire to make it "edgier, darker, funnier and more romantic." The only things it lacks in comparison with its predecessor are the element of surprise and an unanswered question at the end. Which poses the question: will there be an 'X-Men 3'? Let's hope so.
28 Mar, 2008
LOTR - The Return Of The King
4 of 4 found this helpful Amazing film! one of the best i've ever seen! The fight scenes draw your breath away and theres more than one major battle for a change.