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Horton Hears a Who

Horton Hears a Who (2008)



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(by James Berardinelli)

ANIMATED
United States, 2008
U.S. Release Date: 7/14/08
Running Length: 1:28
MPAA Classification: G
Theatrical Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

Cast (voices): Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, Carol Burnett, Will Arnett, Seth Rogen, Isla Fisher, Amy Poehler, Jaime Pressly, Charles Osgood
Director: Jimmy Hayward, Steve Martino
Screenplay: Ken Daurio and Cinco Paul, based on the book by Dr. Seuss
Music: John Powell
U.S. Distributor: 20th Century Fox

Admittedly, it's been about 35 years since I was reader of Dr. Seuss, but my memories of his books are that they're short and economical with words. Neither of those descriptions applies to this theatrical version of Horton Hears a Who!, which has found a way to take a thin, pithy book and stretch it out to feature length - despite the fact that a completely acceptable and much shorter version already exists. This is not the first time the good doctor's material has undergone such stretching. The live action How the Grinch Stole Christmas survived the experience but The Cat in the Hat suffered fate worse than eating green eggs and ham. Horton Hears a Who! doesn't enter the live-action realm, which is probably a good thing, but the lengthened result has its own charm and is enjoyable in a family-friendly sort of way, even if it feels a little like Dr. Seuss by way of Ice Age.

Horton (voice of Jim Carrey) is an elephant who lives his life much as animated elephants in animated jungles do, until the day a remarkable things happens. He discovers voices coming from a speck of dust as it floats by his enormous ears. Convinced that there are tiny people on that speck of dust, Horton captures it on the tip of a clover flower and endeavors to communicate with its inhabitants. He succeeds, and begins a conversation with the Mayor of Whoville (Steve Carell), who urges Horton to find a safe place for the speck lest his entire world be wiped out. Horton agrees, but he encounters resistance. The Kangaroo (Carol Burnett) who rules over the jungle is a firm believer in the doctrine that "if you can't see it, it's not there," and she can't see any people on Horton's speck, so she hires the vulture Vlad (Will Arnett) to eliminate it. Meanwhile, the Mayor has trouble convincing the Whos that there's a big elephant in the sky talking to him. Even his wife, Sally (Amy Poehler), is skeptical. Only a Doctor Who named Mary Lou Larue (Isla Fisher) believes him.

With the familiar intonations of Charles Osgood reading passages from the original text, the story progresses reasonably quickly, although there are action sequences that expand beyond Dr. Seuss's rhymes . There are also two interesting animation-within-animation sequences. The first replicates the look and feel of the book precisely. The second re-invents the story as a dubbed martial arts extravaganza. Adults will likely get more out of these than their children.

Jim Carrey re-invents Horton much as Robin Williams did with the Genie of the Lamp in Disney's animated Aladdin. Horton's a bigger-than-life character in more ways than one, and one has to wonder how much of the dialogue was ad-libbed. Steve Carell is more reserved as the Mayor but this goes along with the nature of the part. Will Arnett has fun with Vlad, the vulture with a bad Dracula accent who's more Wiley Coyote than fearsome predator. Although there are some other famous names in the cast (Carol Burnett, Seth Rogan, Isla Fisher, Amy Poehler), their voices are largely anonymous, which is a good thing.

When it comes to 3D animation, Fox has been the ugly stepchild of the three major studios regularly producing animated features (behind Disney/Pixar and Dreamworks). This represents a major step forward in terms of "look" from the Ice Age movies. The opening Rube Goldberg-inspired sequence is an example of what can be done when creativity meets CGI. It's a complex and involving tracking shot that shows how the speck is dislodged from its "home" and sent floating in Horton's direction, and it does an excellent job of drawing the viewer into the movie.

The feature, like the book, toys with the childhood fantasy that there could be worlds within worlds. Who as a child has not wondered whether there could be tiny communities living on dust motes or whether this entire world might be a spinning blue speck in the gargantuan living room of the cosmos? As an adult, it's easy to dismiss this sort of thing, but it's the kind of idea that can enrapture and fascinate a child, whose concepts of reality and fantasy haven't been honed by the harshness of a world where make-believe is discouraged.

Fundamentally, Horton Hears a Who! is a kids' movie but, as is often the case with today's animated features, care is taken to include material that works on two levels. This enables adults who accompany their offspring to stave off boredom. While I would not place Horton Hears a Who! on the same level as some of the best animated films, it's acceptable family fare. There are messages for those who look for such things (about having faith in things that can't be seen - the religious aspect is hard to ignore - and treating people the same regardless of their differences) but the movie can be enjoyed on a less intellectual level. Few kids who seek out Horton will regret doing so - a view perhaps shared by those who ferry them fro.
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the Vampire's Assistant 2009

The Vampire's Assistant (2009)
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The Vampire's Assistant tells the frightening tale of a boy who unknowingly breaks a 200-year-old truce between two warring factions of vampires. Pulled into a fantastic life of misunderstood sideshow freaks and grotesque creatures of the night, one teen will vanish from the safety of a boring existence and fulfill his destiny in a place drawn from nightmares.
14-year-old Darren (Chris Massoglia) was like most kids in his suburban neighborhood. He hung out with his best friend, got decent grades and usually stayed out of trouble. But when he and his buddy stumble upon a traveling freak show, things begin to change inside Darren. That’s the exact moment when a vampire named Larten Crepsley (John C. Reilly) turns him into something, well, bloodthirsty.

Starring: 

Chris Massoglia, 
John C. Reilly, 
Ken Watanabe, 
Salma Hayek, 
Willem Dafoe, 
Patrick Fugit, 
Orlando Jones, 
Jane Krakowski, 
Josh Hutcherson, 
Ray Stevenson, 
Michael Cerveris, 
Frankie Faison, 
Kristen Schaal
 
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Paul Weitz
 
Screenwriter: 

Brian Helgeland, 
Paul Weitz
 
Producer: 

Lauren Shuler Donner, 
Paul Weitz, Jack Leslie
 
Composer: 

Stephen Trask
 
Studio: 

Universal Pictures

The Vampire's Assistant 2009 Reviews:

September 28, 2009 - With the likes of Twilight and True Blood proving that vampires are big business at the moment, it's no surprise to see an adaptation of Darren Shan's hugely popular Cirque du Freak novels reaching the big screen.

Loosely based on the first three of the now 12-book series, the story revolves around Darren (Chris Massoglia), a 16-year-old living in an unremarkable suburb and leading an unremarkable life. He's the kind of kid that gets good grades, never cuts class, and always listens to his parents, which is a source of great frustration for his more rebellious best friend Steve (Josh Hutcherson).

In an effort to mix things up a bit, the dynamic duo decide to visit the town's newly arrived freak show, and are soon enjoying unusual performances from the likes of a singing snake-boy, a ball-scratching wolf-boy, a blond with a nifty line in appendage growth, and Salma Hayek in a beard.

More interesting to the lads is Larten Crepsley however, a spider-charming prankster whom they immediately identify as a vampire. Steve begs Larten to turn him into a bloodsucker, but following a complex chain of events, it's Darren who ends up joining the ranks of the undead, landing the job of vampire's assistant and becoming a member of the traveling Cirque du Freak.

What follows is a fun-filled tale of wish-fulfillment as Darren enters a world of super-speed and super-strength where life is long and parents don't exist. Larten is Darren's guide through this universe, teaching him the tricks of the trade and the rules by which a peaceful vampire lives his life, and as played by John C. Reilly, he steals every scene in which he appears.

A centuries-old vamp, Crepsley has seen and done it all, and having witnessed first-hand the very worst of human nature, he exudes a marvellously funny cynicism. 

Do we really need another vampire movie? Well, this one is based on a popular tweener series of a dozen books by British writer Darren Shan. Director and co-writer Paul Weitz claims he loves the series, and Weitz’s credits — he and his brother Chris Weitz gave us American Pie and About a Boy — got my attention. (Watch Peter Travers review Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant in his weekly series, "At the Movies With Peter Travers".) But the mess onscreen does no one any favors. The Cirque du Freak itself has flavor with sexy Salma Hayek as the bearded lady, 30 Rock’s Jane Krakowski as a limb regenerator and especially stage actor supreme Michael Cerveris (Tommy, Sweeney Todd), swathed in foam rubber as the fatso villain, Mr. Tiny. Newcomer Chris Massoglia plays Darren, the blind teen who gets involved with the freaks (it’s not that I can’t tell you how, I just don’t want to). But Darren does get bitten by redheaded vampire Larten Crepsley (John C. Reilly, giving the film the few laughs it has). Actually, Darren is only halfbitten. Hell, I’m not explaining that, either. All you need to know is that the movie is a setup for sequels that I hope never come. Jammed with story threads that don’t cohere, Cirque commits the cardinal sin for a vampire movie: It’s bloodless.

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Hellhounds 2009

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Hellhounds (2009) Starring:

Scott Elrod, Amanda Brooks, James A. Woods, Adam Butcher, Ben Cross

Directed by 

Ricky Schroder

Hellhounds (2009) Reviews:

Ancient Greece: the royal wedding between lovebirds Kleitos (vanilla generi-hunk Scott Elrod) and Demetria (Amanda Brooks, determined to prove her lifeless performance in Dragon Wars was not just the fault of an inept Korean filmmaker) takes a tragic turn when the bride-to-be is poisoned by a jealous rival. Demetria now finds herself imprisoned in the underworld where she walks around an awful lot looking more confused than frightened. The evil god of the Underworld, Hades, dressed in his finest Rancor Monster Trainer attire, wants to keep Demetria as his own personal virgin love slave.

With the blessing of Demetria's kingly father (Ben Cross, long removed from his Chariots of Fire glory days), Kleitos embarks on a treacherous rescue mission into the Underworld that could end in his and a few loyal comrades-in-arms, including his Greek god know-it-all scholarly wimp of a kid brother, being trapped in an afterlife of eternal torment.

This is the sort of movie that Ray Harryhausen could make in his sleep. I wish he would watch Hellhounds; the film is so boring it would probably put him to sleep, and during that period he might take me up on that previous sentence. This is also the same type of fantasy-adventure-horror hybrid that "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" and "Xena: Warrior Princess" pulled off with considerably more enthusiasm and excitement on a weekly basis. To watch Hellhounds is to wonder if director Ricky Schroder (yes, that Ricky Schroder!) or anyone else involved on the production side had ever seen a Harryhausen movie or a single episode of "Hercules" and "Xena" ... or any sword & sandal fantasy film for that matter. Hellhounds should have been titled "Lack of the Titans" because it lacks everything that makes a Greek mythology movie fun to watch.

Bad actors in togas walk to the Underworld, and then they walk about the Underworld. Confrontations that require more physicality than mere walking are few and far between. Locating the princess in this cavernous afterlife on this quest that was hyped up as allegedly perilous proves surprisingly simple. Then they return to the surface world to walk around some more. An annoyed Hades stands around and orders his canine minions to go after them. A few brief sword fights and fleeing from the brief appearances of the titular hellhounds are the only times when any of these characters appear to even break a sweat.

I won't point fingers at the screenwriters because I know the film was produced in part by RHI Entertainment, and given my experience watching their contributions to the Sci-Fi Channel's canon, it would appear they mandate screenwriters adhere to a strict policy of keeping their films as simplistically formulaic as possible in order to guarantee maximum blandness. After sitting through this latest dog of theirs, I'm strongly considering boycotting any future films that I know RHI had a hand in the production of outside of merely serving as a distributor. I'll take a poorly made b-movie that makes me roll my eyes over a dull workmanlike production so hopelessly banal it makes my eyes glaze over.

As for the lame title creatures, Hades' non-three-headed canine minions are abysmally computer animated hounds with saber-toothed fangs and glowing eyes. A pack of satanic Marmadukes would have been more frightening.

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