Robert Zemeckis’ performance capture system, which turns life-action into animation, gets quite a workout in Mars Needs Moms. Its characters, both human and Martian, tumble through space, slide down chutes, chase along corridors that turn every which way and dance around mountains and into caverns created out of huge mounds of trash. The process has also lost those weirdly inhuman faces that plagued The Polar Express, Zemeckis’ first foray into performance capture. In fact, so many things in this unique kind of animation, especially the designs and all its many details, keep getting better and better. So why does Mars Needs Moms feel so slight?
Other than Beowulf, his most successful performance-capture film to date, Zemeckis has chosen to deploy this system in children’s films. Which is just fine as far as that goes, but where the technical advances and story sophistication in his Beowulfmpointed toward James Cameron’s Avatar, Mars Needs Moms points toward a ride at Disneyland.
This film from Zemickis' ImageMovers Digit
al and, appropriately, Walt Disney Pictures has been shot and on accommodating screens will be projected in Disney Digital 3D as well as in Imax 3D. So Mars will certainly be a treat for younger family members. But for teens on up the generational scale, the interest level will plummet drastically.
For that matter, it will be interesting to see how Mars in its first week fares against Rango, an animated film with considerable sophistication and outreach to older audiences, in its second weekend. As with his A Christmas Carol movie, Zemeckis paints himself into a digital corner by ignoring adults.
Mars does do one thing much better than A Christmas Carol, however: It has emotions. After all, it is based on a children’s novel by cartoonist Berkeley Breathed, who admits the book came in reaction to a disobedient son expressing keen dissatisfaction with even having a (nagging) mother. Consequently, the entire story about a mom kidnapped by Martians and her rescue by her young son bubbles over with emotions. It’s an illustrated laundry lists all the things moms do for their kids -- and that would include the laundry.
For this film, Zemeckis turns directing chores over to Simon Wells, who directed The Time Machine and co-directed the animated The Prince of Egypt. Wells and his wife Wendy adapted the Breathed book with nearly every plot turn driving home the point that kids need moms.
Milo, age 9, is the focal point. He is enacted by Seth Green and voiced by a much younger Seth named Seth Dusky, age 11.The estimable Joan Cusack is Mom but since she spends most of the time under lock and key, the major roles fall to an extremely funny Dan Folger as Mars’ only other human, a disheveled techo-wiz named Gribble; Elisabeth Harnois as Ki, a rebellious young Martian who learned English watching ‘70s sitcoms; and Mindy Sperling as the humorless, nasty Martian leader whose body appears as mummified as her heart.
Designer Doug Chiang has a grand time turning the Red Planet into a giant fun ride from those loopy Martians with triangular heads, no real noses and otherworldly bodies and gaits to an underground world of stark simplicity and sterility. Females run the place while men -- Gribble calls them the Hairy Tribe Guys -- get tossed down chutes with the garbage as they’re apparently the most expendable resource on the planet.
The entire movie is set up as a race against the clock by Milo to save his mom but the film finds time to take in the Martian civilization in passing, a gag-filled and mostly lighthearted re-imagining of our own world if women ruled.
(It is odd though how a movie meant to glorify moms is so riddled with anti-feminist concepts. These are, of course, Martian females not human ones but still …)
Anachronistic dialogue rules for the most part as not only does Ki brim with the hep lingo of the Flower Children era, but Gribble, who is thirty-something, is stuck forever in the ‘80s when he left planet Earth.
The movie shrugs off any real attempt at science fiction other than oxygen helmets for the surface of Mars. The characters still dash around those surfaces in short sleeves in what should be an 87 degrees climate and make the round trip from Earth to Mars, which should take about 18 months, in a half minute.
The skill level of this motion capture animation is getting better all the time. So Mars is accomplished at every level. But the three most important things in movies are story, story, story so the movie never comes off as the considerable achievement it truly is.
Opens: March 11 (Walt Disney Studios)
Production companies: Walt Disney Pictures and ImageMovers Digital
Cast: Seth Green, Joan Cusack, Dan Fogler, Elisabeth Harnois, Mindy Sterling, Kevin Cahoon, Tom Everett Scott
Director: Simon Wells
Screenwriters: Simon Wells, Wendy Wells
Based on the book by: Berkeley Breathed
Producers: Robert Zemeckis, Jack Rapke, Steve Starkey, Steven Boyd
Director of photography: Robert Presley
Production designer: Doug Chiang
Music: John Powell
Editor: Wayne Wahrman
Rated PG, 88 minutes
"Mars Needs Moms" Robert Zemeckis HAS DONE IT AGAIN!
"Fast Five" MUST WATCHED movie!!!
In the very first sequence of Fast Five, former federal officer Brian O’Conner (Paul Walker) slams on the brakes of his muscle car, and a bus slams into it at an angle. If you are a fan of physics — or just happen to live on this planet — you can guess what should happen. If you guessed that the muscle car would be obliterated, welcome to the human race. If you guessed that the car would cause the much, much heavier bus to flip over spectacularly, then welcome to the world of Fast Five.
It is with this intro that you are given the rules to the universe of the film you are about to watch. At every bend, there is a casual disregard to the laws of nature; almost a “take that, physics” approach to life. And that is fine. The Fast and Furious series is an escapist fantasy. We watch the $100,000 cars driven by beautiful women and tough men, then we jump in our beat up Civics and station wagons and drive home, probably a little faster than we should. You don’t want to put too much thought into the logic of it, and honestly, reality would only get in the way of enjoying this series.
But a bigger issue for the franchise than just its propensity for flipping off science: How do you keep a series fresh after five outings? There are only so many ways to race, and explosions can only get so big (although don’t tell that to Michael Bay). The answer is that you take what works about the series and shift it subtly into a new direction that is original, but doesn’t feel alien to the franchise. That is what director Justin Lin has done by making Fast Five into something of a traditional “heist” movie. And it not only helps to breathe life into the franchise, it helps to deliver the best movie of the series to date.
Have car, will travel
The fifth Fast and Furious installment picks up exactly where the last movie ended, with Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) on his way to prison while O’Conner and Dom’s sister Mia (Jordana Brewster) lead an assault to free him. After the rescue, O’Conner and Mia, both very much in love, head to Rio to rendezvous with Dom, and end up staying with Vince (Matt Schulze), the stereotypical “angry guy” from the first film. He has a job for them, and when Dom shows up, they all head off to steal cars. Off a train.
Things go bad quickly, and after a physics-be-damned style escape, the group is being hunted by the resident kingpin of Rio, Herman Reyes (Joaquin de Almeida), because of something they accidently took with them. Mia soon admits that she is preggers, which inspires Dom and O’Conner to eschew running from the forces closing in on them, and instead pull off one massive job that will set them all up for life and cripple Reyes’ operation. But to pull it off, they need a team.
The team is a collection of the Fast and Furious all-stars throughout the years. From the second film 2 Fast 2 Furious, Roman Pearce (Tyrese Gibson) and Tej Parker (Chris “Ludacris” Bridges) return. From the third film The Fast And the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Han Lue (Sung Kang) appears. From the previous film, Fast & Furious, Tego Leo (Tego Calderon), Rico Santos (Don Omar) and Gisele Harabo (Gal Gadot) fill out the crew.
Unbeknownst to the super friends, an elite DSS agent, Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) is on their trail, and with the help of local Rio officer Elena Neves (Elsa Pataky) and a group of highly trained agents, he sees it as his duty to bring them all to justice.
The many moving pieces
In terms of continuity, here is the strangest part of the film. Fast Five is the fifth movie in the series, but like its predecessor Fast & Furious, it takes place before the events of The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift which is last film in terms of continuity. The only reason to do this is to include Sung Kang’s character of Han, who died in the third film. Now, Han is a good character, and Kang is undeniably a charismatic actor, but it feels a bit like buyers’ remorse than anything else — the producers obviously regret having killed him. It doesn’t make any difference to the story to have Tokyo Drift set in the future, but it might confuse some.
For this series, the change to the heist theme feels natural and right. Fast Five is in many ways closer in tone to movies like The Italian Job, or even Ocean’s 11 than it is to the previous films in the series. In fact, there is very little racing at all in the movie, and only one extended driving sequence at the end. It was a fairly bold move at that. There is one scene where a car race is about to happen, but it skips the actual racing to further the plot. While it is somewhat counterintuitive to say about a franchise based around fast cars, impossibly beautiful women and the like, the series has actually matured. At least a bit. While there is still a ton of ridiculous action, it is not thrown in just to look good, it all serves a purpose.
Each of the characters has a part to play, and while it is always hard to stand out in an ensemble cast, the actors all compliment each other and mesh surprisingly well. In fact, it is something of an accomplishment in itself to have so many big name stars work together, and that is a testament to Lin.
You can almost feel the growth of Justin Lin into a solid action director over the course of the last three Fast and Furious movies. Lin has always had an eye for action, even when he was just starting out and filming on next to no budget with films like Better Luck Tomorrow. As he has learned and grown as a filmmaker, the way he frames scenes has drastically improved, as has his eye for color and aesthetics — something that was at times an issue in the previous film. It’ll be interesting to see where Lin goes from here. Hollywood is currently in love with him, and he is attached to direct the next Terminator starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, so his name may be one that you hear for years to come.
The rest of the crew turns in solid preformances as well, and you can almost feel that they had a good time making this movie. Despite the intense action, this is a movie you are meant to have fun with, and having actors enjoying themselves is important in selling it. Perhaps the most difficult role to play in the film was also perhaps the best cast—that of DSS Agent Hobbs, played by Dwayne Johnson. On paper, the role is fairly bland. You have a dogged federal agent that isn’t particularly funny or likeable, trying to stop the antiheroes that you have become invested in after four previous movies. Johnson is, and always has been undeniably charismatic, and few can convey as much without saying a word as he can. It was an inspired casting choice, and further proof that Johnson deserves the success he has earned. A less actor in this role could have killed this movie dead and made an interesting plot line cringe-worthy. In fact, with so many moving parts in this film, any one of a handful of badly cast actors could have derailed the entire film, but it all works well.
Diesel again plays Vin Diesel, while Walker has nearly perfected the art of acting while looking perpetually stoned. Whether you love or hate them, your opinion probably won’t change much based on this film. But of the two, Diesel is unquestionably the focus, and so he should be. While Fast Five isn’t going to make AFI’s top 100 movies of all-time list, it is an entertaining film thanks partly to the performances that most will enjoy, as long as you don’t think too much about the details.
Conclusion
Fast Five isn’t high art, nor is it trying to be. There is so much testosterone in this movie that even women in the audience may leave with a mustache. It fulfills the traditional summer movie pre-requisites and has a ton of explosions, gun battles and fistfights, just like you would expect. In that sense, it is a very, very traditional film. If you are looking for that one unique snowflake in the snow storm of summer movies, this aint it.
It is, however, the best film in a series bred for its visual extravaganzas. Films like this can go three ways. They can veers towards the ridiculous, as they did with 2 Fast 2 Furious, they can repeat the same formula over and over as they did with the third and fourth films, or they can do something a bit ballsier and take the franchise in a different direction altogether. It doesn’t have to be a wholly original direction, just original for the series. In this case it worked, and likely saved the franchise. A sixth movie has already been greenlit, and while it might at first glance seem over saturation to film six movies based on an action franchise like this, the fifth movie has proved that there is enough life left in the series to justify it. It helps that Fast Five was already released internationally, and in eight days has made back over $30 million of its $125 million budget, so odds are it is going to do alright at the box office.
By the way, make sure to stay through the first block of credits to see a scene with a few surprises that set up the sequel.
While Fast Five isn’t the type of movie that will appeal to the art house crowd in even the smallest way, it is what it intends to be — a summer popcorn movie that is beating the other big name summer films to the theaters by a few weeks (or a week, counting Thor). If you enjoyed the previous films, then you will leave pleasantly surprised at how they have managed to resuscitate the franchise. The action is unbelievable — literally unbelievable — and physics take a punch in the nose, but the film does so with a wink and a nod to the audience, so you accept it. If you can’t, then you are in trouble.
For a fifth film in a franchise, Fast Five offers a slightly mindless, but fully enjoyable heist movie starring a cast of up-and-comers, borderline A-list stars, and directed by a guy who will likely be a household name in the future. Although it isn’t quite summer yet, Fast Five has begun the summer movie season on a good note.
Romeo and Juliet SEQUEL???
Gnomeo & Juliet is a CG-animated send-up of the William Shakespeare tale of star-crossed lovers that's set in the world of ... plaster garden gnomes. And it's chock full of songs by Elton John, who also executive produced the film. Bear with me. It's not as bad as it sounds.
Set in Shakespeare's birthplace of Stratford-Upon-Avon, this 3D film directed by Shrek 2's Kelly Asbury follows feuding neighbors Mr. Capulet (voiced by Richard Wilson) and Miss Montague (voiced by Julie Walters), whose rivalry has even extended to their respective garden gnomes (with one set colored red and the other blue). But can a forbidden romance between a Red (Juliet, voiced by Emily Blunt) and a Blue (Gnomeo, voice of James McAvoy) bring the two sides together and end the feud (as well as rewrite the grim end of Shakespeare's original)?
The voice cast also includes Michael Caine as Juliet's father Lord Redbrick, Jason Statham as Gnomeo's nemesis Tybalt, Maggie Smith as Lady Bluebury, Patrick Stewart as Bill Shakespeare, Ashley Jensen as Juliet's confidante Nanette, Stephen Merchant as Paris, Matt Lucas as Gnomeo's pal Benny, and Jim Cummings as the plastic pink flamingo Featherstone.
Like most people, I didn't think much at all when they first heard of Gnomeo & Juliet. But it turns out it's less like Hoodwinked! and more like this year's Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, another toon with low expectations that turned out to be a pleasant surprise. It could become the next Shrek-size franchise (and with the potential of increasingly charmless sequels); of course, unless it finds an audience it will be the new Igor.
Gnomeo & Juliet has surprisingly racy undertones for a G-rated movie (the gnome hats are obvious fodder), which means there's plenty of subtext here for adults to enjoy even as the kids are amused by what's on the surface. There's also the bevy of classic Elton John tunes that have been reworked for the film, which adults will know and kids will likely discover here (perhaps they only know him as the guy who sang songs for 1990s Disney cartoons). Overall, this is pretty much Kitsch: The Motion Picture.
The goofy and whimsical Gnomeo & Juliet may have a thin premise to it, but so did a certain animated movie about toys that come to life. (No, not Small Soldiers.) While the gimmick of sending up Shakespeare may be lost on kids -- who will enjoy the movie's colorful palette, silly characters and overall cuteness -- older and more literate viewers will appreciate the satirical bits peppered throughout the film. If you'd like a cheeky and cheerful animated romp, you could do worse than this little (no pun intended) film.
movies in JUNE 2011!!
Welcome to the Movies coming out June 2011 section of our site where we bring you movies coming out June 2011We hope that our Movies List will satisfy your first for New Movies Coming out June 2011 can you spot any new and exciting June 2011 Movie Releases.
If A Tree Falls A Story Of The Earth Liberation Front
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This documentary is about Daniel McGowan the Earth Liberation Front group member, who was arrested by Federal agents in December 2005 and faced life in prison for destroying luxury homes, SUVs, and other private property thereby costing Americans millions of dollars in damages, McGowan believes that they are protecting the environment through destroying property. his activities are the same to that of other terrorists that operate as a loose-network of individual cells. Sounds interesting if not a bit cuckoo!
Love Etc
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This documentary tells five different relationship stories, a divorced father of two teenagers, octogenarian lovebirds, high school sweethearts a traditional Indian wedding and a gay single guy. We do love to nosy in on other peoples lives so this should be good.
Bride Flight
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This Foreign drama is about three young women – Ada, Esther and Marjori who emigrate from post-WWII Holland to New Zealand for what they hope will be a better life. With them all having fiancés, waiting for them who have already settled there it should make things easy, but On the plane trip known as the 'Bride Flight' the three become firm friends and meet a dashing young man, named Frank, who will come to play a huge role in each of their lives. Intrigued? then watch the movie guy's.
Love Wedding Marriage
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This movie is about marriage counselor(Mandy Moore)who discovers that her parents( James Brolin and Jane Seymour) are planing to get a divorce, devastated at the news she sets about putting their marriage back on track, risking her own in the process.
Rejoice And Shout
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This documentary will be fascinating for the religious among us, it follows gospel music and the influence it as on the people who rejoice and truly believe in it's powers. Praise be the lord that we all enjoy this movie.
Submarine
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We have no idea what this movie is about just yet but we think it may be linked to something to do with the beetles pop group from the 1960's. More new as it happens
The Last Mountain
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This documentary tells the story of when Bobby Kennedy, Jr joined the Appalachian families to fight the mining and burning of coal. Yawn, Yawn, whatever floats ya boat we say.
X Men First Class
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Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time...
Super 8
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This Sci-Fi is about a group of kids who in 1979 accidentally caught what escaped from one of the cargo cars that was transporting materials from area 51 after the Air Force closed a part of it down, it was on it's way to a secure facility in Ohio when the train derailed, the kids were playing at making movies with their Super 8 cameras and filming the trains just as it happened.Sounds like a great movie guy's.
The Trip
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When a food critic for the UK's Observer played by Steve Coogan relationship breaks down just before he is due to go on a working road trip his friend (Rob Brydon) offers to step in at the last minute to cover for his ex-girlfriend and together they embark on a journey of a lifetime. We think this will be a great comedy guy's.
The Troll Hunter
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This movie is about a group of students who find the existence of trolls in Norway and the government who will stop at nothing to keep the secret hidden from the general public. Said to be fact, what will you decide?
Viva Riva
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This drama is about a guy named Riva a small time operator who heads back home to his hometown of Kinshasa, Congo after a decade away, but he's not empty handed, he has wads of cash from a fortune in hijacked gasoline, but he soon lands in trouble when he meets a beautiful night club denizen Nora, the property of a local gangster and just to makes things worse along comes the Angolan crime lord who is relentlessly seeking the return of his stolen shipment of gasoline.
Buck
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This action, adventure, fantasy, in 3D will see Buck Rogers thrown into the 25th century, with the fighter pilot taking on even more advanced law- breakers than he had imagined. We all grow up with good old Buck, so it will be great to see him brought back to life with all the special effects we have now days.
Green Lantern
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A test pilot is granted a mystical green ring that bestows him with otherworldly powers, as well as membership into an intergalactic squadron tasked with keeping peace within the universe.
Homework
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The story a solitary high school student who doesn't believe in anything until he strikes up a friendship with a girl he's liked for a long time.
Mysteries Of Lisbon
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This mystery drama tells the story of a jealous countess, a young orphaned boy and a wealthy businessman and follows them across Brazil, France, Italy and Portugal, where they connect with a variety of mysterious individuals. We are really liking the plot to this movie, with tree different story's but all linking together, a bit like "Crash" we think.
The Gardener
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About a immigrant Mexican working in LA that is finding it difficult to keep his son safe from trouble from the locals.
A Little Help
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This comedy drama is about a young mother who is forced to bring up her child alone when her husband dies, she soon finds that being a single mom isn't easy and so decides to reconnect with her old boyfriend, trouble is he is now her sisters husband!. Not recommended for the kids because the movie as some bad language, sexual content and drug use, but great for us adults.
Cars 2
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Racing star Lightning McQueen teams up with his best friend Mater for an international adventure as they go up against the world's fastest cars.
Turtle The Incredible Journey
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With the voice of Miranda Richardson, this family documentary in 3D is about a little turtle's amazing journey in the natural world as she follows in the path of her ancestors. Born on a beach in Florida, she rides the Gulf Stream up towards the Arctic and ultimately swims around the entire North Atlantic across to Africa and back to the beach where she was born, but this is far from easy as just one in ten thousand turtles survive the journey! We think this will be a fantastic movie for all the family.
Best Worst Movie?
We bitch about them all the time, but there’s really something kind of special about a bad movie — unlike books, and to a far greater extent than most pieces of music, a bad movie requires the involvement of a great number of people, most of them passionate believers in the doomed project at hand. A movie that’s only crappy will just bore you, but a really bad one can take you outside of your skin for 90 minutes and make you re-examine the way you look at the world. How can so many people go so wrong? Is art real? What does “talent” mean?
These are the kinds of questions posed by the very worst movies, and according to a not inconsiderable number of people, the worst of them all is 1990’s Troll 2. It’s difficult to describe the motion picture misery that is Troll 2, but some of the high points include the fact that it has nothing to do with 1986’s Troll, and it was filmed by a non English-speaking Italian director, in Utah…and it doesn’t include a single troll. The plot, such as it is, revolves around vegetarian goblins (in the quaint burg of Nilbog, natch) who trick people into turning into plants so they can be eaten. There’s a lot of cheap latex, a lot of green food coloring, and tons of truly terrible acting from the cast of unknowns. It technically has a beginning, middle, and end, so whether it’s truly the worst movie of all time is somewhat debatable, but there’s no arguing Troll 2 is a pretty miserable viewing experience. More after the jump:
Intrigued by its enduring, um, popularity, Troll 2’s putative star, Michael Stephenson, decided to make a documentary about it, and thus wasBest Worst Movie born. For aficionados of bad film, it’s a fairly irresistible idea for a feature — to not only peek behind the scenes of a notorious flop, but to examine the cult surrounding so much failure. So cheeky! So ironic! And yet so meta!
To his everlasting credit, Stephenson did what seems like a pretty exhausting amount of legwork for Best Worst Movie; not only does he take viewers to an assortment of Troll 2 parties and tongue-in-cheek theatrical screenings, he’s instrumental in re-assembling the movie’s original cast and crew, which is harder than you might think, given that most of them haven’t done much in the way of acting since the Troll 2 wrap party. As Best Worst Movie begins, we’re introduced to George Hardy, who played Stephenson’s dad inTroll 2 and is now an Alabama dentist; he seems pretty settled in his career and extremely well-liked in his small town, but you just know anyone who has this turkey on his resume — and followed it 17 years later with an appearance as the eloquently named “Edwin Gophercum” in something called Street Team Massacre – is wrestling with some dark demons.
Hardy, for reasons that quickly become apparent, immediately settles in as Best Worst Movie’s star. He gives self-deprecating interviews, attends Troll 2 screenings with the giddy smile of a guy who’s totally in on the joke, and seems pleasantly befuddled as to why anyone would want to relive his 20-year-old mistake. But as the Troll 2 reunion coalesces, you see Best Worst Movie’s sad underlining — that these folks might, for the most part, understand they made an epically bad movie, but they did it because they had dreams of being successful in the movie business, and that’s also why it was so easy for Stephenson to get them back in front of the camera. Confronted with their legacy, the cast has the same “okay, guys” vibe shown by Crispin Glover as George McFly when he’s getting picked on in Back to the Future – they seem like basically decent people who want to be liked, even if it means dredging up Troll 2.
This is probably an unnecessarily heady question for a 93-minute documentary about a footnote in cinematic history, but it’s indicative of why, as entertaining as it is, Best Worst Movie never really moves beyond saying “Ha ha! Troll 2 sucks and it’s turned into a bizarre cult phenomenon.” The people who love Troll 2 don’t love it for any reason beyond goofball irony, and the people who made it don’t understand the movie, let alone why anyone would buy a ticket to a midnight screening, so Best Worst Movie illuminates nothing beyond the danger of mocking a movie while you’re standing in earshot of the director. Stephenson has made a fun film, and there’s nothing wrong with that — but it’s tempting to wonder what a more objective director might have done with this.
Jeff Giles is the editor-in-chief of Popdose and Dadnabbit, as well as a frequent contributor to Bullz-Eye and an associate editor at Rotten Tomatoes.