Columbus fills the screen with colorful images that make a world of spells seem as solid as the one we travel every day. Rowling's lively novel about an 11-year-old boy who discovers he's a natural-born wizard, enrolls in a school to learn magic and enchantment, and finds himself battling the sinister sorcerer who killed his parents when he was a baby. Sterritt *** This richly produced fantasy stays true to the letter and spirit of J.K. With Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Robbie Coltrane, Maggie Smith. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (PG)ĭirector: Chris Columbus. Staff ** Creative, pantheistic, Digitally sophisticated, intense. Skeptics may feel that in its own small way, this sort of cinema is as dehumanizing as the aliens who serve as its intergalactic bad guys. On the other, it abandons the expressive power of genuine human performances by artificially creating all its images. On one hand, the movie abandons the anything-goes imaginativeness of animation by slavishly imitating real-life human traits. While this is a striking technical feat, it poses an artistic problem. ![]() The movie is noteworthy because it's the first major Hollywood release to feature an entire cast of human characters generated completely through computer animation. Aki Ross thinks she can solve things with a more high-minded approach. The military wants to blast them into oblivion, but the brainy and beautiful Dr. ![]() Sterritt ** It's the distant future (yet again) and Earth has been decimated by aliens. With the voices of Alec Baldwin, Ming Na, James Woods, Donald Sutherland, Steve Buscemi, Ving Rhames. I love the essential story of Rock-a-Doodle for instance, while the faux-Elvis window dressing left me a bit "meh." The basic mythopoetic-ness of a owl trying to get rid of a rooster so the rooster won't call the sun appeals to me.Director: Hironobu Sakaguchi. I can't say all of Bluth's films are great, but they're all interesting and worth seeing. In the film, we never see Brutus again (though he's namechecked during the moving of the Brisby home), so we never get the punctuation for the scene, and are so left with a truly frightening scene that serves no real narrative purpose. Brisby has blown her encounter with Brutus a bit out of proportion this is emphasized when we meet Brutus shortly thereafter in the company of Justin and we learn he's essentially an oversized kid. In the book, we're given to understand that, in her anxiety about going to see the rats, Mrs. Brisby meets Brutus in the rats' rosebush when I saw The Secret of NIHM for the first time as a little kid the scene is a bit of mood whiplash. I recall being scared by the scene where Mrs. (Seriously, they say "a bit NSFW", but steel yourself regardless.)īluth films could have some genuinely frightening moments. In any case, I want to see where this goes! In a weird fusion cocktail between Greek mythology, Christian lore, and cyberpunk, a nymph named Ingenue is separated from her beau Zeus and their floating Adam & Eve-like utopia called Olympus and plunged literally headfirst into a bustling cyberpunkian city aptly called Nymphopolis (called so because it's literally shaped like a lady), where women are confined to "a very special fate." Of course, Ingenue isn't going to take this sitting down, so she quests an epic quest against the totalitarianism and a Pantheon of Gods (thus leading into a revolution) to get back to Olympus.if not to get back to the birds and bees with Zeus, then to get some answers regarding that last thing he said to her. ![]() It's a trailer for a new French animated series project called Nymphopolis. Heck, the image preview alone might raise a red flag or two.) Woof, anyone saw this? (I'd embed it like usual, but it's mildly NSFW.
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