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[EX Q]: when i initially set out to review this film , my tag line was going to be " you too can believe whales can fly " .
then it was going to be
" you too can believe pastel triangles can fly " .
then , it was going to be
" you too can believe wood sprites can fly " .
finally , i just gave up trying to come up with a tag line and decided to say .
..
there 's a lot of flying going on in this film !
as our first host steve martin tells us ,
the original concept behind fantasia was to bring it out every year with some old segments retained and some new segments added in .
well apparently that plan fell by the wayside for a while , because approximately sixty years have passed since the original classic was released .
part of this might have something to do with the cold reception the film got when it was first released in 1940 ( grossing somewhere close to $ 110 , 000 in its original month of release ) .
subsequent re - releases of the film have elevated the popularity of the film to the classic status it has finally achieved ( and rightfully deserved ) .
to celebrate the release of an updated version of fantasia , disney and imax teamed up to present the animated film in a fashion no one had seen before : six stories high .
in an exclusive four month engagement ( from january 1st to april 30th , 2000 ) , fantasia 2000 can be seen at many imax theaters across the us .
after the engagement is over , the film will be shown at regular theaters .
is the format effective for the film ?
with a few exceptions , yes .
the first segment we are presented with is set to beethoven 's fifth symphony .
it 's hard to describe exactly what this segment is about , but
it involves a bunch of brightly colored butterfly looking triangles flitting about happily .
everything seems to be going great for these little things until the ground erupts with swarms of evil , black bat - like triangles that attack and engulf their lighter counterparts .
eventually , shafts of light from above help drive away the evil bat - like things and peace returns to the butterfly things .
though this segment is n't very story driven , some of the images are very visually strong , especially the scene in which the dark cloud of bat things ( who are all outlined in blood red colors ) begin to overtake the skies .
the next segment is set to ottorino respighi 's " the pines of rome " .
in this segment , some humpback whales swim happily through the ocean and eventually emerge from the water and fly around the massive icebergs that pepper the oceanscape .
a whale calf gets into a scuffle with some nearby birds during the flight and ends up getting trapped in a giant iceberg he smashes into while trying to avoid the birds attack .
he is finally saved ( by another liberating shaft of light ) and he and his brethren take to the skies and fly into the upper atmosphere where they frolic in the " oceans " of clouds .
again , visuals are the key with this segment , especially where the whales are involved .
reportedly the whales , as viewed on an imax screen in certain sequences , are shown as actual size .
the cgi whales look incredibly life - like , except for some googly cartoon eyes drawn onto the images .
one especially striking image involves the giant shadow of one of the whales being cast through the wall of an iceberg as the whale calf tries to find a way out to its parent . absolutely beautiful stuff .
the third segment ( and the least of the eight segments ) is set to george gershwin 's " rhapsody in blue " .
this segment is designed as a tribute to acclaimed caricaturist al hirschfeld , and intertwines four different stories about sad souls living in depression era new york .
there 's a construction worker who dreams of being a jazz drummer , an out - of - work sad sack
that dreams of having a job ,
a young girl that dreams of spending time with her parents instead of being hustled off by a schoolmarm , and a nebbish who dreams of being free from his overbearing wife .
i wo n't go into how everything works out , but in fine disney tradition there is a happy ending .
unfortunately , the story drags quite a bit and the seems out of place within the hyper reality of the rest of the segments .
segment four is set to dmitri shostakovich 's " piano concerto no . 2
" and is an animated version of hans christian andersen 's " the steadfast tin soldier " .
a one legged toy tin soldier falls in love with a wind - up clock ballerina ( whom he assumes is also one legged because he ca n't see her other leg extended out behind her ) , much to the dismay of an evil jack - in - the - box jester .
the jester knocks the soldier out of a window and continues pursuing the ballerina .
little does the jester know , the soldier has been deposited in the sewer and has journeyed through the pipelines only to be swallowed by a fish that has been captured and sold to the owner of the set of tin soldiers that the one legged one comes from .
the soldier eventually saves the day and gets the girl .
although the ending has been altered from the andersen story , " the steadfast tin soldier " is decently told with in the framework of a seven minute short .
some children may find the jester to be a little frightening , but otherwise the segment is well made .
segment five is the funniest of the bunch .
set to camille saint - saens " the carnival of the animals " , this segment features a flamingo torturing his fellow flamingos with a yo - yo while they are trying to perform a choreographed dance number . while it is the shortest clip of the group and a throwback to the alligators and hippos dancing in the first fantasia
, it is still well accomplished and a welcome bit of comedy .
segment six is the only segment to be repeated from the original 1940 fantasia , and it 's the one that people remember most , " the sorcerer 's apprentice " .
the story is the most recognizable , so the draw here is seeing it on the enormous imax screen in remastered stereo .
unfortunately , the segment was n't made to be presented on large format film ( considering it was shot full frame ) and exhibits large amounts of grain .
there were at least two occasions where images were very hard to make out due to the excessive grain .
similar problems crop up on modern day releases when projected on screens too large for the image to be shown accurately
( but no one seems to notice for some strange reason ) , an anomaly common to many 18-plus screen theaters .
segment seven is set to sir edward elgar 's " pomp and circumstance march no .
1 "
and is the only other fantasia segment to feature a stock disney character .
donald duck " stars " as an assistant to noah , whose task is loading all of the animals onto the ark .
during the loading , donald and his wife lose sight of each other and both believe that the other one did n't make it on the boat .
they are constantly missing each other due to comic misadventures mainly involving donald being crushed by animals in various manners .
despite the slapstick style of comedy in this piece , it displays more emotion in its final scene than many of the tear - jerkers foisted on audiences these days .
powerful stuff .
segment eight brings a whole new meaning to the clich ?
" saving the best for last " .
set to igor stravinsky 's " the firebird " , an elk awakens a forest sprite that proceeds to change the wintery landscape into a beautiful springtime landscape .
trees bloom and flowers blossom and everything seems to be going well until the sprite becomes inquisitive about a large mountain housing a strange formation .
when the sprite examines the formation , it awakens and becomes the titular firebird .
in a stunning spectacle , the firebird rears back and unleashes and fire storm that destroys everything in its path , including everything that the sprite has worked to create .
some amazing animation is present here , and well worth the ten dollars a ticket alone
( although brush strokes are evident in one scene due to the enlargement of the film ) .
the host segments are largely ( no pun intended ) throwaways , although steve martin 's clip is pretty funny . be sure to stay through the credits for a little more humor from martin .
penn and teller are usually funny , but here their gags seem routine and therefore uninteresting .
the best segment comes from , of all people , bette midler , who gets to tell us about some of the abandoned segments that never made it off of the drawing board .
pieces like flight of the bumblebee , a take on the four horsemen set to wagner 's " ride of the valkyries " , and a strange segment prepared in the ' 40s by salvador dali that never was shown are all previewed here and teased that they may appear in future installments .
for fans of visual stimulation or classical music , fantasia 2000 is a perfect way to spend the afternoon .
the film is also decent family entertainment and contains little to no objectionable material .
as i mentioned earlier in the review , if ten dollars seems like too much for you to spend on this film , fear not because after its run in imax theaters it is going to be brought out in regular theaters .
i must stress that the best way to see this film is on an imax screen though .
then you too can believe that whales / triangle things / sprites can fly .
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[EX A]: P

[EX Q]: talk about beating a dead horse !
when home alone was released in 1990 , it was a breath of fresh air , and the final box office tally indicated how much audiences appreciated a genuinely - funny family film .
the unexpectedly high gross guaranteed a sequel , so ,
two years later , we were subjected to home alone 2 , which might as well have been called clone alone for all of the originality it exhibited .
for john hughes , two home alone movies were n't enough ?
he began recycling the same kinds of villains and situations in almost every movie he was involved with , including a pathetic box office bomb called baby 's day out , last year 's live - action 101 dalmatians , and this year 's flubber .
now , inexplicably , hughes has exhumed not only these worn - out plot elements , but the " home alone " name as well . the result ?
1997 's worst sequel
( edging out speed 2 and batman and robin ) , home alone 3 . by changing the characters , hughes ( who wrote and co - produced the film ) , along with his co - conspirator , director raja gosnell , has attempted to inject new life into a series that is way past the point of cardiac arrest .
the new kid , alex pruitt , is played by alex d .
linz ( one fine day ) , and
the only thing he has going for him is terminal cuteness .
he 's not half as interesting as macaulay culkin once was .
the villains , pale copies of joe pesci and daniel stern , are even less engaging than the pair of idiots in flubber .
in home alone 3 , there are four of them ( olek krupa , david thornton , lenny von dohlen , and rya kihlstedt ) , but all that means is an opportunity for twice as many pratfalls .
this time , the kid is n't left home alone because his parents have gone on a trip .
instead , he has developed a bad case of chicken pox , so he ca n't go to school .
his dad ( kevin kilner ) is away on business and his mom ( haviland morris ) has to run errands , so , for the most part , he 's all by himself during the day .
through a series of coincidences too irritating to relate , a top secret u . s .
air force integrated circuit comes into his possession .
it 's wanted by a gang of four international crooks who intend to break into alex 's home to retrieve it .
the eight- year old , who is wise beyond his years , booby traps the house with all sorts of rube goldberg - type devices designed to humiliate and incapacitate the villains .
the movie 's climax takes place during a raging snowstorm ?
only none of the falling flakes looks remotely believable .
previously , the most counterfeit - looking snow effects i can remember were in star
trek iii .
these are far worse .
in fact , the production values are so shoddy that there are some scenes in the midst of this near - blizzard when a shining sun can be seen .
if it 's a wonderful life could generate real- looking snow back in the 1940s , why ca n't home alone 3 , which has a significantly larger budget and ' 90s technology at its disposal ?
there has been an ongoing debate regarding the appropriateness of live - action cartoon violence for young children .
home alone 3 will add fuel to the fire .
it 's one thing to see wyle e . coyote flattened by a 10 ton acme weight , but quite another to watch a running lawn mower fall on
lenny von dohlen .
adults and even older children will recognize that this is obviously fake and intended to be humorous , but what about five and six - year olds ?
the level of violence in home alone 3 is extreme ?
many of alex 's schemes are nasty enough to kill .
but , because this is a " family film , " no one dies , despite being electrocuted , falling thirty feet , and getting smacked on the head by a barbell .
not only is home alone 3 unnecessary , but it 's offensive .
it 's an exercise in tediousness , and there is n't a genuine laugh to be found from the beginning to the end ( unless , by some strange quirk of fate , you have missed every 1990s movie associated with john hughes , and thus have n't seen this stuff before ) .
i ca n't imagine anyone with a reasonable attention span being more than momentarily distracted by this pointless adventure .
maybe that 's why the only ones laughing at the screening i attended were still in their thumb - sucking years .
[EX A]: N

[EX Q]: yeah ,
yeah , the advertisements did n't even try to conceal the fact that this movie had only one hook - sex .
neve campbell and starship trooper 's denise richards getting it on ?
ok !
yeah ,
it 's a decent two minutes of film erotica , but even if that 's your main interest in this film ,
there 's plenty of cheeziness to sit thru in exchange for those two minutes .
wild things does have a lot more to think about than you might expect however .
nearly every single scene is a huge plot twist guaranteed to leave you guessing , or at least curious to see the next turn , throughout the entire movie .
but this fast - paced , razor - sharp turning of events does n't leave much time to enjoy the surprises .
we start off in a high - class california high school where every student resembles a supermodel in the making .
guidance counselor sam lombardo ( matt dillon ) seems to catch the eye of every student , particularly kelly van ryan ( richards ) , daughter of the locally prestigious family whose social status is about as high as their bank accounts .
right off the bat , kelly is using every asset she has in an effort to seduce " mr . lombardo " .
the fund - raiser car wash seems the opportune time , particularly when you wash your guidance counselor 's jeep in all white clothes and take plenty of precautions to insure you 'll be soaked from head to toe when you 're done .
on the weekend of the car wash , kelly 's attempts at seduction fall flat , and when they do , she concocts the tale that sam in fact raped her that day .
naturally sam is thrown into a state of panicked shock at these accusations .
but the otherwise unsubstantial fabrications soon lead to a criminal trial when a low - class , marijuana smoking student by the name of suzie toller ( campbell ) comes forth with a near identical story , also involving her trusted guidance counselor .
pitting himself against the communities most respected names and authoritarians , sam must prove his innocence thru the aid of his makeshift defense attorney , ken bowden , played by bill murray .
yes , that bill murray !
sound like a good , complete movie ?
yes , that alone could have been , but this is just the beginning .
in fact , the trial is over about fifteen or twenty minutes into the film .
it is merely used to launch the most twisted story of recent time .
by the time the movie finishes , you will have gone thru every plot twist imaginable .
unfortunately , with so much going on , you 're not given enough time in one predicament to be as effectively shocked when a new twist comes about .
this is just one way director john mcnaughton fails to make this movie as fun as it could 've been .
the 113 minutes fly by , and although it never feels underdeveloped ,
this pretzel of storytelling could 've been much more richly realized had a slower pace been taken .
the acting is incredibly reminiscent of fox prime - time soap operas , which no , is not a good thing .
and it 's not just campbell , who happens to hail from the prime - time fox soap " party of five " , but
everyone suffers from heavily melodramatic overtones .
dillon , who was so charming in his understated role in last year 's in & out , gives the best performance , and murray 's surprising appearance adds some comedic flare to the film .
in fact , if the whole movie had been promoted as a subtle comedy , even if it was the exact same film , i would actually give it a better grade .
that 's how cheezy it comes off .
but aside from these two , the rest offer nothing more than some good eye - full 's .
in the right hands , wild things could 've been a wickedly delightful , scrumptiously twisted thriller , but instead we get juvenile overuses of profanity and some very laughable displays of acting .
and what 's up with these people passing as high school students ?
i realize hollywood often casts older actors to play teenage roles , but when i realized it was n't supposed to be a college they were at , i had to snicker .
i wo n't lie -
this is definitely a guilty pleasure .
as corny as it is , it 's got some interesting aspects and could deserve at least a " b " for effort .
but if you just want to admire denise richards , go for last year 's starship troopers , which was every bit as campy , but a million times better .
of course , if seeing her breasts is your most important goal , you 'll be right at home with wild things .
perhaps the wildest thing of all is that somebody actually looked at this and thought it deserved to be in theaters .
[EX A]:
N