Monday, November 20, 2006
-The motion-capture for the new James Bond simply wasn’t as breathtakingly gritty and brutal as the motion-capture for the penguin Mumble.
-The love scenes between Daniel Craig and Judi Dench leave much less to the imagination than the love scenes between the penguins Mumble and Gloria.
-Daniel Craig has blond hair. Mumbles has dark hair, much like Sean Connery’s.
-Daniel Craig is furrier than a penguin when he removes his shirt.
-Daniel Craig is a better tap-dancer than Mumbles, but Mumbles proves far more adroit at lambada.
-In “Casino Royale”, as in the book, all of the gambling is done over the Internet, which is far less exciting than it sounds.
-Director George Miller wisely borrowed a few key elements of his Mad Max movies for “Happy Feet”, including Tina Turner as the villain amid a post-apocalyptic world.
-Many Americans have been dismayed to discover that the U.S. Government does not issue a “license to kill”, and so look with disdain upon “Casino Royale” as science fiction. But talking and dancing penguins? With some genetic modifications, that could really happen!
-“Happy Feet” wisely focuses on regal Emperor penguins. In the first draft of the script, the main characters were ordinary Manager penguins.
-When Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld filled in for Roger Ebert on “Ebert & Roeper at the Movies” on November 6, he gave “Happy Feet” a thumbs down. The very next day, he lost his job. Coincidence? Some say not.
