Monday, November 20, 2006

 
Top Ten Reasons Happy Feet ($42.3 million) outgrossed Casino Royale ($40.6 million) at the box office this weekend:

-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.


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