Flicks: Evan Almighty & Ratatouille

[AAA]

Saw both this weekend at the REAL LIVE theaters.

Evan Almighty.
It was so light hearted and good natured. It seemed like only 30 minutes went by. Great kid flick. But they mention an animals penis trivia twice. Odd. The ending credits are fun. Steve Carell is good with scripts like this. I've never seen nosehairs so close up on the screen. We'll have to take our kids to see it next. John Goodman is going to DIE if he does not lose weight.

Ratatouille
I'm not sure who the target audience is for this. All the kids in the theater were wandering about. Not in the least bit interested in the characters. They had to decide whether to have an animal scene or a human scene. That is, it's either in human mode where they ignorant boy chef is mucking about, or the rat mode, where he's trying not to dislike/fear humans. The scenery is MAGNIFICENT. But, they did not give any good parts to the Sous chef, or other characters. I'm not sure what ethnicity the female chef was supposed to be. The accent was all over the place. The head chef reminded me of smeagol? I can't say that there was one good belly laugh from the audience on this one. One of my lower rated Pixar films.

[SteveO]

Aye, Evan was a pleasant surprise. Haven't seen the Rat movie; I figure if I have a hard time pronouncing a film that's meant for a mass audience, I'll have an equally hard time watching it. Looks like I am correct in that assumption.

[MacMagus]

> Evan Almighty

Perhaps the very embodiment of the phrase "vapid comedy." Entertaining only in the sense that sitting in a darkened theater staring at a blank screen might be less enjoyable.


> Ratatouille
> I'm not sure who the target audience is for this. All the kids in the theater
> were wandering about. Not in the least bit interested in the characters.

The kids in the row behind me cried out for more when it was over.


> I can't say that there was one good belly laugh from the audience on this one.

I don't think that the intention was for it to be a belly-laugh comedy.

[endymion]

Haven't seen Evan Almighty, but Bruce Almighty was amusing. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone or anything, and I wouldn't spend money on it again...

Saw Ratatouille this weekend and we thought it was wonderful; a couple of kids in the theater didn't seem to "get" what was going on at one point and one guy seemed bent on text messaging throughout, but the rest of the audience was definitely caught up in the fun.
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[volcs0]

I saw a BitTorrent version of Evan Almighty and still felt ripped off.

We all saw Rat... in the theaters and had a terrific time. A very sweet movie, I thought.

We saw the Simpsons a few nights ago - that was a roaring good time. The theater was packed, and everyone was howling with laughter.

[laarree]

I loved Ratatouille and so did the kids in the audience where I was.

[Racer X]

saw Rat last night. Now I just threaten people with my giant thumb, and they cower in fear.

[IronMac]

Ratatouille is a great movie as far as I am concerned. It's a bit more low-key than other Pixar films but I really enjoyed it all the same.

[Webster J. Duck]

I took my middle son (4 y/o) to Ratatouille. He got scared and had to leave when the mouse was stealing cheese… he knew that was wrong. But up into that point we both loved it. Funny kid: Can watch the most startling scenes and love them (my oldest gets scared easily), but if someone is going to get in trouble he has to leave.

Took the 7 y/o to Harry Potter. He liked it…I found it somewhat formulaic… Dumbledorf (sp?) gets kicked out, the Potter crew solves the problem, Dumbleforf gets reinstated. I did like the first two in the series though.

[Webster J. Duck]

By the way, you really do post a lot. That's not bad, just saying.