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Stars in Rewind: Zoe Saldana as a 'Terminal' Trekker
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It's a piece of trivia that will go down in movie history, and it'll probably ensure that Steven Spielberg's The Terminal is still talked about ten years from now. I don't mean to sound too dismissive, I own a copy, and have happily watched it more than is good for me. It's the first film I saw Zoe Saldana in, and I am always going to get a giggle out of the meta set of circumstances that led her to playing Lt. Uhura in Star Trek.
I thought I was going to be all uber-clever in uncovering a clip, but TrekMovie had one compiled and put online before Saldana had even been confirmed in the role. I've always loved this particular scene because it's the first time Saldana's grumpy Immigration Officer cracks, and you find out she's actually a total geek. And oh, the joy Diego Luna takes in the knowledge! I like to imagine their first date was over a DVD of The Wrath of Khan, but maybe it was just over pizza and an enthusiastic debate of who was the better captain: Kirk or Picard? At least Saldana has graduated to a better character than that of Yeoman Rand, though you have to wonder ... why on earth wasn't she going to conventions as Uhura? Maybe she just wanted to wear that ridiculous beehive.
I thought I was going to be all uber-clever in uncovering a clip, but TrekMovie had one compiled and put online before Saldana had even been confirmed in the role. I've always loved this particular scene because it's the first time Saldana's grumpy Immigration Officer cracks, and you find out she's actually a total geek. And oh, the joy Diego Luna takes in the knowledge! I like to imagine their first date was over a DVD of The Wrath of Khan, but maybe it was just over pizza and an enthusiastic debate of who was the better captain: Kirk or Picard? At least Saldana has graduated to a better character than that of Yeoman Rand, though you have to wonder ... why on earth wasn't she going to conventions as Uhura? Maybe she just wanted to wear that ridiculous beehive.
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• Big Momma's House 2 - In Martin Lawrence's desperate minstrel show, the comedian reprises his role as undercover FBI agent Malcolm Turner, again donning a fat suit to become the sassy, black Southern matron Big Momma. He has to stop a potentially destructive computer hacker, and the movie is broad, shameless and pandering in most every respect. Lawrence appears to assume that we automatically like him and Big Momma, and does little to endear them to us any further. Incessant mugging, weak slapstick and Teflon catchphrases fill in the many cracks of its already shaky foundation, leaving a hammy house of horrors that should have been condemned when it was still a half-baked pitch.
• Grandma's Boy - Adam Sandler's longtime second-banana, Allen Covert, gets his shot at a lead in this stoner comedy, but despite his appealing, aw-shucks demeanor, the movie, about a 36-year-old video game tester who moves in with his grandmother and her two roommates, is just irredeemably stupid. It is sad to see three lovely ladies like Doris Roberts, Shirley Jones and Shirley Knight stooping for laughs like this, though based on the fact that practically no one saw it in theaters (or will go out of their way to rent the DVD), it is a very minor tragedy.
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