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New On DVD - Munich, Nanny McPhee, The New World
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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.
New On DVD - Bee Season, Brokeback Mountain, The Chronicles Of Narnia
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• Bee Season - Richard Gere as a rough-boy sailor in An Officer and a Gentleman? OK. Richard Gere as a singing and dancing attorney in Chicago? Convincing enough. Richard Gere as a Jewish husband (of Juliette Binoche) and father exploring the mysteries of God through the flawless spelling of his daughter? Oy. Many parts of this existential drama about the ways in which a brilliant 11-year-old (Flora Cross) affects her family are sketchy, as no one of the characters is well-drawn enough for us to care about them too much. Genius was captured far better in films like Little Man Tate and Searching For Bobby Fischer.
Starbucks to shill Bee movie
Filed under: Drama », Distribution », Home Entertainment », Movie Marketing »
Following the trail trod by their successful in-store CD
sales program, Starbucks has decided to move into the movie game. They've signed on to put their considerable vending
muscle behind Akeelah
and the Bee, a drama starring Angela Bassett, about a young girl from South Central trying to make it to the
National Spelling Bee. Starbucks will offer sneak previews of the film to its customers before it opens in April. Later
in the year, the coffee shiller will sell the DVD of the film at its registers. It's the first step in a major push by
the Seattle based company to expand their retail offerings, the very concept of which seems to muck up its famed
"third place" branding
strategy – what good is having a separate space that is not work or home, if that place is trying to choke you
with media? All Marxist misgivings aside, the CD program has worked incredibly well to raise the profile of its
offering ... which only makes me wish that a certain
other, quickly-forgotten spelling bee film had been chosen for the push.
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