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Pepper Dennis is lacking the Salt

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Yet another new show hit the TV screens on WB this week: Pepper Dennis is a hot female news reporter (Rebecca Romijn) with high ambitions who just happens to have a one night stand with the guy who will become her new boss the next day.

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We get treated with blunt humor paired with mediocre slapstick, sex and humongously stupid dialogue. So, the man you have a one night stand with is “the one”? Right? Right… I am sorry to say but if it was possible to sue a TV station for 60 minutes of utterly wasted time then now would be your best chance. “Pepper Dennis” is a real stinker.

Firewalker (1986)

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Firewalker (1986)The posts have stopped. The writer is sick but before you rechoice I am already pulling through and actually am getting better! So I am afraid there will be more uncanny reviews and babblings come March.

For a start you can check out my DVD review on Mr. Roundhouse Kick also known as Chuck “Firewalker” Norris over at eyecravedvd.com.

Save your strength, you will need it.

The “story” of this movie is already contained on the back cover so I will just fill in the pieces I found noteworthy of mentioning. Along with Max and Leo (Norris and Gosset) we have Patricia Goodwyn (Flash Gordon’s Melody Anderson), the treasure hunting team who go to Southern America to get the Aztec gold hidden in a temple (of doom) with lots of crappy plaster walls and Goonies-like wannabe-traps.

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Madagascar (2005)

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Madagascar (2005)I heard a lot of good things about “Madagascar” but I had my doubts though and rightly so. It’s all well made and such. The animation is cartoon like with enough details to make it look good. The characters are not too interesting and the two monkeys are the funniest of the bunch but they have next to no screen time. The penguins are the key element and the driving force that kicks the whole “break out” story in motion. Again they have next to no screen time. Instead we get the thumb sucking lion Alex (voice: Ben Stiller), the neurotic giraffe Melman, the manic-depressive zebra Marty (voice: Chris Rock) and the motherly hippo Gloria.
There are a few jokes and amusing scenes but not enough to make this a hilarious fun ride. Once you meet the lemurs and the lemurs meet the pansies the movie is practically over, were it not for the returning penguins.

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Corpse Bride (2005)

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Corpse Bride (2005)Tim Burton’s “Corpse Bride” is loosely based on a Russian folktale where a soon to be groom unknowingly cites his marital vows to what seems to him like a wooden stick that looks like a hand reaching out of the ground. The wooden hand comes to life and a terrified Victor (Johnny Depp) finds himself in the clutches of a cursed corpse bride.

At the very beginning of the movie you already realize that you are in for a meticulously composed piece of art. From the sweeping of the broom to the wagging of the tail to the cutting of the fish everything moves in the rhythm of the clockwork opening theme composed by Danny Elfman. The musical score is not quite as memorable as in “Nightmare before Christmas” and more generic, yet it does have its grand moments, e.g. the “Corpse Bride” song.

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Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)

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Wallace and Gromit in The Curse of the Were-RabbitI had a “hunch” that this movie would be fun and indeed it was. From the “HOP 2 IT” license plate to “24 carrot gold bullets” to the fact that this movie “may contain nuts”, “Wallace and Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit” is fun for the whole family without limitations (it is rated PG in some countries).
There are just too many carefully planted details and references to previous works to miss on first view that this alone is well worth a second and even third watch. It’s a “must have” on DVD, that is for sure.

The claymation is simply fantastic as we can expect from an Aardman production. It’s not all clay though and there is a fair amount of CGI but it integrates very well and is nicely done, in a fluffy way. Those of you who have seen previous Wallace and Gromit adventures will also recognize many of the tunes and cracking contraptions. New this time around is Wallace’s latest untested contraption, the “Mind-O-Matic”, which is going to be switched to “full suckage” for a little bit of “harmless” mind altering: “Veg bad … Veg baaaad … Veg baaaaaad …” should give you a rough idea of possible applications.

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