movie recommendation
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rushthatspeaksRuth and I went to see Lilo & Stitch tonight, which is the new Disney animated feature. It was made by the people who did Mulan, this time with a budget.
Dude. Of all the people I did not expect to make an animated movie that can be compared favorably with Miyazaki, Disney has got to be at the top of the list. However, they did it. This is a movie with that Miyazaki sense of the beauty of the natural world, and the joy of beauty. Is Lilo & Stitch a great movie? I'm not sure, and I think it may not be, because my criteria for greatness in a movie involves the story having a deep artistic purpose, and Lilo & Stitch is pure entertainment and I think designed to be that way. (Her name, by the way, is pronounced Lee-loe, not like my name.) However, it is the best American kids animation I've seen, and it is incredibly, irrepressibly, hilariously entertaining. This is a movie in which the heroine can scream into a cell phone "Aliens are after my dog! Oh... wait... it's all right, my dog found the chainsaw." And mean it. This is a movie which is set in Hawaii in which there are actual sentences in Hawaiian which are not forcibly translated for the benefit of an American audience. This is a movie with actual subtlety, and a movie which ends with every single character, even the lady in the animal shelter, being three-dimensional. There are no 'stupid adult' type villains; there aren't, in fact, villains. This is a movie in which the social worker who is considering removing Lilo from her home is acting out of real concern and care for all parties involved and is trying to make an impossible situation as easy on everyone as it can be. When was the last time you saw that in a movie? This is also a movie in which the main characters are drawn to look like real people. Lilo is short and blocky and has a nose far too big for her face; her older sister, while very attractive, has proportions like somebody you would see on the street. The art style reminded me vaguely of Strangers in Paradise, which is interesting, since the character David from that comic ditched his nasty backstory and shows up in this movie as the older sister's sweet and laidback surfer boyfriend. (I mean, that's the only explanation I have; the two characters are so similar.) This is a movie in which I did not have to do one single bit of mental editiing so as not to feel guilty about enjoying myself-- and I can't remember the last time I laughed this hard through a movie.
Because this is also a movie in which a small blue alien sings Elvis.
Do not go expecting Depth and Profundity. But damn, this movie's fun.
Angst-O-Meter: de nada.
Dude. Of all the people I did not expect to make an animated movie that can be compared favorably with Miyazaki, Disney has got to be at the top of the list. However, they did it. This is a movie with that Miyazaki sense of the beauty of the natural world, and the joy of beauty. Is Lilo & Stitch a great movie? I'm not sure, and I think it may not be, because my criteria for greatness in a movie involves the story having a deep artistic purpose, and Lilo & Stitch is pure entertainment and I think designed to be that way. (Her name, by the way, is pronounced Lee-loe, not like my name.) However, it is the best American kids animation I've seen, and it is incredibly, irrepressibly, hilariously entertaining. This is a movie in which the heroine can scream into a cell phone "Aliens are after my dog! Oh... wait... it's all right, my dog found the chainsaw." And mean it. This is a movie which is set in Hawaii in which there are actual sentences in Hawaiian which are not forcibly translated for the benefit of an American audience. This is a movie with actual subtlety, and a movie which ends with every single character, even the lady in the animal shelter, being three-dimensional. There are no 'stupid adult' type villains; there aren't, in fact, villains. This is a movie in which the social worker who is considering removing Lilo from her home is acting out of real concern and care for all parties involved and is trying to make an impossible situation as easy on everyone as it can be. When was the last time you saw that in a movie? This is also a movie in which the main characters are drawn to look like real people. Lilo is short and blocky and has a nose far too big for her face; her older sister, while very attractive, has proportions like somebody you would see on the street. The art style reminded me vaguely of Strangers in Paradise, which is interesting, since the character David from that comic ditched his nasty backstory and shows up in this movie as the older sister's sweet and laidback surfer boyfriend. (I mean, that's the only explanation I have; the two characters are so similar.) This is a movie in which I did not have to do one single bit of mental editiing so as not to feel guilty about enjoying myself-- and I can't remember the last time I laughed this hard through a movie.
Because this is also a movie in which a small blue alien sings Elvis.
Do not go expecting Depth and Profundity. But damn, this movie's fun.
Angst-O-Meter: de nada.
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De nada?
Date: 2002-06-25 11:20 pm (UTC)Um, I think you meant to just say nada.
De nada translates to "you're welcome", as in the response to gracias.
But that's just me picking nits. I need sleep...