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Right, so I’m about 70 years late on reporting this one; but I never realized he actually spoke in his movies. And what a soliloquy!  Truer words were never spoken.

2.5 stars

I was pretty distracted throughout the movie by all of the cutesy little homages to past movies. Ark cameo? Check. Loving homages to Sean Connery and Denholm Elliott? Check. Previous love interest? Check.  Fleeting  homage to American Graffiti? Probably. The story was pretty straight forward, the communists not really menacing, the FBI was acting thuggish.

For me it really all boiled down to John Hurt.  Really, no John Hurt cameo can ever be as good as this one from Spaceballs.  I think everything else from the movie would’ve been forgiven if they could’ve written in John Hurt saying “Oh no… Not again!” into the movie somewhere.

Picture: www.Flixter.com

Solid. Absolutely stunning art design. The colors were amazing. Story is what you’d expect from a cartoon crossover. Casting was totally appropriate. Just wish there was a little more fanfare with the themesong.

I was pleasantly surprised.  The reviews were all a bit down on the movie that was marketed as the next Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe or Lord of the Rings trilogy.  Adapted from a Neil Gaiman book (admittedly, I’ve attempted reading it several times, and never got past page 20), it was a jaunty romp through a fantastic realm of Crazy dying kings, scheming princes, tricky witches, and a boy whose destiny resides well beyond the shop he just got fired from.   Crazy all-star cast (which is probably why the movie got panned as much as it did); Michelle Pfeifer, Robert Deniro, Rupert Everett, Claire Daines, and a bunch of cameos throughout.