Post by klep on Nov 14, 2016 7:48:23 GMT -6
MOVIE OF THE WEEK for 11/14: The Emperor's New Groove
The Emperor's New Groove is not a particularly deep movie. It's a trifle, a light dessert designed to give you a good time and not overstay its welcome.
And that's fine. Because sometimes what you really need in this world is a simple trifle, to entertain you and make you laugh without burdening you with deep meaning or other challenging content. The Emperor's New Groove makes no pretensions to message beyond "Don't be a self-absorbed dick," using a simple narrative as a device to hook on lots of clever humor and fun voicework from David Spade, John Goodman, Patrick Warburton, and Eartha Kitt(!) among others. It wasn't done by the A-list animators at Disney, but the people who did work on it clearly wanted it to be the best they could make it.
We live in a big and scary world, and it's just become a lot scarier than it was. For many - perhaps even most - of us, every day we get up and go through our lives is a trial; a tightrope walk where one false step could send us plummeting. Even those of us who thankfully have relatively comfortable lives can see where disasters could come from, and have days when we have trouble bearing up. It's for those moments that we have films like The Emperor's New Groove. For when what you really, deeply need is something to make you laugh and feel like maybe everything can be ok.
OUR NEXT MOVIE OF THE WEEK for 11/21: Duck Soup
POST-ELECTION PICK-ME-UP EDITION
Our next Movie of the Week is a sorely needed comedy in these trying times, the Marx Brothers classic Duck Soup. Join us next week as we share our favorite moments and remember that life can be fun again. Duck Soup is available for rent on Amazon Instant Video, though it is not free for Prime members.
NEXT PICTURE SHOW PODCAST for 11/15: In The Mood For Love
In what is proving to be spectacularly poor timing for our mental states, the next edition of the Next Picture Show podcast deals with two films about unrequited or forbidden love. First up is Wong Kar Wai's In The Mood For Love. We'll have a discussion thread for it on Wednesday. In The Mood For Love is streaming on Filmstruck's Criterion channel.
The Emperor's New Groove is not a particularly deep movie. It's a trifle, a light dessert designed to give you a good time and not overstay its welcome.
And that's fine. Because sometimes what you really need in this world is a simple trifle, to entertain you and make you laugh without burdening you with deep meaning or other challenging content. The Emperor's New Groove makes no pretensions to message beyond "Don't be a self-absorbed dick," using a simple narrative as a device to hook on lots of clever humor and fun voicework from David Spade, John Goodman, Patrick Warburton, and Eartha Kitt(!) among others. It wasn't done by the A-list animators at Disney, but the people who did work on it clearly wanted it to be the best they could make it.
We live in a big and scary world, and it's just become a lot scarier than it was. For many - perhaps even most - of us, every day we get up and go through our lives is a trial; a tightrope walk where one false step could send us plummeting. Even those of us who thankfully have relatively comfortable lives can see where disasters could come from, and have days when we have trouble bearing up. It's for those moments that we have films like The Emperor's New Groove. For when what you really, deeply need is something to make you laugh and feel like maybe everything can be ok.
OUR NEXT MOVIE OF THE WEEK for 11/21: Duck Soup
POST-ELECTION PICK-ME-UP EDITION
Our next Movie of the Week is a sorely needed comedy in these trying times, the Marx Brothers classic Duck Soup. Join us next week as we share our favorite moments and remember that life can be fun again. Duck Soup is available for rent on Amazon Instant Video, though it is not free for Prime members.
NEXT PICTURE SHOW PODCAST for 11/15: In The Mood For Love
In what is proving to be spectacularly poor timing for our mental states, the next edition of the Next Picture Show podcast deals with two films about unrequited or forbidden love. First up is Wong Kar Wai's In The Mood For Love. We'll have a discussion thread for it on Wednesday. In The Mood For Love is streaming on Filmstruck's Criterion channel.