Nov 18 2008 'Race to Witch Mountain' Trailer Like a Supernatural 'Friends' for Kids
Disney has released a new trailer for Race to Witch Mountain--a remake of 1975's Escape to Witch Mountain--the story of two super-powered alien children and their attempt to find a way back to the ship they crashed into a geological formation known as a mountain. The Rock plays the cab driver helping them, and for some reason he plays it like he's doing an impression of Matt LeBlanc. It's really distracting. Either he studied acting by watching Lost in Space and LeBlanc's monkey-as-baseball player movie, Ed, or Disney really wanted Matt LeBlanc and instead hired Dwayne Johnson to play it as Matt LeBlanc. Which would be despicable. Do you know what Joey has been doing since they cancelled Joey, Disney? Absolutely nothing. Joey would have loved to drive alien children to a spooky mountain. He would have told so many amusing anecdotes about how David Schwimmer is nothing like Ross. He would have brought donuts to the set every day, just because "It's somebody's birthday somewhere, eh?" You guys made a real mistake.
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Jan 22 2008 'Sleepwalking' Trailer Is Like I've Been Sleepwalking, But It Woke Me Up
Overlook the initial desperation in conveying dysfunction (girl jumping off a diving board in roller skates and hating her life, the American Beauty music) and the distracting urge to figure out how you know young AnnaSophia Robb (from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Bridge to Terabithia, I eventually realized) and you might be tempted to think Sleepwalking could be decent if typical indie fare. Admittedly, the cast of Charlize Theron, Nick Stahl, Dennis Hopper, and Woody Harrelson looks somewhat promising, but with a visual effects artist at the helm, and a film colorist writing contrived lines like, "It's like I've been sleepwalking... but you helped me--you woke me up," I'll keep my reservations about this one.
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