Zoolander: Man of Substance?
Zoolander displays what designers and other trend setters have long known: at some point, the ephemeral becomes the substantial.
Comedy Reviews
- Amélie: An Apotheosis of Cinema
- Boogie Nights: Part I
- Boogie Nights: Part II
- Bruce Almighty: Prepare for the Sequel!
- Cars: Bridging the Gap
- Cars: Take Me, Pixar!
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The Short-Lived Gobstopper
- Curious George: A Journey Together
- Curious George: An Adult Film
- Happenstance: It's a Small World
- Happy Feet: Penguin Gods Not So Happy
- John Tucker Must Die: Cliché as Reminder
- Kicking and Screaming: A Kickin' Good Time
- Kissing Jessica Stein: Friends and Lovers
- Knocked Up
- Les Triplettes de Belleville
- Little Miss Sunshine: The Curious Morality of Dysfunction
- My Man Godfrey: Great Depression and Giddy Oblivion
- Nacho Libre: Discover Your Inner Child
- Nanny McPhee: An Exception to the Rule
- Napoleon Dynamite: Humanity Unbound
- Napoleon Dynamite: Idiot Mine
- Over the Hedge: Suburban Responsibilities
- Pumpkin: "This is all B.S.!"
- Pumpkin: Mocking the Disabled
- Pumpkin: Raising One's Consciousness, Sorority Style
- Ratatouille: Pixar for Grownups
- Reality Bites: Back on the Menu
- SLC Punk!: A Call to Positive Apathy
- Saved!, but Not Stirred
- Saved!: Save Us--The Search for Generous Dialogue
- Saved!: The Triumph of Formula
- Saved: Familiar, But Incomplete
- Saved: Unexpected Humility, the Antidote
- School for Scoundrels: I Should Have Played Hooky
- Sideways: Message in a Bottle
- Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby--One State, Two State, Red State, Blue State
- Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
- Team America: 98 Minutes I'll Never Get Back
- That Touch of Mink: Relentlessly Retro Romance
- The Devil Wears Prada: A Summer Movie Without the Carbs!
- The Dukes: "Hazzard"ous to Your Family's Health
- The Good Girl: Bad Humor
- The Ringer: Let the Games Begin!
- The Ringer: Wretched
- The Terminal: Sweet Poison for the Masses
- Wallace & Gromit--The Curse of the Were-Rabbit: A Wry and Cheesy Comedy
- When Harry Met Sally: It Never Fails
- Airplane! - Yeah, It's Stupid
- Baby Sitter in De-Nile
- Borat: Obnoxiously Visceral, Mildly Satirical
- Clerks and Clerks II: Vulgar Conservatism
- Creature Comforts: Listen to the Animals
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off: The Most Ideologically Important Film Ever Made
- Ghost World: The End of Alienation?
- Good Bye Lenin!: Nostalgia Lite
- Junebug: Artful Stereotyping
- Little Miss Sunshine: Family as Idolatry
- Pulp Fiction: Top of the Second Tier
- Punch-Drunk Love: "A Community of One"
- Saved!: Christianity Without Christians?
- Sideways: The Illegitimacy of the Mid-Life Crisis
- Thank You for Smoking: The Moral Relativity of Us All
- The 40 Year-Old Virgin: Virginity, Singleness, Weirdness
- The Matador: The Dullness of Emotional Men
- The Terminal: More than Fluff?
- Undercover Brother: Dissecting "The Man"
- Zoolander: Man of Substance?
- I ♥ Huckabees: Happiness on Trial?
- What would you do with Millions?
cinekklesia :: Comedy
January 20, 2008Knocked Up
My feeling is that most Christians will be turned off to this movie...
Ratatouille: Pixar for Grownups
Pixar's latest film, Ratatouille (2007), has a secret: it's only pretending to be a children's film . . .
Borat: Obnoxiously Visceral, Mildly Satirical
Borat's satire ultimately falls flat, and Sacha Baron Cohen's ridiculing of Central Asians is simply unfair and distasteful.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off: The Most Ideologically Important Film Ever Made
Ferris Bueller emulates what is best termed "unconscious libertarianism."
Pulp Fiction: Top of the Second Tier
To be at, or near, the top of thematically vacuous cinema is no small feat....
Little Miss Sunshine: Family as Idolatry
If you consider yourself a "family values" kind of person, then you might want to reconsider your stance . . .
Happy Feet: Penguin Gods Not So Happy
I see parallels between the elder penguins and the New Testament Sanhedrin . . .
Clerks and Clerks II: Vulgar Conservatism
There's an expression about cynicism that I like: "Scratch a cynic and underneath, you'll find a romantic"
That Touch of Mink: Relentlessly Retro Romance
Morals and mores move more like glaciers than avalanches . . .