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What? You're gonna take the kids to this? Are you out of your freakin' mind? It's not bad enough that the first human we see is dead within a minute, that a moment later the next two humans we see, a mother and child, are already dead, and that we get creepy, scary machines all over the screen throughout? Most of the they've-given-you-a-number-and-haven't-bothered-to-give-you-a-name good guys are creepy too, especially 8, a cross between the Stay-Puft marshmallow man and one of the mean ghosts from the Casper comic books, and 6, nattily attired in Buchenwald PJs. Come to think of it, 3 and 4 are pretty weird, too: silent identical twins whose mind-meld drifts into an undeniable eros. And then there's 2, who is not so designated for the number of eyeballs in his head.Well, that's not my problem: I'm not getting up with 'em in the middle of the night. My gripe is that everything of substance here seems to be cribbed from other sources, mostly from The Lord of the Rings trilogy. And I thought that from the get-go, even while the titular sock puppet was mute--i.e., before I remembered that he's voiced by Elijah Wood, Frodo himself. See, you have a mysterious talisman appears to be at the center of the problem, and the key to salvation. And a quest to possess it, and to do something wild w/ it.
Fantastic to look at, but there's just really not that much there there.
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- Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant--Directed by Paul Weitz, looks silly and potentially quite fun. I mean, hell: John C. Reilly as a vampiric mentor?
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