addams family values: what's with really great comedies ending with really awful songs playing over the credits? whoop there it is? remember that one? the addams family values should have something much better. i guess i know i can at least depend on wes anderson to end a movie with a great song. although i also guess i'm just mad because whoop there it is came on much louder than the movie and made me jump off the couch when i didn't want to move that fast. anyway, i love the woody allen-esque friend kid at camp who wednesday kisses and then he shows up later looking like gomez. the real star of the show is joan cusack as debbie, the black widow, who consistently fails at killing uncle fester for his moneybags. at the end, she gives a great villain speech about barbies, murder, self-pity and desire, and then the new addams baby saves everyone from the semi-circle of electric chairs that debbie had them all in. plus wednesday's speech at the thanksgiving paegent at summer camp is something worth revisiting. oh, and carol kane as the granny is great too.
the little girl who lives down the lane: lately kid jodie foster keeps popping up. i saw alice doesn't live here anymore awhile ago, i can't remember if i blogged it but it was a good story about an immature woman and her relationship with shitheads and her son and how she tries after her shithead hubby dies to become a singer in bars after being a housewife for years and years in the 70s. kid jodie foster plays the best friend of the woman's son. she's the picture of androgynous as a 12 y.o.
in TLGWLDTL, she plays a 13 year old girl living in small town, racist 70s maine with her poet dad. except everyone is suspicious b/c they've never seen the poet dad and they're all concerned about this girl all by herself. some people are nosy, martin sheen plays a creepy kidtoucher type who's the son of the shitty rich lady who runs the town, and some people are nice, like the italian cop and his teenage magician nephew. there's murder, and precocious kidness (kid jodie foster learns hebrew from a record, loves chopin and emily dickinson, etc), and early love, and some agatha christie throwbacks. i think the kjf's character name is Rynn. her wardrobe is understated but makes me jealous, like a 13 y.o. kid walking around in a moroccan robe calmly offering tea to the people that barge in to her house looking for her father? she plays everything pretty cool. so, i highly recommend this one.
this morning i watched nightmare before xmas. ever since i've been thinking about the tim burton exhibit at moma, i've been thinking about tim burton.
i rented addams family values because i'm in a bad mood today and it worked in making me feel better until i accidentally broiled a loaf of banana bread like a total master of nothing. i asked coworkers at the videostore what movies pull them out of bummed/pissed and they said: lethal weapons, gilmore girls, silence of the lambs. i only asked two people i guess. anyway, what do you say?
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I've never seen the second addams family movie. i loved the first one. i guess i should, you really sold it.
ReplyDeleteAnd, i don't have a lot of jody foster experience, but i should get some. it's hard to be a good child actor, so i guess that's why she was so popular.
and, i don't love the nightmare before xmas. i don't not like it, but you know how some people really love it (like my sister)? well, i'm not one of those people. when it comes to tim burton, it's gotta be beetlejuice.