An appalling lack of movie blurb poetry again this week

[lumineaux]

But the skewers delivered to the Sex in the City movie are pretty amusing:

"But “Sex and the City 2” is about someone else’s boredom, someone else’s vacation and ultimately someone else’s desire to exploit that vicarious pleasure for profit. Which isn’t much fun at all."   http://movies.nytimes.com/2010/05/27/movies/27sex.html


Prince of Persia seems to be bubblegum fare:  "For the most part this is perfectly painless mush. The movie is irrepressibly silly — what were you expecting? — but a few hours of Mr. Gyllenhaal jumping around in leather and fluttering his long lashes has its dumb-fun appeal . . ."    http://movies.nytimes.com/2010/05/28/movies/28prince.html

Eh.  If I'm going to a movie purely to ogle male eye candy, I'll go see Iron Man 2 again.

Edit to add:  Roger Ebert goes to town on the awfulness of "Sex in the City 2."  It is a thing of beauty:

"Some of these people make my skin crawl. The characters of "Sex and the City 2" are flyweight bubbleheads living in a world which rarely requires three sentences in a row. Their defining quality is consuming things. They gobble food, fashion, houses, husbands, children, vitamins and freebies. They must plan their wardrobes on the phone, so often do they appear in different basic colors, like the plugs you pound into a Playskool workbench."

" . . . an opening sequence at a gay wedding in Connecticut that looks like a Fred Astaire production number gone horribly over budget."

"I don't know a whole lot about fashion, but I know something about taste, and these women spend much of the movie dressed in tacky, vulgar clothing."

"I wondered briefly whether Abu Dhabi had underwritten all this product placement, but I learn the "SATC2" was filmed in Morocco, which must be Morocco's little joke."

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100525/REVIEWS/100529986

 
And Ebert spares "Prince of Persia" only a little more:

"The names of the movie's characters seem to have been created by a random-word generator."

"The king has a brother named Nizam (Ben Kingsley), first seen in a sinister closeup that could be subtitled, “I will turn out to be the villain.” He has a van Dyke beard and eyes that glower smolderingly."

"The irritating thing about special effects is that anything can happen, and often you can't tell what the hell it is."

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100526/REVIEWS/100529984



This is why Roger Ebert is a national treasure.


 

Comments

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

For a vicious movie review of Sex and the City 2, see this review (http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/burkas-and-birkins/Content?oid=4132715) that I found via cvirtue.

A bit vulgar, but it has some moments... not least of which was: It is 146 minutes long, which means that I entered the theater in the bloom of youth and emerged with a family of field mice living in my long, white mustache. This is an entirely inappropriate length for what is essentially a home video of gay men playing with giant Barbie dolls.

[laughingzombie.livejournal.com]

"Roger Ebert is a national treasure."
Yes indeedy.