New Moon is nothing if not an international advertisement for the hungry virtues of virginity and young people can’t get enough of it
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A smart, prickly and rewarding view of sexual and emotional confusion
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Too long and drawn out but very entertaining with excellent special effects
This is a peculiar play and does not work for me. Some of it is very funny but there are real flaws
Alex has a strong powerful voice and was faultless, she is far better now than she was on the X-Factor
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Dir: Rob Letterman, Conrad Vernon.
Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Seth Rogen, Paul Rudd, Kiefer Sutherland, Hugh Laurie, Rainn Wilson, Will Arnett, Stephen Colbert
Description: Fun-loving California girl Susan Murphy is struck by a meteorite covered in extra-terrestrial goo and mysteriously grows in size until she stands an impressive 49 feet and 11 inches tall. Placed under armed guard and held hostage by the military in a secret government compound, Susan learns other so-called monsters have suffered a similar fate. Her fellow captives include brilliant Dr Cockroach PhD, half-ape half-fish The Missing Link, indestructible gelatinous mass B.O.B. and a 350-feet long grub called Insectosaurus. When a giant alien robot lands on Earth and begins to run amok, repelling all military hardware, President Hathaway reluctantly issues an executive order to free the monsters and set them upon the robot, under the aegis of General W.R. Monger.
Country: US. 2009. 94mins
Bigged up: Reese Witherspoon voices Sarah, a bride-to-be who is genetically altered by a meteor
Dreamworks animation has seldom scaled the imaginative heights of Pixar. But this lively story about a young girl who gets hit by a meteor on her wedding day that turns her into a giant is certainly wacky enough — and a good riposte to Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, the B-movie from the Fifties.
Reese Witherspoon voices the huge Sarah, who bursts through the roof of the church in which she is about to get hitched and is promptly locked up in an unearthly prison with four other freaks of science.
They are Hugh Laurie’s Dr Cockroach, a mad scientist who turned himself half- insect; Will Arnett’s The Missing Link, a sort of lizard; Seth Rogan’s jellified Bob, who swallows people and spits them out slimed over; and Insectosaurus, a giant larvae thing who can’t talk. When the President (Stephen Colbert) learns that an evil alien overlord (Rainn Wilson) is out to destroy Earth with his mutant army, he grants the monstrous quintet their freedom as they are the only ones capable of fighting him.
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The pace is fast and furious, the imaginative tropes — which include a fight between the friendly monsters and a large robot egg on the Golden Gate Bridge — reference at least a dozen movies like The Blob, The Fly and The Creature from the Black Lagoon.
Not that kids will notice, but they will be screaming for toys of the leading characters any day soon.
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