Not exact matches
By the time Stiller's character engages in a slapping fight with a pair
of monkeys, Night at the Museum: Battle
of the Smithsonian has incontrovertibly established itself as an endeavor designed to appeal solely to
small children - which is undoubtedly a shame, given the strength
of the cast and the promise
of the movie's early
scenes.
There are some very touching
scenes where Dee is jailed for 21 days for a crime she didn't commit; including a
scene where she is allowed ten minutes to see her
children - through a
small grimy piece
of glass that is stuck high up in a doorway.
Ironically, the
scenes in «In Darkness» that stay with you aren't moments
of high peril but
small details
of survival -
of how a sensory - deprived
child might keep his mind active through a year and a half
of night, or how a woman might cope with sexual longing in the middle
of a crowd.
Allen is a drawcard, dominating every
scene he's in and shepherding a
small army
of children across the city, and the Orthodox neighbourhood is one rarely captured so colourfully on film.
Which brings me to the heart
of the film, a big family meal, served up gradually,
scene by
scene, as each
of the characters interact in
smaller portions — sisters and daughters, mothers and
children, in - laws and insignificant others — gathered around a bottomless well
of tragedy: breakdowns, blow ups, betrayals and a funeral.
If anything, he's an unimaginative journeyman who can be far too heavy - handed (e.g. a
scene in his last picture Machine Gun Preacher where a
small child gets killed by a land mine and Forster felt the need to play up this moment with a soaring bit
of score).
Other than that, there's a «Get Up and Dance» feature intended for very
small children, a sing - along option, and, for the adults, several deleted
scenes with an explanation
of why they were cut.
Those
of us without the time or inclination to relive high school can choose from a
small range
of books published over the past several years by noneducators (usually journalists) who, provoked by events at Columbine, piqued by their own
children's high - school experience, or simply in need
of a job, took a semester or a year off to revisit the
scene of so much youthful Sturm und Drang.