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Oct 04, 2006
The Flying Pug
1 of 2 found this helpful This is the one and only original. Before there was Heaven Can Wait (Warren Beatty) or Chris Rock, there was Robert Montgomery (Elizabeth's father), Claude Rains (the original Invisible Man) and Edward Everett Horton (the narrator of Fractured Fairytales). The Flying Pug is a pro boxer who gets his nickname from his penchant for flying his own airplane to every fight. His flight to his entry bout a world championship fight crashes and he ends up in a waiting room to heaven. Unfortunately, rookie angel (Horton) pulled Joe out before the crash; an accident he was fated to survive. With his body is cremated by an over-zealous manager, Joe is forced to hunt, first with Horton and then with the title character (Rains) to find the perfect replacement body. While hokey at times, this is a charming movie of love and destiny, loyalty and the power of belief in people that goes beyond their outer appearance. As Mr. Jordan tells Joe: No one ever gets cheated. We all get exactly what's coming to us.... So long Joe!
Mar 17, 2008
Shallow, Stereotyped Crime Drama
At first we think we are getting a taste of a classic serial killer a la Lawrence Sanders. But this book quickly descends into pap cop dialogue with requisite winking and grinning. The authors go to great pains to detail forensic analysis and criminal processing and investigative procedure, but this is done in a painfully self-conscious way as more experienced cops explain procedure to newbies. The book is a series, however realistic it may be, of interviews, examinations and cop dialogue. Oregon police are also apparently in love with polygraph tests as everyone they interview is subject to the test even though, as one cop notes in yet another self-conscious tip to the reader, that polygraph results are not admissible as evidence in Oregon. I didn't notice at first that this book was also published by a Christian publisher and so didn't understand that one of the main characters constant references to his faith and desire to pray before key examinations or arrests, was not a plot tension but a message of conversion to the reader. The ending is unsatisfying to say the least. The last chapter is a blatant and poor attempt at tying up all loose ends and making certain everyone is okie-dokie at book's end. FYI, if you ever find yourself on the short end of the dating scene, move to Oregon where the cops, all witnesses and even some of the perps are great looking!
Jan 02, 2009
Louisa May Alcott + Mary Poppins
3 of 3 found this helpful This made-for-TV movie featuring Emma Watson of Harry Potter (Hermione) fame, tells the story of three orphans, Pauline (Watson), Petrova and Posy, adopted by GUM ("Great Uncle Matthew") during several of his many worldwide explorations. Matthew (also played by a Harry Potter alum -- Think Uncle Vernon) has little time to raise his little "fossils" and passes them off to an earlier adoptee, his great nice Sylvia. With the help of her childhood Nana, Sylvia manages to cobble together a life for the 3 fossil sisters during Gum's 12-year absence. Each of the girls demonstrates a unique talent; Pauline for acting, Petrova for mechanical things, and Posy for ballet. Each finds herself through an artistic private school; Petrova more through working on the classic car of a border in the girls' home.
While the plot is somewhat predictable and the story lines relatively pat, the girls are charming and the subcharacters, including a cast of borders with Theo the Samba Dancer, Dr. Jakes & Dr. Smith as a pair of (lesbian?) former academic professors, and the enigmatic Madame Fidolia as the head of the art school and Posy's private teacher, are wonderful.
For those who enjoy a Louisa May Alcott girls story or the occasional twists of a Dickens novel, this story set in 1930's post-depression England is a great period piece for children and adults alike.