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| ADVENTURES OF SHARK BOY AND LAVA GIRL IN 3-D, THE (2005)
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by Lew Irwin
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 With The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D, it's the "in 3-D" part of the title that's getting the critics' primary attention. Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times calls the movie "an innocent and delightful children's tale that is spoiled by a disastrous decision to film most of it in lousy 3-D." (The film uses a 60-year-old technique in which audience members wear cardboard glasses with one lens colored blue, the other, red.) It's "a little like seeing Christmas through the double vision of a wino," comments Jan Stuart in Newsday. Mike Clark in USA Today remarks that "as in the '50s, the optical novelty wears out its welcome fast." "Besides," notes Bruce Westbrook in the Houston Chronicle, "Who needs it? Today's computer animation looks wondrous enough without adding a gimmick from the 1950s. Enough with 3-D _ get on with the show." Ty Burr in the Boston Globe says that watching the movie "is an experience akin to seeing the world through dung-colored glasses. ... On the evidence here, Planet Drool should have been called Satellite Crud." On the other hand, Kyle Smith writes in the New York Post: "The digital landscapes of Planet Drool showcase wild imagination, delightfully enhanced by the 3-D effects." And Carina Chocano in the Los Angeles Times describes Planet Drool as "a lavender and gray 3-D Eden of milk-and-cookies landscapes, talking bubbles, roller-coaster rides and more terrible puns about the subconscious than you'd hear at a Friar's Club roast of Sigmund Freud." Nancy Churnin in the Dallas Morning News notes that the film is based on a story Director Robert Rodriguez's eight-year-old son dreamed up. "It's all accentuated by the 3-D, which juts these part-dream, part-nightmares straight into viewers' faces." On Good Morning America, critic Joel Siegel offered the filmmakers a quote: "The Best Movie I've Ever Seen. Not from me. From my son, Dylan, who's seven. ... It was like he was watching his own imagination come to life on the screen." |
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