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You know, my mother never had time for me, you know
When you when you're the middle child in a family of five million, you don't get any attention. I mean, how is it possible?
The voice of Woody Allen as an animated ant named Z and ant described as an ant with ideas in the
Visually striking no make that the visually stunning animated feature called ants which mixes humor and social
Satire and adventure so well. It will hold more appeal for adults than for kids
It is the Woody Allen ant who is the star of the show with his clever commentary on what a drone it is to be a drone
I was not cut out to be a worker. I'll tell you right now. I I feel physically inadequate
I I've done my whole life. I've never I've never been able to lift more than ten times my own body weight and
And when you get down to it handling dirt is, you know
It's not my idea of a rewarding career his non-conformist attitude
Ultimately puts him in conflict with the officious general of the colony voiced by Gene Hackman
Christopher Walken supplies the voice of the Colonel there is time right now for a personal moment
We're a few seconds ahead of schedule
excellent
Well a
Few seconds isn't much but I guess if it's quality time
So how was your day anything interesting happen we declared war declared war
Boy talk about a rough day
Sorry, I hate to interrupt but time stand still for no end that Sharon Stone supplying the voice of Princess Bala
the daughter of the colony's Queen
Bala's becomes Z's ladybug a bunch of losers
mindless zombies capitulating to an oppressive system I
want to dance
Absolutely another part of the story involves the search for a legendary land of plenty called
Insectopia, but once there the ants find it's sticky going when there's gum afoot
Bala
Each shot of huge numbers of objects in ants and there are many is impressive
Watching this film is one wild event after another on a more subtle level
I also appreciate the attention to detail that went into animating each blade of grass
Into a fibrous post that an exciting battle between ants and an army of termites and Lenny Woody Allen
I assume right many of his characters lines
Marks ants as one of the major film achievements of this movie year boy
I agree with you
I agree too when you said that this movie appealed to adults as much as or maybe
Oh more than the children because it reminded me of animal farm in the sense that it takes these ants in their colony and finds
Parallels with society as for example when when Woody Allen says about the termites instead of attacking them
Why don't we just give them some campaign contributions?
And I just love the look of the film when the ants form into that great ball and swing back and forth
Working together term the termite all the termites and the grasshopper grasshopper is enormous to an ant also
I've complained on this show about Woody Allen's character getting tired his you know, neurotic persona getting tired
He brings it all back with this character. Maybe he found that he wasn't dealing with himself
Liberating he adapted his own dialogue and it's it's really funny
and there's a kind of an in-joke because Woody Allen is so famous for
Detesting and having a phobia about insects of all kind and now he gets one of his best roles
Playing one when we come back a special report about a trend
I noticed at the Toronto Film Festival. I call it the new geek cinema the strippers here
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This year at the Toronto Film Festival
I saw some films that edged right up against the boundaries of acceptable content and at least one that I think
crossed over to the other side
Some audiences had more than a little trouble for example with Peter Berg's very bad things
Which is about a bachelor party that goes wrong when a stripper is accidentally killed and a security guard is murdered
How do we get around here?
We can wrap her up in blankets
Bring the car around to the back of the hotel
Lower her gently down off the balcony put her in the car. We're done. We've done this before
The
Reality is you take away the horror of the situation take away the tragedy of the death
Take away the moral and ethical implications of all that you've had conditioned and beaten into your head since grade one
What are we left with?
What?
It's a hundred and five pound problem. That's not an unusual scenario in itself for black comedy
But some audience members thought that those deaths were so brutal and heartless
That the movie was never able to recover and get back on the track of comedy because they'd even more controversial was the film happiness
By the director Todd Solon
It goes behind the closed doors of desperately lonely people who seek solace in their depravities and the most disturbing scenes involve a child
Molester whose wife has no idea of his secret life
Any of your patients can talk to you sometimes. I wonder if they'll ever stop. I should tape some for you. Oh
Oh, Bill, would you would you really so I could listen to no, oh, come on
You're such a tease, you know, I wouldn't tell anyone right cuz you're so secretive
Well, maybe not as secretive as you
What secret would you like me to tell you and we'll be reviewing happiness in a couple of weeks
The most disturbing film I saw Toronto was Thursday by Skip Woods
which essentially consists of two hours of sadistic and depraved violence much of it directed against minorities and
Presented as comedy its style shows that it expects audiences to find it hip and cool
But this is a movie that poses the question. Are we so determined to be hip that we will laugh at literally anything
Now we'll be reviewing all of these films as they're released and don't assume they're all gonna get thumbs down for me
I like movies that push the envelope and take chances
But I'm not sure all subject matter can be protected by a shield of hip irony
Irony movies traditionally earn their right to controversial subject matter by how they treat it and what their attitude is toward it
And what I'm calling the new geek cinema some of the new geek films
I like and some I don't goes way beyond that tradition
Some of these films are like the geek at the circus sideshow who used to bite the heads off of live chickens
These movies are not hip and they're not ironic
They're simply depraved and their directors have chicken feathers all over their chins listen just on a recent show
I was telling you about urban legend that I thought went over that now
This is a mainstream picture connected to compared to the films that you're talking about
I think you're gonna find with some of these pictures that urban legend was more like a
PG 13 by comparison. This is going on in other areas of film comedies are going over the top the fact that
There's something about Mary has been such a gigantic hit
Raises the bar to what you got to get to to make the audience laugh
The movies are moving rapidly and the man who predicted this all was Marshall McLuhan who said many years ago
We're living in speed up and that's exactly why I've been feeling really speeded up. We'll be right back after this
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Now let's take another look at the movies we reviewed on this show two enthusiastic thumbs up
For the beautiful what dreams may come starring Robin Williams as a man on a mission in the afterlife
Congratulations to director Vincent Ward and his animation staff on creating one of the great visual achievements in film history
Two thumbs down way down for the pointless and the witless would-be comedy a night at the Roxbury
We split on Monument Avenue starring Dennis Leary as a man who has dead-ended in a life of comedy
And who has dead-ended in a life of crime I felt the film offered too many blue-collar cliches
But Roger thought the movie brought a freshness to the genre and finally two big thumbs up
For the original looking animated feature ants well now here we have a show with two movies that depend heavily on computer
Special effects what dreams may come and ants and in both cases what the directors have done
Is use the power of the computer to express their own vision wonderfully instead of just using it as a shortcut
Filmmakers are more computer literate than ever before and we're seeing the full flower of the use of the computer here in film
Okay remember you can hear our reviews on the web at cisco-ebert.com and our website also lists the stations that carry our show
Next week we'll be back with reviews of more new movies including the comedy Holy Man starring Eddie Murphy and Jeff Goldblum
That's next week and until then the balcony is closed