Wisdom of Nuggets

This review sums it up for me…

Plot holes? “The Last Mimzy” has them by the pound. It also includes a few egregious bits of product placement, one of which is used as a joke that doesn’t quite come off. You can’t really argue that this is a well-made movie, but it is a good one — true to the emotional reality of its young characters and young audience and flattering the latter into thinking way outside the box. There are worse things to teach than intellectual ambition.

Ty Burr can be reached at tburr@globe.com

Of course those “missing reels” are the x-rated sex scenes!

GRINDHOUSE FANS, PLEASE TAKE NOTICE:

GRINDHOUSE is more than one movie in its 191 minutes. And that’s not all…..

GRINDHOUSE is two features back-to-back with some really neat fake previews (of movies that aren’t likely to be made) stuck between them. The idea here is to take you back (or if you were never there, to put you there) to the days of “B” movies from the 1950’s, as these are the films that Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez grew up watching when they were kids.

And no, the 35mm film print you’re watching isn’t scratched or missing reels, in fact it’s a brand new polyester print. But Tarantino and Rodriguez SO wanted to take you back, they printed the scratches on the film and tell you they left out non-existent reels. Have fun!

The Filmmakers and who did what in GRINDHOUSE:

•Robert Rodriguez-(”Planet Terror”) (fake trailer segment “Machete”)
•Eli Roth-(fake trailer segment “Thanksgiving”)
•Quentin Tarantino-(”Death Proof”)
•Edgar Wright-(fake trailer segment “Don’t”)
•Rob Zombie-(fake trailer segment “Werewolf Women of the S.S.”)

In the March 5th New Yorker’s Current Cinema David Denby writes, “Amazing Grace, a vibrant historical epic about the ending of the slave trade in the British Empire, offers what might be called an ideal of virile ethical activity.” That was the opening sentence…the hook. But what really made me want to see this movie was where he writes, near the end of the review, “In this country we have great actors, but not THESE kinds of great actors–men and women who can play historical figures and hold to formal syntax without losing their sense of play.”

Movies just booked: Grindhouse April 20 - 25 and Blades of Glory April 27 - May 3. This just happened…I haven’t even gotten the ads out yet!