I'm not sure what Pixar is trying to pull with Wall-E, but I can easily picture a 10-year-old, preternatural Roger Ebert shaking his skinny fists at the screen and shouting, "Pixar is leaving its core audience behind!"
What is admirable about Get Smart is it has the confidence to be slapstick without trying too hard.
It takes a keen wit and indescribable intellectual discipline to be able to distill all of one's talents, comedic and otherwise, into a single, unintelligible and completely made-up "word."
On a tip from a co-worker, I Netflixed The King of Kong recently.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is one of those films that sat wrapped in a red Netflix envelope on top of my DVD player for three weeks while I whiled away the hours doing other things.
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