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Rav has ENOUGH and raves about LILO & STITCH!!!

Published at:  May 13, 2002 7:45:46 PM CDT

Harry here, got a call from Rav talking crazy talk about how hot Lilo's ass and lips are and how J-Lo can lift a Volkswagon Beetle and play records with her fingernail. It was a very strange phone call, but then... after they ripped the tooth out of my head and put me on Hydrocodone and Amoxicillin to make sure I not die of agonizing mouth decay jungle rot termites. Here's his look at the whole dealy...





Holas Harry,

God....I'm so jealous of that Jeff Mullen guy, he gets to see clones AND was smiled at by Natalie Portman......##! @##! @PADME! #@! MATHILDA! #@! @! @!!!!.....Damn I hate the local Fox reps.......I won't name any names or anything (*cough*moroch advertising and public relations*cough*cough*).

ENOUGH: The World is Not Enough pt. 2



Okay now that that is out of the way onto even more bitching and moaning., my specialty. Last night I took a look at Enough, I really didn't know a damn thing about the movie other than Michael Apted directed it, didn't even know Jennifer Lopez starred in it till I got to the theatre and saw the poster, which is basically just J-lo's face. It was probably the weirdest film experience I've had in quite some time. Michael Apted made The World is Not Enough a couple years ago, what I would say is probably the worst bond film ever....not even badass Robert Carlyle could save it from that piece of wood Denise Richards. Well Enough starts off with the word "Hey" white on black titles on the screen and continues for the next 45 minutes of the film, keeping the plot moving and setup so they can pretty much jump through all the boring stuff with a title card. It may not seem like it. But I really loved the title-cards and the beginning of the film, the cards gave it a weird sort of poetic feel lost in the last half of the film. Then suddenly somewhere along the way Jennifer Lopez hides inside one of the rubber suits Tom Cruise wore in Mission Impossible (*****transformation occurrs*****) and the film is kick-started into the Bond film Apted should have made, but in a very absurd setting. A rash suggestion on these test cards might have the MGM execs order a re-write of Die Another Day so that they can turn Bond into a social worker. I probably wouldn't complain and make fun of it so much if the transformation in tone was quite gradual a la audition or salryman kintaro......but it really isn't, suddenly a barrel of money comes from the father we didn't know she had until a minute ago and she's out training kickboxing to kick some MALE ASS. Is this some sort of fucked up revolutionary wake up call to women or something? They were cat-calling all throughout the screening "RIGHT-ON SISTER!"...will the women of the world suddenly become IMF spies now? Oh and I guess I should go out and label the "new graduate" from the Denise Richards university of drama.............*drum roll please*........Bill Campbell, it's kind of weird though because I loved him in the Rocketeer here he is running with a character that is so evil its funny.......for no reason at all he hits his wife, then goes on car chases after her...I guess it was just a good day for a car chase for him *knocks out J-lo, yet again*.

LILO AND STITCH REVIEW HERE



Review probably seems a tad light, I am trying to hold myself back from a few spoilers, even the names of some of the characters in this spoil the gag.

Okay done with that rant now, I did not really mean to get on it as the real purpose of this rambling mess is to review Disney's Lilo & Stitch, the most fun you will get out of an animated movie this summer. (Well Powerpuff Girls could be better, but Spirit sucks donkey balls) When I first walked out of the film I liked the film, but didn't exactly love it as much as the rest of the group that saw it, but now the more I think about this film...the more I LOVE this movie. As the trailers have been trying to show, this is not your normal Disney movie, with not your normal Disney characters.

Lilo is a very troubled girl, her parents died a few years back, which left her in the care of her just slightly older sister, Nani (voiced by Tia Carrere). Lilo is lonely and she is acting out in every way possible, just a little short of suicide attempts. One of Lilo's poorly timed stunts has left her sister in the crosshairs of the most menacing social worker alive COBRA, an ex-CIA agent turned social worker brilliantly voiced by Ving Rhames.....Nani has 3 days to clean up her act or she will lose custody of her sister. Stitch is an alien genetic creation programmed to find civilization and destroy everything in its path, but is quite vulnerable to water. En route to being exiled on a desert planet by order of the queen, stitch steals a police cruiser...."the red one,"and takes refuge on a primitive planet, earth. The Queen has now ordered a group of aliens including stitch's original creator to the planet to retrieve or destroy stitch without being seen. This is where Lilo comes in, while in a pet store to purchase a new puppy Lilo meets stitch who has now transformed himself to become a lovably cute puppy and take refuge with Lilo who loves her new puppy/rat/thing/it.

The film is set in Hawaii, which is a perfect plot devices for stitch with the water keeping him from getting to any major cities, but also a very beautiful culture setting. The first glimpse of the dance in Hawaii is absolutely breathtaking, it alone merits viewing the film. For a film to be this beautiful and feature the line "Oh its okay now, my dog found the chainsaw." PERFECT! There are so many things that work perfectly in the film Lilo & Stitch's friendship, perfect, lovably cuddly stitch, perfect, COBRA, LMAO very very perfect (I have been quoting Cobra for the past few days now).

I do have a few complaints about the film, all of the things are quite forgivable and necessary to the plot, but I did not seem to cast a liking to them. First of all Ohana, the Hawaiian word for family Ohana is a major point of the film, I found it a bit hokey...but maybe thats because the phrase "Ohana means family, family means never leave anyone behind, stick together" or something like that is repeated about 3,000 times during the end of the film...It's necessary, it works....but being the idiot I am I find it hokey. Nani's boyfriend, WOW oh WOW this guy is like a 2d-version of Jar Jar Binks, granted he does play a surfer, but does all surfers have to personify all that is stupid in the world, again its forgivable he becomes a loved character as the film plays out, I just found him a needle in my eye the first few times he appears in the film. These things are necessary, but they are really my only complaints with the film......well except for the A-Teen's and Wynona's covers of Elvis songs.....but thats a rant all to itself.

Everyone should run out and take a look at Lilo & Stitch next month when it is released, you might just be surprised at how much it delights all members of your family. It's a hell of a lot better than that damn spirit movie being released next week, GOD that thing's only watchable for 6 month old children with slowly developed brains...but at least it has pretty animation.



Until next time,

Rav

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  • May 13, 2002 9:01:08 PM CDT

    I got a piece of wood for denise richards right here

    by whiteboyrage

    CAN I GET A HELL YEAH???

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  • May 13, 2002 9:09:54 PM CDT

    Amazing true fact about LILO and STITCH's Tia Carrere

    by kiyone

    Her first film was the grade Z horror flick ZOMBIE NIGHTMARE (which was even featured on MST3K once), yet she insists on claiming that ALOHA SUMMER, filmed two years after, was her first film, and that the producer for AS dicovered her in a grocery store in Waikiki. I suppose ZOMBIE NIGHTMARE was just home video of her on vacation in lovely Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec (as well as side trips to Pierrefonds (the Twist and Creme) and Pointe-Claire (the Mirabel health club)) being chased around by rocker John Mikl Thor (see http://www.thorkorr.com/ for more info) then?

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  • May 13, 2002 11:31:11 PM CDT

    ???? What was he trying to say?

    by the wallace

    I don't get the sentence revolving around the title card "hey" in the review for "Enough". I just can't figure it out. I read it over and over and yet NOTHING.
    hmmm.

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  • May 14, 2002 1:13:48 AM CDT

    HEY?

    by silvio dante

    So both films have a social worker in 'em. That much I gathered.

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  • May 14, 2002 9:24:48 AM CDT

    Yet another example

    by andrecrabtree111

    of the ATROCIOUS writing on this site. What was that first review?? What was the writer trying to say?? I rear and re-read and am still clueless. I've got a tip for you, Harry. You don't HAVE to post everything that comes your way. If the writing sucks as bad as this one, you're free to just toss in in the trash where it belongs.

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  • May 14, 2002 9:33:42 AM CDT

    ?

    by kampbell-kid

    And here I thought I was sending Harry innane reviews. :) "HEY", am I not in the know of something???

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  • May 14, 2002 10:20:05 AM CDT

    My paralyzed wiener dog's ass...

    by eat_your_peas

    ...can write a better review than that piece of drivel about Enough. Honestly, dude, you may want to cut back to half a pill before you start writing. I have no clue what the movie is about or whether or not I should even consider seeing it. The Lilo and Stitch review was slightly better.

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  • May 14, 2002 1:57:21 PM CDT

    AICN plants...

    by compn

    ok, time to show the light here... any user posting ends with "nuff said" is a person from aintitcoolnews... only because there are 80 different "people" that post with that ending whenever... again, this isint a review, its a damned summary. a review would consist of something about an opinion of something on why or why not it worked. the reason AICN posts under fake names maybe they want people visiting the site to see how "crazy" these posters are, making the site more "edgy" or something... i agree world is not enough was such a lame ass bond movie, only good recent one was goldeneye, course, michelle yaoh in tommarow never dies was pretty good too. why would anyone watch a jennifer lopez movie? who told anyone she could act? lilo and stitch looks EXACTLY like every other disney movie, stop saying these movies look different, its the same thing. i'll watch it just because i like animation, and PPG movie looks great, screw that shit-fest spirit staillion thing, baskin robbins ice cream sucks (they are locked in a advertisement deal with free scoop night of shit cream or something) if i want a summary of something, i'd rather have TRAILER reviews, how this trailer worked because it had a good intro and a great gag, or this one sucked because they used 100 frames in a 1 sec window, and most were just stupid explosions you wont see in the film anyways. rants are fun..

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  • May 15, 2002 1:51:37 AM CDT

    SPIRIT - NOT JUST FOR HORSE LOVERS!

    by lt weezie

    I agree that LILO AND STITCH looks charming and the trailers on the Disney website are HYSTERICAL...combining the classic Disney films with Stitch..everyone should check out DISNEY.COM/STITCH and see them...we laughed and laughed...but you are damning SPIRIT without a thought to the time and effort put forth by DREAMWORKS and the fact that being a horse lover and owner of a small Arabian horse farm with half a century with horses, I can tell you their research on the movements and character and emotions of a horse are dead on...I have been waiting for this film since I heard a rumor about it for the last two years and their excellent official website and fansites and the trailer on the SHREK DVD are marvelous. There is room for all and we should be glad that animation is experiencing an evolution like the rest of the film world with new technology.

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  • May 15, 2002 5:12:42 AM CDT

    What the hell?

    by fathermcgruder

    All you folks bitching about Harry's writing ought to take a gander at this little beauty of a sentence (well, two sentences): "Well Enough starts off with the word "Hey" white on black titles on the screen and continues for the next 45 minutes of the film, keeping the plot moving and setup so they can pretty much jump through all the boring stuff with a title card. It may not seem like it." What the hell kinda crap is this? Go ahead, read it as many times as you want, it's still not gonna make sense. Time to take that ritalin, or stop taking it. Christ!

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  • May 15, 2002 10:43:29 PM CDT

    So who's up for a boycott of LILO AND STITCH?

    by skullfarmer

    If you've seen the LAS commercials
    that show extreme disrespect to
    BEAUTY AND THE BEAST,you know
    why I'm angry. BEAUTY AND THE
    BEAST just happens to be my
    favorite movie. How DARE they
    do that to a classic? Retaliate
    with your wallet!

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  • Jun 05, 2002 9:02:47 PM CDT

    Lighten Up Francis

    by fearandwhiskey

    Jeez man, get a life. Have you ever heard of a sense of humor? Oh, and by the way, Beauty and the Beast is your favorite movie? In the voice of Bill Lumberg from Office Space: "Um. Yeaaaahhhhh."

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