Cute name, even for an overhyped, presold, mega-budget moneymaking machine. (The return of Jerry Seinfeld! -- as leading voice, co-writer, co-producer, and principal drum beater.) Cute is much more than you can say, however, for the spongy, marshmallowy computer-animated honeybees or for the premise that permits them to converse in …
And also, as night follows day, Belchfest: an underground Olympics of drinking games held annually in Munich under the cover of Oktoberfest. From the Broken Lizard comedy troupe (Jay Chandrasekhar, director as well as trouper), this is lowest-common-denominator stuff — notwithstanding the esoteric allusions to Das Boot — and its …
Co-directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel, fresh from The Deep End, turn to a novel by Myla Goldberg. And on the evidence it's difficult to see how anyone could have thought there was a movie in it, even someone in the full flush of the spelling-bee documentary, Spellbound. Fictional spelling …
Family comedy with a bizarre plot hook about a dog-napping ring masterminded by an evil veterinarian (the benign Dean Jones behind coke-bottle lenses) for the purpose of testing lethal drugs, exploding bullets, and the like. (For whom? The CIA?) The hero is a big, slobbering Saint Bernard with superhuman, to …
Insipid but surprisingly well-worked-out comedy on the birds and the bees. The titular Saint Bernard gains some firsthand knowledge of the subject, with the result of four puppies. The two older children of the family (Nicholle Tom, Christopher Castile, very sweet) are starting to take an interest, too. The villain …
Tim Burton oversees a lavish and garish horror comedy that captures the spirit of Halloween as deeply as, but no deeplier than, the Woolworth's costume department. Not for lack of expenditure. The best special effects that money can buy do not, however, come with any guarantee of charm -- one …
Tim Burton oversees a lavish and garish horror comedy that captures the spirit of Halloween as deeply as, but no deeplier than, the Woolworth's costume department. Not for lack of expenditure. The best special effects that money can buy do not, however, come with any guarantee of charm -- one …
Tim Burton oversees a lavish and garish horror comedy that captures the spirit of Halloween as deeply as, but no deeplier than, the Woolworth's costume department. Not for lack of expenditure. The best special effects that money can buy do not, however, come with any guarantee of charm -- one …
Michael Keaton and Tim Burton reunite to bring back the supernatural pest.
Michael Keaton and Tim Burton reunite to bring back the supernatural pest.
Michael Keaton and Tim Burton reunite to bring back the supernatural pest.
Michael Keaton and Tim Burton reunite to bring back the supernatural pest.
Party with fellow fans while Beetlejuice is on the big screen.
A murder mystery for only part of the way, after which it applies itself to outlying areas of moral curiosity and courage, and demonstrates thereby that emotional complexity is a satisfying substitute for the idle tricksiness and foggingness we are more accustomed to in the crime field. It puts us, …