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...Happiest Place on Earth," but Liang Ning isn't too happy. The engineer brought his family to Disney's new theme park in Hong Kong from the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou one Saturday in April with high hopes, but by day's end, he was less than spellbound. "I wanted to forget the world and feel like I was in a fairytale," he says. Instead, he complains, "it's just not big enough" and "not very different from the amusement parks we have" in China. His seven-year-old daughter Yaqin disagrees, calling the park "fantastic," but her father...
...Happiest Place on Earth," but Liang Ning isn't too happy. The engineer brought his family to Disney's new theme park in Hong Kong from the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou one Saturday in April with high hopes, but by day's end, he was less than spellbound. "I wanted to forget the world and feel like I was in a fairytale," he says. Instead, he complains, "it's just not big enough" and "not very different from the amusement parks we have" in China. His seven-year-old daughter Yaqin disagrees, calling the park "fantastic," but her father...
...bees. During her journey, she inadvertently befriends Javier (J.R. Villarreal), a lovable character who enthusiastically welcomes her into his world of wealth and privilege, respects her spelling prowess, and even develops a little crush on her.The plot is fairly predictable, but refreshingly realistic. Unlike the documentary “Spellbound,” most of the characters are not flat and have a broad range of experiences apart from the spelling bee. All the characters seem like people that you could find in any city. Palmer poignantly portrays the youthful awkwardness and apprehension associated with participation in these spelling contests...
...film’s first shots of a terrorist training camp, the terrorists are shooting a training video for recruitment purposes. “Let’s shoot this puppy!” enthuses the director, in a fake, exaggerated Middle-eastern accent.Later, the terrorists watch spellbound as Omar wins successive elimination rounds on “American Dreamz.” In the last round, we see them nervously singing along with Omar, hoping he doesn’t mess up— as one of the terrorists mutters, “Go Omar...
...like “Spellbound” to the Broadway play “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” to the ESPN airing of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, it seems to be that we like to watch spelling, though sometimes critically. We observe, literally spellbound, as contestants string together letters in the unlikeliest of ways, and yet we criticize, sometimes their appearances and often their social skills. Sure, being able to spell supercalifragilisticexpialidocious may not win an invite to a party, but I think we would all like to be better spellers. If it were...