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...tomgirl Astrid, whom Hiccup wins over), acquit themselves admirably. Perhaps the most inspired supporting performance comes from the ever-dependable Craig Ferguson, who voices Hiccup’s mentor Gobber, a character who says everything mentor characters are never supposed to say in movies, thus providing some of the film??s best laughs. At one point, when Hiccup complains how he can’t help that he wasn’t born with the beefy physique of his father, Gobber helpfully explains “It’s not what’s outside that...

Author: By Yair Rosenberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: How to Train Your Dragon | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

...difficult to figure out the story of “Hot Tub Time Machine.” There is a hot tub. It allows people to travel through time. In spite or perhaps because of this simplicity—from the film??s opening, cornball photo montage of people in hot tubs, all the way to its end credits—“Hot Tub Time Machine” is a raucously funny movie, even if parts of it feel out of place...

Author: By Brian A. Feldman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hot Tub Time Machine | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

...down in an uninspiring relationship with a music journalist (Lizzy Caplan), musing on predestination at odd, seemingly random points in the story. It’s as if Pink tried to dispense with the heavy, emotional baggage of the film as quickly as possible, which eventually bogs down the film??s pacing. Jacob, having not been alive in 1986, spends the majority of the film running around frantically, trying to figure out how to get back to the present...

Author: By Brian A. Feldman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hot Tub Time Machine | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

...film??s narrative runs through the testimony of the trial’s witnesses, who tell the story of corrupted German Willhelm Grimm. Grimm’s progression from wounded World War I veteran to odious SS leader must have given its  viewers a more nuanced, but ultimately condemning image of the typical Nazi...

Author: By Adam T. Horn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: WWII Film Offers POV on Holocaust | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

...expressed surprise at seeing the Holocaust represented cinematically before the end of the war. Frodon explained that de Toth was sent by a news agency to film the situation in Poland in 1939, giving him some insight into the effects of Nazi rule, which is especially critical given the film??s Polish setting...

Author: By Adam T. Horn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: WWII Film Offers POV on Holocaust | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

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