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...This year's festival is filled with many more new shorts, as well as some pieces that Spike has produced himself, like Swing Sluts" featuring Summer and Tiffany, which he hopes will hit it big in the future as a full-length cartoon. Spike hopes to hit it big himself soon; after years of being passed over, he anticipates receiving the credit that is due to him as an artist and a business man. His plans include world distribution for film, DVD and pay-per-view, and world domination in general. Both the Classic Animation Festival and the Sick...
...Equally unfunny is Will Ferrell in the role of a hippie Jesus that periodically enters Mary Katherine's dreams. The "fashion-time" break is equally painful. One gets the impression that the writers, lacking enough material to pack 90 minutes of film, randomly inserted these multiple sequences to add length. And the comic potential wasted in the roles of the father/ headmaster and the schoolteacher nuns is unforgivable...
...course I should have expected this. As any critic will comment, the formula that works so well in a nine-minute Saturday Night Live sketch rarely survives the full-length movie version, eg: A Night at the Roxbury. But I was a critic with a mission. I wanted to relive my days among the nuns...
...film's most irresistible appeal, however, stems from actors Molly Shannon and Will Ferrell. In Superstar, Molly Shannon presents a tamer, less intense Mary Katherine Gallagher than her counterpart on SNL. This lack of stamina is undoubtedly due to the longer length of the film. Will Ferrell as Sky is the quintessential master of morons. But overall, both actors' talents are underused in a film that fails to showcase their comedic brilliance...
...emergency messages and crucial information or a quickly sent e-mail, nothing more. But all of us at one time or another have committed the sin of selfishness by mistaking a kiosk for our home computer, settling in for the long haul of reading detailed messages, writing novel-length responses and taking ample time to pause and sip our coffee between keystrokes...