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...limbed young girl. An adorable canine with a CGI-ed grin. A daughter and her estranged father. What could go wrong with this tried-and-true feel-good recipe of friendship and adolescence? Not much, but clearly not much can go very right either. With a clichéd plot and cardboard cut-out characters, 20th Century Fox’s Because of Winn-Dixie, based on Kate DiCamillo’s New York Times bestseller novel of the same name, is an anti-climactic wallow in what never quite approaches small-town charm...
...other townsfolk of sleepy Naomi, Florida with her odd name and piercing blue eyes, framed by dark mascara and perfectly plucked eyebrows. This artistic choice on the part of the makeup artist gives the young actress a surreal appearance to stand out in a movie lacking any standout plot or character development...
...main character, Mitchell Hundred, is the mayor of New York and the world’s only superhero—in fact, the world’s only political superhero. Its protagonist’s remarkable abilities are an interesting wrinkle rather than the center of the plot. A civil engineer by trade, he stumbles onto a Generic Glowing Object (itself an instance of deus ex machina present in nearly every superhero’s origin story) that explodes and inscribes curving scars on his face reminiscent of the metallic tracery on a circuit board...
...limbed young girl. An adorable canine with a CGI-ed grin. A daughter and her estranged father. What could go wrong with this tried-and-true feel-good recipe of friendship and adolescence? Not much, but clearly not much can go very right either. With a clichéd plot and cardboard cut-out characters, 20th Century Fox’s Because of Winn-Dixie, based on Kate DiCamillo’s New York Times bestseller novel of the same name, is an anti-climactic wallow in what never quite approaches small-town charm...
...other townsfolk of sleepy Naomi, Florida with her odd name and piercing blue eyes, framed by dark mascara and perfectly plucked eyebrows. This artistic choice on the part of the makeup artist gives the young actress a surreal appearance to stand out in a movie lacking any standout plot or character development...