Movie: Josie & the Pussycats (Amedia-only)
TODS was away at a conference last weekend so I picked a movie to watch that he wouldn't mind missing. Strangely enough, he did not grow up watching Josie and the Pussycats every Saturday morning during middle school like I did! So that was the movie I watched.
It was very cute. And Alan Cumming played a delightful villain who was named, of all things, Wyatt.* My ability to screencap died after just a couple (I *really* need to get the DVD drive fixed on this computer), but here's what I managed to grab, along with some comments on the movie!
Wyatt spots the Pussycats and realizes he and his evil boss can make money off of them. Therefore, he smirks.
Wyatt realizes that he has succeeded in persuading the Pussycats to sign a contract that will make him and his evil boss obscene amounts of money. Hence, another smirk. More subtle this time.
With the hair and the glasses and the evil smirk he looks like a cross between John Lennon and the devil from Brimstone, especially in a later scene where he wears a black turtleneck.
A lot of the movie was rather silly, but most of it was amusing and occasionally there was some clever social commentary. In some ways the movie as a whole reminded me of Speed Racer, where the evil corporation tries to use the young main characters for nefarious purposes but the kids are just too darned wholesome to let them get away with it.
*Note to my very patient non-Tin-Man-familiar friends: Wyatt is the name given to the Tin Man in the miniseries of the same name; Alan Cumming plays the Scarecrow. You may have noticed that I have a predilection for fanfic involving the two.
It was very cute. And Alan Cumming played a delightful villain who was named, of all things, Wyatt.* My ability to screencap died after just a couple (I *really* need to get the DVD drive fixed on this computer), but here's what I managed to grab, along with some comments on the movie!
Wyatt spots the Pussycats and realizes he and his evil boss can make money off of them. Therefore, he smirks.
Wyatt realizes that he has succeeded in persuading the Pussycats to sign a contract that will make him and his evil boss obscene amounts of money. Hence, another smirk. More subtle this time.
With the hair and the glasses and the evil smirk he looks like a cross between John Lennon and the devil from Brimstone, especially in a later scene where he wears a black turtleneck.
A lot of the movie was rather silly, but most of it was amusing and occasionally there was some clever social commentary. In some ways the movie as a whole reminded me of Speed Racer, where the evil corporation tries to use the young main characters for nefarious purposes but the kids are just too darned wholesome to let them get away with it.
*Note to my very patient non-Tin-Man-familiar friends: Wyatt is the name given to the Tin Man in the miniseries of the same name; Alan Cumming plays the Scarecrow. You may have noticed that I have a predilection for fanfic involving the two.