Review: `Surf's Up' has an inspired vibe
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What the world needs now is not another penguin movie, it would seem, following the animated "Happy Feet" and the documentary "March of the Penguins," both Oscar winners, as well as the spoof "Farce of the Penguins" and movies like "Madagascar" in which penguins steal the show.
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âStep Up 2 the Streetsâ posits a universe where racial and class differences are minor obstacles to fun and pretends its clichÃ©s arenât clichÃ©s.
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As a child of 1970s California, Derek McGinnis felt that riding waves was like a birthright, and losing his left leg to a suicide bomber in Iraq wasn't going to stop him from surfing again.
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The soundtrack has lively numbers, which the youth may love.
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It aims to be the little movie that  uses the powers of positive thinking and science to score big  at box offices and surprise Hollywood.
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I met an old friend for coffee in San Francisco yesterday afternoon, and had a few hours to kill before stopping in at the Wired reunion party. I didn't want to drive back to Berkeley because the weather was so crummy, and I was just across teh street from a movie theater and was just in time for the start of a movie that lots of people had been telling me to see. So I went. The movie -- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, I had no idea what it was about until the movie started, then I remembered hearing a Fresh Air show about it and finding it too painful to listen to. Now here I was in the theater, not just being asked to listen to it, but being asked to live it. Through some very wonderful film-making, you feel as if what is happening to the main character is happening to you. Or more accurately, probably, you get the slightest hint of what it's like to be this person. My immediate impulse, one which I gave serious consideration to, was to pack up my things and leave. Anything would be better than spending three hours living this guy's life.  Two things happen over time: 1. You get over it. 2. They change perspective, and instead of being inside his body, you move outside it.  I think those two things are the story we all live as we mature and learn to live inside our own bodies, with their limits. You learn to step outside and see the humor in your predicament. The main character says he lives in a diving bell because it's as hard for him to communicate with other people as it would be at the bottom of the ocean inside a diving bell. The movie teaches that it's not much easier for the rest of us, even though we can manipulate symbols better. On the other hand, of course it is. The film develops a relationship between the hero and his father, between the hero and his own children, his ex-wife, his lover.  We strive for deeper understanding of ourselves and each other. But it may be ridiculously easy to find the only meaning that exists, without language, without intellect, by just being. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly should probably be the picture of the year for 2007, it's that good. But like all great art it shows you something truthful about yourself, and you may or may not want to see it.
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SpongeBob's transition to the big screen is wonderfully whimsical.
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A prototype surfboard includes a notebook that allows surfers to check the latest wave and weather reports, navigate the Web and check e-mail between rides. [Missing Links]
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LOS ANGELES  - As the summer sequels keep washing up on the shore, 20th Century Fox's "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer" managed to establish a beachhead this past weekend.
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This Hollywood film is a time-pass fun flick.
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Written and directed by Andrew Bujalski, this wonderful independent film wonÂt save or change your life, but it may make your heart swell. Its aim is modest and true.
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LOS ANGELES  - Surf's up, aboard a  tidal wave of events tied to this past Tuesday's release of  Brian Wilson's finally completed magnum opus "Smile" from  Nonesuch Records.
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With its wispy story and wonder-cabinet production design, Wes Anderson's new movie should be exasperating, but instead it is mostly delightful.
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Sivaji does not disappoint but neither does it completely sweep you off your feet. It is a fun and colourful movie, with a human touch.
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I've been getting early wake-up calls lately. Waking up before the sun has cleared the line of trees east of my house may be the result of age, but I prefer to think of it as a creative surge, or a greater degree of alertness.
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Stella McCartney's cure for a stressed-out city summer is to summon the spirit of the beach.
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The film does, in a way, remind us of the old one.