Fly Right, Straighten Up
Can't Get There From Here
Dennis Lim
Tuesday, March 25th 2003
-
photo: Miramax
Vanilla sky: Paltrow in View
Details:
Directed by Bruno Barreto
Written by Eric Wald
Miramax
In release
Boat Trip
Directed by Mort Nathan
Written by Nathan & William Bigelow
Artisan
In release
Most Popular
-
You Can't Escape the Canvasser's Pitch 'Got a minute?' The young bleeding-heart carnivores who hunt you down on your lunch hour
-
The Coen Brothers Make Another Mockery with Burn After Reading Remarkably consistent, there's nothing these boys can't hold up to ridicule
-
No Witness Protection for Mobster Turned Snitch Joe Campy. PS: He's Hiding in Plain Sight. PPS: He has a web site.
-
Mickey Rourke is The Wrestler The onetime Hollywood A-lister climbs back in the ring with Darren Aronofsky's latest
-
Midway Through the Toronto Film Fest, and Things are Looking Bleak Oh, Canada
Despite comic entanglements with Mike Myers's cross-eyed attendant trainer and a catfight-justifying Christina Applegate rivalry, Donna's skyward ascent is largely turbulence-free. The film, meanwhile, goes for that choppy, air-pocket sensation, veteran helmer Bruno Barreto directing like he's never made a movie before, and never wants to again. Eventually, the exhaust roar of condescending affirmation drowns all else out. View From the Top mocks its protagonist's dreams, even as it numbly fulfills them.
In Boat Trip, hetero horndogs Cuba Gooding Jr. and Horatio Sanz suffer major anal panic when they realize that a spiteful travel agent has booked them on a gay cruise. Surrounded by a contingent of lisping, preening, Liza-loving, "I Will Survive"-miming mannequins, Gooding and Sanz learn that gay people aren't so disgusting after all, and that being gay helps you score with the ladies. The movie improves immeasurably if you visualize a looming iceberg in the corner of the frame.
Recent Articles
More by Dennis Lim
Festival Express
More Toronto highlights, from Nazis to anarchists
'The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros'
A Memorial at Once Visceral and Sober
Micro-thriller a Blockbuster at Heart
'Brothers of the Head'
Site Search «
Village Voice Insiders
- Weekly villagevoice.com
- Weekly freebies and Special Offers
- Daily "What To Do in NYC" E-mail
- Information on the Performing Arts
- New York Bites - Restaurants Newsletter
| buy, sell, trade 5,339 | musician 3,090 |
| rentals 14,681 | jobs 5,391 |
| adult entertainment 9,885 | |
| classifieds | backpage.com | Post ads for free! | |
|---|---|
