movie review

时光倒流七十年Somewhere In Time英文影评(1980)

He is a talented young playwright of 1980. She is a great new star of the American theater in 1912, on her way to becoming the toast of one continent. They meet, fall ecstatically in love and are suddenly separated, it seems, forever - time travel being far less predictable than even the Long Island Rail Road.

This is more or less the plot of ''Somewhere in Time,'' which is hereby nominated for the 1980 ''Hanover Street'' award that each year goes to the big-budget screen romance with the highest giggle content. The film opens today at the Trans-Lux 85th Street and other theaters.

Somewhere in Time,'' which does for time-travel what the Hindenburg did for dirigibles, was written by Richard Matheson, based on his novel, ''Bid Time Return,'' and directed by Jeannot Szwarc, whose last triumph was ''Jaws 2.''

Its stars are Christopher Reeve (''Superman''), as Richard Collier, the playwright who falls in love with an old photograph and successfully wills himself back into the world of 1912, and Jane Seymour, a beautiful young Englishwoman who plays the actress, Elise McKenna. The music is largely by Rachmaninoff, whose ''Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini'' is played more often than sanity can easily accommodate.

The film's principal setting is Mackinac Island, Mich., and its Grand Hotel, which is one of the last, great 19th-century American resorts still in tip-top shape. The hotel and Mackinac are spectacularly lovely, but fail to give substance to this ephemeral endeavor.

The screenplay is priceless (funny) and though both Miss Seymour and Christopher Plummer, who plays the actress's stern manager, are credible, it's Mr. Reeve who sets the film's tone. Unfortunately, his unshadowed good looks, granite profile, bright naivete and eagerness to please - the qualities that made him such an ideal Superman - look absurd here. Though he is physically huge, he has no more weight on the screen than a giant, helium-filled canary. He doesn't even walk with authority. He sort of floats, but awkwardly.

It may also be that he has been badly directed, urged to act, to ''do things,'' to add bits of ''business'' to the characterization when less would have possibly been more. Another movie like this and it will be back to the phone booth forever.

公主日记2:Royal Engagement英文影评(2004)

The story opens with Mia graduating from college (when we last saw her she was in high school) and zipping off to Genovia, which her grandmother, Queen Clarisse Renaldi (Julie Andrews), hopes she will govern someday soon. As in the original ''Princess Diaries,'' much of the putative comedy involves the free-spirited Mia working in gentle, contrapuntal harmony with her veddy, veddy proper grandmother. Because the ugly duckling has already molted into a swan, however, the plot this time around hinges on some minor palace intrigue and romances with two blow-dried suitors who take turns holding the royal hand while keeping a safe distance from the royal chastity. In between the cooing and wooing, the pratfalls and product placements, Ms. Hathaway and Ms. Andrews flash smiles of such dazzling wattage they could carry California through its next energy crisis.

''The Princess Diaries 2'' was directed by Garry Marshall, who has been selling wish-fulfillment fantasies for years, most notably in

''Pretty Woman'' and in the first ''Princess Diaries'' movie. Mr. Marshall, whose place in pop-culture heaven was secured long ago by television comedies like ''The Dick Van Dyke Show,'' on which he served as a writer, is not much of a film director. Depending on the budget, his movies look either cheap (like this one) or studio slick (''Pretty Woman''), and tend to have the same flat, presentational visual style that's familiar from most sitcoms. (That's why his movies fit so snugly into airplane monitors.) And as in those sitcoms shot in front of live audiences, Mr. Marshall's actors often play to the camera and wait for laughs, which can be a serious problem when the screenplay is as deeply unfunny as this one.

Built on vintage and newly minted clichés, Shonda Rhimes's script combines a classic storybook scenario with the usual self-help uplift. After undergoing a radical makeover in the first ''Princess'' movie, Anne has metamorphosed into a self-possessed young woman. She knows how to walk in high heels, iron the frizz out of her hair and whirl around the dance floor with ineligible partners without making them feel bad. True, her sexuality comes across as weirdly underdeveloped, closer to that of the preadolescents who constitute this G-rated movie's core audience, than that of most typical college graduates. But that's in keeping with the character whose appeal is largely predicated on being essentially unremarkable in every respect in looks, intelligence, personality and that most dubious of designated female traits, niceness.

There's nothing wrong with being nice if it means giving succor to the poor and being kind to animals, but there's something unsettling about a character as bland, mushy and fiber-free as soggy corn flakes. Once upon a different time, Mia might have found her truest self by hanging out with the soulfully truculent adolescent girls in ''Ghost World.'' Instead, Ms.

Andrews whisked in with a face frozen in do-re-mi beatitude and carried Mia off to a world where every unruly hair and thought is as smoothed down as the grass on a windswept Bavarian mountain. In the first film, Mia discovered she was to the manner born. Now, the princess who would be queen learns what the rest of us know already: happy movie endings generally come to those women who eat their independence and, in time, a wedding cake too.

贫民窟里的百万富翁Slumdog Millionaire英文影评（2008）

A gaudy, gorgeous rush of color, sound and motion, “Slumdog Millionaire,”the latest from the British shape-shifter Danny Boyle, doesn’t travel through the lower depths, it giddily bounces from one horror to the next.

A modern fairy tale about a pauper angling to become a prince, this sensory blowout largely takes place amid the squalor of Mumbai, India, where lost children and dogs sift through trash so fetid you swear you can smell the discarded mango as well as its peel, or could if the film weren’t already hurtling through another picturesque gutter.

Mr. Boyle, who first stormed the British movie scene in the mid-1990s with flashy entertainments like “Shallow Grave” and “Trainspotting,” has a flair for the outré. Few other directors could turn a heroin addict rummaging inside a rank toilet bowl into a surrealistic underwater reverie, as he does in “Trainspotting,” and fewer still could do so while holding

onto the character’s basic humanity. The addict, played by Ewan McGregor, emerges from his repulsive splish-splashing with a near-beatific smile (having successfully retrieved some pills), a terrible if darkly funny image that turns out to have been representative not just of Mr. Boyle’s bent humor but also of his worldview: better to swim than to sink.

Swimming comes naturally to Jamal (the British actor Dev Patel in his feature-film debut), who earns a living as a chai-wallah serving fragrant tea to call-center workers in Mumbai and who, after a series of alternating exhilarating and unnerving adventures, has landed in the hot seat on the television game show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.” Yet while the story opens with Jamal on the verge of grabbing the big prize, Simon Beaufoy’s cleverly kinked screenplay, adapted from a novel by Vikas Swarup, embraces a fluid view of time and space, effortlessly shuttling between the young contestant’s past and his present, his childhood spaces and grown-up times. Here, narrative doesn’t begin and end: it flows and eddies — just like life.

By all rights the texture of Jamal’s life should have been brutally coarsened by tragedy and poverty by the time he makes a grab for the television jackpot. But because “Slumdog Millionaire” is

self-consciously (perhaps commercially) framed as a contemporary fairy tale cum love story, or because Mr. Boyle leans toward the sanguine, this proves to be one of the most upbeat stories about living in hell imaginable. It’s a life that begins in a vast, vibrant, sun-soaked, jampacked ghetto, a kaleidoscopic city of flimsy shacks and struggling humanity and takes an abrupt, cruel turn when Jamal (Ayush Mahesh Khedekar), then an exuberant 7, and his cagier brother, Salim (Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail), witness the murder of their mother (Sanchita Choudhary) by marauding fanatics armed with anti-Muslim epithets and clubs.

Cast into the larger, uncaring world along with another new orphan, a shy beauty named Latika (Rubina Ali plays the child, Freida Pinto the teenager), the three children make their way from one refuge to another before falling prey to a villain whose exploitation pushes the story to the edge of the unspeakable. Although there’s something undeniably fascinating, or at least watchable, about this ghastly interlude — the young actors are very appealing and sympathetic, and the images are invariably pleasing even when they shouldn’t be — it’s unsettling to watch these young characters and, by extension, the young nonprofessionals playing them enact such a pantomime. It doesn’t help even if you remember that Jamal makes it out alive long enough to have his 15 televised minutes.

It’s hard to hold onto any reservations in the face of Mr. Boyle’s resolutely upbeat pitch and seductive visual style. Beautifully shot with great sensitivity to color by the cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle, in both film and digital video, “Slumdog Millionaire” makes for a better viewing experience than it does for a reflective one. It’s an undeniably attractive package, a seamless mixture of thrills and tears, armchair tourism (the Taj Mahal makes a guest appearance during a sprightly interlude) and crackerjack professionalism. Both the reliably great Irrfan Khan (“A Mighty Heart”), as a sadistic detective, and the Bollywood star Anil Kapoor, as the preening game-show host, run circles around the young Mr. Patel, an agreeable enough if vague centerpiece to all this coordinated, insistently happy chaos.

In the end, what gives me reluctant pause about this bright, cheery, hard-to-resist movie is that its joyfulness feels more like a filmmaker’s calculation than an honest cry from the heart about the human spirit (or, better yet, a moral tale). In the past Mr. Boyle has managed to wring giggles out of murder (“Shallow Grave”) and addiction (“Trainspotting”), and invest even the apocalypse with a certain joie de vivre (the excellent zombie flick “28 Days Later”). He’s a blithely glib entertainer who can dazzle you with technique and, on occasion, blindside you with emotion, as he does in his underrated children’s movie, “Millions.” He plucked my heartstrings in “Slumdog Millionaire” with well-practiced dexterity, coaxing laughter and sobs out of each sweet, sour and false note.

变形金刚英文影评Transformers(2007)

When it comes to Transformers, I have no ax to grind, pro or con. For me, it's just another loud, plot-deficient summer motion picture. In this case, nostalgia doesn't grip me - I'm too old to have played with the gadgets or watched the cartoon. I'm sure many fanboys (and girls) will be delighted by what Michael Bay has done to update the Transformers mythos (basically, that means incorporating A-level special effects and blowing lots of things up). On the other hand, those with no particular emotional attachment to the toys and their multimedia offshoots may dislike this movie as much as I did.

Thus far, the summer of 2007 has been full of very loud, very unsatisfying action movies. Transformers tops them all - it's louder, flashier, and more hollow than anything else out there. At 135 minutes, it drags - sometimes painfully so. The movie is top-heavy with exposition, and the only decent action scenes occur in the final 25 minutes. Despite an epileptic camera, those sequences are impressive from a special effects point-of-view, but they aren't exciting. That's because the characters are so poorly developed and the Transformers so singularly uninteresting that the question of who wins or loses doesn't matter. All the effort behind Transformers went into making the robots look cool; nothing went into developing a compelling storyline. Even the headline bout between Optimus Prime and Megatron is pedestrian - two big metallic monsters slugging it out while the camera spins around them as if out of control. It's kind of reminiscent of the Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots going at it.

The film tells of the struggle between the good guy Autobots and the bad guy Decepticons as they scour Earth in search of the fabled Allspark (a really big cube of power). The goal of the Decepticons and their leader, Megatron, is to seize the cube as a means of domination and control. The Autobots, led by Optimus Prime, want to protect humanity by destroying the Allspark. A secret segment of the U.S. military, Sector Seven, has captured the Allspark and is hiding it deep inside the Hoover Dam. They also have a cryogenically frozen Megatron in custody. (I know that all sounds silly, and it is, but short descriptions of science fiction films often come across as childish.)

Shia LaBeouf, who's as hot as any young working male star, plays Sam Witwicky, a high school boy who becomes involved in this situation because his grandfather's glasses contain a clue to the Allspark's location. His father buys him a car for graduation and it turns out to be Bumblebee, an Autobot. For all the time that the movie spends on developing Sam's home life - including giving him a mother, a father, school rivals, and a hot girlfriend (Megan Fox) - the character remains surprisingly lifeless. LaBeouf's performance is charming and earnest but he never made me care about Sam. The intent is to make this an average guy who becomes heroic

after being thrust into extraordinary circumstances, but the movie doesn't get us there.

The movie gets a badly needed jolt of energy a little past the half-way point with the introduction of a zany John Turturro as Sector Seven Agent Simmons. Turturro's off-the-wall performance is in synch with what one might expect from a movie that is essentially one long product placement. In fact, the entire first segment with Simmons (from when he enters Sam's house until he has "first contact" with the Transformers) works better as comedy than anything else. Alas, another veteran actor in the cast, Jon Voight, doesn't fare as well as Turturro. The word "embarrassing" was defined for performances like this one. Voight plays the Secretary of Defense. I kept waiting for Leslie Nielsen to show up as the President.

There's a secondary plot involving a group of young analysts and hackers that goes nowhere. Despite absorbing roughly 20 minutes of screen time, there's no payoff for these characters and they pretty much vanish near the end. Their inclusion is baffling since they appear to serve no purpose beyond padding out the film's running length and providing occasional comedy relief (most of which comes courtesy of Anthony Andersen). Cutting out these characters wouldn't damage the film's integrity. In fact, the tighter focus might make for a better movie.

If the dialogue is anything to go by, Bay has a sense of humor. Not only does he take a moment to poke fun at one of his earlier hit movies, but he allows so many howlingly bad lines to be spoken that the level of self-parody has to be intentional. Transformers is a jumble of the good, the bad, and the ugly, with the latter two categories outweighing the former. The film has a lot of nice touches (such as the opening attack in Qatar, where there is a sense of danger, and the John Hughes-inspired introduction of Sam), but the meat of the story is plodding, recycled sci-fi drivel. That, I suppose, is what happens when a major motion picture is based on a 20-plus year old toy phenomenon.

Transformers is so belabored that it makes Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End seem like a masterpiece of pacing. It makes that "classic" midsummer alien invasion movie, Independence Day, seem like a template for inventive plotting and solid character development. Even by Michael Bay standards, this movie is vapid. Yes, there are plenty of explosions, but those are a dime-a-dozen these days; even Discovery Channel's Mythbusters has them. Transformers isn't clean, big-budget fun; it's clean, big-budget tedium. For Transformers fans, I suppose this is a dream motion picture. For everyone else, it's a nightmare.

钢琴家\战地琴人英文影评(2002)The Pianist

Roman Polanski's new movie, ''The Pianist,'' is based on the memoirs of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a star of Polish radio and cafe society in the 1930's and a member of Warsaw's assimilated Jewish middle class, who lived through the Nazi occupation and the Warsaw ghetto. Szpilman's recollections, published shortly after the war, offer, like other such books, a deeply paradoxical impression of the Holocaust. Accounts of survival, that is, are both representative and anomalous; they at once record this all but unimaginable historical catastrophe and, without intentional mendacity or inaccuracy, distort it.

The reason for this could not be simpler. Most of the intended victims of Nazi genocide did not survive; the typical Jewish experience in 1940's Europe was death. One of the main genres that allow later generations access to this time thus presents an inevitably unrepresentative picture of it.

We naturally identify with the protagonists of these books, and the characters based on them in movies and plays, and so imagine that we would have been among the lucky ones, even if the real odds suggest otherwise. (We also comfort ourselves in the vain belief that, had we been there, we would have bravely defied the Nazis, risking our own well-being to help their victims.) When it is not treated with the uneasy sentimentality reserved for miracles, survival -- whether through dumb luck, resilience,

the kindness of strangers or some combination of these -- is often viewed with a deep and bitter sense of the absurd.

Mr. Polanski, who was a Jewish child in Krakow when the Germans arrived in September 1939, presents Szpilman's story with bleak, acid humor and with a ruthless objectivity that encompasses both cynicism and compassion. When death is at once so systematically and so capriciously dispensed, survival becomes a kind of joke. By the end of the film, Szpilman, brilliantly played by Adrien Brody, comes to resemble one of Samuel Beckett's gaunt existential clowns, shambling through a barren, bombed-out landscape clutching a jar of pickles. He is like the walking punchline to a cosmic jest of unfathomable cruelty.

Perhaps because of his own experiences, Mr. Polanski approaches this material with a calm, fierce authority. This is certainly the best work Mr. Polanski has done in many years (which, unfortunately, is not saying a lot), and it is also one of the very few nondocumentary movies about Jewish life and death under the Nazis that can be called definitive (which is saying a lot). And -- again paradoxically -- this is achieved by realizing the modest, deliberate intention to tell a single person's story, to recreate a specific and finite set of events. (Ronald Harwood's script does take some necessary liberties with Szpilman's account, but these seem justified by the demands of movie storytelling.)

The ambition to produce a comprehensive vision -- a single spectacle adequate to the Holocaust -- ultimately defeated Steven Spielberg's admirable and serious ''Schindler's List.'' Mr. Polanski, in staging a narrow, partial slice of history, has made a film that is both drier and more resonant than Mr. Spielberg's.

One of Mr. Polanski's trademarks is what might be called (to continue multiplying paradoxes) a humane sadism. He has always been fascinated by what happens to weak, ordinary people -- Mia Farrow in ''Rosemary's Baby,'' for instance, or Jack Nicholson in ''Chinatown'' -- when they are intruded upon by evil forces more powerful than they, and he punishes his actors, peeling back their vanity to make them show the face of humanity under duress.

One of Mr. Brody's most appealing features -- from ''King of the Hill'' 10 years ago through such varied and underseen pictures as ''Restaurant,'' ''Summer of Sam'' and ''Bread and Roses'' more recently -- is his quick-witted, almost smart-alecky cockiness. His Szpilman, in the first section of ''The Pianist,'' has the gait of a self-satisfied dandy and the smug smile of a man who takes charm and good fortune as his birthright.

As he plays piano in a broadcast studio, an explosion rattles the building. He ducks, wipes some plaster off his sleeve, and keeps playing. Later Szpilman refuses to allow the widespread panic at the German invasion to interfere with more pressing matters, like the seduction of a star-struck young woman named Dorota (Emilia Fox).

History, the occupying Germans and Mr. Polanski then conspire to wipe the smirk off his face. The Nazi takeover is followed by a swift, brutal chronicle of violation and humiliation as the Szpilman family are stripped of their possessions, their dignity (the elderly father, played by Frank Finlay, is beaten by a German soldier for daring to use the sidewalk) and their home. With the other Jews of Warsaw, they are herded into the ghetto, a captive labor force subject to continual culling by disease, starvation and the random violence of their tormentors.

Mr. Polanski, working in Poland for the first time in 40 years (and also in Prague), reconstructs the look and rhythm of life in the ghetto with care and sobriety. You feel the dread and confusion of the inhabitants, and you also observe their intuitive, futile attempts to master the situation -- circulating underground newspapers, smuggling contraband through the walls and quietly arming themselves for resistance.

The survival instinct is shown to exist in a weird, numb state that combines defiance and resignation. And Szpilman's evasion of death involves a curious combination of pluck, passivity and arrogance. He is the only member of his family who avoids being shipped to the extermination camps, and he later manages to escape from the ghetto altogether. During the 1943 ghetto uprising, he is locked in a secure apartment in the gentile part of the city, and he watches helplessly from the window as the partisans begin their brave, doomed resistance to the German occupiers.

From this moment forward ''The Pianist'' -- which opens today in New York and Los Angeles -- becomes a tour de force of claustrophobia and surreal desperation, and Mr. Polanski ruthlessly strips his Szpilman down to the bare human minimum. He is neither an especially heroic nor an entirely sympathetic fellow, and by the end he has been reduced to a nearly animal condition -- sick, haggard and terrified. But then the film's climax offers the most dramatic paradox of all: a glimpse of how the impulses of civilization survive in the midst of unparalleled barbarism. When I first saw this film last spring in Cannes (where it won the Golden Palm), I thought Szpilman's encounter, in the war's last days, with a

music-loving Nazi officer (Thomas Kretschmann) courted sentimentality by associating the love of art with moral decency, an equation the Nazis themselves, steeped in Beethoven and Wagner, definitively refuted. But

on a second viewing, the scene, scored to the ravishing, sorrowful music of Chopin, was a painful and ridiculous testament to just how bizarre the European catastrophe of the last century was.

Szpilman may have been the butt of a monstrous joke, but the last laugh -- appropriately deadpan -- was his. ''What will you do when this is over?'' the officer asks. ''I'll play piano on Polish radio,'' Szpilman replies. Which is exactly what he did until his death two years ago. ''The Pianist'' is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). It has many scenes of extreme violence.

篱笆墙外Over the Hedge英文影评 (2006)

"Over the Hedge" is one of the few comic strips in which you will find debates about the Theory of Relativity, population control and global warming. None of those issues are much discussed in the new animated feature inspired by the strip, but there is a great deal about suburban sprawl, junk food and the popularity of the SUV .

The movie opens with the coming of spring and the emergence from hibernation of many forest animals, including some that do not actually hibernate, but never mind. Vincent the bear awakens to find that his entire stash of stolen food has been -- stolen! He apprehends the master thief RJ the raccoon and gives him a deadline to return the food, or else. RJ cleverly mobilizes the entire population of the forest to help him in this task (during which he does not quite explain the bear and the deadline). And together they confront an amazing development: During the winter, half of their forest has been replaced by a suburb, and they are separated from it by a gigantic hedge.

That's the setup for a feature cartoon that is not at the level of "Finding Nemo" or "Shrek," but is a lot of fun, awfully nice to look at, and filled with energy and smiles. It's not a movie adults would probably want to attend on their own, but those taking the kids are likely to be amused, and the kids, I think, will like it just fine.

Once again we get an animal population where all the species work together instead of eating each other, and there is even the possibility of interspecies sex, when a human's house cat falls in love with Stella the skunk. There is also the usual speciesism; mammals and reptiles are first-class citizens, but when a dragonfly gets fried by an insect zapper, not a tear is shed.

These animals once ate leaves and roots and things, but all that has changed since Hammy the squirrel discovered nacho chips. The animals find these so delicious, they are the forest equivalent of manna, and RJ, who usurps leadership of the bunch from Verne the turtle, is happy to lead them to the promised land of nachos and other junk foods, in the garbage cans and kitchens of humans.

Like all humans who like to live with a view of beautiful forests, the humans in "Over the Hedge" are personally offended that they are occupied by animals. Gladys (Allison Janney), the head of the homeowners' association, is personally affronted that RJ and his cronies might violate her garbage can, and brings in Dwayne (Thomas Haden Church), a pest control expert known ominously as The Verminator. "I want them exterminated as inhumanely as possible," she tells him. She's all heart.

The encroachment of the forest animals and the efforts of the Verminator in "Over the Hedge" don't approach the wit and genius of a similar situation in the Academy Award-winning "Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit" (2005), but then how could they? This movie is pitched at a different level. But the action scenes are fun, the characters are well-drawn and voiced, and I thought the film's visual look was sort of lovely. If the animals lack the lofty thinking of their originals on the comics page, they are nevertheless a notch or two above the I.Q. levels of many an animated creature.

They have to be. It's a hard life for a forager these days, when you're caught between an angry bear on one side of the hedge and a street hockey game on the other.

橘子郡男孩英文影评Orange

County(2002)

Most parents, on at least a subconscious level, would be happy if their children, when grown, followed in their footsteps. Such a career choice by one's offspring, is, after all, a kind of validation of one's own decisions. So it must be with some degree of pride that Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson, Sissy Spacek, and Lawrence Kasdan view Orange County, because all of them have a son or daughter involved in the production. Sadly, however, while the movie may represent a showcase of second-generation talent, that's about all it really works as. In fact, were it not for the high profile names of "Hanks" and "Kasdan", this would be a perfect candidate for a direct-to-video release.

There are times when Orange County tantalizes us into believing that it's going to rise above the low level occupied by most card-carrying members of the bloated "teen comedy" club. Unfortunately, such glimpses are more the exception than the rule. Despite its occasional stabs at taking a more thoughtful approach, this is still a movie in which a woman nearly drinks urine, a popular cheerleader-type has sex with grunge outcasts, and a old man is repeatedly hit on the head with heavy objects. Worse still, because this movie has been forced to carry a PG-13 rating (lest it be unavailable

to its target audience), it is unable to attempt anything inventively raunchy. So we're once again led down the same blind alley into which we have been trapped by countless other low-brow teen comedies.

Colin Hanks plays Shaun Brumder, a senior at Vista Del Mar High School. One day, while out with his surfer dude buddies on the beach, Shaun finds a copy of the book "Straight Jacket" by Marcus Skinner, and it changes his life. He reads it 52 times, and, inspired by what it has to say and how it says it, he decides to become an author. Beyond that, he dreams of being accepted at Stanford, where Skinner teaches. His school guidance counselor assures him that he's a shoo-in - until she accidentally sends the wrong transcript. The result is that one day Shaun finds himself reading a rejection letter. Undaunted, he decides to pursue alternative means of getting into Stanford - including an attempt to persuade his father (John Lithgow) to donate a huge amount of money to the school, a misfired try to woo a member of the board of directors, and a road trip in which he; his girlfriend, Ashley (Schuyler Fisk, Sissy Spacek's daughter); and his brother, Lance (Jack Black), arrive at the college and wreak havoc.

Every once in a while, Orange County gives the impression that it's about to rise above the muck in which its roots lie, but it never quite makes it. There are some worthwhile scenes, including a few early in the film, and one important one late where Shaun has a heart-to-heart discussion with Marcus (played by an unbilled Kevin Kline). And, from time to time, the movie talks a little about what it's like to be a writer. (One nugget of wisdom offered: "Every good writer has a conflicted relationship with the place where he grew up.") Unfortunately, the pratfalls and crude humor keep getting in the way. This is no Wonder Boys. And, for a movie that's supposed to be a comedy, Orange County scores surprisingly low on the laugh-meter. The usually reliable Jack Black is good for a few hearty chuckles, but, for the most part, his performance veers between silly and irritating. Colin Hanks doesn't show nearly the aptitude of his mother or father (Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks), but Schulyer Fisk (last seen as the "best friend" in Snow Day) impresses. Catherine O'Hara (as Shaun's mother) and John Lithgow do about what one would expect from them.

As befits a film made by the son of one of Hollywood's most respected directors, Orange County is peppered with high-profile cameos. Ben Stiller, Lily Tomlin, Harold Ramis, Leslie Mann, Jane Adams, Chevy Chase, Garry Marshall, and the aforementioned Kevin Kline all make appearances. (This is not Kasdan's debut - that was the 1998 comedy/mystery Zero Effect.) Despite its up side and its short running length (80 minutes), Orange County still feels like an exercise in "been there, done that". It's

derivative and tiresome with little more to offer than one might anticipate from a teen comedy road trip.

牛仔裤的夏天The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants(2005)

Four teenage girls in a clothing store, trying on things, kidding around, giggling. Girls of four different sizes and shapes. What makes them all want to try on the same pair of pre-owned jeans? And why are the jeans a perfect fit all four times? It's the summer before the girls begin their senior year in high school, and all four have big summer plans.

Because the jeans magically fit them all, and perhaps because they all saw "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood," they come up with a plan: Each girl will wear the jeans for a week and then FedEx them to the next on the list.

Along with the solemn vow to forward the jeans on schedule comes a list of rules which must not be violated, of which the most crucial is that the girls must never let anyone else remove the jeans from their bodies. There is, however, a loophole: They can take them off themselves. Here we have a premise that could easily inspire a teenage comedy of comprehensive badness, but "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" is always sweet and sometimes surprisingly touching, as the jeans accompany each girl on a key step of her journey to adulthood.

The movie, like "Mystic Pizza" (1988), assembles a group of talented young actresses who have already done good work separately and now participate in a kind of showcase. America Ferrera (whose "Real Women Have Curves" remains one of the best recent coming-of-age films) plays Carmen, who lives with her Puerto Rican mother and is thrilled to be spending the summer with her absentee non-Puerto Rican father. Alexis Bledel, who struck entirely different notes in "Sin City," is Lena, off to visit her grandparents and other relatives on a Greek island. Blake Lively plays Bridget, who attends a soccer camp in Mexico and falls in love with one of the hunky young counselors. And Amber Tamblyn (of "Joan or Arcadia") is Tibby, the one with the sardonic angle on life, who wants to be a filmmaker and takes a low-paying job for the summer at a suburban megastore where she plans to shoot a video documentary about life and work.

The stories of the four girls comes, I learn, from a novel by Ann Brashares, who has written two more in the series. The usefulness of her four-story structure is that none of the stories overstays its welcome, and the four girls aren't trapped in the same dumb suburban teenage romantic plot. They live, and they learn.

Carmen has idealized her father, Al (Bradley Whitford), even though he dumped her mother (Rachel Ticotin) years earlier. She values her Puerto Rican roots and discovers, with a shock, that her dad is planning marriage with a WASP named Lydia (Nancy Travis), who comes equipped with children and a suburban home that her father seems to desire as much as his new bride. Is he ashamed of his golden-skinned daughter whose jeans show off a healthy and rounded but technically overweight body?

Tibby has perhaps been watching IFC too much and possibly envisions herself at Sundance as she heads off to the Wal-Mart clone with her video camera. She gets a young assistant named Bailey (Jenna Boyd) who is a good soul, open and warm-hearted, and with a secret that Tibby discovers one day when Bailey passes out right there on the floor of a store corridor. Tibby's tendency was to look at everything through a lens, objectively; Bailey removes the lens cap on her heart.

In Greece, Lena finds her family living a salt-of-the-earth existence in what are surely outtakes from a tourism commercial. If there really is an island this sun-drenched, with a village this filled with white stucco and deep shade, populated by people who are this jolly and loving and who throw a feast on a moment's notice, then I don't know why I'm not there instead of here. Lena's Greek relatives are, however, extremely protective of her chastity, which may exist primarily in their dreams, and she gets a crush on a local teen god.

Meanwhile, in Mexico, Bridget and the counselor know they are violating unbreakable rules by even spending private time together, but Bridget sets her sights on the guy and stages a campaign of attraction and seduction that is more or less irresistible.

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He succeeds through a combination of modesty and reckless glee, topping himself at every turn and reveling in his own showmanship. His "King Kong," though it has a few flourishes of tongue-in-cheek knowingness - including references to Cooper and Fay Wray and shots that directly quote the original - never feels self-conscious or arch. And though it presents the interspecies love story between Kong (Andy Serkis, who also plays a shipboard cook named Lumpy) and Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts) with touching sincerity, the picture wears its themes lightly, waving away the somber, allegorical sententiousness that too many blockbusters ("Lord of the Rings" included) rely upon to justify their exorbitant costs. The movie is, almost by definition, too much - too long, too big, too stuffed with characters and over-the-top set pieces - but it is animated by an impish, generous grace. Three hours in the dark with a giant, angry ape should leave you feeling battered and exhausted, but "King Kong" is as memorable for its sweetness as for its sensationalism.

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First among these are the human Skull Islanders, whose grunting, wild-eyed savagery is one bit of nostalgia Mr. Jackson might have forgone. But their seaside settlement is soon abandoned for the island's green, craggy interior, which gives biodiversity a whole new meaning. There are enough dinosaurs to overrun Jurassic Park, and every kind of slithery, crawly, beetly thing you can imagine, as well as some you can't.

At times, the blending of computer-generated imagery and live action is pushed to a point where the seams begin to show, as in a Pamplona-style running of the brontosauruses, with various human actors darting between the legs of rampaging lizards. But two scenes are so madly inspired that they are likely to become touchstones: a three-way T-Rex versus Giant Ape wrestling match in a deep ravine hung with vines, and a battle involving fanged worms and giant vampire crickets (at least I think that's what they were).

In this world, Kong, while certainly irascible, also shows himself to be a pretty evolved guy. Apparently the only nonhuman mammal on the island, he is a grumpy vegetarian who treats the people sacrificed to him as playthings rather than prey. He takes a special shine to Ann, not just because she is blond and lovely, but because of her pratfalls and dance moves, which turn out to be the universal basis of entertainment.

The rapport between Ms. Watts and Mr. Serkis is extraordinary, even though it is mediated by fur, latex, optical illusions and complicated effects. Mr. Serkis, who also played Gollum in the "Lord of the Rings" movies, is redefining screen acting for the digital age, while Ms. Watts incarnates

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雅思口语教学大纲.

《雅思口语》教学大纲（IELTS Speaking） 制定单位：大学外语教学部 制定人：赵慧婷 审核人：郭亚东 编写时间：2014年7月7日

课程说明 一、课程概述： （一）课程属性及课程介绍 “中澳班”依托本校的优质教育资源和学科优势，全面系统地引进英联邦政府认可的教学体系及办学模式，采用灵活的办学机制，充分考虑社会对人才的需求以及学生继续学习和深造的需求，开设实用性强、有发展前途的专业课程，重点培养适应经济全球一体化发展急需的能熟练运用英语、掌握专业知识和技能的高层次应用型、复合型人才。雅思英语课程作为大学英语教学的一个组成部分,是以英语语言知识与应用技能、学习策略和跨文化交际为主要内容，以外语教学理论为指导，并集多种教学模式和教学手段为一体的教学体系。其教学目标是为了培养学生的英语综合应用能力，同时增强其自主学习能力，提高综合文化素养，以适应我国社会发展和国际交流的需要。该班以基础性的英语教学和针对性的雅思考试技能培训为核心，培养和提升学生的英语学习水平和应用能力，使学生能够顺利达到出国学习的英语水平要求。 雅思英语课程是该班一门必修的基础课程，由于听、说、读、写是英语学习者所必须掌握的的五项基本技能,该课程又分为雅思听力、雅思口语、雅思阅读和雅思写作四门子课程 雅思口语作为中澳班学生第一学期基础课程，旨在培养和训练学生英语表达能力和应试技能。在学期初，中澳班的所有学生将进行英语听说读写能力摸底测试，以便教师掌握学生们的真实英语水平，并在今后的教学中因材施教，尽可能提高学生英语水平。本课程以大量模拟试题使学生熟悉、适应雅思考试，从而使自己的英语口语水平在考试中得到最好的发挥。 雅思口语课程依托外研社大学英语教学管理平台，在考核时进行网络化考试。教师在此平台上进行试题库建设，并对资源进行类别管理、修改、收藏等管理。学生可以在此平台上进行语音训练。在期中考试时进行网络化考试。期末考试将进行雅思口语模考。 （二）教学目标 本课程的目标是提高学生的英语口语水平和雅思口语应试水平。 （三）适用对象 全日制中澳班大一新生。 （四）先修课程与后续课程 以《十天突破雅思口语剑9版》为课程教材，以剑桥雅思考试培训系列教程及雅思口语真题做为后续的教材。

七年级英语下册 Lesson 11 Danny’s New Friends教案 冀教版

冀教版英语七年级下册 Lesson 11 Danny’s New Friends教案Lesson 11 Danny's New Friends Teaching content: 1.mastery words: farm, hear, meet, course, of course, lot, lot of, enjoy 2. A dialogue between Danny and his new friend 3. The usage of some phrases Teaching goals: At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to: 1. Understand the meaning of the text 2. Remember the mastery words 3. Find and use the list of mastery vocabulary in lesson 16 Teaching key points: 1.introduce where you are from 2. some useful expressions Difficult points: how to introduce yourself Teaching aids: word cards, audiotape, flashcards, and slide projector Type: dialogue Teaching procedure 1.Class opening 1）Greet the students in everyday English. 2）Duty report. 3）Main revision of last lesson. Explain when necessary. 2.New lesson Step1 Lead in Ask the students some questions: Do you like to make new friends? Why or why not? Who is your newest friend? How do you meet? Discuss them with the class and you gather many different answers. Step2 Listen to the tape and answer the following questions: What does Danny want to buy in Beijing? Who is Danny's new friend? Where does Wu Li come from? After listening to the tape, answer the questions and discuss the whole text. Make sure the students understand the meaning of the text. Deal with the language points in this period. Write the key points on the blackboard or use the slide projector. Step3 Listen to the audiotape again and let the students read after it. Step4 Practice

雅思口语

Hometown 1.Where do you come from? I am local here. 2.What tourist attractions are there in your hometown? Would a foreign visitor enjoy them? Beijing is famous for its historical attractions like The Forbidden City and Summer Palace which attracts millions of foreign visitor each year. 3.Did you learn much about the history of your hometown in school? I think we all have trouble tracing the history of our hometown because we seldom learn it in school. 4.What do you think needs to change in your hometown? Traffic in my hometown is overly bad. It seems all the residences have to spend their entire life in a Beijing traffic jam. So the change of traffic situation is a must. 5.What place(s) in your hometown do you go to in your spare time? I am a shopping freak. I like to go to a big shopping mall when I have time. Shopping mall is multiple which allows me to get anything I like. Also, when I am hungry I can grab a burger in the food court 6.Why did you choose to live here/there? Beijing is a marvelous city which combines tradition and modern perfectly. I am local here and I want to spend my entire life in Beijing too. 7.What do you like about your hometown? I have the special complex to my hometown. I enjoy the food, daily routine and people in my hometown. 8.What do you think needs to be done to make your hometown a better place to live in? Traffic situation in my hometown is overly bad. It seems all the residences have to spend their entire life in a Beijing traffic jam. So the change of traffic situation will make it a better place to live in. 9.For you, what benefits are there to living in a big city? Living in a big city you can have better health care and better education for children. Also, you won't get bored during weekends. Moreover, you may have a lot of opportunities for career. 10.What facilities does your hometown have? My hometown is by the seaside so we have several beaches and sections of rocky coastline within a mile of the town centre. There are also two parks with play equipment for children. Also, the facilities for education and health care are also available here.

五年级英语Wehavenewfriends教案

五年级英语Wehavenewfriends教案 五年级英语ehavenefriends教案 人教新版五年级上册英语 Unit1ehavenefriends Lesson1 一、教学内容与分析 justspea情景会话： 新学年开始，英语老师ISSLiu向全班学生介绍两位新同学：来自中国北京的10岁女孩ZhouPei，和来自英国的11岁男孩Bob，同学们在热烈欢迎两位新朋友。 行动目标： 学习如何介绍自己的姓名、年龄和所在的国家或地区。 重点聚焦： I'Bob.I'eleven． IefroBritain． I'ZhouPei.I'ten． IefroBeijing． 滚动项目： ehavetonefriendsInourclass． eletoclass．etothefront．

．Gobactoyourseat 读图向导： 引导学生注意观察ZhouPei和Bob的面部、头发、体形等外部特征。 二、教学目标： 言语技能目标 能够向新同学介绍自己的基本情况；包括姓名、年龄、以及所在国家、城市或地区； 语言知识目标 ．能够正确地听、说、认读英语国家Britain的名称； ．能够正确地听、说、读、写以下单词： I,you,a,is,y,your,friend ．能够正确地听、说、认读涉及住址的句子： Iefro. ．在适当的情景中正确地听、说、读、写下面的句子： I'. I'. 情感态度目标 ．进一步提高对英语学习的热情，培养更加稳定的学习兴趣。 ．能积极主动地参与课堂活动，在情景对话中大胆开口，主动模仿。

学习策略目标 ．能够制订本学期的学习计划。 ．能够在学习和课堂活动中集中注意力10-15分钟。 ．培养对人的外貌特征细致的观察力。 文化意识目标 ．能够初步接受本单元涉及的国外地址的习惯表达方式，并做出适当的反应。 ．能够识别加拿大、澳大利亚、新西兰、英国、新加坡和美国等6个英语国家的国旗，并说出相应的国家名。 三、课前准备 准备本课的学生卡片、教师卡片、教学挂图、录音磁带和投影片。 准备四年级上册第2课歌曲hereareyoufro？和三年级下册第8课歌曲Hooldareyou？的磁带。 自制ZhouPei和Bob的头饰。 根据班内学生人数制作若干空“名片”。空出姓名、年龄、性别，上课时让学生填写。出生地一栏教师可以根据学生实际情况填写好一些地名。教师还可以根据情况添加其他有关项目。 Nae Age BoyorGirl

Friends教学设计

Friends教学设计Friends instructional design

Friends教学设计 前言：小泰温馨提醒，英语作为在许多国际组织或者会议上都是必需语言，几乎所有学校 选择英语作为其主要或唯一的外语必修课。英语教学涉及多种专业理论知识，包括语言学、第二语言习得、词汇学、句法学、文体学、语料库理论、认知心理学等内容。本教案根据 英语课程标准的要求和针对教学对象是小学生群体的特点，将教学诸要素有序安排，确定 合适的教学方案的设想和计划、并以启迪发展学生智力为根本目的。便于学习和使用，本 文下载后内容可随意修改调整及打印。 4am2u3 friends教学设计 本课的教学内容是关于动物朋友，掌握几个形容词以及它们 的反义词，理解故事内容并会复述故事。由于本课是关于朋友的 主题，因此加入情感目标，朋友之间应该相互帮助。 复习引入阶段，安排了一支和本课主角老鼠有关的chant。 然后根据这个chant的内容进行daily talk。由于本课将涉及到 几个形容词的反义词，因此随后复习了一些已学过的单词的反义词。 新课学习阶段，由于本课时是阅读教学，而且这个故事的内 容比较简单，学生基本能听懂，因此首先安排的是听力训练，让 学生根据听力给图片编号。接着默读课文，做true或false的判断。然后精读课文阶段，学习并理解新单词strong—weak、sharp、brave—afraid、branch。新单词的学习，有的通过上下文意思理

解词义，有的通过旧单词的发音规律自己试读新单词，有的通过已学的字母发音组合通过听音完成单词。 反义词的学习，通过例举理解，如教学strong和weak这组反义词时，提问who is stro ng in our class? who’s not strong in our class? （yes，she is weak.）又如，学习brave和afraid这组反义词时，加入了新句型，通过对比的一组句子，理解词义，加深印象：the mouse is brave. he is not afraid of the lion. _____ is brave. ______is/are not afraid of_____. 在感知了整个故事后，让学生根据每幅图上给出的一组反义词复述故事。然后提升情感目标：朋友间应该相互帮助。最后学习一首和友谊有关的歌曲《make new friends》。 巩固阶段，安排了一段《猫和老鼠》的视频，并根据给的提示词，自己编一个新的故事、课后写下来。这个环节不但可以巩固检查学生对于本课几个反义词的掌握程度，又可以锻炼学生的说话、写话能力。 -------- Designed By JinTai College ---------

雅思口语素材整理汇总

Do you like music??A—肯定:Definitely yes, everyone enjoys music, and I am no exception! I love... 否定 :Well, honestly speaking, music is really not my cup of tea, simply because... ( 给出直接原因 ) What—pop, techno ( 电音音乐 ), hip-hop, rock, meditation ( 冥想乐 ) and especially light music.( 罗列名词 ) Where—Normally speaking, I would like to listen to music with my earphones when I take a ride on public transportation. ( 给出一个具体的场景 ) When—As long as I couldn’t go to sleep, I’d like to listen to some light music to calm myself down. ( 给出一个条件 :As long as I..., I would...) Who—My most favourite singers include Adele, James Blunt, Avril Lavigne, and so forth. ( 喜欢的歌手 ) .

Why—I am fond of music mainly because it can cheer me up greatly when I feel down/low/ blue/bored/tired/depressed. ( 心情不好的时候让我高兴起来 )?Besides, I also believe that music is an indispensable part of culture and tradition, through which I could have a better understanding of different cultures around the world, including cowboy culture, African-American street culture, the three main reli- gions and so on. ( 有助于理解不同的文化 ) Do you like watching movies?? A—Speaking of movies, yes, I am a big fan of all types of movies, such as...?What—comedy, action, romance, sci-fi, manga, vampire, zombie, animation...

少儿预备级A教案Unit_11Meeting new friends

Unit 11 Meeting new friends Teaching aims and demands： ★通过复习和学习使学生能用英语打招呼、问好 ★学习、熟悉并掌握英语中常见的男女孩名字 ★能用英语提问和回答一些简单的问题 The main and difficult points: ★Glad to meet you. ★Who is he? He is Bill. ★Who is she? She is May. ★Key words: ※Bill Tom Nick Sam Pat Sue Kim May. Teaching materials: 五个动物的图片、男女孩子的图片、镜子以及颠倒过来的英语名字卡 Teaching process： Activity one (Warm up an review) Greetings(老师可以用运多个打招呼的句子) and sing the song of Unit 10. Activity two(Lead in ) 刚刚老师用了不同的几句英语来跟大家打招呼，Who can repeat? And can you say more greeting sentences? Let students try to say more.(老师可适当进行引导) eg: Hi/Hello. Good morning/afternoon/evening/night..How are you?新知堂课件Part4.可结合练习册的Part2及新课标中的Part 2. Activity three (Topic) 1st:.如果我们今天遇到了一些新朋友，该怎样跟他们打招呼？eg: How do you do? Nice to meet you . 我们还可以说“Glad to meet you .”(输入)今天