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Screenwriter: Robert Nelson Jacobs (The Water Horse)
Director: Tom Vaughn
Actors: Harrison Ford (Raiders of the Lost Ark), Brendan Fraser (Bedazzled), Keri Russell (Waitress), Courtney B. Vance (Hamburger Hill), Dee Wallace (Critters), Alan Ruck (Ferris Bueller's Day Off) and Patrick Bauchau (The Rapture)

Labels: Alan Ruck, Brendan Fraser, Courtney B Vance, film, Harrison Ford, Keri Russell, movie trailer

Screenwriters: Michael Carnes (Mr. Woodcock) and Josh Gilbert
Director: Roger Kumble (Just Friends)
Actors: Ken Jeong (The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard), Brendan Fraser (Bedazzled), Dick Van Dyke (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) and Brooke Shields (The Midnight Meat Train)

Labels: Brendan Fraser, Brooke Shields, Dick Van Dyke, film, Ken Jeong, movie trailer

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The whole production from inception to execution can be summed up in one element: Abominable Snowmen.

There is a point where film makers seem they’re just putting crap in to see how much an audience can take. Why not throw in some pirates and a giant bunny that spits lava? No, how about a fifty foot Chinese baby with a flaming skull for a head that can shoot nuclear warheads from its fingertips? That’ll be cool! This film actually sparks an interesting conflict. Is it reasonable for an audience member to expect anything from a movie like this? Is it fair to expect the filmmakers to actually give a crap? Content-free films like this are the cultural equivalent of a small kid who spins around in circles until they’re dizzy. There’s no greater goal involved in seeing this film other than achieving a few fleeting moments of being so distracted. And just like getting intentionally dizzy, it ends with the possibility of someone puking.


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Aging film director James Whale (Frankenstein, The Bride of Frankenstein, The Invisible Man) portrayed by Ian McKellan quietly languishes following a stroke. As his life comes to a close, he is haunted by flashbacks. The homosexual Whale strikes up a strange friendship with his muscled gardener (Brendan Fraser).

The film is a patient character study and gives McKellen amble space to work. He offers a detailed performance and manages to bring Whale to life. Fraser, who is primarily known for this catalog of dimwitted action flicks (The Mummy series, Journey to the Center of the Earth 3-D) reminds us he has talent behind all of that Hollywood glare. In light of McKellen's all consuming charisma on screen, even Fraser tends to meld into the background somewhat, but he does quite well just the same.

Some may be uncomfortable with the homosexual elements of the film. In my opinion, these concerns are unnecessary. This isn't a gay pride parade put to celluloid. This is a great example on how homosexuality should be presented in film. McKellen's character is gay, but the film doesn't cheer him on and treat him with kid gloves. He's gay but he's human first and it is the humanity that McKellen presents that makes this film so facinating.


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Could be good...then again it does have Brendan Fraser so that's a knock against it. He hasn't picked a good project in years.

What would happen if you could make a book come alive by simply read it aloud? Well, I know of at least one of my friends who would scramble to find a collection of Penthouse Forum Letters. I'd just read the book this movie is based on. I'd like to see what happens when you read a book out loud about making books come alive by reading them out loud. That would have to do some weird "don't cross the streams", avoid seeing yourself in Back to the Future destruction of the universe thing.

Labels: Brendan Fraser, film, Helen Mirren, movie trailer, Paul Bettany

This half baked follow up to The Mummy is a complete waste of time. Having nothing to say after the initial hit film, this flick languishes and finally stumbles into a brainless string of boring chase scenes. There is no cause to see this useless sequel.


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Big, stupid and fun, this snickering revisiting of the mummy legend is a fun flick. Brendan Fraser is perfectly cast as a hero in this less than serious action film. The special effects are good but nothing too special. Clever dialog, a fast pace and the introduction of Rachel Weiss and John Hannah give this piece life.


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Screenwriters: Alfred Gould (Shanghai Noon) and Miles Millar (Shanghai Knights)
Director: Rob Cohen (The Skulls)
Actors: Brendan Fraser (Bedazzled), Jet Li (Unleashed), Michelle Yeoh (Sunshine), Maria Bello (The Cooler), Luke Ford, and John Hannah (The Hurricane)

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Screenwriters: Michael Weiss, Michael D. Weiss (The Butterfly Effect 2), Jennifer Flackett (Nim's Island), and Mark Levin (Wimbledon)
Director: Eric Brevig
Actors: Brendan Frasier (Crash), Josh Hutcherson (Bridge to Terabithia), and Anita Briem (The Nun)

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