Tuesday, December 16, 2008

What is it With Blonde Movies Lately?

This week’s comedy theme is clearly Blondes. First there was Blonde and Blonder and now we have Blonde Ambition. Come to think of it I think I saw at least 5 different new films with the word Blonde in the title when I was picking out this weeks rentals, it's the latest fad I guess. Anyway I figured that any film with Luke Wilson is a good bet for comedy, in this case, a guarantee and that to the one catastrophe after another approach it was absolutely hilarious.

Unfortunately there wasn’t much that was unique as far as sound goes. There was at least one example of Mickey mousing in the scene with the kid’s birthday party disaster when the fireworks that fall out of the piniata are set off, but other than that it’s just a normal comedy. Most of the pit music was added in and synced. There were quite a few good examples of punctuation, especially with the toilet exploding, but the best was the on screen sound when the group of Norwegian priests were at the bar singing karaoke to Baby Got Back. I laughed so hard I almost cried.

Other than that, most of the sound heard was related to the location, it took place in New York, so you heard the normal associated sounds, taxi cabs, car horns, construction, elevator bells in the business scenes etc. Not really all that original, but synced to fit. Aside from its apparent lack of audio originality, it was a fairly good film comically.

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