A League of Mullets Twofer Movie Review

Yo, we watched a couple of movies in the past couple of days and here are our reviews:
The first movie we watched was Miss Potter which stars that Rene Z gal and that dude from the new Star Wars movies who showed his ding dong in that crazy ass Peter Greenaway movie about that Japanese gal who did calligraphy on people's bodies. This movie is about the life of Beatrix Potter who was the J. K. Rowling of her day.

We liked this movie more than we thought we would but to be honest we can only take so much of that Renee Z chick squinching up her face to try to hide the fact that she has rosacea. And on a personal note to Renee, put that Bridget Jones weight back on hon, you looked better with a little junk in that trunk. We also have trouble in general with films that glorify the upper crust during Edwardian times. It's hard for us to like any rich character from that time knowing that so many working class stiffs lived, worked, and died in those rich people slums, factories, and hovels.

See this movie if you like but we're not giving it our seal off approval.

The other movie we saw recently was one of Evil Spock's favorite movies, Watership Down.

This film, based on a Richard Adams novel, is about the lives of some rabbits who encounter trouble from man, other rabbits, dogs, and cats.

Dr. Monkey says he started reading the novel this was based on once but since that was in the late 70's he probably put it down to pick up a copy of High Times, an ELO album, or more likely a joint that was as big as your head.

We liked this movie quite a bit even if it was a tad "earnest" as most "message" movies of the 1970's were, but oddly enough it was also eerily ahead of it's time. One of the rabbits says, "Man won't rest until he soils the entire planet." We loved loved loved the animation. The watercolor backgrounds blew us away and the lengths they went to to make all the rabbits different was pretty cool. The voice talent was spectacular, we loved John Hurt in particular, in fact if he read the phone book we'd hang around and listen.

The only problem we had with this movie was with the Art Garfunkel song sequence in the middle of the picture. It was out of place and obviously stuck in there so old Art could make a buck or two. The late 70's were not kind to Art after all, he'd burned through all the Simon and Garfunkel money and his movie career was in the toilet. Honestly Art, if you had bussed tables or something instead of doing that song in this movie then Americans might not have held such a grudge against you.

We can recommend you see this film, though you may not want young children watching it due to the rabbit on rabbit violence.

So say us! So say we all!!!