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In reply to the discussion: Weekend Economists' 19th Nervous Breakdown April 6-8, 2012 [View all]Demeter
(85,373 posts)It's a pretty hard frost out there right now...and we had the first lawn-mowing yesterday. The world has gone crazy.
The Kid and I saw "Mirror, Mirror" this week. I recommend it unreservedly. It's a bit campy, a re-telling of Snow White and the 7 Dwarves, (using many of the same little people that Shelly Duval used in her Fairy Tale Theatre series version). It's not repulsive to adults, and not offensive to children.
The costumes and sets are absolutely gorgeous, the atmosphere of magic quite deep (unlike Harry Potter, where one got the feeling that magic was nothing special, really: just stupid parlor tricks to annoy your friends).
There a good reason for those features: the production crew is Indian. They even included a Bollywood musical gala for the closing credits. It's a little weird, but the actors do it with joy, so that's all right. Sometimes I get the feeling that some shoots are much less bearable for a cast than others. Of course, witty dialog always helps. And Julia Roberts, who is NOT my favorite actress, is quite tolerable, aside from the fact that she doesn't look like she's aging at all....between computers and stage makeup and expensive surgery, we regular mortal women are beyond hope...