Thursday, September 24, 2009

From The Vault - Ayuda!

Revolver (2006)

Starring: The Beetles, Penelope Hayek
Directed by: Carlos Mencia Salmodovar
Rating: R
Genre: Comedy
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From The Vault - From The Vault is a special feature of Oswald's Screen Scene. Here we present reviews of movies past that we feel might interest, provoke or dismay our readers.

Review
Spanish dandy Salmodovar ("Postcards from the Edge of Madness") whips up a delightful confection of English Beetles and manchego cheese and ladles a heapin' helpin' of pure silliness. When you finally separate the curds from the whey what you've got is 121 minutes of the British flopmops  ("Back in the United Soviet Socialist Republics", "Rocky the Raccoon")  being chased by a thousand mothers across the desolate moors of Welsh Scotland to the throbbing rhythms and clicker-clacks of flamenco guitars. Yes, we've seen it before (most recently in Buster Keeton's masterpiece "Seven Changes"), but so what? I giggled so hard I managed to lodge a Junior Mint up my nose Surprisingly, I believe it may have cured a slight sinus infection. I'm not sure you can ask for more from cinema than that! Sargeant Pepper Sez "Check It Out!" 

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