![]() ![]() What follows is good fun - more fun than in the original - punctuated by some lines of admirable awfulness. And just as wedding bells are threatening to break up that old gang from Marvel Comics, the Silver Surfer of this title - a reluctant villain who sometimes verges on the pewter - shows up as an energy-sucking herald of Earth's destruction. Fantastic, who makes a specialty of being extensible. ![]() Jessica Alba's Sue Storm, aka Invisible Woman, is about to be married, quite visibly, to Ioan Gruffudd's super smart Reed Richards, aka the elastic Mr. Now they must contend with a new element in their lives - family values. When last we saw the Fantastic Four in the 2005 film of the same name, they were silly people with extravagant superpowers in a conventional action adventure. The Silver Surfer, the reluctant villain of 'Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer' He'll be known better and more widely very soon. (The only character who's literally paralyzed is anger-free.) Although "Eagle vs Shark" was developed at the Sundance Director's and Screenwriter's Lab, the filmmaker, Taika Waititi, is well known in his native New Zealand as an actor and stand-up comic. "Life," she says, "is full of hard bits, but in between them is some lovely bits." The movie is full of lovely bits, and in between them is a story about people paralyzed by anger and stored-up hurts. Lily is the movie's heart, open and heedlessly giving. Lily, an orphan living with her older brother, sees herself as undesirable, yet she keeps hoping for the better, if not the best. We see a radiant beauty with wide eyes and a cockeyed smile that could melt - that does melt - the hardest heart. If this weren't a comedy, and a good one, we could be watching the evolution of a random shooter. Obsessed with taking revenge on a former classmate who used to bully him in school, he swings between scary and hilarious. Napoleon Dynamite was an angry young man, but his anger was diffused by his dorkiness. The truth about Jarrod has to do with the plausible notion of depression as anger turned inward, with nowhere to go. Jemaine Clement and Loren Horsley play a pair of misfits in 'Eagle vs Shark.' (She could be readily mistaken for the Audrey Tautou of "Amélie.") Yet "Eagle vs Shark" has its own distinctive style, partly thanks to whimsical little interludes of animation, but mainly because it ties blithe absurdity to a rock bed of emotional truth. This debut feature, occasionally arch but consistently affecting, shares the deadpan esthetic of "Napoleon Dynamite" and "Ghost World." It's funny and sad in equal measure when Jarrod, who can barely make eye contact with Lily, let alone sustain it, announces airily, "I used to be a bit of a nerd." It's charmingly ludicrous when he tells her that he's often mistaken for Hugh Jackman. Lily, a lonely fast-food waitress played superbly by Loren Horsley, is the winsome incarnation of a slack-jawed Jaws. Jemaine Clement's Jarrod, a depressed video clerk (is there any other kind?), shows up as a forlorn bird of prey.
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