Have a look at these new videos from Touchstone Pictures’ GNOMEO & JULIET. Below you’ll find the Music Video with Elton John and Nelly Furtado in “Crocodile Rock,” “Little Gnome Facts” and the Clip “Doomed Love.”
The film is executive produced by Elton John, whose classic songs are featured in the film along with new songs written with his longtime collaborator Bernie Taupin and featuring special guest performances. The original score is by James Newton Howard and Chris Bacon. The Soundtrack is available February 8th.
Synopsis:
The greatest love story ever told, starring…garden gnomes? In the upcoming “Gnomeo & Juliet,” Shakespeare’s revered tale gets a comical, off-the-wall makeover. Directed by Kelly Asbury (“Shrek 2”) and showcasing both classic and original songs by Elton John, the film features the voices of James McAvoy and Emily Blunt as Gnomeo and Juliet, who have as many obstacles to overcome as their quasi namesakes when they are caught up in a feud between neighbors. But with plastic pink flamingos and thrilling lawnmower races in the mix, can this young couple find lasting happiness?
Featuring the voices of James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Michael Caine, Maggie Smith, Jason Statham, Patrick Stewart, Ashley Jensen, Stephen Merchant, Matt Lucas, Jim Cummings, Julie Walters, Richard Wilson, Ozzy Osbourne, Dolly Parton and Hulk Hogan, GNOMEO & JULIET hits theaters everywhere in 3D on February 11th, 2011. The film is rated G by the MPAA
This one is dedicated to fellow WAMG writer and collector of all-things Gnome, Melissa Howland. Her ears must be ringing somewhere on this Friday evening. Sit back and check out this latest featurette, “What’s In a Gnome,” from Touchstone Pictures GNOMEO AND JULIET.
Synopsis:
The greatest love story ever told, starring…garden gnomes? In the upcoming “Gnomeo & Juliet,” Shakespeare’s revered tale gets a comical, off-the-wall makeover. Directed by Kelly Asbury (“Shrek 2”) and showcasing both classic and original songs by Elton John, the film features the voices of James McAvoy and Emily Blunt as Gnomeo and Juliet, who have as many obstacles to overcome as their quasi namesakes when they are caught up in a feud between neighbors. But with plastic pink flamingos and thrilling lawnmower races in the mix, can this young couple find lasting happiness?
Featuring the voices of James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Michael Caine, Maggie Smith, Jason Statham, Patrick Stewart, Ashley Jensen, Stephen Merchant, Matt Lucas, Jim Cummings, Julie Walters, Richard Wilson, Ozzy Osbourne, Dolly Parton and Hulk Hogan, GNOMEO & JULIET hits theaters everywhere in 3D on February 11th, 2011.
One of the great features over at the Internet Movie Database is the Bottom 100. Based on ratings viewers of the site give to various films, the worst of the worst films get put on this list. Some of them are on and off in a matter of days. Others stick around for the long haul, showing just how much suckage they truly emit.
It’s time to look at these movies and determine where they stand. Do they deserve to be on the Bottom 100 list? Are they not as bad as everyone says? Will they be off the list any time soon?
Here’s the breakdown for this week’s film:
Title: ‘Santa With Muscles’
Release Date: November 8th, 1996
Ranking on Bottom 100 (as of 6/2/2009): 84 (based on 5888 votes)
Why It’s Here: Let’s be blunt for a moment. This movie shouldn’t be on this list. Granted, it’s #84, which isn’t the lowest of the low, but the fact that this film is on this list at any number is head-shaking. To note, ‘Santa With Muscles’ is anything but a good movie. It’s lame. It’s trivial. It’s much of what sent these low-rent, kids comedies of the mid to late ’90s straight to the VHS/DVD racks. But, is it really 84 movies out from being dubbed the worst film of all time? Certainly not.
The story is nothing to call the Academy of Motion Picture Sciences about. Hulk Hogan plays a millionaire weight lifter who, after running from the cops because of reckless driving, gets amnesia, gets mistaken for Santa Clause, and, inadvertently, saves an orphanage from an evil scientist. Ed Begley, Jr. plays said evil scientist. Garrett Morris pops up as the janitor of the orphanage. A young Mila Kunis plays one of the children. Even Ed Leslie (AKA Brutus “The Barber” Beefcake) makes a brief appearance as a Sumo Lab Assistant, the only Sumo anything I’ve ever seen with six-pack abs.
Hogan is dreadful as usual. This isn’t the seemingly tough Hogan of the mid-80s. This is this Hogan:
Of course, for all its misgivings, horrid fight scenes, and ridiculously lame attempts at injecting something Christmas in every line of dialogue, ‘Santa With Muscles’ isn’t the worst of the worst. Hell, it’s not even the worst movie featuring a wrestler. It’s not even the worst movie starring Hulk Hogan. How specific can we get? This isn’t even the worst Christmas-themed movie starring a professional wrestler. It seems its on this list, because A. it’s not a good movie and B. the title is excruciating.
Lowest of the Low Moments: The worst moment in this film comes at the end of a fight scene that, believe it or not, actually shows some talent from director John Murlowski. Either that or he just had a dolly and a crane for one day and decided to pack all those shots into one. The fight scene is fine, but it’s what happens to Hogan and a, seemingly innocent, Santa statue at the end.
Just see for yourself. Jump to the 1:00 mark for the atrocity:
Will it Ever Get Off the List: It should, though it might not. Even though it is pretty high on the list, it’s been out for 13 years. Two possibilities arise here. It could drop off the list if, in the next couple of years, it garners some type of cult status a la ‘Troll 2.’ It could also drop off the list if John Cena decides to do about 15 more movies. Unless either of these two scenarios occur, it’s looking like ‘Santa With Muscles’ is here to stay.
Hulk Hogan (former Wrestler), and Kimbo Slice (legitimate fighter) are teaming up for a kids flick called ‘Kung Fu U’. This is a BAD idea… super bad idea.
Hulk Hogan has done other movies, and they were all pretty bad. I think this is enough to really sink his already battered image after his tv show, his son’s reckless driving, his divorce..and now a crappy kids TV movie? Yikes man.
“Stereo Vision Entertainment, Inc. (OTCBB: SVSN), a film production company focused exclusively on developing high quality, low cost, polarized 3D feature films, announced today that the undefeated Mixed Martial Arts phenomenon, Kimbo Slice, will be co-starring with Hulk Hogan in Stereo Vision’s hilarious kids’ comedy “Kung Fu U” in 3D.
“Kung Fu U” in 3D is a Disney-type comedy about of a bunch of nerds and misfits that are sent away by their wealthy parents to the Brentwood Academy (a.k.a. Kung Fu U) to learn the finer arts of self-defense. It’s a heart-warming romp where the rather weathered warriors come to the rescue for the kids, and in turn, the kids rescue the warriors seemingly lost souls from what had been their eternal apathy. It’s a feel-good story that reminds us that we’re all the same, no matter what our age, or where we came from, and that we should all stick together.
Stereo Vision’s Chairman, “Baywatch” creator Doug Schwartz, stated, “We’re very happy to have Kimbo Slice co-starring in ‘Kung Fu U.’ He has an enormous media presence, and he’ll fit right in with our star Hulk Hogan, and the other cast members in our made for kids 3D movie. We hope to have ‘Kung Fu U’ in 3D in theatres by the fall of ’09.””
