Ebert & Roeper and The Movies: 2-24-01

Note: Fixed the audio and inserted the first tiny beginning part of "Monkeybone" review from Larry Koehn's video. The buzzing noise is still there on the commercials though and most of the audio from the show does have some hissing. Plus, a better upgrade quality!

Roger Ebert & Richard Roeper reviews "3000 Miles to Graceland" (What could have been a slick, clever plot device and a fun heist action comedy in the style of "Ocean's 11", with a touch of Tarantino, Carpenter and a wild dose of Elvis turns out to be a major disappointment! And that's too bad because I love Kurt Russell, Kevin Costner, Christian Slater and the rest of the cast and they would have done better. Roeper at least enjoy it more than Ebert did, but mentioning "Natural Born Killers" even as a reference is still a horrible movie!); "The Caveman's Valentine" (A underrated gem with Samuel L. Jackson in his excellent role from director, Kasi Lemmons!"; "Monkeybone" (Oh boy, now this one gave me horrible memories watching it in theatres! I almost could have walked out during the scene with Chris Kattan as a dead gymnast awaking from a coma with Brendan Fraser as a Cartoonist went inside his body to stop his own body taking over from his alter-ego, Monkeybone whose voice by John Turturro in a helium obnoxious voice. While his organs, liver and kidney falls out in a hot-air balloon chase and the doctors catching it! Gross! Very sad that an animator and director, Henry Selick did this even though it wasn't his fault after his successful Stop-Motion animated features with "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and "James and the Giant Peach". Thank goodness, he went on to do "Coraline" in 2009. And a waste of a talented cast of Rose McGowan, Giancarlo Esposito, Bridget Fonda, Bob Odenkirk, Dave Foley and Whoopi Goldberg.) and "The Widow of St. Pierre".

Video Pick of the Week: Ebert & Roeper are each selecting films based on the 2001 Academy Award nominees with "Silkwood", "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", "Kwaidan", "Rollerball" and "Salvador".

And a recap of Today's program.

Recorded on KATU ABC 2 in Portland, Oregon with Commercials intact.