#ken daurio

[mikyapixie]

𝟙𝟜 𝕐𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕤 𝔸𝕘𝕠 𝕋𝕠𝕕𝕒𝕪 𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕃𝕠𝕣𝕒𝕩 ℝ𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕤𝕖𝕕 𝕀𝕟 𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕒𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕤!!

[doodle-girl]

What the fuck do you mean the guy(s) that made the masterpiece that is Schmigadoon also made fucking Hop and The Lorax

[vintagewarhol]

[geekcavepodcast]

Schmigadoon! Trailer

A disillusioned couple on a backpacking trip become trapped in a musical town until they can find “true love.”

Schmigadoon! stars Cecily Strong, Keegan-Michael Key, Fred Armisen, Dove Cameron, Jaime Camil, Kristin Chenoweth, Alan Cumming, Ariana DeBose, Ann Harada, Jane Krakowski, and Aaron Tveit. The musical series is created by Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio. Paul serves as showrunner and wrote the show’s original songs. Barry Sonnenfeld is directing and serves as an executive producer. Daurio serves as consulting producer and writer. Lorne Michaels and Andrew Singer also serve as executive producers. Strong is also producing. The project hails from Broadway Video and Universal Television.

Schmigadoon! premieres on Apple TV on July 16, 2021.

[adamwatchesmovies]

The Lorax (2012)

Not since M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender have we been betrayed like we are by The Lorax. It incorporates all individual elements of the original source material and completely misses the point. I didn't leave angry. I felt exhausted and depressed.

Ted Wiggins (Zack Effron) is a 12-year-old boy living in Thneedville, a city in which no plants grow and everything is made of plastic, glass or metal. When he learns that his crush, Audrey (Taylor Swift) wishes to see a real tree, he leaves the city to talk to the Once-ler (Ed Helms), who knows where they've all gone. Meanwhile, the evil, greedy ruler of Thneedville, Aloysius O’Hare (Rob Riggle) begins worrying the history lesson will destroy his profitable bottled oxygen company.

It all begins because of a teenager's crush for a girl who likes trees but is too dumb to find out what happened to them. She's just one of many insufferable characters which include the rockin’, wise-cracking grandma (Betty White), the awkward-because-she’s-trying-to-be-hip mom (Jenny Slate). They add nothing to the story except obvious, bad jokes. Then we’ve got the most 2-dimensional, cartoonish, evil industrialist I’ve ever seen. You can tell this movie is as far removed from reality as possible, which nullifies the environmental message. No one watching this 2012 version of “The Lorax” could possibly be motivated to change or re-evaluate their behavior because no one could associate themselves with these characters.

Instead of a faceless, greedy business owner that did wrong things for the right reason, the Once-ler is now a singing, hat-wearing, easily manipulated pretty-boy. The bulk of the narrative is focussed on him - as if it’s trying to make you forget the dystopia in which Ted lives is a result of his actions (seriously, if there are no plants, what do the people eat? Soylent Green? cockroach cubes?).

What about the titular Lorax? Voiced by Danny De Vito, he's reduced to a funny little hairball meant to misunderstand modern technology while sometimes discussing how important trees are and is buried beneath the minion-like humming fishes and musical numbers.

This film plays like a Bizarro-world version of the 1972 animated short. The former was short and aside from a couple of unmemorable songs, stuck extremely close to the source material. This movie pads the story out so much the is nowhere to be seen and features are genuinely catchy songs. In the first film, the villain was the Once-ler, a character who acknowledged he might be doing something wrong, but even when debating with himself the need for moderation, constantly found legitimate reasons for continuing to exploit the environment by selling a useful product. The villain in this movie sells a product so ludicrous and useless no one would buy it, freely admits to being a villain and proves it continuously. Arguments against it are boiled down to simple black-and-white points as subtle as circular saws to the forearm. Down to the ending, it's a series of knives in your back.

There are only two things to be admired in 2012's The Lorax. First, the animation. Second, the songs. For all of the reasons listed and more, this is an atrocity. Obviously, I hated it. What I find even more loathsome is that because the film is technically well made, many will not realize what a disservice it is doing to those watching and call it good. (On Blu-ray, December 13, 2014)

[harrypotterhousequotes]

RAVENCLAW: “Life is just like that sometimes. We’re hoping for a unicorn and we get a goat.” –Cinco Paul + Ken Daurio (Gru: Despicable Me 3)

[mikyapixie]

𝕋𝕠𝕕𝕒𝕪, 𝔾𝕣𝕦’𝕤 𝔸𝕍𝕃 𝕃𝕚𝕔𝕖𝕟𝕤𝕖 ℍ𝕒𝕤 𝕆𝕗𝕗𝕚𝕔𝕚𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕪 𝔼𝕩𝕡𝕚𝕣𝕖𝕕.

[mikyapixie]

𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐌𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝟏𝟓 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐨 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬!