European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 1, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday april 12007 scene stars and stripes new on Hie Pursuit of happiness when if comes to delivering a commercial crowd leaser will Smith is at the top of the list Smith charmed his Way to another 100 million hit and his second Oscar nomination in this tearjerker based on the True Story of a single dad whose struggle to provide for his Young son while taking on an unpaid internship at a prestigious stockbroker lands them both on the streets homeless the film was a real Fatherson partnership with Smiths boy Jaden Christopher Syre Smith playing his onscreen child along with a making of Featurette the disc has a segment on Smith and his Young costar plus a look at Chris Gardner the Man whose Story inspired the movie director Gabriele Muc Cirio provides commentary children of men humanity experiences the Empi nest syndrome on a global scale in this Bleak tale of a near future in which All the kids have flown the Coop Clive Owen Julianne Moore and Michael Caine Star in the Story set in 2027 when ethnic and socioeconomic swept the planet after a plague of infertility leaves the human race Barren Owen plays the reluctant protector of a miraculously pregnant woman pursued by forces aiming to use her offspring for their own ends extras include deleted scenes an interview segment with Owen and Moore and a documentary featuring scholars examining the social strife presented in the film theres also a Featurette on director Alfonso Cuaron design concepts for his future world to on did Mary Mary Hartman volume 1 the 1970s soap opera spoof stars Loui Elasser As a housewife beset by crises Large and Small the first 25 episodes come in a three disc set whose Une is if anyway the Complete seasons 1 hit British show that inspired Drew Carey us version features actors improvising comedy sketches at a moments notice the first 30 episodes of the show that debuted in 1988 Are packed in a four disc set Minnesota twins 1987 world series holds All seven game Soffle twirls series Victory Over the St Louis cardinals along with a team history arid highlights from the regular season and league championship series twins of her to releases shield season 5 four disc set with 11 the Jeffersons the com plete sixth three disc set with 24 episodes touched by an Angel the fourth season volume four disc set with 13 episodes 7th heaven the fourth season six disc set with 22 episodes full House the Complete sixth season 24 episodes the shield cobs Serce it penguins col weather fowl Rule the screens t penguins Are anything but rare Birds in Hollywood these Days in the footsteps of March of the penguins and Happy feet the wave continues with the recently released farce of the penguins spoof the did release of 1995s animated the Pebble and the Penguin and the upcoming summer cartoon surfs up about surfing penguins the penguins that instigated the action in Mada Gascar starred in their own cartoon Short and Are being developed As Lead players for a cartoon to show lifeguard Penguin in surfs up they just look so Cool Happy feet director George Miller thinks the col weather fowl have become so popular in Holly Wood partly because of a wave of innovative documentaries coming out of Antarctica in the past 15 years or so including 1993s life in the Freezer better survival gear and cameras allowed documentary Crews to spend More time chronicling the habits and rituals of penguins with the resulting films helping to push the Birds into the audiences consciousness How Long its going to last Are we at the end of even Robert Alta ians final movie a Prairie Home companion featured Garrison Keillor telling it or the beginning of it or in the Middle who a droll joke about the Birds two penguins Are knows surfs up costar Bridges said this standing on an ice Floe the first Penguin says you movie started four years ago there was no March i i ii i i i l ii n la l ii t i Iii t look like you re wearing a Tuxedo the second Penguin says what makes you think in when asked Why the joke is funny Keillor replies i guess because people laugh at it the same somehow holds for penguins people laugh at them and love them unconditionally Why just because there funny and lovable there an anthropomorphic gift a Little kid of the penguins or Happy feet it was just kind of in the air after seeing life in the Freezer about eight years ago Miller began formulating the Story of Happy feet about an emperor Penguin voiced by Elijah Wood that unlike his singing Kin cannot carry a tune but can dance up a storm anatomical practicalities give penguins Many of their human qualities Miller said their bulk Insu and falling in the Snow said Chris Jenkins product lates them against the colder of surfs up which hits Heaters in june their wings evolved As flippers in the water so penguins had a big Day March 27 when Happy they resemble arms on Home video along with the High their Black Hue helps them absorb More heat to stay warm in water while their White bellies Camou dressed in too Many Winter clothes walking around definition Blurry and he did disc premieres of March of the penguins the Academy award win Ning film that was a Surprise documentary smash that film prompted comic Bob sages parody farce of the penguins which came out on did in january last weeks did release of the 1995 Ani mated flick the Pebble and the Penguin with a voice cast led by Martin Short also is part of the Penguin proliferation there taking Over the world said Jeff Bridges who provides the voice of a has been surfing pen Guin in surfs up they got a great publicist Man its All going to be Penguin movies from Here on out no More actors its just going to be penguins taking Over added shia Lebeouf who offers Lead vocals for the movie As a surfing Prodigy mentored by Bridges character people have always been charmed by penguins because they see a lot of themselves in the Birds the Way they walk upright and congregate in communities like humans hanging out on Street Corners penguins human traits have made them popular with animators Over the years a classic cartoon Short has bugs Bunny exasperated with a tiny Penguin that comes into the rabbits keeping a silent Penguin thief touches off the action of the Wallace Grosmit cartoon the wrong trousers there kind of a Miracle of design probably a lot of artists animators Are attracted to that said Zooey de Schanel who provides the voice of a Warner Bros pictures v one of the penguins celebrates in the recent animated flick Happy feet in the footsteps of March on the penguins and Happy feet the wave continues with the recently released farce of the pen guins3 mock Centary the did release of animated the Pebble and the Penguin and the upcoming summer cartoon surfs up about surfing penguins Flage them from fish on which they prey so they end up looking like Little people in formal Wear All those things go toward them reminding us enormously of ourselves said Miller whose Happy feet won the Oscar for animated films they Are like humans its very easy to turn them into fables in our movie the penguins themselves represent humans and the humans Are indeed the aliens the question for the makers of surfs up is whether the Market can Bear another animated Penguin flick audiences last year seemed to tire of the wave of Ca Tooti tales featuring cute talking animals the films that worked were ones that distinguished themselves from the pack such As cars did with talking autos and Happy feet did with its musical num Bers and realistic animation the surfs up filmmakers incorporated a joking Happy feet reference when Lebe ours character says that Hes a surfer he Doest sing or dance we figured what the Heck its out there lets make a nod to it right at the beginning said Ash Brannon who Codi rented surfs up with Chris Buck doubling up on Simi Lar scenarios is not unusual in Holly Wood in 1998 the insect car Toons Ante and a bugs life both found eager audiences As did the dueling Aster Oid adventures deep in and armageddon pact this Summers rodent animated comedy Ratatouille follows last Falls rat tale flushed away o q Al o cd q u
