Last night, Will and I saw Tooth Fairy, and it was not the worst thing ever. Seriously, if you have kids and they want to go, you could take them. I’ve definitely seen more terrible children’s fare than that. The Rock is his usual charming self, and Stephen Merchant manages to sneak in a lot of funny. In fact, just seeing those crazy skinny beanpole legs in what amount to long johns with a fly is funny itself.
But listen. Once again, fucking Avatar won the box office last week (also surpassing Titanic as top grosser ever), plus only two new movies were opening wide, so it’s back. But I really want to see When In Rome, you guys! Please go vote for Will Arnett, Kristen Bell, and LOVE.
5:02:33 PM Tara Ariano:http://cryingwife.com/ 5:02:38 PM Tara Ariano: This bitch is faking, right? 5:02:42 PM Julie Klausner: haha! 5:02:50 PM Julie Klausner: or mentally ill! 5:02:56 PM Tara Ariano: Look, I’ll cry at a movie. 5:02:59 PM Tara Ariano: I’m not dead inside. 5:03:00 PM Julie Klausner: of course! 5:03:03 PM Julie Klausner: you’re a human bean. 5:03:05 PM Tara Ariano: But she’s crying at the end of “Back To The Future”! 5:03:15 PM Julie Klausner: yeah, she was probably molested. 5:03:23 PM Tara Ariano: By a flux capacitor. 5:03:25 PM Julie Klausner: HAHA 5:03:30 PM Julie Klausner: that’s what grandpa called it!!!
So last week, America once again gave me a stay of execution, sparing me Avatar and sending us to Daybreakers instead. I won’t say I wished for that, except in the sense that it was not Avatar, but still, I am going to be careful what I wish for from now until my life ends. That shit was beeeeeeyad.
And now: you can vote for the next movie we go see. Avatar is back on the list AGAIN because it keeps coming in first at the box office, but your other choices are Extraordinary Measures and The Tooth Fairy. Please go vote now. (For The Tooth Fairy.)
So somewhere in my youth or childhood, I must have done something good, because BBC America sent me The Steve Coogan Collection, and Dave and I have been mainlining it since we got back from Toronto last week. I had seen Season 2 of It’s Alan Partridge a few years ago, so it’s been great filling in the blanks with Knowing Me Knowing You…
…and revisiting some of the most brilliant moments from IAP, like…
…and…
And then today, at work, I discovered that we had my favourite moment from Hot Fuzz — which just happens to feature one Steve Coogan.
So that’s why my Coogan Comedy Crush has returned. Hamlet 2 be damned.
Fine, I’ll quit being cute: I don’t want to see Avatar. I’m on my honour not to stuff the ballot box in favour of one of the two others, but I can implore you guys to help me out. I hear you can vote as often as you want. Find out!