"Crackles On The Mic"

Just got in from the movies. That is the nice thing about Norman--the cheap theatre (tickets are usually $1 or $1.50 after 6.00 pm) has an uber-cheap night every Tuesday, when every movie is only fifty cents. It's a good deal for seeing those flicks you weren't sure about, but were curious nonetheless. Admittedly, it's not the movies that've just come out, but they get good stuff (they've currently got the third Harry Potter flick and Shrek 2, among others). Anyway, I ended up seeing Anchorman along with Jess and Dom. It was a surprisingly entertaining flick. I haven't laughed that much in quite awhile, which is about the best praise one could give the movie.

Plotwise it's pretty thin, but going to an SNL-alum's movie looking for deep, earth-rattling plot is like looking for dry land at the bottom of the ocean. What made the movie worthwhile was the shere amount of jokes they threw at you. None of these jokes, taken on their lonesome, would cause more than a smirk or wry chuckle. But the jokes aren't out there on their lonesome, they're fired at you in rapid succession, one after the other, until the absolute weight of all the jokes creates a sum which is greater than the parts and leaves you laughing aloud the whole way through.

Anyway, it was a very fun movie, the sort where you can just take your brain off the hook for an hour and a half and just giggle at a grown man acting like a complete idiot. Worth checking out if you haven't.

~chuck

Song of the Moment: Wilco, "How to Fight Loneliness"