Hey folks, Harry here - I'm dying to see this Live-Action TOM & JERRY Feature film. I hear it is really really fun, and I've even heard a few people throw the name Frank Tashlin out there to describe the feel. I will wait to toss that name out till I've seen it myself, it's hard to imagine if a film like this could so much as touch the ass of a certain film about Rock Hunter! Here ya go with news that'll perk ya up!
Harry! I just got back from Century City. I had purchased a ticket to see a little movie called Empire when I noticed they were also showing a special screening for another little movie called Catch Me if You Can. Naturally I busted a Frank Abagnale Jr. and assumed the identity of a Hollywood big wig and walked right into Catch Me.
Let me tell you, it is one fun movie. How often can a director make you root for both the protagonist and antagonist at the same time? You want Frank to get away because he is so likeable and you want Hanks to catch him because you feel so bad for the poor guy. And let me tell you, Frank slips from one identity into another like you and I would into a seat at the Mann's Chinese. He doesn't assume different identities because he wants to, but because he has to. There are quite a few scenes where Frank becomes someone else just because the opportunity presents itself.
He has so much fun being someone other than himself that I began questioning whether being myself was such a good idea after all. I am not going into details because that is part of the fun. However, the first instance when Frank usurps an identity, a big grin will creep across your face. He is doing a solid fur us geeks who have been bullied time and again but could not physically fight back. And Hanks, well, Hanks is Hanks. That guy can pull anything off. But it's DiCaprio who redeems himself from having filmed The Beach.
As I have said before, "Hello, I must be going."
I am Groucho
