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Its kind of like what IJackassI would be if Johnny Knoxville and his boys had the brainpower necessary to become master satirists. Its insanity and discomfort on an epic level; its lunatic stunts and unbelievable assaults delivered with a purpose; its high-minded sarcasm and blistering social commentary wrapped up in a dirty brown, low-brow package. As a small part of Da Ali G show Borat was clever. Now as a movie, hes the funniest thing youll see this year.

Kevin Macdonald's queasily enjoyable fiction film creates a portrait of the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin from inside the palace walls.

IBabelI is a tough movie to pin down because though its not really about anything interesting, it has a lot happening in it. The films series of half-stories are all tied together by a convenient little plot device, in which a female American tourist is shot while on vacation in Morocco. Who shot her, how they got the gun that did it, and what happens to people connected to her has a result of her being shot is the impetus for writer Guillermo Arriagas script to get lost in a series of otherwise completely unconnected stories.

There are two ways you can evaluate a movie like IOpen SeasonI. The first is to simply judge it as a film. Is it any good? The second is to ask whether or not your kids will like it. This review and any review I write will approach it from the first perspective because lets face it, if the movie has talking animals in it your pint-sized terrors are going to love it. Children like anything, as long as its animated and theyve received enough sugar before viewing it. Thats great for parents, since it

By now the formula has been so well established, it should be easy to implement it. Shrek movies are topical and now, a product of whatever is current in pop culture and comedy, blended into a big swampy bowl. Some people bash the films for that, but for me its part of why embrace them. Maybe thirty years from now it will leave them dated, but for now theres nothing wrong with having a movie thats plugged in to the immediacy of the world around you. Shrek will be, as always, more plugged in than any other