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Show The Casual Critic by Daryl Austin ' 1 I-. ' . v ' r i "Water for Elephants" takes place in 1931 and is about a Cornel Cor-nel veterinary student who runs away with the circus and falls in love with the show's star attraction attrac-tion while she is married to the abusive Ring Master. The movie is thoroughly entertaining and it ends with the same sentiment the book created, but while it certainly cer-tainly has its high points, it misses much of the magic from the book. The character development develop-ment seriously lacks as does the chemistry between Patterson and Witherspoon. Furthermore, I was especially excited to see how Christoph Waltz would do as Marlena's husband, knowing he was ripe off his triumphant portrayal por-trayal of a Nazi-loyalist in 2009's ."Jjiglourousgtards."1;'But he too, was underwhelming. I suppose sup-pose all of that is just as well as the real star of the movie is also the true star of the book: "Rosie the Elephant." Content: Rated PG-13 for mild language, moderate violence, vio-lence, a scene where there is a mild striptease that shows nothing . from the neck down and a scene of brief sensuality. Other Opinions: 887 "Average "Av-erage Joes" give "Water for Elephants" El-ephants" a rating of 6.3 out of 10 while 9 1 professional film critics give it an average score of 54 percent per-cent out of 100 percent Should you see it? Yes, it's an insightful peek into a time and age often forgotten. For more reviews by The Casual Critic please visit www. casualcriticmovies.com. "Water for Elephants" Casual Critic Score: 7 out of 10 Release Date: April 22, 2011 Rating: PG-13 Length: 122 minutes Genre: Drama, Romance My wife and I actually read the book "Water for Elephants" Ele-phants" out loud to each other. It was a compelling and beautiful beau-tiful story that took you to a truly magical time and place. We discussed often how exciting excit-ing it would be to see the story played out as a movie. When we learned that is was in fact going to be made into a movie, we were very excited. We were even more excited to learn that Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line) was going to play the part of Marlena, but a bit disappointed disap-pointed to find out that Robert Pattinson (Twilight) was going to play the part of Jacob. Having just seen the movie, mov-ie, I can honestly say my feelings feel-ings are now the other way around. Witherspoon was dry, unaffecting and frankly appeared ap-peared to be acting throughout most of the movie, while Pattinson Pat-tinson was alive and methodical methodi-cal with his portrayal of Jacob. |