First there was the “untooned” Homer Simpson. Freaky! Then there was “real” Mario, who haunts my nightmares. But Brazilian artist Raoni Nery took a less terrifying approach for this photorealistic digital of what Buzz Lightyear would look like as an actual human:
Image Credit: Raoni Nery
I thought the chin-dimple would be more pronounced, but still: impressive. Is this how you’d imagine a real Buzz would look, PopWatchers? [Click here to see the image at full size]
Waking Sleeping Beauty is a documentary about Disney’s animation department from 1984-1994, when the studio created The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Lion King, among others. A heyday, if you will. Come for the Tim Burton, stay for the John Lasseter:
Those movies are pretty much tattooed on my brain — the word “bonjour” can launch me into impromptu performances of the entire Beauty and the Beast soundtrack — so the politicking and behind-the-scenes power struggles are of particular interest.
Are you getting, uh, animated for Waking Sleeping Beauty, PopWatchers?
Toy Story 3 opens June 18, and the new trailer looks appropriately fantastic.
That’s Kristen Schaal as the voice of the triceratops, Ned Beatty as the pink bear Lotso, and Michael Keaton as Ken. Hee. The movie’s website also has profiles of new characters, like Peas in a Pod, who are so cute your ovary will explode.
One of the the things I love about the first two Toy Story movies — and Pixar movies generally — is that beyond the goofiness or fuzzy warmth, there’s a surprising vein of melancholy, an acknowledgment of the agony of having to grow up. The movies themselves aren’t tragedies by any stretch, but if you can watch Jessie’s flashback of “When She Loved Me” and not cry, you are made of stone.
I can’t wait, PopWatchers. Can you?
Previously
The first trailer
The second teaser trailer
John Lassterer hawked toys in a shockingly pleasant way
Timothy Dalton set to voice Mr. Pricklepants
From the same awesome DJ who brought us the Hook song comes this charming spin on Up:
Aaaaaaw.
What movie do you want to see remixed next, PopWatchers? I’m voting for Fern Gully — Avatar can’t have everything, you know?
I don’t know who gasped more during this new clip from Toy Story 3: Woody, Buzz, et. al. as they weather the harrowing ordeal that is Andy’s decision about who goes with him to college and who goes in the Black Plastic Trash Bag of Doom; or me, watching it all unfold. I’m going to go with me, since my multiple gasps were more of the OMIGOD melodramatic variety. No, I am not ashamed.
Me = Officially hooked. My favorite Pixarian detail: The quick glimpse of the faded toy height chart on Andy’s bedroom door frame as Woody freaks out that, “That’s not trash, that’s not trash!” So are you hooked, P’Dubs? Were you shocked that Andy chose Woody over Buzz? Or are you a heartless human lump of coal for whom two Toy Story films was apparently enough?
I can’t say I’m a Sheldon/Penny ‘shipper myself, so I’m not entirely sure whether last night’s episode was cause to rejoice or not for those rather insistent Big Bang Theory fans who subscribe to the notion that the otherwise asexual quantum physicist should shack up with the rather sweet blonde Cheesecake Factory waitress who lives across the hall. True, Sheldon quite clearly, if accidentally, got to second base with Penny. And a drug-addled Penny did coyly joke at the end of the episode about Sheldon helping her to bed. But the vibe between them felt pretty much little sister/big brother all the way to me, right up to the climactic moment when Penny asked Sheldon to sing “Soft Kitty” with her. Then again, their in-the-round duet of Sheldon’s “when you’re sick” song did cause the studio audience to explode with such rowdy excitement that I can only attribute it to some serious pent up sexual tension.
And I’ve gotta concede there was certainly some sort of frisson when Sheldon first came upon Penny, clad only in her shower curtain, lying in her bathtub, wet from a running shower, looking like a character out of a Skinamax flick. He’d raced there after hearing her calls for help — not before partaking in his regular three-knocks-and-a-”Penny?” ritual, of course — and when he finally saw her, helpless and compromised, the way Jim Parsons paused and uttered a quizzical “Hello” made it clear he and Penny were entering brand new territory. READ FULL STORY »
