Angels and Demons Movie Review – no singing and dancing? What?
June 30, 2009 | 12:49 pmI went to see “Angels & Demons” recently, & while i’ll spare you my numerous issues with the movie, i did find something very funny. If you’ve ever seen the movie “Moulin Rouge”, you’ll know that Ewan McGregor & Nicole Kidman break into a song every 5 seconds, anytime they have something deep & meaningful to say.
So I found Ewan McGregor so funny in this movie and couldn’t seem to take him seriously. Every time he had one of his passionnate tirades about the battle between science & religion (and he had many!), I just expected him to break into a song any second now. See, everytime he acts the “passion” emotion, he only knows how to act it in 1 way: it transcribes as these big blue innocent eyes looking straight at you with, apparently, “passion”! In “Moulin Rouger”, he had the exact same puppy-dog look, he would passionately stare into Kidman’s eyes & break into a love song. So naturally, anytime the Ewan-McGregor-Passion-Eyes came out, I’d naturally expect a song to follow!
In fact, I think i might have enjoyed Angels & Demons way more if McGregor HAD ACTUALLY broken into a song & a dance now and again!
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hated moulin rouge, but would love to see ewen break into song, agreed…
we are laughing SO hard right now!!
lol, i still remember that feeling. i mean SERIOUSLY, wouldn’t the movie have been so much better, if, unexpectedly, in the middle of a passionate monologue about religion over science, Ewan had just flung his arms out, twirled around and started singing?
in fact… in his clergy clothes, it would have been slightly reminiscent of the sound of music, with maria on the hills of austria singing “the hills are alive”…
ok, now i’m cracking myself up… ewan mcgregor, nun’s clothing, hills in austria, singing to tom hanks: “the hills are alliiiiive….”