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Fred The Movie, Fred Figglehorn

September 19, 2010 by · Comments Off on Fred The Movie, Fred Figglehorn 

Fred The Movie, Fred Figglehorn, Fred Figglehorn likes to say, you are probably very old, or something.

And Fred, with his striped shirt and nerdy high, sometimes annoying voice that falls somewhere between the sound of fingernails scratching a blackboard, and Pee Wee Herman on steroids, is probably correct.

But if the age of 18 for the south, and like most teenagers, you spend public life on the computer, and then Fred is a hot thing going with Justin Bieber.

Fourteen year old girls want to hug him. Children’s clothing items designed to sell his stupid t-shirts. The fans have clicked on their YouTube channel over 500 million times.

Now Fred, creating gentle, modest primary school in the state of Nebraska named Lucas Cruikshank, is about to unleash the general public (ie, all of us “too old” people).

“Fred: The Movie”, a 90-minute, big-budget expansion of short webisodes Cruickshank produced in his bedroom, the last four years, will debut on the Nickelodeon cable network on Saturday at 20:00 EDT.

This is not the first attempt to expand the Internet phenomenon in the media. Internet popular duo Ryan Higa and Sean Fujiyoshi were also found on YouTube a few years ago and the subsequent 2008 film “Ryan and Shawn not so Excellent Adventure.” He grabbed a little attention, however, received only two reviews of the site rottentomatoes.com movie. One who dismissed as “painfully unfunny” and others call it “worse than the surface.

Nickelodeon hopes “Fred” a lot better.

First, if you can handle that speed Urkel voice, Cruickshank is really fun.

“He has this kind of internal awkward geek who is actually in this moment,” says Jennette McCurdy, actress 18 years old, who plays the best friend of Fred, Bertha. “He was, but at the same time was something that just kind of unusual and strange, I think it really sucks people in.”

And, unlike most popular webcast that parodies the role or song takeoffs on films or people just do silly things, shows the history Cruickshank set back and fully formed characters, including the loving father, but certified insane and picturesque, but a loyal best friend, Berta. Then there’s Judy, a beautiful girl, popular, unknown to her, this love for the life of Fred.

Always behind the webcam in a series, the characters play a great comic effect in the film wrestler John Cena, McCurdy and British pop star Pixie Lott.

“What Lucas did what any other boy really, and even many adults are not able to do is install a new symbol that has resonated with people rather than an opportunity,” said Marjorie Cohn, president of Development and Original Programming, Nickelodeon for children and MTV and the family group.

Cruickshank, in turn, said that all he intended to do is put some videos on the web site to ridicule those who seemed to feature little more than an anonymous soul fills his heart.

Although he wanted to be an actor and a writer during the time he could remember, he never thought that many people looked at them. In fact, says that almost no one has said that he does.

“Because it’s just kind of strange sounds,” says Cruikshank, unlike Fred is very calm.

He was more than a little surprised when people began to appear in the small rural town 90 minutes from Omaha to knock and ask to meet Fred.

As a result, he does not want to reveal too much about myself these days, despite the fact that volunteers from his mother is a nurse, and her father, male executive, or something in this plant in my town. ” He is the fourth of eight children.

“He got a jillion brothers and sisters, so it has a very reasonable person,” said McCurdy, who was one of the stars in the hit kids TV show “iCarly.”

“He’s not Hollywood at all,” he adds, means that the better.

But Cruickshank, who turned 17 last month, said he may have to move to Hollywood in the near future. He recently signed a contract to develop a series of Nickelodeon. He will not play Fred and the other an eccentric, a child who does not let his classmates that he was really from outer space.

Until then, however, will focus on his high school in Nebraska. He is studying algebra, chemistry, Spanish, journalism and theater.

“Quite interesting, eh?” He added with a laugh.

Fred The Movie

September 18, 2010 by · Comments Off on Fred The Movie 

Fred The Movie, Evidence that the merger of YouTube and television programming may be bad for the two mediums can be found on Fred: The Movie “(8 pm, Saturday, Nickelodeon). To begin with, “Fred” has a feature film to take on a sort of “comedy” better known in spoonfuls of two minutes.

Lucas Cruikshank plays the title role. Justin Bieber is a man-boy-esque voice that speaks of twisted heliumized that makes him look like a girl overcaffeinated seventh year. His manic gestures are also accelerated to give the whole “Fred” the experience of the appearance of cartoon frenzy.

At best it can be considered an update of the phenomenon Pee-Wee Herman, but without the humor or spirit of the invention. Tonight’s movie features a love triangle between Fred, his next crash, Judy (Pixie Lott) and his rival, Kevin. Search for John Cena and Jennette McCurdy in supporting roles.

– Is this “Boardwalk Empire” (9 pm Sunday, HBO, TV-MA) at the height of its popularity? Yes, a thousand times yes. I was not so enthusiastic about a series since “The Sopranos” and I did not think I’m alone. Among the great pleasures of this lush, expensive, beautifully shot well written, funny, violent, emotional and historical resonance series is unlikely that his point man.

Best known for his tragi-wheel supporting actor turns in films like “Fargo,” Steve Buscemi makes grace and gravitas here without losing any of its quirks and eccentricities that have made him one of the most entertaining players character of his generation. Dressed in period costumes dapper, it looks more like a 21st century Raymond Massey as the goof bulging eyes, we learned to know and love. Here, he plays Enoch “Nucky” Thompson, the incumbent treasurer, 1920 Atlantic City, a citywide open to function as a corrupt fiefdom privately with the help of his brother (Shea Whigham), the police chief.

In a brilliant opening time Nucky is seen during a meeting of the temperance society women of the village, which includes a ban on speech that leaves the female audience in tears. In the next scene, Nucky sits with his friends and political fixers and extolls ban was a great boon to many rackets.

Like “The Godfather”, “Empire” explores the myth of the creation of organized crime, with characters like Nucky, ripped the pages of history. Arnold Rothstein (Michael Stuhlbarg), the New York player who fixed the 1919 World Series, arrives just as gangster Lucky Luciano (Vincent Piazza), Chicago Boss Jim Colosimo (Frank Crudele) and a corner and called Al Capone (Stephen Graham).

A subplot involves strong Nucky ambitious war veteran driver Jimmy Darmody (Michael Pitt), and an Irish mother abused immigrants, Margaret Schroeder (Kelly MacDonald star-making turn), which sets bidding Nucky and side protection.
Filmed on a complex that cost millions, “Empire” is a feast for the eyes and takes his part Playland corrupt. The film also raises the audience to revisit the 1920s, a time not so different from ours, where rapid economic and social changes wrought strong and conflicting reactions from political and religious groups trying to return America to their vision of “normal.

Should I have to find fault with “Empire” is that some young players are not quite at their former co-stars, including Gretchen Mol Dabney Coleman, who are both wonderful. His description of an agent of the federal ban as a self-flagellating religious fanatic also seems a bit one-dimensional.

But these are minor quibbles. The pilot was directed by Martin Scorsese, and shares power series expansion of its lyrical, fluid camera movement and sustained interest in the internal dynamics of sub-cultures – of racketeers highlight of the collection SideShow Nucky Midget boxers. Later episodes are written and directed by “The Sopranos,” including veterans Tim Van Patten.

Like many efforts Scorsese, “Empire” is the greatest music era. Like “O Brother where art thou?” viewers switched on to the roots of country music, I expect many Boardwalk fans fall in love with the bawdy, songs implied support of the Victrola era, of course here for the first time since decades.

Not for the timid, “Empire” is rated TV-MA and makes the most of it. Sex, profanity, violence, and nudity are abundant. To be honest, a lot of room Buscemi scenes are hilarious. Gosh, a gangster drama full of sex, language, and bloodshed and blue located in New Jersey. Where have we seen this before?

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