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8 The Sun, Wednesday, April 27, 2011 At the Movies 00Nater for Elephants' is a tl00ree-ring mistake By lan Black Special to The Sun Oh, hey, look it's a roman- tic period piece--the story of a strapping young lad in the early part of the 20th century who falls in love with a woman who is attached to another man. They overcome trials and adversity, and the whole tale is framed through the eyes of the young lad once he has become In IThe00Sun this week for Great Savings! Ray's Food Place Procter & Gamble Ierandsaverl an old man. If you guessed that I saw "The Notebook" this weekend, you'd be right. Except the movie was called "Water for Elephants." There was also some circus stuff in there, so I guess I saw "The Notebook" and "Big Fish." All joking aside, this is a dif- ferent movie, but really ... not that different. Jacob Jankowski (Robert Pattinson), is a young veteri- nary student who happens by chance to fall in with a second- rate circus during the early days of the Great Depression. With his past experience with ani- mals, he is put in charge of the menagerie. He meets Marlena Rosenblatt (Reese Wither- spoon) an equestrian performer and sparks fly immediately. Too bad he then meets her husband (Christoph Waltz), but you know how these things work: it's forbidden love. All the while, Hal Holbrook is framing the story as 90-year old Jacob. So, while this may not be "The Notebook" it's still basi- cally the same movie. It's the same format, same conflicts, even basically the same time period, and I didn't even really like that movie. At least "Big Fish" was sort of whimsical. Why can't one of these films simply be set in the past? Why does it need to be a flashback, or have a flash-forward? Do they think people "won't con- nect with it if we don't see a modem setting at some point? I realize this film is an adapta- tion of a novel, but so was "The Notebook." You're allowed to do new things with it. Robert Pattinson's role in this movie did him no favors. There was simply no chemis- try, and when your film is a ro- mance, especially one with such a derivative plot, that's about all you have to bank on. Pattinson once again has all the charisma of a stack of firewood and Academy Award winner Witherspoon seems squeaky and silly. The idea of their romance might work in the novel, but on screen, it's distracting and un- believable. Both Pattinson and Witherspoon are to blame for this, but he probably takes the lion's share (heh) of it for just seeming so bored the entire movie. I didn't believe any of the interactions between them, and poor Christoph Waltz is caught in the middle being way too talented for this sort of role. It's pretty obvious this film was a transparent attempt to cash in on the "Twilight" and "Notebook" style audiences all in one, as those two groups of- ten overlap. Watching this film it just felt like the minimal amount of effort was put into this movie, and then they re- leased it. It's not terrible. It's a movie. It's just completely bor- ing and exactly like the other films I keep bringing up. So I can't outright call the film bad, because it isn't. If you asked me to say something positive, I'd tell you that the art direction is kind of nice. Nothing Earth-shattering, but it has its moments where you might even say it looked pretty. But I was so busy being bored that I couldn't really even en- joy that. Films like "Water for El- ephants" are usually the worst types of movies I have to re- view. Not because the titles are stupid (though this title is very stupid), but because they are just so maddeningly average. I can't make fun of it for being terrible, and I certainly can't enjoy it for being good. It's just there, like a bowl of soggy bran flakes; just taking up space. This film really isn't worth the trouble. It's been a long time since Hollywood has made a circus movie. Obvi- Ously, not long enough. As Mr. Jon Bon Jovi might say, it just gives love a bad name. Grade: C- Entertainment Value: 3 Joseph opens at Gallery Theater in Technicolor Directed by Chris Benham, Joseph and,the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, opens at McMinnville s Gallery The- ater on May 6. The Biblical saga of Joseph and his coat of many colors comes to vibrant life in this delightful musical parable. The lyrics were written by Time Rice and the music composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Joseph, his father's favorite son, is a boy blessed with pro- phetic dreams. When he is sold into slavery by his jealous brothers and taken to Egypt, Joseph endures a series of adven- tures in which his spirit and humanity are continually chal- lenged. He is purchased by Potiphar where thwarting advances from Potiphar's wife lands him in jail. When news of Joseph's gift to interpret dreams reaches the Pharaoh (wryly and riotously depicted as Elvis), Joseph is well on his way to becoming second in command. Eventually his brothers, having suffered greatly, unknowingly fmd themselves groveling at the feet of the brother they betrayed but no longer recognize. After testing their integrity, Joseph reveals himself leading to a heartfelt reconciliation of the sons of Israel. The show will run May 6 through May 28 on the main stage with Friday and Saturday plays beginning at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday performances at 3 p.m. Tickets are now on sale: tandard seating is $16 for adults, $14 for students/seniors; and premium seating for $17 adults and $15 students/seniors. 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