Good Luck Chuck and Jessica ~ Because nothing says bad movie quite like a penguin screen printed on panties
With the full blown concern that everybody has right now about global warming, we’ve switched our attention to the penguins. The fantastic Warner film March of the Penguins, which had Laurent Chalet and Jerôme Maison heading up the cinematography, really pushed us down that path.
In our desire to save these creatures whom Morgan Freeman hypnotized us into loving, we have placed them in news reports and on the covers of some of the nation’s largest magazines. When everybody started to realize just how much we had all grown to love penguins, we decided to start taking
them to our favorite place to show them off: the beach. The goal has perhaps become to help them learn to adapt to the coming beautiful tropical weather that we think we’re creating for them (see my global warming art critique).
This transition of penguins to the beach, at least in animated form, took us from the full-length animated feature called Happy Feet, also from Warner, to Sony’s Surf’s Up. Yet this juncture was not the first time that penguins appeared on the beach in a movie. The film 50 First Dates with Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore comes to mind, but even that penguin appears to be a warm-weather African Penguin like those in Simon’s Town in South Africa, which are amazing. One also appears in a Starbucks ad from last year, which ironically I think they thought was a “refreshing iced” penguin (click on the thumbnail to enlarge).
With the release of Surf’s Up, I became interested not just in penguins but now polar penguins in paradise, especially as it relates to our fears about global warming. It didn’t help that they named the lead character Cody, which is my name. It’s hard enough shaking the image of the boy wonder spy to have to take on being the annoying surfer penguin. Which brings us to a new movie.
Apparently, Good Luck Chuck is coming out soon. In watching the TV commercials I couldn’t help but think of 50 First Dates. Both are Sony pictures, but at least 50 First Dates had a plot along with its penguin—despite the fact that nothing says bad movie like an aloha shirt on a penguin. I would like to refine this quote to say that “nothing quite says bad movie like an aloha penguin screen printed on a pair of panties.” Sorry Jessica Alba.
Here’s the trailer. Go to 2:05 to 2:08 and decide for yourself:
If you’re on your iPhone here are some still shots:
I guess the end lesson, other than not screen printing your underwear with cute things, is that whatever Warner can do, Sony can do in the tropics.
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