Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 11/6/07 at 8:32pm

I saw the trailer for this about a gazillion times this summer and since it's opening next week I've started seeing it again. I think this movie looks like it could be a lot of fun, but I'm not sure what to think of it until I know what Cruel_Sandwich has to say about it. I think he'll find it a searing commentary on commercialization of affection and the alienation of real connection in a post-modern, post-9/11 world.

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 11/7/07 at 1:02am

I saw it a few weeks ago. It's actually extremely dark. Not a children's film at all.

*SPOILERS*

Mister Magorium turns out to be Satan...

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 11/7/07 at 1:05am

Did you like it? Was that a real spoiler? I accidentally read it and now I'm sad.

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 11/7/07 at 1:21am

Yeah. It's a pretty off-beat little flick.

He organ-harvests Natalie Portman once she and Jason Bateman discover the 3,420 year old poltergeist that he has chained up within the store. It's a very weird movie.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 11/7/07 at 9:29am

I'm even more excited to see it now!

[folkyboy]

Posted: 11/7/07 at 10:39am

i had no interest in seeing this whatsoever. Natalie Portman can take her Julia Roberts laugh to some other person cause i ain't buyin'.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 11/7/07 at 10:42am

which organ?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 11/7/07 at 10:43am

I never really had much of an opinion about Natalie Portman (except that she was dreadful in The Diary of Anne Frank) until she did that hilarious SNL video short where she gangsta rapped.

[tazber]

Posted: 11/7/07 at 11:05am

I love Natalie! And the thought of any movie involving organ harvesting just makes me moist in my v-spot!
Is there lots of gore Cruel?

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 11/7/07 at 11:05am

All of her organs. He turns them into slinkies.

[tazber]

Posted: 11/7/07 at 11:06am

*goes to pre-order tix*

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 11/7/07 at 11:15am

seriously...what organ is "harvested" from Bateman, and what kind of toy was made with it?

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 11/7/07 at 11:18am

Bateman's nose cartilage is eaten by Magorium. It's a pretty chilling scene.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 11/7/07 at 11:48am

sweet

[Unknown User]

Posted: 11/7/07 at 4:00pm

I want to see he producers admit they stole this idea from the Simpsons: Fresh from his Broadway triumph in "Stop the Planet of the Apes, I Want to Get Off!," Troy McClure turns down the new McBain movie to star in his self-directed film "The Contrabulous Fabtraption of Professor Horatio Hufnagel."

When I saw this preview I said "Good God, Hoffman is stealing Troy's part!"

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 11/22/07 at 1:13pm

Just saw it. It's wonderful. A searing commentary on commercialization of affection and the alienation of real connection in a post-modern, post-9/11 world.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 11/22/07 at 2:27pm

So it is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory meets Glengarry Glen Ross?

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 11/22/07 at 2:40pm

The Oompa ****** Loompas.

[Roninjoey]

Posted: 11/22/07 at 3:33pm

Natalie Portman totally pwns Julia Roberts.

[futurenala]

Posted: 11/23/07 at 12:18am

Sure you're not making this up Cruel?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 11/23/07 at 1:45am

I knew you would, Cruel!

I saw it over the weekend. I was disappointed. It wasn't really much of anything.

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 11/23/07 at 1:49am

All kidding aside, it looks pretty damn disturbing.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 11/23/07 at 3:35am

Okay.

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 11/23/07 at 10:05am

Dustin Hoffman's nude scene was pretty edgy for a G rated film.