LOS ANGELES -- "Imagine That" director Karey Kirkpatrick had a little more input on the movie's soundtrack than many directors might: He produced nine of the album's 11 tracks and performs on another. The 44-year-old filmmaker began his daily guitar-playing habit at age 12. A longtime fan of musical theater, Kirkpatrick wrote his first musical while a student at the University of Southern California, which landed him a job with Disney animation and launched his movie career.
In a summer that will be chockablock with animated family movies, Karey Kirkpatrick believes his new feature, "Over the Hedge," will have what it takes to turn its hairy heroes into a hit. Kirkpatrick co-directed the Dreamworks movie with Tim Johnson. It's his first directorial outing after writing screenplays for such films as "James and the Giant Peach," "Chicken Run" and "Charlotte's Web." He spoke to The Gazette while visiting Denver last month to promote the film.
REVIEW Over the Hedge HHH 1/2 Rated PG (rude humor) Directed by Tim Johnson and Karey Kirkpatrick Starring the voices of Bruce Willis, Steve Carell, Garry Shandling Marquee Cinemas, Park Place Stadium Cinemas Check out the comic strip on which the movie is based in the Sunday Gazette-Mail or online at www.wvgazette.com. Knight Ridder Newspapers We've had animated movies that deal with toy neglect, ogre prejudice and runaway fish, but "Over the Hedge" is the first to blow the lid off urban blight.
As with all modern animated movies, half of the fun of watching them is associating the camouflaged actors with the eccentric characters onscreen. Steve Carell's zippy vocal interpretation is especially inspired as Hammy, a hyperactive squirrel whose super-fast antics give the story's climax an unexpected hook when he's suddenly able to move so quickly that the Earth's orbit veritably stalls. [Nick Nolte]'s presence as [Vincent] the bear is perhaps the most recognizable voice in the cast, and his gently booming phonation connects well against [Thomas Haden Church]'s self-evident enjoyment in delivering his evil character's droll lines. [Wanda Sykes] steals the show as an impertinent skunk named Stella when RJ disguises her as a slinky black cat to flirt with [Gladys]' magisterial tomcat...
...Co-directors Tim Johnson (Antz) and Karey Kirkpatrick (the film's screenwriter) make sly com...
ART SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL *** Ultimately it's too scattershot to cohere into something really great, but this smarty-pants campus yarn is on fire with satire. Perhaps it's in some ways an unlikely follow-up to Terry Zwigoff and Daniel Clowes' transcendent Ghost World, lodged as firmly as it is within the genre of the college farce-roommate hijinks, cafeteria slop, and wacky professors abound-but once the film settles in to its undergraduate demimonde and starts to build drama, it attains a similarly remarkable depth of atmosphere enhanced by Zwigoff's hyper-real, expressionistic style, which is just pitch-perfect for its material. The pulp-thriller bits are the film's weakest link; the movie doesn't need them to broadcast its cynicism when the little moments are so much more palpable and ...
... *** Co-directors Tim Johnson (Antz) and Karey Kirkpatrick (the film's screenwriter) make sly com...
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...With a top-notch screenplay credited to Karey Kirkpatrick ("Chicken Run"), David Berenbaum ("Elf...
CLASSE TOUS RISQUES. In Claude Sautet's 1960 noir thriller, a pair of criminals encounter trouble while fleeing Italy for their native France. After a shootout, one of them and his two sons are left stranded, and a young hood (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is dispatched to fetch them. What unfolds is a strange story of friendship, family and fidelity in the underworld - like The Sopranos, with a low-keyed mix of domesticity and danger. Sautet's drama reminds us of a reason we like film noir: It doesn't waste our time. It's sudden, like death, and yet, like death, it sometimes doesn't hurry. The wait can be agonizing. Sautet actually films very little of Classe Tous Risques at night, so it's often brilliant with Mediterranean sunshine. His frequent use of traveling shots creates both narrative ene...
... comic strip and directed by Tim Johnson and Karey Kirkpatrick, is a cut above the recent slew of tal...
By Christy Lemire The Associated Press The words "Eddie Murphy family comedy" are enough to send shivers down the spine of any self-respecting film lover.
..."Imagine That" comes from director Karey Kirkpatrick, who's previously had success with the...
OPENING TODAY Whatever Works (PG-13, 92 min.) See review on Page 14.
... is a bit of misdirection, however: Director Karey Kirkpatrick quickly cedes the point of view to the...
OSCAR-NOMINATED DOCUMENTARY SHORTS. Oddly, each of the four documentary shorts nominated in 2005 is about war. Dan Krauss's "The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club," is a portrait of a Pulitzer Prizewinning South African photojournalist who psychically collapses when he can't separate the dispassion of the job from the immediate horrors he captures on film. One positive development of the 1994 Rwandan genocide is examined in Kimberlee Acquaro and Stacy Sherman's "God Sleeps In Rwanda." With its population suddenly 70 percent female, women are stepping into leadership roles previously held by men. In "The Mushroom Club," Steven Okazaki visits contemporary Hiroshima and worries that the impact of the atomic attack on that city may be waning as survivors die off, and you...
... comic strip and directed by Tim Johnson and Karey Kirkpatrick, is a cut above the recent slew of tal...
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