{"id":6306,"date":"2018-02-16T10:07:59","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T15:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=6306"},"modified":"2018-02-16T10:07:59","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T15:07:59","slug":"the-plasticine-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=6306","title":{"rendered":"THE PLASTICINE AGE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"copy-snippet fontset1 scale3\">\n<article class=\"art\">\n<header>\n<hgroup>\n<h5 data-bind=\"text: articleTitle\"><em>I expect a knowledgeable review of this stop motion movie by Keith and Fran\u00e7ois for WARP! \u00a0 They are, apparently, planning a Plasticine stop motion for our next MonSFFilm production.\u00a0 Is Nick Park worried about the competition?\u00a0 &#8211;CPL<\/em><\/h5>\n<h5 data-bind=\"text: articleTitle\"><\/h5>\n<\/hgroup>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Early Man Official Trailer!\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZRiPQ8YNrVs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hgroup>\n<h1 data-bind=\"text: articleTitle\">THE PLASTICINE AGE: Caveman movie\u2019s jokes stand the test of time<\/h1>\n<\/hgroup>\n<ul class=\"art-byline\">\n<li class=\"art-source\" data-bind=\"text: issueTitle\">Montreal Gazette, <time data-bind=\"text: shortDateString\">16 Feb 2018<\/time><\/li>\n<li class=\"art-author\" data-bind=\"text: byline\">CHRIS KNIGHT<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/header>\n<figure class=\"art-pic\"><figcaption><\/figcaption><figure style=\"width: 322px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"articleImage\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn2-img.pressreader.com\/pressdisplay\/docserver\/getimage.aspx?regionKey=DYMqljXsjionRFPLuyETPQ%3d%3d\" alt=\"\" width=\"322\" height=\"384\" data-bind=\"attr: { src: imageUrl }\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Early Man, while not exactly a laugh riot, is amusing enough to be enjoyed by both adults and children.<\/figcaption><\/figure><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div data-bind=\"foreach: articleBlocks\">\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">How much you get out of the latest animated shenanigans from Aardman studios may depend on your reactions to the following bits of visual and aural humour: a zebra pelt is used as a crosswalk; and a soccer team\u2019s cohesion has someone referring to them as \u201cearly Man United.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">The first gag is a play on Britain\u2019s \u201czebra crossings,\u201d the second a pun on the name of its Manchester football team. Early Man is a funny romp through prehistory, but it\u2019s staunchly British, and makes no apologies. Though to be fair, most of its caveman humour doesn\u2019t know any geographical boundaries. And most of its cavemen don\u2019t even know how to spell that.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">The time period is somewhere between the Late Pleistocene and the Early Plasticine era. Dug, voiced by Eddie Redmayne, is the brightest member of a tribe of cave dwellers whose simple, rabbit-hunting-and-gathering lifestyle is given a shake when they encounter a society that has figured out bronze. The newcomers are led by a Frenchman (Tom Hiddleston doing a Monty Python-style French accent) and his band of Euro-baddies (more Brits). There\u2019s a weird Brexit subtext to the whole matchup, although given the time period maybe it\u2019s more pre-Br\u2019entrance.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">The bronze-agers take over the cavemen\u2019s valley, until Dug challenges them to a football match to win it back.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">He\u2019s confident, after discovering ancient rock paintings that suggest his tribe invented the game. But the players of \u201cReal Bronzio\u201d have all the latest tech, including puppet-driven instant replays that favour their team. You\u2019ve heard of fake news? This is fake sports.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">And so we have the classic setup in which a bunch of underdogs (and one under-pig, a sabretoothed hog voiced by director and co-writer Nick Park), must band together against seemingly impossible odds. They\u2019re aided by Goona (Maisie Williams), a soccer-lover from the bronze side, fed up with not being allowed to play because she\u2019s female.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">The humour is all over the pitch, which means some jokes will fly over the heads of younger (and\/or non-British) viewers, but also that there\u2019s something for almost everyone to enjoy. (Though I must pause here to make a formal request to comedies: You know that scene where several characters are startled by one another, and the camera cuts from one of them screaming, to another, to another? Please. Stop.)<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">The stop-motion animation is up to the usual Aardman standards, as is the studio\u2019s unusual but endearing obsession with rabbit characters. It\u2019s not quite the equal of 2015\u2019s Shaun the Sheep Movie, but it\u2019s a step above The Pirates! from 2012. 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