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May 17, 2006
A. O. Scott loved it: The Da Vinci Code
On opening day, the NY Times' A. O. Scott throws out the first bitch, checking out what's crummy on the Croisette and, mirabile dictu! It's The Da Vinci Code! "Teabing, who strolls out of English detective fiction by way of a Tintin comic, is a marvelously absurd creature, and Sir Ian, in the best tradition of British actors slumming and hamming through American movies, gives a performance in which high conviction is indistinguishable from high camp. A little more of this—a more acute sense of its own ridiculousness—would have given The Da Vinci Code some of the lightness of an old-fashioned, jet-setting Euro-thriller. But of course, movies of that ilk rarely deal with issues like the divinity of Christ or the search for the Holy Grail. In the cinema, such matters are best left to Monty Python."
Posted by Ray Pride at May 17, 2006 04:24 PM
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