Jumbo Film Review: Offbeat Love Story Joins Woman and Park Attraction For an Unusual Ride TheWrap 2/18/2021
love your car? And what if it loved you back? Jumbo, a movie inspired by the real-life woman who married the Eiffel Tower, claiming she d fallen passionately in love with it, is Belgian writer-director Zoé Wittock s fractured fairy tale of a feature debut about a withdrawn young woman played by Portrait of a Lady on Fire star Noémie Merlant, who develops deep emotional feelings for her local park s newest passenger-spinning, brightly illuminated ride.
While it s easy to imagine filmmakers from all parts of the outcast-fantasy firmament responding with glee at the cinematic doorways waiting to be opened if Jumbo shows post-festival life Spielberg, Cronenberg, start your human-loves-thing engines! Wittock s film is ultimately more of a well-intended melodramatic experiment than a fully realized love story about one of the more curious corners of humanity s se
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No, That’s Not Morgan Freeman Voicing the Crab in ‘Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar’
Josh Robert Thompson is the next best thing if you can’t score the real actorBeatrice Verhoeven | February 16, 2021 @ 10:37 AM
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If you thought you heard Morgan Freeman’s iconic voice booming out of the crab in “Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar,” you are definitely not alone. But you are also definitely wrong.
Although the crab references Freeman’s films like “Shawshank Redemption” and “Driving Miss Daisy” when speaking to Star (Kristen Wiig) on the beach in the film, it’s not Freeman at all. It’s actually Josh Robert Thompson, credited on the film’s IMDb page as playing Morgan Freemond.