Wed, 13 June 2012
We Bought a Zoo (when we should have bought a clue!) Starring Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson, Thomas Hayden Church, and Ellie Fanning. This Twenty-Eleventy comedy is based on a true story of a man who loses his wife to cancer and decides to move his family into a zoo that is about to go belly up. This movie is a two hour Kodak commercial with snakes. And a fallen tree. And a suicidal tiger. Matt Damon, fresh off the boat from Mourners-ville, USA, gets a lot of lasagna from all the women who want him to put his grieving peen in their own personal hairy lasagna-like enclosures. He falls for the one woman who has no noodle casserole up for offer, Scarlett Johansson, a sullen animal caretaker who spends most of her spare time wearing a hoodie and glaring at him through the pouring rain. Thomas Hayden Church plays Matt's brother and he takes Matt out for coffee and heaps of brotherly disapproval. Ellie Fanning plays a mysterious orphan Zoo child who immediately falls for Matt Damon's emo-son, who's way into examining the dark shadows of his navel. Matt Damon has a daughter who cheers a lot while twirling in the sunshine as she feeds a muster of peacocks. A Bear gets loose. The zoo runs out of money. An inspector demands pricey alterations for the zoo to be up to code. With a post-death catharsis around every corner, We Bought a Zoo will make a bid for your heart. But Buyer Beware!
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