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The second computer animated ant film of the season is said to be head and thorax above its predecessor, Antz . Aimed at a slightly younger audience, the film bristles with buggy life and packs in the "gee-whiz moments" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). The critics' one gripe is that there's almost too much happening at once on-screen: It's "so dense with characters and illustrative detail that it nearly chokes on its own banquet" (Richard Corliss, Time ). (Visit the Web site of Pixar, this film's animation studio.)
Others gripe about the film's two and half hour length, its mishmash of a plot, and John Travolta's inability to do more than a "skillful nightclub impersonation" of the president (Edelstein,
Mirror ). A few gripe that the series is just a formula boys' boarding-school adventure story gussied up with magical trappings (see last week's discussion in Slate 's ), but young readers don't seem to care: According to Bloomsbury, the book's U.K. publisher, Azkaban broke an opening-day sales record--16,853 copies in the first 100 minutes on sale.
And now please allow me to gripe for a few minutes.
Others gripe that Dyson recycles her previously published magazine articles, writes turgid prose, and puts too much faith in the free market.