| 2012 - The Movie - I have to subtitle my review The | | | | It's now hard to decide which were the most |
| Good, The Bad, and the Farcical. This is Part 3 - The | | | | humorous from there. |
| Farcical - of my 3 part critical Review | | | | * The scene where John Cusack - writer Jackson |
| The Farcical | | | | Curtis - and his family were standing in the middle of |
| By describing some of the belly-laugh scenes I won't | | | | the Himalayas and a whole mob of helicopters flew |
| be giving anything away because as I said in Part 2 - | | | | over. Under each helicopter was an animal in a big |
| everything is just so predictable. The background to | | | | strong sling. Elephants, Rhinos, Giraffe all being flown |
| this 3rd section is that 2012- the movie is based on a | | | | through the air to be saved on the Ark. In reality I think |
| modern day version of Noah's Ark. | | | | that they all needed to be saved from the fear of the |
| * My biggest belly-laugh came when a Queen | | | | flight rather than the great flood. |
| Elizabeth of England look-alike was running into the ark. | | | | * Another hero in the movie was a fellow who'd taken |
| She was dressed in a replica of one of the Queen's | | | | a few flying lessons in a little single engine plane. He |
| outfits, complete with hat and Corgis. So here she was | | | | helped to save the day by first single-handedly flying a |
| actually running to get on board. One hand holding her | | | | twin engine plane that he'd never been in before. And |
| hat on and in the other hand the leashes of 2 or was it | | | | then progressing to co-pilot a big Russian Antanov. |
| 3 of her Corgis. I was laughing so hard I couldn't tell if | | | | * Whilst with the flying - if you could indeed fly the twin |
| there was 2 or 3 Corgis. I wonder how she decided | | | | engine plane - and everything around you was |
| which Corgis to save seeing as she has about a | | | | collapsing surely the first thing you'd do would be to get |
| dozen or so. No Prince Phillip by the way, just the | | | | as much altitude as possible. Now this bloke kept flying |
| Queen. Now there's a great line to follow the last. But | | | | at only a few hundred feet so he could fly past and |
| as Australia is still a monarchy (can you believe it) with | | | | dodge the falling buildings. Come On Now |
| the Queen as our Head of State. So out of respect I'll | | | | * I could give you a few more of these hilarious |
| leave that one-liner for another day. | | | | scenes. But I'll leave those for you to discover on your |
| * Equally hilarious was to see John Cusack driving a | | | | own. |
| car with everyone in it attempting to escape from the | | | | If you like entertaining disaster movies then go see |
| disintegrating ground around. And so he drives through | | | | 2012 - the movie. I'm glad I saw it. I'm glad I got to know |
| a multi-story car park and then comes flying out of the | | | | Chiwetel Ejiofor. I only wish I knew how to pronounce |
| side of the car park about 5 floors up and continues to | | | | his name. And as I said the time went very quickly for |
| the airport where they will continue their escape. | | | | me, so it was obviously entertaining in its own corny, |
| Crashing through the glass walls, which multi-story car | | | | melodramatic way. I've also heard comments from |
| parks don't usually have but the visuals were great, | | | | people about some underlying messages throughout |
| and then flying through the air also had me belly | | | | the film for those in the know. Did you see any? |
| laughing. But as quietly as I could. | | | | |