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Nemo on Ice: beyond strange
Filed under: Development/Milestones: Babies, Media
Disney on Ice is not the best possible way I could
imagine spending a hundy to entertain my children. So I'm clearly not the audience for Disney's newest release,
Nemo on Ice. But evidently I wasn't the only one who saw the photo of the dancing Nemo - a person, with legs,
whose fishy head appears in her stomach - and whose mind was blown with its strangeness. Karen Karbo, in a
brilliantly-funny piece in yesterday's Oregonian, disects a recent performance of Nemo on Ice, saying
"The only way for anyone older than 5 to enjoy the ice-show version of "Finding Nemo" is to view it as
avant-garde. Otherwise, it's just too plain weird…"
Even the children who attended the show were stymied. "But fish don't have legs!" a little boy exclaimed. While the dancers "shimmy" and wave their arms to make themselves look more like fish, they use their human faces to lip synch and mime. Karbo wonders which head she should be watching: "are we meant to relate to the big Nemo sympathy belly head? Or to the skater wildly mugging?" She doesn't understand how a fish can do a splits jump and touch his toes, or link arms with other fish, and finally asks, "Why is bad taste synonymous with preschool?" I think she's got it wrong, here - bad taste may be synonymous with Disney, but preschool… wait, what am I saying. Karbo's never been more right. Have you seen Nemo on Ice - or would you? What do you think?
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12-18-2005 @ 6:50PM
Stacie said...My, my - that just looks Freaky!
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