It's been a huge hit stateside and touted as one of the best recent DC movies. Suicide Squad? Duh, of course not. It's レゴバットマン ザ・ムービー or The Lego Batman Movie(that link takes you to the Japanese website. You can hunt around for the official site yourself.)
Here is the trailer. I fear that I may have to trek to Tokyo in order to see it in English. It is animated and appears to be for kids therefore the chances of it being released with subtitles instead of dubbed are slim.
Regardless, I ran out and bought an advanced ticket for its premiere on April Fools Day.
"Why would you spend an extra 300 yen on an advanced ticket when you could see it cheaper on April 1st?", one might ask. The answer is because you also get a free Batman in the Phantom Zone Lego toy along with your ticket!!
Sweet (I'm not going to assemble it until after I see the movie. There may be spoilers within.) I was so excited, I ran out to the nearby Toys R Us and picked up aLego mini-Battoy. Lots of villains on the package, surely I'll get something cool.
Nope, really lame. It may have a plot point in the movie but otherwise I'm fairly disappointed. Good thing I know someone who loves receiving Batman presents...
On the plus side, at least I didn't get #3. I do wish I could get King Tut (#19) though.
Well, that put me in a better mood. I can't wait to see this...
I tried to add the stupid Amazon link to my stupid blog and so far the stupid format has all changed and I can't figure out the stupid changes and nor can I now remove the stupid link. At the moment I can't find the stupid little tab-thingie to upload pics and I must have changed something cuz now the stupid Amazon link doesn't even appear anymore. For example, I wrote a long diatribe and then when I tried to upload a picture, I got a weird bad format message and then the entry disappeared! I hate change and I hate stupidity (especially my own.)
One change that I approve of is the addition of a new Follower. It's Livin The Dream and I haven't yet perused it, but it appears to be somewhat rude. So, you my other faithful followers, may enjoy it as well. (Unlike those with hundreds of Followers, I have just over a dozen so I can give them a shout-out!) So welcome Stylez, I hope I can write something of substance shortly!
REVISION: it appears that now everything is lost! (And yes, I did download the template before I edited but to no avail!) Stupid Blogger!
Back in my high school Chess Club days, whenever something went awry, one was wont to utter, "Rats!" and that was shortly followed up with "...and other pesky rodents" by a fellow chessophile. I can't recall why, that's just the way we rolled in the Chess club. There's a reason were the #1 team in Canada for two years running, "Don't Mess with CPSS Chess!"
Today's Pixar pic is from レミRatatouilleーのおいしいレストラン (Remi's delicious restaurant) which others may recognize as Ratatouille (which according to the spell-check, I got correct the first time!) A handful of drinking buddies went out on the piss one night with the intention of seeing a violent shoot-em-up thriller but whatever we had planned to see was ill-timed so we opted for the rodent-fest instead. I probably enjoyed it more than my posse, but we all exited satisfied.
I've been going on lately about Japan's dubbing of all recent animated features into Japanese and not offering a show in English. This is a fairly recent phenomenon, for I recall seeing Mr. Incredible in English in Sendai. On the other hand, if the dubbing is as good as the job done in this trailer, then my fears are assuaged and I'll stop harping on the subject.
Speaking of Rats, John Ratzenberger has had a voice part in all of Pixar's feature films made to date. His roles include:
* Hamm the Piggy Bank in Toy Story (1995), Toy Story 2 (1999) and Toy Story 3 (2010)
* P.T. Flea, the Circus Ring Leader in A Bug's Life (1998)
* The Abominable Snowman in Monsters, Inc. (2001)
* The school of Moonfish in Finding Nemo (2003)
* The Underminer in The Incredibles (2004)
* Mack the truck in Cars (2006) and Cars 2 (2011)
* Mustafa the Waiter in Ratatouille (2007)
* John in WALL-E (2008)
* Tom the construction worker in Up (2009)
I wonder if they use the same Japanese guy to do all his roles?
Surprisingly, I only have one item from the movie, a little phone strap that I picked up for a buck or two a while back. Cute, ain't it, for a flea ridden chef, that is?
If you dig into my profile, you'll see that I've added a ton of blogs that I follow. I also need to start raking in the cash, so I've added a little Amazon doohickey that is bound to get me rich beyond my wildest dreams! So anytime you buy anything through that link, you'll be helping a poor blogger pay for all his obsessions! (I'm still working out the linkages, so be patient.)
ーのおいしいレストラン (Remi's delicious restaurant) which others may recognize as 
