变更旅程

在一个与世隔绝的夏令营里，胆小又内向的12岁男孩摩根陷入了一场噩梦之中——曾经被当作传说的一个篝火故事竟变成了现实。摩根和他新结识的朋友们必须踏上一段危险重重的旅程，并揭开隐藏在表象之下的邪恶真相。

 喜剧演员杰克（威尔•法瑞尔 Will Ferrell 饰）事业开始下滑，在经纪人的建议下，杰克准备翻拍经典搞笑连续剧《神仙俏女巫》。同时，为了巩固自己在该剧的地位，杰克必须找一名新人在他的剧集里演他的妻子，女巫萨曼纱。在面试了数百人后，迷人可爱而且还会和女巫一样耸鼻子的伊莎贝拉（妮可•基德曼 Nicole Kidman 饰）进入了杰克的视线。在杰克鼓动了自己的三寸不烂之舌后，伊莎贝拉终于同意和他一起出演该剧。该剧试播后反响强烈，为了和伊莎贝拉长久合作下去，杰克决定假戏真做，向伊莎贝拉展开了爱情攻势。只是，他有所不知道是，伊莎贝拉真的是一名法力高强的女巫，杰克以后的日子可不好过了。

 OVA化もされた園田健一原作のコミック「ガンスミスキャツ」の元となったOVA。「ロードバスター」の名を持つ凄腕の運び屋であるビーン・バンデット。ある日、ビーンはグリムウッド家の令嬢であるチェルシーを誘拐した容疑をかけられ、警察から追われる身になってしまった！ 果たして、彼の運命は…？

　　Set in an underground dungeon inhabited by bundled, ragged human beings, after the nuclear holocaust. The story follows the wanderings of a hero through the situations of survival. People wait for the Ark to arrive and rescue them while their habitat falls apart.　　Delving deep into the dusty and long abandonded vaults of b-cinema in search of lost gems always leaves me with a bittersweet taste. On one hand the discovery of unexpected gems where no one would think them possible is a rewarding experience. On the other hand though it makes one wonder how many of these remarkable low-budget oddities, personal love affairs of directors never quite famous and now all but forgotten, have almost forever slipped from memory?　　n any case what we have here is a little post-apocalyptic gem from Poland that is really better than it has any right to. The dystopian near future of O-BI, O-BA finds a group of survivors of the nuclear war that ravaged the Earth inhabiting an underworld concrete bunker and biding their time as they wait for the mysterious Ark, an air ship of some kind that will come and save them. The Ark proves to be an elaborate hoax, carefully designed to give hope to the malnourished and desperate denizens of the bunker, while in the meantime the dome that separates their miserable existence from the nuclear winter outside is slowly caving in.　　What first striked me about the movie is the design of the bunker and the depiction of the survivors. The survivors are gaunt, filthy and terrible-looking penitents, dressed in rags and aimlessly wandering the neon-lit halls of the bunker like automatons. The bunker is a rundown, seedy place, with bright neon lights peering from all sides like the eyes of malignant beasts.　　On one hand it is a slightly 80's depiction of the dystopian future but the movie never stoops down to MAD MAX cheese. Instead it combines biting political satire with the bleak outlook of a world with no future, black comedy with barbs on apathy, religion and power. The survivors, for example, are fed some kind of flour dropping from a tube that hovers in the air - later on we discover the food supervisor uses books and the Bible itself as filler for this meagre meal. There are many such short symbolic touches, perhaps not life-changing or faith-restoring, yet playful, clever and inspired.　　One thing is for sure; O-BI, O-BA is not your run-of-the-mill sci-fi schlock. It overcomes its modest budget with creativity and has genuine artistic aspirations both from a writing and directing perspective. My opinion is that it should have been filmed in black and white instead of colour though. The director uses atmospheric light and shadow to great effect and it would have registered even better in stark black and white. The blue-green neon on the other hand outstays its welcome after a while. Just a minor gripe in an otherwise solid b-movie with its heart set in all the right places.　　Imagine a less bleak THE ROAD (Cormac McCarthy) being injected with the satire and humour of DR.STRANGELOVE and you're getting there. See it if you can find it.