Who would have thought that "Shorts," the movie for kids, would have the interesting time-shifting narrative device to tell the story while the latest Quentin Tarantino flick is, yet again, pegged with pacing issues?
But this isn't really a contest between film-buddies and occasional collaborators Robert Rodriguez and Tarantino. I suspect very few of us who go to see "Shorts" will also go see "Inglourious Basterds" this weekend.
The trailer for "Shorts" didn't move me to want to go see it because the film is not meant for me -- it's for a younger audience. As one critic wrote, it is more for the youth audience than Rodriguez' "Spy Kids" series which had some stuff in there for the older cats.
"Shorts" opens Friday.
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