March 2, 2012
- Boston.com
- By Wesley Morris, Globe Staff
Sunday’s Academy Awards might have left the false impression that movie song-craft is dead. For bureaucratic reasons, there were only two nominees, neither of which was featured during the show. Both were from so-called family movies - “Rio’’ and “The Muppets’’ - and, in different ways, they were clever approaches to the musical number. “The Lorax’’ has a show-stopper that’s just as good and in some ways better.
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Sunday’s Academy Awards might have left the false impression that movie song-craft is dead. For bureaucratic reasons, there were only two nominees, neither of which was featured during the show. Both were from so-called family movies - “Rio’’ and “The Muppets’’ - and, in different ways, they were clever approaches to the musical number. “The Lorax’’ has a show-stopper that’s just as good and in some ways better.
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