Best Of 2006 (Page 2)

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	Best Animated Cars Although not as entertaining a storyline as Pixar's last film (Finding Nemo) or as well written as Monster's Inc., Toy Story or even The Incredibles, Cars is still better than everything else that came out in 2006 even if it is just for the computer animation.

Best Drama
Shortbus
John Cameron Mitchell of Hedwick and the Angry Itch (2001) fame directs Canadian superstar Sook-Yin Lee for the second time (she starred in Hedwick) in what you might describe as a soft porn drama about New Yorkers who frequent a club called Shortbus. The most impressive thing about this film is how the sex scenes come off as less than gratuitous as they mesh so well with the storyline. Lee makes a come back of sorts as this film was better received than her portrayal of Alessa Woo in The Art of Woo.

Best Biopic
The Queen
Helen Mirren is fabulous as Queen Elizabeth in this Stephen Frears film surrounding the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. The central plot of the movie is the Queen and Tony Blair's management of a death that is both a private Royal affair and a public mourning experience for many Brits. Both funny and touching Frears and writer Peter Morgan do an admirable job with this film.

Best Documentary
An Inconvenient Truth
Although we do not usually recommend listening to speeches by politicians (they usually contain too much rhetoric), we must say that what Al Gore states in this Davis Guggenheim directed documentary is something everyone needs to hear. With the environment becoming the number one issue on the minds of so many voters, it would be good to get an introduction to what the major problems are. Not so entertaining as it is informative, An Inconvenient Truth is a must watch by everyone.

Best Comedy
Clerks II
Kevin Smith has a love/hate relationship with viewers of his movies. People either get him or they think he is an adolescent twerp who had a horseshoe up his ass when he became a famous writer/director. But the funny thing is that with cartoons, video games, comics, and almost everything else that was once for children being marketed to adults, is it any wonder he became so popular? So many adults aren't growing up these days and Randal, Jay and Silent Bob represent that phenomenon perfectly.

Clerks II finds Dante and Randal working at a burger joint after the convenience store/video rental shop burned down. Jay and Silent Bob have been through a court ordered rehab and are now just selling pot without smoking it. The antics are in high gear when we see the guys dis Lord of the Rings, take back ownership of the racial slur porch-monkey, learn about pussy trolls, and imitate a scene from Silence of the Lambs all with devastatingly gut-wrenching results. Smith now has a sequel just as comical as the original.

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