In his recent review of "Godzilla v. Kong" in "The New Yorker", Anthony Lane made me laugh out loud: "One mark of the Godzilla franchise is the ingenuity with which each director manages to waste the talents of an excellent cast." This paraprosdokian builds toward a positive statement and then abruptly veers into the negative. It reminded me of an even more amusing line with which A. O. Scott began his review of "Horton Hears a Who!" in "The New York Times" in 2008: "What distinguishes 'Horton Hears a Who!' from the other recent Dr. Seuss film adaptations [...] is that it is not one of the worst movies ever made." (Andrew Shields, #111words, 22 June 2021)
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| Illustration by Hisashi Okawa for the Anthony Lane article |
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