Kids movies suffer under the horrible dilemma of having to entertain both the children who come to the theater and the parents who are forced to drive them to the theater. Now, apparently, books are being subject to the same horrible set of marketing bull horns.
Imagine, if you dare, a twenty page book that chooses for it's title a biblical reference that has morphed into a Philip K. Dick reference that has morphed into a Kenau Reeves reference and you've got not only a piece of art that has jumped the shark but quite literally poked it in the eye with the pole as it vaults overhead and you've got "Through a Snout, Sharply." Do the cute drawings of seahorses bravely escaping their hammerhead captors help? No. Nothing can save this over developed matador's sword of a marketing ploy.
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Kids movies suffer under the horrible dilemma of having to entertain both the children who come to the theater and the parents who are forced to drive them to the theater. Now, apparently, books are being subject to the same horrible set of marketing bull horns.
Imagine, if you dare, a twenty page book that chooses for it's title a biblical reference that has morphed into a Philip K. Dick reference that has morphed into a Kenau Reeves reference and you've got not only a piece of art that has jumped the shark but quite literally poked it in the eye with the pole as it vaults overhead and you've got "Through a Snout, Sharply." Do the cute drawings of seahorses bravely escaping their hammerhead captors help? No. Nothing can save this over developed matador's sword of a marketing ploy.
1/5 stars - Duck and cover.
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