Update: "Alamo" positive review 

Update: "Alamo" positive review

It took longer than Disney execs probably hoped, but ONE positive early review has finally come in for "The Alamo" courtesy of CNN.com's Paul Clinton.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/04/08/review.alamo/index.html

Clinton's a methodical, workmanlike critic, but he's got a better handle on things (usually) than most other entertainment journalist-style critics who tend to come off as more interested in celebrity gossip than in film-as-art critiques. "Money" quote:

"There have been more than a dozen films made about the Alamo over the years, but none has captured the hearts and souls of the people there better than this one." -- Paul Clinton CNN.com.

That's exactly the response the Mouse House is looking for on this, though they must be disheartened that it's coming from only ONE critic thus far.

Actually, if you look at the slate for this weekend you can see what a "niche" business theater-blocking has become. Five films are opening and NONE seem to have been made with audience-overlap in mind: "Girl Next Door" for teens, "Ella Enchanted" for tweenaged girls, "Alamo" for 'da guys' and "Johnson Family Vacation" aimed at the "urban" market.

The only common thread any of those have, on my end, is that I'm not particularly looking FORWARD to any of them save "Ella," for the sole and sufficient reason that lead star Anne Hathaway has bloomed into a GODDESS while, apparently, no one was looking.