Costner's Rapa Nui was "homo-erotic fallacy"

The Front Page: Career Killers - Dead Directors and the Movies ...
PopMatters, IL - Aug 20, 2007
Pre-dating Apocalypto by more than a decade, this tale of civil war among the indigenous people of Easter Island wanted to be a New Age naturalist adventure ...

New adventure comedy filmed partly on Rapa Nui

First-time film director acts out a dream
Cast and crew battled the wind and rain and filming had to stop for more than half an hour, drowned out by the sound of Wellington's Carillon, but first-time movie director Andrew Bain could not wipe the smile from his face.
TOM CARDY
The Dominion Post
Tuesday, 3 July 2007

His adventure comedy The Rocking Rock of Rapanui, partly set on Easter Island, was two days into a nine-day shoot around Wellington. Isolated Pencarrow Head will be used to stand in for the isolated Easter Island.

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Brad Garrett: voice of moai in Night at the Museum

What Are They Up To? Brad Garrett of Everybody Loves Raymond
-Kris De Leon, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
BuddyTV
Jun 20, 2007

When Everybody Loves Raymond ended, Garrett became active in voice acting. He worked in animated shows and films, serving the voice of Uto in Tarzan II, Obelix in Asterix et les Vikings, and Easter Island Head in Night at the Museum. He guest starred on Howard Stern on Demand and was cast in the movie Music and Lyrics, alongside Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore.

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Soylent Green - Rapa Nui connection?

Mulling world’s future from back end of a car
By Joe Konopka
Nashuatelegraph.com
Published: Sunday, June 17, 2007

Even more disturbing is that the fictional consequences of “Soylent Green” aren’t so improbable. They were echoed in a 1978 documentary, “Blind Prophets of Easter Island,” about an archeological expedition led by Jacques Cousteau. It uncovered evidence that had ominous overtones.

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More Night at the Museum articles

The Alternate Ending DVD Review: Night at the Museum
411mania.com, TX - May 1, 2007
The giant Easter Island head that’s obsessed with bubble gum? Yawn. And of course the precocious monkey that likes to steal the guards’ keys. ...

VIDEO FUN HOUSE: 'Night at the Museum' an imaginative romp a whole ...
Huntington Herald Dispatch, WV - May 3, 2007
JEAN: There are a handful of recognizable actors -- there's Brad Garrett's voice (as the Easter Island sculpture), Robin Williams and -- of course -- Owen ...

VIDEO FUN HOUSE: 'Night at the Museum' an imaginative romp a whole ...
Huntington Herald Dispatch, WV - May 3, 2007
JEAN: There are a handful of recognizable actors -- there's Brad Garrett's voice (as the Easter Island sculpture), Robin Williams and -- of course -- Owen ...

More about Night at the Museum on DVD

CONTEST: Own Night at the Museum on DVD!
MovieWeb - Apr 23, 2007When it closes at night, Larry soon learns that things are not what they seem when a Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton wants to play fetch, an Easter Island ...

Night at the Museum DVD Review
UGO, NY - Apr 23, 2007...
a T-Rex that's dying to play fetch, an on-going Civil War battle, talking Easter Island monoliths and the late, great Teddy Roosevelt. ...

Movie Review: Night at the Museum
Groundlings Review - April 24, 2007
... to the car ride home where all my kids kept repeating the lines delivered by a giant Easter Island head, (“Hey dumb-dumb, give me gum-gum.”) We had fun. ...

Night at the Museum: 2-Disc Special Edition
Ultimate Disney - April 24, 2007
... welcoming Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton to stuffed wild animals, from miniature cowboy and Roman soldier figures to an immobile Easter Island head. ...

Newly released DVD features talking moai

The week's best releases from the pop culture universe
Minneapolis City Pages, MN - Apr 17, 2007
... in this box-office hit about a nightwatchman and some very mobile artifacts — including a playful T. rex skeleton and a talking Easter Island statue. ...

Here are the week's best releases from the pop-culture universe:
Cleveland Scene Weekly, OH - Apr 19, 2007
... in this box-office hit about a night watchman and some very mobile artifacts -- including a playful T. rex skeleton and a talking Easter Island statue. ...

Moai comes to life in Night at the Museum

Night at the Museum comes to DVD and we are giving away 5 copies
By Patrick Luce
Monsters and Critics
Mar 28, 2007, 23:47 GMT

When it closes at night, Larry soon learns that things are not what they seem when a Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton wants to play fetch, an Easter Island monolith talks to him and Attila the Hun attacks.

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Name-calling moai highlight of museum movie

In Sight/ Movies: A silly, fun ride into 'living history'
BY RONDA CORNELIUS, STAFF WRITER
asahi.com
03/09/2007

In "Night at the Museum," Rex the dinosaur wants to play fetch; the tiny diorama people wage war; the mummy has a conniption in his sarcophagus; and everyone from the name-calling Easter Island head to the cavalry-riding Teddy Roosevelt jumps into the melee of a secret after-hours wonderworld.

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"Dr. Love on Easter Island" film on show in Vienna

MAK Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
Nicole Scheyerer
Translated by Nicholas Grindell
frieze
March 5, 2007

At the centre of the exhibition, visitors were shown Dr. Love on Easter Island (2006), a video filmed in the Pacific. For this departure from familiar territory, Krystufek chose Bas Jan Ader as a kind of alter ego. What if, the video asks, the artist who disappeared during an Atlantic crossing in 1975 got stranded on Easter Island? As ‘She-Bas’, the artist roams the home of the famous moai stone giants.

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More about Night at the Museum DVD release

Night at the Museum Comes Home
Source: Fox Home Entertainment
ComingSoon.net
February 20, 2007

When it closes at night, Larry soon learns that things are not what they seem when a Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton wants to play fetch, an Easter Island monolith talks to him and Attila The Hun attacks.

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Night at the Museum to be released on DVD

The $230 Million Box-Office Family Favorite!! NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM Exhibits on DVD April 24, 2007 from Fox Home Entertainment
Ben Stiller Leads an All-Star Cast Including Comedy Favorites Robin Williams, Owen Wilson, Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney and More ... Two-Disc Special Edition Features Tons of Bonus Features Including Deleted and Extended Scenes, Blooper Reel, an Alternate Opening, Featurettes and a DVD Rom Game; Single Disc Also Available
Business Wire
February 20, 2007 06:03 AM Eastern Time

When it closes at night, Larry soon learns that things are not what they seem when a Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton wants to play fetch, an Easter Island monolith talks to him and Attila The Hun attacks. With the museum denizens loose and not wanting to lose his job, Larry turns to a re-animated wax figure of President Theodore Roosevelt (played by Oscar®-winner Robin Williams, Best Supporting Actor, Good Will Hunting, 1998) to help save the museum.

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Rapa Nui movie provides "tropical heat wave" for winter

Video 6-Pack
Tropical heat wave
By Robert Bong Staff writer
Daily Southtown
February 11, 2007


"Rapa Nui" (1994) -- Two tribes on Easter Island go to war when a young man and woman from rival clans fall in love in this South Seas adventure. Stars include Jason Scott Lee, Esai Morales and Sandrine Holt.

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Miniseries episode about settling of Polynesian Triangle

Finding rays of light as world's cultures teeter on the edge
Modern-day explorer's miniseries illuminates problem of dwindling ethnic diversity
Jim Bawden - TELEVISION CRITIC
Toronto Star
Feb 03, 2007 04:30 AM

In Episode 2 we look at the magnificent achievements of the Polynesians who settled a great triangle in the Pacific that is a million square miles of what? Tiny islands and yet with their seafaring canoes they could pinpoint Easter Island and hit it without any of the modern navigational equipment.

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Sundance director previously made film about Rapa Nui

Park City '07 SHORTS NOTEBOOK
Create Your Own Shorts Playlist: Over Forty Sundance Films are Just a Mouse Click Away
by Kim Adelman
indieWIRE
January 27, 2007

The director previously made films about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the exploration of Easter Island, and the end of the world. Makes one wonder what the first two trypps covered.

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Moai a highlight in popular museum movie

Movie review
Tim Ochser
Baltic Times
Jan 24, 2007

I loved the Easter Island head in particular: “Hey, dum-dum. Give me gum-gum.”

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A Night at the Museum with "mentally impaired" moai

Rekindled 'Toy Story' skimps on comedy
By Christina Choi
Michigan Daily
1/4/07

After he's attacked by miniature Indians, ridiculed by a mentally impaired statue from Easter Island and barely escapes an encounter with Attila the Hun, Larry is rescued by a gallant Theodore Roosevelt (Robin Williams, "Man of the Year").

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Robin Williams helps Ben Stiller contend with moai

Night at the Museum (PG)
By Joanne Mace
This is Basingstoke, UK
Jan 1, 2007

Then there are the warring model figures, the African jungle animals, the cavemen, the mischievous monkey, Attila the Hun and the Easter Island head to contend with. But thankfully, Theodore Roosevelt (Robin Williams) is there to help.

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More about the moai in "Night at the Museum"

A stocking full of gags
Taipei Times, Taiwan - Dec 28, 2006
A stone head from Easter Island demands bubble gum. And a cheeky monkey named Dexter steals Larry's keys, tears up his instructions and engages him in a ...

Information for parents deciding which movies are best for kids ...
Kansas City Star, MO - Dec 29, 2006
They should also learn about Sacagawea, Theodore Roosevelt, Easter Island and Attila the Hun. They may enjoy the books and movie versions of Jumanji, ...

More "Night at the Museum" articles

'Museum' all-around fun film
Syracuse Post Standard, NY - Dec 25, 2006
... of dad. So, Larry goes to work to learn how to dispatch their tyranny. The Easter Island head is pacified by bubble gum. But the ...

Imagination runs wild during night at museum
Baltimore Sun, United States - Dec 26, 2006
... Ben Stiller as a security guard who, every night, is forced to contend with everything from a bounding Tyrannosaurus to a bubble-gum-chewing Easter Island idol ...

Night at our museum
Baltimore Sun, United States - Dec 26, 2006
... Ben Stiller as a security guard who, every night, is forced to contend with everything from a bounding Tyrannosaurus to a bubble-gum-chewing Easter Island idol ...

Ancient history
Portsmouth Herald News, NH - Dec 27, 2006
... But it doesn't just come to life the way Strawbery Banke says "history comes alive"; this thing makes an Easter Island statue chew gum, turns Attila the Hun ...