More NP from the New Yorker: Virginia Woolf in 3-D

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

"Only in selected cinemas will “Journey to the Center of the Earth” be available in
 3-D. Those condemned to view it in two dimensions will be left in mild 
bewilderment, since many details have been selected for no purpose other than 
the flaunting of three-dimensional oomph. A trilobitic bug scurries on at the start 
and waves its enormous feelers in our direction. That, however, is the extent of 
its performance, and the bug might wonder, like an ingénue asked to remove her 
clothes, if such exposure was artistically justified. Next up are the yo-yo and the 
tape measure, both of which come zooming out of the screen, and I can’t help 
thinking of other films that would have been improved by a blast of 3-D; I might 
not have nodded off during “The Hours,” for example, if regularly prodded awake 
by the giant schnozzle of Virginia Woolf."