To Our Love Send A Dozen White Lilies

Hey boys and girls, it's time to enlarge your vocabulary!  Today's word is Foxcrement, a noun meaning "television programming devoid of quality or any redeeming value, usually pandering to the lowest common denominator. Commonly originating from, but not limited to, the Fox Television Network."  Let's all thank some random guy for providing us with this new word for our vocabulary.

Ok, so putting the sarcasm aside, I finally managed to see Shrek 2 today.  While I can't fault the animation (flawless) or the movie (great), the soundtrack drove me crazy.  Sure, it gained points for having songs by Tom Waits (Little Drop of Poison, originally found on the The End of Violence soundtrack) and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (People Ain't No Good), but the covers of songs originally by the Buzzcocks (Ever Fallen In Love) and David Bowie (Changes) were just uncalled for and (in my ears) grating.

Actually, that's my only complaint about the film: the fact that the soundtrack actually seemed to be distracting at times. For the most part I think they would have been better off with a largely instrumental score (with appropriate breaks for the necessary songs, like the first fairy godmother piece.)  As for the ending, well, I've always had a dislike for anything even remotely connected to Ricky Martin, so I won't comment.

All this just to keep my reputation as being able to find something wrong in every movie.  Oh, and this amuses me to no end.  Spider-sense … tingling!

Title has the same value as always.  Knock yourself out.