{"id":10944,"date":"2007-03-11T16:18:52","date_gmt":"2007-03-11T20:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=10944"},"modified":"2007-03-11T16:18:52","modified_gmt":"2007-03-11T20:18:52","slug":"stan-lee-presents-mosaic-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/11\/stan-lee-presents-mosaic-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Stan Lee Presents Mosaic (2006)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"stan_lee_presents_mosai\"<\/a>\u201cMosaic\u201d lured me because, well, anything these days that doesn\u2019t look like quasi-anime made just gets a pass with me, and \u201cMosaic\u201d gets a pass for looking like honest to goodness animation. \u201cMosaic\u201d is made up to look like a moving comic book. Wherein the recent Marvel cheap-o cash-ins, \u201cMosaic,\u201d from Stan Lee\u2019s Company \u201cPow\u201d entertainment, seeks to be unique, while also possessing the same novelty of a comic, fonts and all. But don\u2019t let the animation fool you, it\u2019s not something I\u2019d suggest for anyone under fifteen, basically because watching the villain break a guard\u2019s neck, was something that drew a furrow of the brow. But hey, the writing by Scott Lobdell paired with Anna Paquin\u2019s name really drew me to this fantasy actioner, I must say.<\/p>\n

Maggie is an aspiring actress whose dad is an adventurer and special investigator. After being hurt by a mysterious alien, Maggie is endowed with the powers of a race of chameleon people who have special abilities. Learning her abilities to read people\u2019s DNA, as well discovering a variety of different powers which include masquerading as random folks on the street. What\u2019s most interesting about \u201cMosaic\u201d is that it bears a clever unofficial connection to the Spider-Man universe making the allusion that the chameleon people here are the possible race of the Spider-Man villain \u201cThe Chameleon,\u201d while the villain Mannequin has an undeniable resemblance to the villain. Though if you\u2019re searching for something you haven\u2019t seen before, then you\u2019d probably be more successful looking elsewhere. \u201cMosaic\u201d doesn\u2019t strive for complete originality.<\/p>\n

A girl struck by lightning, who is brainy yet attractive, and really learns her powers by accident with sequences resembling Spider-Man, it\u2019s all been done before and then some. I was searching for something new in this generic hero tale. But there simply was nothing here that popped or promised to stick in my collective memory. I won\u2019t remember the lame villain\u2019s grand plot a week from now, I won\u2019t remember what Maggie\u2019s last name was. All I\u2019ll remember is that \u201cMosaic\u201d really hasn\u2019t covered any ground that\u2019s never been covered by others. It\u2019s not a memorable film, and it\u2019s barely good. \u201cMosaic\u201d is otherwise a passable and cute film about a female superhero that just seems to have a ball demonstrating these powers of hers. These days it\u2019s almost a rule to have superheroes that brood, and Maggie is a welcome change.<\/p>\n

She has fun, like Spider-Man, and accepts her role as this savior who has to rescue her father, when he\u2019s kidnapped. Anna Paquin\u2019s voice work is crisp, and she makes the character likable and a lot less artificial in her blonde dreamy eyed frame. The story of the chameleon race, and its lore is fascinating with Maggie set on her mission, and facing the fact that her father may become her worst enemy as the events unfold. The animation can tend to falter, but it\u2019s an all around competent production with more attempts to topple the two-dimensional hand drawn universe our tale sets down on. \u201cMosaic\u201d is the name of Maggie\u2019s partner in unveiling the plot of the evil Mannequin, and it\u2019s also the title of a pretty entertaining superhero flick. Ultimately, I would have had much more fun watching Anna Paquin jump rope, but for what it tries to bring to the table, \u201cMosaic\u201d is a cute and entertaining little hero fantasy. I\u2019m a sucker for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cMosaic\u201d lured me because, well, anything these days that doesn\u2019t look like quasi-anime made just gets a pass with me, and \u201cMosaic\u201d gets a pass for looking like honest to goodness animation. \u201cMosaic\u201d is made up to look like a moving comic book. Wherein the recent Marvel cheap-o cash-ins, \u201cMosaic,\u201d from Stan Lee\u2019s Company \u201cPow\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[58,71,99,349,617,906,976],"class_list":["post-10944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-adventure","tag-animation","tag-fantasy","tag-m","tag-science-fiction","tag-stan-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}