Jerry Seinfeld with Rene Zellweger at the UK premiere of Bee Movie earlier this month. Photograph: Gareth Davies/Getty
I wish I could just yada yada this blog. That's what Jerry would do. Hard to believe that the Seinfeld sit com hasn't been on for nine years. I miss Jerry, George and Elaine like I miss old mates - Curb Your Enthusiasm just doesn't fill the gap for me - too bitter.
If I have a favourite Seinfeld episode, it's probably the Bubble Boy, when George meets his match in rudeness. What's yours? They perhaps come back to you in moments - if so, what's your favourite? Maybe you just like the characters, like Newman or Puddy or the Soup Nazi? Or maybe, like the BBC2 schedulers, you just never got it at all? Let me know.
But there's some crumb of comfort - Jerry's back with Bee Movie and it's just like an episode of the old show - a bit loose and rambling, refreshingly far from the structured, thickly plotted, story boarded arcs of Pixar. This is just a funny cartoon, with lots of silly jokes and meeting Jerry was a thrill, even if, as with most comics, you can't just make him be funny when he's here to really make people go and see his movie.
In terms of pure laughs, it's my favourite since Woody Allen did Antz - another neurotic Jewish comic's New York insect movie. And call me old fashioned, for me, cartoons are for laughing above all other things, aren't they? I could never get into that serious Japanese anime stuff. If you're doing cartoons, with talking animals and all that, I need to be laughing. Constantly.
Any four-year-old knows that Marla Olmstead, who's the subject of My Kid Could Paint That, is a great subject for Amir Bar Lev's documentary. Marla became the art story of 2004, when her abstract sworls - see them here - were going for nearly $50,000, back when dollars meant something. But was Marla really painting? Was she as good as Pollock? Even if her Dad did help her, does that diminish the value of the work? Her paintings are pretty good, aren't they?
So many big questions come from this doc, that I urge you to see it with friends, so you can all go and discuss and argue it over Christmassy drinks afterwards.
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