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　　⊙《曼谷保镖2》的故事：　　影片故事讲述拔泰王锦鲁饰演的东南亚某小国特工翁坤，为了调查一伙恐怖份子，秘密潜入泰国曼谷执行任务，并化装成为流行歌星，混入唱片公司追查。他老婆并不知道他的真实身份，因为翁坤是个十足的“妻管严”，但要命的是，他在泰国无可救药爱上了一个漂亮美眉……与此同时，恐怖份子也要发动大规模袭击了，翁坤如何能制止这场破坏？　　⊙《曼谷保镖2》的看点：　　继2005年大卖座的第一集之后，《曼谷保镖》于今年拍出了续集，有“泰国周星驰”之称泰国喜剧明星拔泰王锦鲁继续自编自导自演，继续请来《拳霸》东尼·嘉参与演出。影片向周星驰、成龙电影偷了师，并且自己恶搞了《拳霸》《冬荫功》等片，拔泰王锦鲁（《拳霸》另一主演）演出非常出彩过瘾。Tony Jaa则之是客串身份，在片中有一场打斗，另外自己还拿《冬荫功》开涮，十分的“搞”。

　　创意鬼才亨利·塞利克和制片人乔丹·皮尔这次带来动画《恶魔兄弟》，讲述了狡猾的恶魔兄弟温德尔（科甘-迈克尔·凯配音）和瓦尔德（皮尔配音）向凯特·艾略特（一名被负罪感支配的坚强少女）求助，希望她能将他们召唤至人间。但与之相对的，凯特也提出要求，进而引发了一场奇异无比、笑料百出的独特冒险。影片全篇采用定格动画的手工艺术进行制作，是一部无视生死法则的动画狂想曲。

　　当一架客机困在一堆喷发的火山中时，乘客和机组人员必须设法求生——在不降落的情况下。但在岩浆和火山灰的持续打击下，机上的人产生了恐惧和不信任，威胁生命的不只是火山，人人必须学会合作，才能在火海飞行中活下去……

　　Set in an underground dungeon inhabited by bundled, ragged human beings, after the nuclear holocaust. The story follows the wanderings of a hero through the situations of survival. People wait for the Ark to arrive and rescue them while their habitat falls apart.　　Delving deep into the dusty and long abandonded vaults of b-cinema in search of lost gems always leaves me with a bittersweet taste. On one hand the discovery of unexpected gems where no one would think them possible is a rewarding experience. On the other hand though it makes one wonder how many of these remarkable low-budget oddities, personal love affairs of directors never quite famous and now all but forgotten, have almost forever slipped from memory?　　n any case what we have here is a little post-apocalyptic gem from Poland that is really better than it has any right to. The dystopian near future of O-BI, O-BA finds a group of survivors of the nuclear war that ravaged the Earth inhabiting an underworld concrete bunker and biding their time as they wait for the mysterious Ark, an air ship of some kind that will come and save them. The Ark proves to be an elaborate hoax, carefully designed to give hope to the malnourished and desperate denizens of the bunker, while in the meantime the dome that separates their miserable existence from the nuclear winter outside is slowly caving in.　　What first striked me about the movie is the design of the bunker and the depiction of the survivors. The survivors are gaunt, filthy and terrible-looking penitents, dressed in rags and aimlessly wandering the neon-lit halls of the bunker like automatons. The bunker is a rundown, seedy place, with bright neon lights peering from all sides like the eyes of malignant beasts.　　On one hand it is a slightly 80's depiction of the dystopian future but the movie never stoops down to MAD MAX cheese. Instead it combines biting political satire with the bleak outlook of a world with no future, black comedy with barbs on apathy, religion and power. The survivors, for example, are fed some kind of flour dropping from a tube that hovers in the air - later on we discover the food supervisor uses books and the Bible itself as filler for this meagre meal. There are many such short symbolic touches, perhaps not life-changing or faith-restoring, yet playful, clever and inspired.　　One thing is for sure; O-BI, O-BA is not your run-of-the-mill sci-fi schlock. It overcomes its modest budget with creativity and has genuine artistic aspirations both from a writing and directing perspective. My opinion is that it should have been filmed in black and white instead of colour though. The director uses atmospheric light and shadow to great effect and it would have registered even better in stark black and white. The blue-green neon on the other hand outstays its welcome after a while. Just a minor gripe in an otherwise solid b-movie with its heart set in all the right places.　　Imagine a less bleak THE ROAD (Cormac McCarthy) being injected with the satire and humour of DR.STRANGELOVE and you're getting there. See it if you can find it.