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12 • The Columbia Valley Pioneer December 14, 2012 Music • visual arts • dining • Bar scene • entertainMent • perforMance arts Movie Review: Ted Reviewed by Kate Irwin Ted is a wonderfully offensive comedy about a teddy bear brought to life by a wish, who just won’t go away again. You either love or hate the Seth MacFarlane brand of comedy, and as Ted positively reeks of the Family Guy creator, you’ll either love or loathe it too. The movie’s packed with his trademark vulgarity, weirdness, and crass, tongue-in-cheek humour from start to finish, with some entertaining celebrity cameos to boot. Yes, it’s yet another slacker comedy, and yes, it’s another bromance vs romance tale, but with MacFarlane at the helm, it is (for the most part) raunchy comedy gold. The tale begins in 1985, when John Bennett, a lonely little boy without any friends, wishes his teddy bear to life so he has someone to play with. There’s nothing more powerful than a child’s wish, the voiceover interjects, except for an Apache helicopter. To John’s delight (and his parents’ terror) Gone HOLLYWOOD V I D E O Gone Hollywood’s TOP FIVE OF THE WEEK Last Week’s Top 5 Rentals 1 The Dark Knight Rises 2 Men in Black 3 3 Hope Springs 4 Lawless 5 The Expendables 2 Ted springs into action and the pair grow up together. Maybe I should rephrase that: they grow older together, but neither really matures. Ted rises to and falls from fame and by the time the title sequence ends and we’re into the present day, he’s a nobody. The pair of wastrels spend their days smoking pot and trying to outdo one another telling offensive jokes. John (Mark Wahlberg), now 35, is scraping a living at a car rental firm, to the dismay of his girlfriend Lori (Mila Kunis), who wants John to grow up and get on with his life. What makes Ted work so well is the believability of the computer-generated character. Taken from a motion capture of MacFarlane, the foul-mouthed bear feels creepily human, with expressive eyes and super realistic body language. It’s a triumph of CGI done right. This is the first movie I’ve ever watched where a computer generated character blends seamlessly into the live action cast. It’s a credit to Wahlberg and Kunis (and New Releases December 11 1 The Bourne Legacy 2 Ice Age: Continental Drift 3 Ted 4 Backwards 5 Dreams of Life New Releases December 18 1 Total Recall (2012) 2 Pitch Perfect 3 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days 4 Trouble with the Curve 5 Sleepwalk with Me For Christmas… 27 great golf courses in the Columbia Valley and East Kootenay… • Golden • Radium Springs • Greywolf • Copper Point • Fairmont Riverside • Trickle Creek • Bootleg Gap • St. Eugene • Wildstone • Fernie • and 17 more! Check out your savings in the GOLF PASS... • 2 for 1 green fees • 50% off green fees • free power carts • weekend play • 57 rounds of golf Fairmont & Radium MacFarlane’s voice acting) that the characters truly feel like they’re interacting with Ted, rather than talking to a blank space. Even if you’re not a Seth MacFarlane fan, you have to admire his uncompromising style. Ted ranges from C-bombs to drug taking to Flash Gordon to excrement and hookers, but manages to tie irreverent comedy and a warm and fuzzy tale together well. A few scenes in particular (Giovanni Ribisi’s dancing, the white trash names, and the hooker aftermath) are gut-bustingly funny. The real shocker is that it’s taken this long for the Family Guy creator to make his first motion picture. But with the strength of this debut, you can be sure we haven’t seen the last of him on the silver screen. RATING: 8.5 OUT OF 10 HEADS • $2,190 of savings • fully transferable with family and friends The Book Bar est. 1965 ONLY $ 39 95 Online golfpass.ca RENT 2 NEW RELEASE MOVIES... and receive a FREE 2L pop, or FREE old release rental, or $2 in movie money. 503 - 7 th Ave., Invermere • 250-342-0057
December 14, 2012 The Columbia Valley Pioneer • 13 Music • visual arts • dining • Bar scene • entertainMent • perforMance arts Out & About Please call 250-341-6299 or e-mail us at info@cv-pioneer.com to enter your event in our FREE listings. Submissions must be received by the Monday prior to publication. We may only run an entry for two weeks prior to the event. Please limit your submission to 30 words. Priority is given to one-off events, so weekly events may run rarely. Toby Theatre • Closed from October 28th to December 26th. Friday, December 14th • Opening Day for the 2012-13 winter season at Panorama Mountain Village. For more information, please visit www.panoramaresort.com . • 5:30-8 p.m. 1st Annual Columbia Valley Chamber of Commerce Holiday Market at the Lions Hall. Shopping with pizza and beer available. Admission is by donation to the Columbia Valley Food Bank. Event also runs from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. on December 15th. For more information, contact Deanne Abrams at 250-342-2844. Saturday, December 15th • 10 a.m.: Classic Learn to Ski Clinic by Toby Creek Nordic Ski Club at Nipika Mountain Resort. Oneday technique improvement for classic skiing. Second class held on December 16th. Free for members, $30 for non-members. for more information email info@nipika.com • 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.: Christmas Market at Columbia Ridge Community Hall (10 minutes south of Fairmont). Featuring new homemade items each week: quilts, crafts, baking, preserves, paintings, fresh Christmas arrangements, gourmet food and spices and a book signing and storytelling by local historian Colin Cartwright. For more information, contact Donna Rae at donna@columbiaridge.com . • 10:30 a.m.: Christmas crafts for children at the Radium Public Library. For more information, contact Jane Jones at 250-347-2434 . Saturday, December 15th • 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.: Cross Roads Collective hosting an open house with partial proceeds of trees sold donated to the Columbia Valley Food Bank. Chainsaw carving will take place throughout day. For more information, please call Jessie Blakely at 250-341-6983. • 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.: Photos with Santa at Copper Point Resort. Photos are $15 with proceeds going to the Toby Creek Nordic Ski Club and the Invermere Companion Animal Network. • 4:30 p.m. – 10 p.m.: Christmas Card Craft night at the Summit Youth Centre. • 5:30 p.m.: Brisco & District Commission Christmas Potluck and Santa visit at the Brisco Community Hall. Christmas carols and sing a long with the Kootenay Legends . Admission by donation. Sunday, December 16th • 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.: Hot chocolate with Santa at Kicking Horse Cafe. Free photos will be sent by email. For more information, please call 250-342-4489. • 3 p.m. - 8 p.m.: Food Bank Benefit Concert at Angus McToogle’s Restaurant. The regular menu will be available. For more information, please call Mike at 250-342-1383. Tuesday, December 18th • 4 p.m. - 6 p.m.: Open house at the Dragonfly Discovery Centre. For more information, please call Charlotte Streicek at 250-341-7373 . Wednesday, December 19th • 9 a.m. and 7 p.m.: Edgewater Elementary presents Dear Santa: A Musical Tweet for Christmas. For more information, please call Sharlene Scofield at 250-347- 9543. Friday, December 21st • 4:30 p.m. – 10 p.m.: Baking Christmas Cookies at the summit Youth Centre. Saturday, December 22nd � e 2013 MaxWell calendars are in for pickup! 926-7th Avenue, Invermere, B.C. (next door to Fairmont Goldsmiths) 250-341-6044 • Fax: (250) 341-6046 www.maxwellrealtyinvermere.ca MaxWell Realty Invermere/Panorama/Fairmont • 4:30 p.m. – 10 p.m. Karaoke Night at the Summit Youth Centre. DANIEL ZURGILGEN 250-342-1612 danielzurgilgen@gmail.com SCOTT WALLACE 250-342-5309 scott@scottwallace.ca Saturday, December 22nd • 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.: Christmas Market at Columbia Ridge Community Hall (10 minutes south of Fairmont). Featuring new homemade items each week: quilts, crafts, baking, preserves, paintings, fresh Christmas arrangements, gourmet food and spices. For more information, contact Donna Rae at donna@columbiaridge.com . • 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.: Photos with Santa at Copper Point Resort. Photos are $15 with proceeds going to the Toby Creek Nordic Ski Club and the Invermere Companion Animal Network. Monday, December 24th • 8 p.m.: Christmas Eve Fireworks, Conrad Kain Park, Wilmer. For more info, please call 250-342-9470. Thursday, December 27th • 8 p.m. Wil and Kevin Haughton perform at Panorama’s Great Hall in support of their new album Hold Me On. Monday, December 28th • 6 p.m. The Summit Youth Centre is going to the Climbing Wall, leaving the Summit at 5:45 p.m. • 3 p.m. - 6 p.m. Village of Radium Hot Springs 22nd Birthday Celebration at Brent’s Shack. • 6:30 p.m. annual fire works celebration at the Radium Springs driving range. For more information, please contact Kara Stringer at 250-347-9331. Invermere Library hours • Tuesday to Saturday: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. • Wednesday: 10 a.m. - 8 p.m. Invermere Thrift Store hours • Thursdays: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. • Fridays and Saturdays: 1 - 4 p.m. The Invermere Thrift Shop will be closed from December 16th to January 10th. Radium Library hours • Tuesday: 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. • Wednesday and Thursday: 1 - 4 p.m. • Saturday: 10 a.m. - noon. • Sunday: 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. BERNIE RAVEN 250-342-7415 bernieraven@gmail.com GLENN POMEROY 250-270-0666 glennpomeroy@shaw.ca GEOFF HILL 250-341-7600 connect@geo� hill.ca CHRIS RAVEN 250-409-9323 chrisraven09@gmail.com
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