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7/14/2005

and you thought people were critical of you...

Poor Roger Ebert. Maybe the best-known film critic in the world, and folks won't cut him a break. In the latest installment of Movie Answer Man (Ebert's q-and-a session on his website), one Michael L. Stoianoff, of Anchorage, Alaska, challenges Ebert:
The animated feature "Madagascar" has two illogical scenes where the male lion gets kicked from the front between his back legs and doubles over like a man kicked in the testicles.

Problem: A male lion, like all cats, has his testicles located on his back side, and there is no way they could be kicked by standing in front of the lion, who is "rampant" on his hind legs. I suspect that you noticed this error, but were too politically correct, or lacked the cojones, to point this out in your review of the movie.
Everybody's a critic.

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