Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away (2012) Director: Andrew Adamson Cast: Erica Linz, Igor Zaripov, Lutz Halbhubner and many more. Synopsis: A young woman in a small Mid-Western town goes to a traveling carnival one evening, where she is urged by a silent clown to visit the carnivals circus and see The Trapeze Artist, the shows star attraction. She is entranced by The Trapeze Artist, but during his act he misses a catch and falls to the ground. She rushes to help him, but then the ground beneath them gives way and they fall through into the dreamlike world of Cirque du Soleil. Separated, they travel through the different tent worlds trying to find each other, interacting with the strange and wonderful performers and performances of Cirque du Soleil. Worlds away got some very harsh reviews from the movie critique for some very strange reason. Maybe because hey could not pigeon-hole it. I watched the DVD 3D version and thoroughly enjoyed it for what it is not what it is not. Entertainment at its highest artistic level. The music and psychedelic performers was like taking a trip without moving, was I back in the 70s. ‘Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away” has a fair amount in common with “The Nutcracker.” Both follow young couples in a fantasy land populated by surreal, acrobatic creatures. Both are also majorly lucrative: This film draws on seven Las Vegas-based live Cirque shows. For my money (a lot less for a movie ticket than the ballet), “Worlds Away” is the more entertaining holiday option. You know that interminable part of “The Nutcracker” where various dessert items dance around? This cavalcade of psychedelic eye candy is sort of like that — except instead of coffee and candy canes, these suggest jalapeno, peyote and that lethal sea-urchin sushi. The thin plot in “Worlds Away” sees a woman (Erica Linz) at the circus lock eyes with a hunky trapeze artist (Igor Zaripov); distracted, he falls, taking her with him into a dreamlike alternate universe. Blue-skinned dancers contort underwater; a shambling clown lounges in an easy chair while on fire. Perhaps, I thought as I watched four young women stack into a pyramid with their legs flipped over their heads like scorpions, this is the netherworld where Olympic gymnasts who don’t win the gold get sent by their trainers. There’s also a substantial Beatles segment, and though director Andrew Adamson drops it awkwardly into the middle, I don’t think I have seen a more spot-on visual rendition of “Octopus’ Garden.” Still, this 3-D sideshow of wacky human feats is not for everyone. If whimsy gives you hives, you probably won’t enjoy the tricycle riding around powered by little yellow boots. But in a movie season — and a month — filled with so much gunfire, bloodshed and human despair, it’s refreshing to sit back and bask in the sheer joy with which these brightly costumed, stunningly agile performers navigate fire, water and air. youtu.be/tgTEynEyEdg
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