DARK SHADOWS *** (for us Tim Burton/Johnny Depp fans), ** (for the rest)

IN RETROSPECT, THE UNEVEN TONE OF THIS NEWEST IN ONE OF MODERN FILMMAKING’S MOST STORIED DIRECTOR/ACTOR COLLABORATIONS SHOULD NOT HAVE THROWN ME OFF.  IT TOOK THE KEEN INSIGHT OF MY 13 YEAR-OLD VIEWING COMPANION TO POINT ME BACK TO ONE OF THE MOST ENDEARING QUALITIES OF TIM BURTON’S FILMS, PARTICULARLY THOSE WHICH FEATURE HIS FAVORITE LEADING MAN, JOHNNY DEPP (EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, SLEEPY HOLLOW, ETC.); UNPREDICTABILITY, UNEVENNESS,  ORIGINALITY, QUIRKINESS, AND A SENSE THAT YOU REALLY DO HAVE NO IDEA WHAT’S COMING NEXT.  YOU CERTAINLY COULDN’T ASCRIBE ANY OF THOSE ATTRIBUTES TO THAT OTHER MUCH MORE LAUDED BLOCKBUSTER CURRENTLY IN THEATERS, THE AVENGERS.  IT’S ALSO WHY THIS FILM, BURTON’S HOMAGE TO THE EDGY OLD SOAP OPERA THAT AIRED FROM 1966-71 AND HAD A RAVENOUS FOLLOWING OF VAMP-LOVING TWEENS AND TEENS DECADES BEFORE ANYONE EVER DREAMED OF TWILIGHT, TRUE BLOOD, OR THE VAMPIRE DIARIES, PROBABLY WON’T MAKE EVEN A SMIDGEON OF THE BUCKS THAT THAT “OTHER” MOVIE IS RAKING IN, BUT WHO CARES ABOUT THAT?  FOR FANS OF BURTON/DEPP, IT WON’T MATTER, NOR WILL IT TO TEENS WHO LOVE CAMPINESS AND ORIGINALITY OR ADULTS LIKE ME WHO REMEMBER BOTH THE TV SHOW AND THE TIME PERIOD AND WILL HOWL THROUGH ITS NON-STOP SPOOFING OF BOTH.  AS ALWAYS, JOHNNY DEPP IS SPECTACULAR IN YET ANOTHER ODD-BALL ROLE, THIS TIME AS BARNABAS COLLINS, ANTI-HERO OF THE TV SERIES, THE MYSTERIOUS HEAD OF A CREEPY FAMILY OF FISHING MAGNATES IN COLLINSPORT, MAINE, WHICH HERE GIVES FORKS, WASHINGTON A RUN FOR ITS MONEY ON WHICH IS THE MOST APPROPRIATELY EERIE PLACE TO SET A VAMPIRE STORY.  WHAT ONLY A FEW KNOW, INCLUDING THE FAMILY’S MATRIARCH AND AN EVIL FAMILY RIVAL NAMED ANGELIQUE, IS THAT THE FINE, UPSTANDING BARNABAS IS REALLY A FEROCIOUS BLOOD-SUCKER!  HE CAN BE GRACIOUSLY OFFERING SHIP CAPTAINS GENEROUS BARGAINS FOR THEIR HAULS BY DAY, AND YET BY NIGHT BE DRAINING AN ENTIRE CONSTRUCTION CREW OF THEIR BODILY FLUIDS.  BARNABAS TAKES IT UPON HIMSELF TO RESTORE THE FAMILY’S GOOD NAME WHEN HE IS AWAKENED TWO CENTURIES INTO THE FUTURE (1972--NOTE THE YEAR--JUST AFTER THE SERIES WAS CANCELED....) AND FINDS IT TRASHED LARGELY DUE TO THE FAMILY CURSE THAT MADE HIM WHAT HE IS.  BUT 1972 ISN’T THE 1760’S, AND BARNABAS HAS SOME CATCHING UP TO DO.  THIS HE HYSTERICALLY DOES, WITH THE HELP OF SOME OF HIS ADDAMS FAMILY-LIKE RELATIVES, MOST NOTABLY ANGST-RIDDEN TEENAGER CAROLYN, WHO IT TURNS OUT SUFFERS FROM A LITTLE MORE LEGITIMATE MALAISE THAN MOST OTHER TEENAGE DRAMA QUEENS. AN OUTLANDISHLY OVER-THE-TOP ENDING STRAIGHT OUT OF DEATH BECOMES HER PUNCTUATES THE OFF-KILTER DELIGHT OF THE FILM WITH A GIANT, FIERY EXCLAMATION POINT. DIRECTOR BURTON HAS ASSEMBLED A WONDERFUL SUPPORTING CAST INCLUDING MICHELLE PFIEFFER, HELENA BONHAM CARTER, EVA GREEN, BELLA HEATHCOATE (IN A BREAKOUT ROLE AS BARNABAS’S LOVE INTEREST), AND CHLOE GRACE MORETZ, THE AMAZING TEEN ACTRESS WHO ONCE AGAIN SHINES PARTICULARLY BRIGHT (AND CREEPY) AS CAROLYN. A DELIGHT FOR FANS OF BURTON, DEPP, AND JUST WEIRD MOVIES IN GENERAL, A CIRCLE OF CONFUSION FOR MOST OTHERS, THIS IS A SHOW THAT THE ONLY THING YOU’LL BE CERTAIN OF ONCE YOU’VE SEEN IT IS THAT YOU’RE NOT CERTAIN WHAT YOU JUST SAW.  ENJOY...IF YOU DARE :) !.      

THE AVENGERS ***

RIDING A TIDE OF WELL OVER $200 MILLION IN FOREIGN BOX OFFICE RETURNS ALREADY AND A HOST OF GLOWING REVIEWS, THIS FIRST OF THE SUMMER BLOCKBUSTER COMIC BOOK MOVIES OF 2012 ROARED INTO AMERICAN THEATERS THIS WEEKEND AND TURNS OUT TO BE ALL THAT WAS ADVERTISED; A NON-STOP ACTION/SPECIAL EFFECTS EXTRAVAGANZA FEATURING AN ALL-STAR ENSEMBLE OF MARVEL SUPERHEROES, EACH OF WHOM STARRED IN OTHER BLOCKBUSTER MOVIES DATING BACK ALL THE WAY TO 2008’S ORIGINAL IRON MAN.  ALL THE ELEMENTS FOR A WONDERFUL COMIC BOOK HERO MOVIE ARE HERE.  WE HAVE WONDERFUL, BUT FLAWED, GOOD GUYS (IN THIS CASE SEVERAL, INCLUDING IRON MAN (ROBERT DOWNEY JR.), THOR (CHRIS HEMSWORTH), CAPTAIN AMERICA (CHRIS EVANS), THE HULK (MARK RUFFALOE), TWO LESSER KNOWNS BLACK WIDOW (SCARLETT  JOHANSSON) AND HAWKEYE (JEREMY RENNER), AND THEIR MORE HUMAN HANDLERS NICK FURY (SAMUEL L. JACKSON) AND AGENT COULSON (CLARK GREGG).  THEY FIGHT A REALLY, REALLY BAD GUY; LOKI, THOR’S BROTHER (TOM HIDDLESTON) AND THE MINIONS HE CAN SUMMON BY USING THE ULTIMATE WEAPON IN THE UNIVERSE (WHICH HE CONTROLS) CALLED THE TESSERACT (NO RELATION TO THE TESSERACT OF HARD SCI-FI NOVELS LIKE “A WRINKLE IN TIME”), WHO OF COURSE WILL RULE THE WORLD IF NOT STOPPED BY OUR HEROES.  LAYERED IN WITH THE REQUISITE NON-STOP ACTION IS A GENEROUS DOSE OF DRY HUMOR AND LAUGH-OUT-LOUD ONE-LINERS AS WELL AS A TINY SPICING OF THEME AND HERE AND THERE SOME PERSONAL ANGST.  THESE ARE ALL MIXED WELL BY DIRECTOR JOSS WHEDON, WHOSE ONLY PREVIOUS FEATURE WAS THE SCI-FI ADVENTURE SERENITY, A SPINOFF OF FIREFLY, ONE HIS LESSER-KNOWN TV SHOWS, WHICH INCLUDE BUFFY, THE VAMPIRE SLAYER.  IN A LOT OF WAYS, IT’S A PERFECT COMIC BOOK SUPERHERO FILM, AND RICHLY DESERVES THE MONSTROUS AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT IT’S MAKING FOR DISNEY, WHOSE FIRST WORLD-WIDE RELEASE OF A MARVEL STUDIOS MOVIE SINCE BUYING THEM OUT IN 2009 COMES JUST IN TIME TO RESCUE IT FROM THE JOHN CARTER BOX OFFICE DISASTER EARLIER THIS YEAR. HOWEVER, I WAS MISSING A COUPLE THINGS THAT WOULD HAVE MADE THIS A TRULY GREAT FILM.  FOR INSTANCE, NOWHERE HERE COULD THERE BE FOUND A COMPELLING, PERSONAL STORY THAT SET MOVIES LIKE THE ORIGINAL SPIDERMAN OR 2009’S THE INCREDIBLE HULK A CUT ABOVE THE OTHERS, OR THE THEMATIC MEAT OF THE ORIGINAL X-MEN, OR THE HEART-RENDING LOVE STORY OF LAST YEAR’S CAPTAIN AMERICA; THE FIRST AVENGER. THEN AGAIN, WITH THE ENSEMBLE CAST AND THE VAST SCOPE OF THIS FILM, I GUESS THAT’S TO BE EXPECTED.  AND TO HIS CREDIT, DIRECTOR WHEDON BRINGS ALL THE FILM’S VARIOUS ELEMENTS TO THE BRINK, BUT NEVER ALLOWS THEM TO GO TOO OVER-THE-TOP, PARTICULARLY THE ACTION SEQUENCES.  THIS MUST HAVE BEEN A HUGE TEMPTATION FOR WHEDON, BUT HE WISELY RESISTS, AND THUS SPARES HIS FILM THE IGNOMINY OF SUCH OUT-SIZED CLUNKERS AS THE GREEN LANTERN AND ALL OF THE TRANSFORMERS MOVIES AND KEEPS IT A LEAN, FAST-PACED, AND ENORMOUSLY ENJOYABLE BIT OF ENTERTAINMENT.  AS ONE FACEBOOK FAN OF MINE PUT IT, “A VERY, VERY GOOD MOVIE THAT’S REALLY FUNNY TOO.”  TREAT YOURSELF SOON IF YOU WEREN’T AMONG THE MASSES WHO THRONGED TO ITS RECORD OPENING WEEKEND, BUT MAKE SURE YOU SEE THE AVENGERS. 

THE PIRATES; BAND OF MISFITS *

IN THE OFF-CHANCE THAT THERE WAS SOME PROFOUND STATEMENT MADE OR SCENE PRESENTED THAT I MISSED AS I SNORED THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF THIS SNOOZER, I HAVE GIVEN IT ONE STAR JUST TO COVER MY BASES.  OTHERWISE, THERE WOULD BE NONE AT ALL FOR THIS FIRST TRULY BAD FILM OF 2012; A RIDICULOUS ANIMATED FARCE FROM AARDMAN ANIMATION, THE BRITISH BUNCH BEHIND FILMS LIKE CHICKEN RUN AND WALLACE AND GROMMIT WHO MOST RECENTLY BROUGHT US THE SOMEWHAT OBTUSE BUT STILL LIKABLE ARTHUR CHRISTMAS.  PIRATES ONCE AGAIN IS A FILM LOADED WITH THAT UNIQUE BRIT HUMOR THAT HAS A CULT FOLLOWING IN FANS OF BBC TV SHOWS LIKE FALTY TOWERS AND MONTY PYTHON, WHICH UNFORTUNATELY (FOR THE MOVIE) MEANS THAT MOST OF US HERE IN THE U.S. JUST DON’T GET IT.  IN THAT VEIN, THIS FILM GETS OFF ON THE WRONG FOOT FROM THE GET-GO, SETTING ITSELF IN THE WORLD OF ENGLAND AT THE TIME OF YOUNG QUEEN VICTORIA WHEN THE ENGLISH DOMINATED THE SEAS OF THE WORLD EXCEPT FOR THE NASTY LITTLE EXCEPTION OF THE CARIBBEAN, WHERE VARIOUS PIRATE BANDS STILL MADE LIFE MISERABLE FOR MERCHANT SHIPPING ON OCCASION, THOUGH HISTORICALLY SPEAKING, THE HEYDAY OF PIRACY HAD LONG PASSED.  WHAT FOLLOWS AFTER THIS IS A PARODY OF EVERY PIRATE CLICHE BURIED IN DAVY JONES‘ LOCKER AS “PIRATE CAPTAIN” (HUGH GRANT) AND HIS “BAND OF MISFITS” COMPETE FOR THE “PIRATE OF THE YEAR” AWARD AND END UP BEING SIDE-TRACKED INTO A BIZARRE KIDNAPPING--OF PIRATE CAPTAIN’S RARE DODO BIRD (WHICH HE THINKS IS A “BIG-BONED” PARROT) BY CHARLES DARWIN, WHO SEEKS IT TO IMPRESS THE QUEEN HERSELF, FEARFUL THAT SHE’S HIS LAST, BEST HOPE FOR A GIRLFRIEND (I TOLD YOU THIS WAS “OUT THERE...”)..  THE ONLY THING SILLIER THAN THE AFORE-STATED PREMISE HERE ARE ALL THE JOKES AND SO-CALLED HUMOR, WHICH ARE SUCH GROANERS THAT I WAS BORED INSIDE OF FIVE MINUTES.  NO WONDER I WAS SNORING THROUGH THE MIDDLE  A REAL WASTE OF TIME, I’M AFRAID, FOR JUST ABOUT EVERYONE.  THE KIDS MIGHT ENJOY THE FUNNY IMAGES, BUT WON’T GET ANY OF THE JOKES, WHILE THE ADULTS WILL BE YAWNING THROUGH THE “HUMOR” AND WONDERING WHY IN THE WORLD THEY CAME IN THE FIRST PLACE.  UNLESS YOU’RE A FANATICAL FAN OF MONTY PYTHON, THERE’S NOT MUCH HERE FOR YOU.  AND SINCE IT ALSO CARRIES WITH IT THE DREADED 3D PRICE TAG, THIS IS ONE TO SKIP ALTOGETHER AND SAVE YOUR BUCKS FOR THE MUCH MORE WORTHWHILE SHOWS TO COME IN MAY AS THE SUMMER KICKS OFF IN A BIG WAY WITH THE AVENGERS. SPARE YOURSELF THE TIME AND MONEY, UNLESS, THAT IS, YOU’RE WANTING A LITTLE NAP.     

THE 3 STOOGES **1/2

IN HOLLYWOOD’S LONG HISTORY OF REMAKING AND “REINTRODUCING” OLD STORIES AND CONCEPTS TO A NEW GENERATION, THIS OLD AFTERNOON TV SERIES ABOUT THREE DUPES WHO SOMEHOW MANAGE TO POKE, BONK, BOING, AND SLAP THEIR WAY TO EVENTUALLY ACCOMPLISHING SOMETHING WORTHWHILE RANKS AMONG THE MOST DATED OF THE GENRE AND PROBABLY ONE OF THE LEAST “NEEDED TO BE REVIVED.”  AND YET THE FARRELLY BROTHERS, THE COMEDIC MASTERMINDS BEHIND THE GAME-CHANGER THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY, (AS WELL AS NOT SUCH BRILLIANT FARE SUCH AS DUMB AND DUMBER AND SHALLOW HAL) PRESENT A SURPRISINGLY FAITHFUL REBOOT HERE THAT HAS A GOOD HEART ALONG WITH THE STEADY STRING OF SIGHT-GAGS AND SLAPSTICK THAT HAS YOU IN STITCHES DESPITE THEIR STUPIDITY. MOST NOTABLE IS HOW PRECISELY THEY AND ACTORS CHRIS DIAMANTOPOULOS, WILL SASSO, AND SEAN HAYES HAVE REPRODUCED THE ICONIC MOE, CURLY, AND LARRY, PLAYED ORIGINALLY BY REAL-LIFE BROTHERS MOE AND JERRY HOWARD AND LARRY FINE BACK IN THE 1930’S.  ABOUT THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN DISTINGUISH THESE NEW GUYS FROM THE ORIGINALS IS THE FACT THAT THEY’RE SHOT IN COLOR.  FROM THE MAKE-UP TO EVERY NUANCED EXPRESSION, SLAP, EYE-POKE, AND MANNERISM, THESE GUYS ARE THE THREE STOOGES THAT BABY-BOOMERS AND THEIR PARENTS LOVED TO WATCH ON AFTERNOON TV.  AND THE STORY THAT THE FARRELLYS USE, ABOUT THE MODERN-DAY ORPHANAGE THAT’’LL SOON HAVE TO CLOSE AS ITS THREE MOST DIM-WITTED RESIDENTS UNWITTINGLY DRIVE IT INTO BANKRUPTCY, GETS ADDED COMEDIC PUNCH WHEN THEY UNDAUNTEDLY HEAD OUT INTO THE REAL WORLD OF 2012 TO RAISE MONEY TO SAVE IT, USING THEIR UNIQUE FORM OF 1940-STYLE NAIVETY AND “CHARM.” ONE’S REMINDED OF THE ORIGINAL BRADY BUNCH MOVIE WHERE THE 1970’S BRADYS SALLIED FORTH INTO THE 90’S, COMPLETE WITH SACK RACES AND MARSHA INVITING AN AGED DAVY JONES TO SING AT THE HIGH SCHOOL PROM.  HERE, THE STOOGES GET TO MEET RAPPERS, SAGGERS AND BAGGERS, AND EVEN THE CAST OF JERSEY SHORE TO HYSTERICAL CONSEQUENCE.  YOEMAN-LIKE SUPPORT COMES FROM A FINE CAST INCLUDING JANE LYNCH (OF GLEE), STEPHEN COLLINS, JENNIFER HUDSON AS A SINGING NUN, AND LARRY DAVID IN DRAG AS THE PROVERBIAL NUN FROM HELL (APTLY NAMED SISTER MARY-MENGELE, FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO REMEMBER YOUR NAZI TRIVIA).  DESPITE THE BLATANT DUMBNESS OF THE ENTIRE MOVIE, THE INNOCENT KOOKINESS AND NON-STOP STUPIDITY OF THE FILM’S THREE “EPISODES” HAD KIDS AND ADULTS ALIKE GIGGLING AND GUFFAWING THROUGH THE DURATION.  WHILE NOT GREAT FILMMAKING BY ANY STRETCH OF A PRIEST’S SMOCK OVER HIS HEAD, THIS IS A HEART-WARMING AND ENTERTAINING LAUGHER THAT WILL LEAVE EVEN THE MOST CYNICAL SCROOGE CHUCKLING WITH GUILTY PLEASURE ON THE WAY OUT.  AND FOR THOSE WHO FEAR THAT THEIR KIDS MIGHT HEAD HOME TRYING TO POKE EACH OTHER’S EYES OUT OR RUMMAGE THROUGH THE TOOL CHEST TO FIND SOMETHING TO BASH EACH OTHER WITH, THE FARRELLYS DO ADD A CUTE LITTLE PS AT THE END SHOWING HOW EVERYTHING IN THE SHOW WAS FAKE; A SORT OF “DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME” ADDENDUM THAT SHOULD GIVE COMFORT TO PARENTS. AN UTTERLY RIDICULOUS, BUT WELL-DONE BIT OF AFTERNOON FUN FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY SAVE POSSIBLY THE 6 AND UNDERS.

THE HUNGER GAMES ****

DEEPLY PERSONAL, MOVING, BRUTAL, REPULSIVE, WHITE-KNUCKLE SUSPENSE, AND TRIUMPHANT HEROISM WERE ALL EMOTIONS THAT KEPT ME FLIPPING PAGES BACK IN 2009 WHEN I READ SUZANNE COLLINS’S BOOK THE HUNGER GAMES JUST BECAUSE IT WAS THE LATEST YA SERIES OUT THAT LOOKED INTERESTING AND WASN’T ABOUT VAMPIRES.  ALL THOSE EMOTIONS FLOODED BACK IN A TIDAL WAVE YESTERDAY AS I AND MY TRANSFIXED FRIENDS (ALSO BIG BOOK FANS) WATCHED WITH A SPELLBOUND AUDIENCE THE MOVIE VERSION OF THE COLLINS BOOK, ONE OF THE MOST EAGERLY ANTICIPATED FILMS OF THE ENTIRE 2012 HOLLYWOOD SLATE.  HAPPY TO REPORT THAT IT NOT ONLY DIDN’T DISAPPOINT, IT EVEN EXCEEDED MY LOFTY EXPECTATIONS.  THERE WERE KATNISS AND GALE, TEENS HELPING THEIR FAMILIES SURVIVE IN ONE OF THE MOST “HAVE-NOT” OF THE OTHER HAVE-NOT DISTRICTS IN A WARPED AMERICAN FUTURE WORLD WHERE THE “HAVES” OF THE CAPITAL REGIONS SUPPRESS ALL OTHER AREAS WITH BRUTAL ECONOMIC TYRANNY AND THE REQUIREMENT THAT EACH SEND TWO OF THEIR YOUTH TO A BARBARIC ANNUAL REALITY TV CONTEST WHERE THE RANDOMLY CHOSEN “TRIBUTES” FIGHT TO THE DEATH IN AN ELABORATE MEGA-ARENA TO THE DELIGHT OF CAPITAL FANS AND THE GRIM SUSPENSE OF FRIENDS AND FAMILIES IN HOME DISTRICTS.  THERE WAS KATNISS, RUSHING IN WITHOUT THINKING TO DO THE UNHEARD-OF; VOLUNTEER FOR THE CONTEST WHEN HER LITTLE SISTER WAS RANDOMLY CHOSEN, TAKING HER PLACE, TO ONLY LATER REALIZE THE UNSPEAKABLE ENORMITY OF WHAT SHE’D DONE.  THERE WAS PEETA, THE BAKER’S BOY WITH THE CRUSH ON KATNISS, LED AWAY TO THE SAME FATE.  THERE WAS THE CAPITAL, A COMBINATION OF ANCIENT ROME, HOLLYWOOD, AND THE EMERALD CITY, FILLED WITH ITS MATERIALISTICALLY OBSESSED MASSES, THE TRIBUTES FROM ALL THE DISTRICTS, THE RICHER OF WHOM WERE ACTUALLY BRED AND TRAINED FOR THE GAMES, THE TRAINING AND PREPARATION, AND FINALLY, THE BRUTAL CONTEST ITSELF.  ALL AS FAITHFULLY BROUGHT TO LIFE ON THE GIANT IMAX SCREEN AS NEARLY AS A 2 HOUR AND 20 MINUTE MOVIE COULD HOPE TO ACCOMPLISH.  FLAWLESS CASTING (FEATURING JENNIFER LAWRENCE, JOSH HUTCHERSON, WOODY HARRELSON, AND OTHERS), A SCRIPT HONED IN COLLABORATION WITH THE AUTHOR’S VISION (RATHER THAN IGNORING IT AS SO MANY BOOK ADAPTATIONS DO), BREATHTAKING CINEMATOGRAPHY, AND SCENE AFTER SCENE FILLED WITH BOTH HEART-PUMPING AND HEART-RENDING EMOTION REALLY SET THIS HEAD AND SHOULDERS ABOVE ANYTHING I’VE SEEN SO FAR THIS YEAR.  THE MOVIE’S THEMATIC MEAT IS A THICK-AS-MOLASSES UNDERTONE THAT ADULTS SHOULD SERIOUSLY PONDER IN  REFERENCE TO OUR OWN SOCIETY, AND ITS ACTION AND THE STARS AND THE STARK AND POWERFUL EMOTIONS THROUGHOUT MESMERIZED VIEWERS YOUNG AND OLD.  AND WHILE THERE IS MUCH CONTROVERSY ABOUT ALLOWING PRETEENS TO SEE THIS FILM (PERSONALLY, I’D LEAVE THE UNDER-10’S HOME), THE FILMMAKERS HAVE DONE A VERY GOOD JOB OF KEEPING THE GRAPHIC VIOLENCE OF THE BOOK IN CHECK ON-SCREEN, YET NOT SKIRT IT EITHER. THIS IS THE FIRST SERIOUSLY GREAT MOVIE OF 2012, AND IT CERTAINLY DESERVES THE RECORD BOX-OFFICE NUMBERS THAT ITS OPENING WEEKEND AUDIENCES ARE PILING UP.  BOOK FAN OR NO, THIS ONE IS NOT TO BE MISSED.              

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