A recipe for movie success.

[voodoolily]

Yeah, the ability to dance has been rendered somewhat impotent, what with musicals being gay and all.

[schild]

Mel Gibson definately peaked dancing to, I think it was, Mack the Knife in What Women Want.

[Pococurante]

It's very formulaic, but to someone that hasn't read a lot of Dan Brown, it would likely be very exciting.  If you've read Angels and Demons, it's 600 pages of deja vu.  It's religious version of a Clive Cussler book: completely on rails, resembles a filled in mad-lib, easy and enjoyable to read

Well said.  And I read Cussler books.  Sometimes I like a mindless retro-adventure in the 1960's silly vein.

Brown's next book is an expose on us Masons.  I'm all a-flutter with apprehension.  I suspect it will have all the historical depth of National Treasure... 

[Furiously]

I watched National Treasure this weekend. I kept waiting for the guy that had been with him the whole time to "suddenly" turn into the bad guy.

Other then that - it was a perfect adaptation of a Brown book... Only he didnt write it.

[Fargull]

National Treasure was okay, reminded me of The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, and fited about that mentality.  Course, Russell is a much better actor than Cage.

[Shockeye]

I enjoyed National Treasure very much because I knew going in it was going to be stupid and I turned my brain off at the ticket counter.

[Pococurante]

That's pretty much how I approach every movie theatre.  Hence why I'm never disappointed and have a nice mental vacation for ninety minutes.  When I want art I pick up a book or go to a play/museum.