LA Times:
’Water for Elephants’: Can Robert Pattinson perform under the big top? Though Robert Pattinson has slowly begun to carve out his post-“Twilight” acting career, many critics still wonder whether the young star has the acting chops to successfully move past the world of vampires. While it wasn’t a flop at the box office, Pattinson’s latest non-“Twilight” film, “Remember Me,” barely seemed to register with filmgoers. But next year, it seems the actor will finally have a real chance to show audiences what he’s got: he’ll star opposite Uma Thurman in “Bel Ami” and with Reese Witherspoon in April’s “Water for Elephants,” for which a trailer was released Thursday. We like the langorous, moody tone, though it’s nearly impossible to judge from the trailer if Pattinson has any acting skills beyond that longing gaze thing. It’s also mildly difficult to believe the 34-year-old Witherspoon could truly be wooed by a young man a decade her junior, but that’s a conceit we think we’d be able to get over.One definite bright spot in the trailer? Hal Holbrook, who plays some wise old circus hand who mentors Pattinson’s character. We loved the 85-year-old’s performance in “Into the Wild” a few years ago, and it seems his presence here will add weight to the film beyond the romance at its center.
’Water for Elephants’: Can Robert Pattinson perform under the big top? Though Robert Pattinson has slowly begun to carve out his post-“Twilight” acting career, many critics still wonder whether the young star has the acting chops to successfully move past the world of vampires. While it wasn’t a flop at the box office, Pattinson’s latest non-“Twilight” film, “Remember Me,” barely seemed to register with filmgoers. But next year, it seems the actor will finally have a real chance to show audiences what he’s got: he’ll star opposite Uma Thurman in “Bel Ami” and with Reese Witherspoon in April’s “Water for Elephants,” for which a trailer was released Thursday. We like the langorous, moody tone, though it’s nearly impossible to judge from the trailer if Pattinson has any acting skills beyond that longing gaze thing. It’s also mildly difficult to believe the 34-year-old Witherspoon could truly be wooed by a young man a decade her junior, but that’s a conceit we think we’d be able to get over.One definite bright spot in the trailer? Hal Holbrook, who plays some wise old circus hand who mentors Pattinson’s character. We loved the 85-year-old’s performance in “Into the Wild” a few years ago, and it seems his presence here will add weight to the film beyond the romance at its center.
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