The veteran comic puts in his usual bravura performance as a trio of penguins in this week’s Happy Feet, and it won’t be long before he’s back at the multiplexes, cropping up as President Theodore Roosevelt in the promising Ben Stiller family comedy Night at the Museum, out on Boxing Day.
Up next will be another of Williams’ partial departures from his comedy roots, with the fantsy drama August Rush, due around spring 2007. The comedian will play a mysterious stranger – who may or may not be a wizard – who helps young musical genius Freddie (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) Highmore track down his birth parents from the rough streets of New York.
Then it’s a return to more familiar Williams territory with his typically eccentric turn as a priest/marriage councillor in License to Wed, putting a couple – one half of which is made up by pop princess and budding Hollywood starlet Mandy Moore – through a series of insane relationship tests prior to their wedding day. Finally, with typical Williams material, he’ll play a psychiatrist whose emotions start taking on zany physical form in the abysmally-titled The Krazees. As much as he does “nutter” very well indeed, it’d surely be nice if he could do head-cases of the Insomnia or One Hour Photo variety a bit more often than these crazy-by-numbers re-hashes of his old Mork and Mindy routine?
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