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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - accolade organizers proven something unprecedented in the awards' 83-year story on Sun -- entrusting a young, attractive pair of tone stars to patron the film industry's highest honors.

But the efforts of saint dictator and Anne wife lapse mostly flat, according to early reviews of their prototypal continuance as accolade hosts.

The New royalty Times said that "the prolonged try to supply to younger audience was downright painful" at times, patch the Beantown Herald remarked sourly that "references to the Internet, apps and Facebook do not attain a exhibit trendy, or alas, entertaining."

Entertainment Weekly, however, said that Hathaway, 28, and Franco, 32, were "marvelous accolade hosts" calling them "funny, poised, relaxed, and smart."

Producers of the accolade send had been hoping that the duo strength lure younger audience who have progressively adjusted discover the Oscars in recent years.

"Anne, I must say, you countenance so beautiful and so hip," dictator deadpanned as exhibit opened.

"Oh, impart you, James," said Hathaway, the youngest patron in accolade history. "You countenance rattling appealing to a younger demographic as well."

Early in the show, presenter Justin Timberlake, appeared to use a smart-phone app to illuminate a "Shrek" backdrop to inform awards for enlivened films.

OLD HOLLYWOOD ALSO CELEBRATED

Two films wildly popular with teen moviegoers this past year, "Twilight" supplement "Eclipse" and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1," figured prominently in a pre-taped funny lip-syncing sequence.

But the exhibit hardly turned its backwards on tone of yesteryear. Kirk Douglas, 94, his speech badly slurred from a attack 15 eld ago, shuffled on stage with a cane to inform the accolade for best activity actress to Melissa person for "The Fighter."

Douglas alluded to the accolade procreation gap in complimenting wife on her looks.

"She's gorgeous," he said as the teen actress blew him kisses. "Where were you when I was making pictures?"

The night's accolade winner for best original screenplay, king Seidler, 73, for "The King's Speech," said he was the oldest person ever to verify that award.

The information frequently conjured up images and music from Oscar-winning film blockbusters of yore, from "Gone with the Wind" to "Star Wars" and "Titanic."

In digit of night's large nods to Hollywood's senior set, actor-comedian Billy Crystal, an eight-time Academy Awards patron widely hailed as digit of the best, prefabricated a assail attendance to inform a salute to the prototypal televised Oscars in 1953, and its master of ceremonies, the late Bob Hope.

Harkening backwards to an era that predated the relationship of many of the stars who filled the Kodak Theater on Sunday, Crystal said he was meet 5 eld old then.

A instance of that historic send showed Hope -- who presided over more Oscars than anyone, 18 in every -- opening the exhibit that assemblage with the now-famous line, "Welcome to the Academy Awards, or as it's famous at my house, Passover."

(Editing by Jewess Milliken)