John Tucker Must Die

I love a good teen comedy but, they usually don't turn out to be any good. This one looked amusing but my primary reason for seeing it was Sophia Bush and Brittany Snow. I was very much impressed with Brittany when I had to endure the hell that is Nip/Tuck last year so I was really looking forward to seeing what she could do comedically. I was very impressed.

The movie itself turned out to be very good. Way, way better than I was expecting. It was smart rather than stupid. The girls themselves were good characters and very different. A lot of times what you get are the same character with slightly different quirks. These were four very different characters with one thing in common John Tucker. Their differences is really what makes this one stand out from the pack. I laughed so hard my abs hurt afterwards. Not to mention that I was laughing so hard I missed some of the jokes and now have to see it again.

The entire cast was top notch. Great job of casting.



Spoilers Ahead:


I think my favorite character was the one played by Sophia, Beth the vegan activist. I liked how they didn't make her way over the top and that she was allowed to be pretty. And liked being pretty. This particular character is usually stereotyped as not caring about their looks or anything else like that it was a nice change of pace. I was also intrigued by the fact that in this movie vegan activist was code for slut. That was a nice change for the usual stereotype of lesbian or proceived lesbian for that type of character.

When they got stuck on the boat and she whipped out her cell phone and said "this is what triple A was invented for" I almost died. You just have to see it to understand.

But far and away the best part of this whole movie was the boob cam. Pure genius. The whole thought of it gets me laughing again.

The stuff with putting estrogen in John's supplements was funny except when he was wondering if he looked fat in his shorts. That was a little stupid. The emotional stuff and his nipples being tender was great though.

A lot of the stuff that stands out in my mind right now is dialogue stuff and I don't feel like typing all that so that concludes this portion of the review.


I actually saw this at a matinee hoping the smaller crowd would keep me from wanting to hurt someone who couldn't keep their mouth shut. And it worked. It was totally worth the matinee price and I would gladly pay full price to see it. And I just might do that when I see it again.

A Prarie Home Companion - again

This was so fun the first time around I had to see it again. Most of the time when I see stuff a second time it is either the same or a tiny bit better. This however was even funnier the second time around. I can't even explain why it was so much better it just was.

Click

This turned out to be a very disappointing film. I did laugh a few times but over all it was just not good. Even Kate Beckinsale couldn't save this one. She wasn't in it enough to level things out. Adam Sandler seemed to just be going through the motions for most of the film. It really seemed like no one had any real idea of what they should be doing.

And it was way to long. If it had been a bit shorter it wouldn't have been as bad. Really it just seemed to spend at least an hour just beating you over the head with it's family before work message.

One nice surprise in the movie was the couple small scenes with Jennifer Coolidge. Always a riot in anything she's in. And that flash back scene when she had a mohawk was priceless.


Spoilers ahead:


Really just one important plot thing here. The reason the lenght of the movie was to much was not just because they were beating you over the head with the message but because you knew from just before he got the remote that the damn thing was a dream. He lays down on a bed and then suddenly sees the door where he ends up finding Christopher Walken. Come on it's bad enough when a movie turns out to be a dream but, to give it away and then drag it out for what seems like an eternity is just stupid. Sure they tried to save it there at the end when the remote returns and he throws it away but that was even dumber.



I saw this at a matinee and it so wasn't worth it. It is really only worth seeing on video.

Poseidon

I had seen the original Poseison Adventure several years ago so I figured what the hell why not check this one out. It had a decent cast that would make it worth the time. The original was a fun movie to watch if you keep in mind when it was made. (I didn't see the tv remake.) Unfortunately they didn't really do a very good job updating it. It just wasn't very exciting.

I did enjoy it for the cast. Although in the small moments that any cast member had to shine I feel the director really failed them. The person in the cast that most impressed me was Jacinda Barrett. This is not really unusual though. She impresses me more with each thing I see her in. Seriously folks people generally come off The Real World and do stuff to look like idiots, they don't go on to have pretty decent film careers. And hers seems to be going nowhere but up.

I'm not going to go into a lot of detail on this one because it's really not worth it.

I saw this at the discount theater for $2 and I would have paid the evening rate there of $3 for it but it wasn't worth more than that. It will be perfectly fine to rent when it hits dvd but, don't be expecting anything spectacular from it.

The Devil Wears Prada

A few years ago I was not a big fan of Meryl Streep. In fact I was always like what's the big deal. Her performances always seemed so boring to me. That is with the exception of Death Becomes Her. Then came The Hours and for once I actually kind of understood what everyone saw in Meryl. However, during all the press stuff for The Hours and the woman was a riot. If she wasn't such a successful actress she could be a top notch stand-up comic so now while I will see most stuff she does I won't miss her comic stuff.

The Devil Wears Prada was terrific movie. It wasn't a laugh a minute comedy but, it was still very funny. Anne Hathaway was great as always. I didn't know sometimes if I should be afraid of Meryl's character or amused by her. Which was exactly how that character had to be played. If it was too funny then Anne's character would have come off all wrong and the movie wouldn't have worked. If the character had been to scary then the it would never have been funny.

Emily Blunt who played the first assistant Emily would have stolen the movie if she had more screen time.


Spoiler Warning Stop Reading You Don't Want To Know Specific Things From The Movie:


Yes, Andy (Anne) did kind of put her friends second after awhile including her boyfriend but, no way would he have not done the samething if he had been given a chefs job at a high profile restaurant. The part towards the end at the gallery when her friend Lilly (Tracie Thoms) laid into her about how she'd been behaving pissed me on beyond belief. It aggreviated me because she had no problem with Andy and her job when she was scoring a $1500 purse as a result. Andy was already starting to slip away from them at that time so if she had a problem with it she shouldn't have taken the bag.

I loved it when Andy had to take the book over to Miranda's (Meryl) house along with the dry cleaning and Emily told her where to put each of them. Only problem was there were two closest across from the stairs and three tables with flowers on them. And then when she took the book upstairs the way she coward after being caught was perfect. But, then Miranda punished her by making her get a steak from a restaurant when it wasn't open and find the unpublished manuscript for the next Harry Potter book just to see if she could do it was the most evil thing ever.

And I soooo did not see Emily getting hit by the taxi coming. I was so shocked by that I don't think I took a breath for like ten seconds or more.



I paid full price to see this movie and it was well worth it. I'd gladly pay full price to see it again.