Like Borat before it, Bruno can be offensive, funny, and absurd. What the former had that the latter doesn’t, however, is a kind of social commentary effect. Cohen has created a very funny character, to be sure, and he is extremely talented. He wrote, starred, directed, and produced these films. It’s no wonder that we [...]
So many movies now come in threes. Too many movies now come in threes. The Ice Age saga should have stayed put at two. Nonetheless, they did not, and here are we are to suffer the consequences. This film can’t decide who it wants to enjoy it, and for that reason not many will. Or no [...]
Not having been a fan of anything Land of the Lost before, this movie didn’t do much for me. The Will Ferrell era of comedy ended a few years ago in my book, and, though he is hilarious, Danny McBride plays the exact same character in every movie he is in. Ferrell and McBride play [...]
This movie doesn’t have any idea what it wants to be. It tries to pull a Spiderman and ends up pulling all punches. There isn’t much here to see, except what might possibly happen if Jerry Bruckheimer ever gets his greedy paws on Ghostbusters 3 (planned for 2010, by the way). The movie plays like a [...]
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God can only descend from the flies so many times in a polar bear outfit before one begins to question the quality of the story. So, from the writer of such classics as Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, we see an attempt to produce a quality fantasy film to rival the Narnia [...]
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It’s conventional in pretty much every way, except that this Kevin Smith film also has porn in it, so it’ll probably bring in a few more guys. Smith wrote and directed Zack and Miri, and I think the only thing he wanted to do was make people laugh. I don’t think he’s [...]
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For fans of the book, Twilight will be just what you wanted. For vampire fans, this probably isn’t your film. For the general movie-going public, it’s hard to say, but I’ll do my best. As for me…well…here we go.
Twilight mixes vampires and romance. Pretty good idea. And the story itself is actually pretty [...]
I’ll keep this short and sweet (well, sweet-ish), because it doesn’t deserve much more than that. It’s not a bad film, it just could have been so much better. At almost every moment where it might make some statement, or develop its own fledgling voice, it hushes itself and carries on as if nothing really [...]
It’s pretty juvenile, but it also has a few fun moments. Horton Hears a Hoo! (Jim Carrey, Steve Carell) is a movie for children, plain and simple. In fact, nearly everything about the movie is plain and simple, even down to color-coding the bad guys (they’re all purple – monkeys, vultures, and kangaroos alike). The simplicity [...]