Friday, June 4, 2010

Movie Updates, April & May

I'm going to take the very easy way out and just half-ass these reviews*: 

Date Night Tina Fey and Steve Carell are a match I've just been waiting for; however, TOTALLY implausible premise and just like most romantic comedies -- fun and silly and not all that great, unfortunately.

How to Train Your Dragon 3D 
Superduperawesomefantasticexcellent!  This was the 3D movie I was waiting for.  Love love loved it.  

Sex and the City 2 Shmeh.  As noted above, like all romantic comedies, silly and sorta fun.  The girls let me down, especially since I Sex and the City marathoned before, in anticipation that the movie would be on the same level as the show.  Too much materialism, too much old people trying to reclaim something that has passed them by (gracefully, in terms of the show), too much and yet not enough of the right stuff.  But, honestly, I can't remember a movie based on a show that I enjoyed as much as I liked the show (Simpsons movie wasn't all that great, either).
  
Prince of Persia I like action movies, I like fighting, I like comedy.  I liked Aladdin, which was the cartoon version of this movie released several years before and loved by all.  I got bored toward the whole middle.
 
Shrek Forever After Shmeh, again.  Shrek 2 is the only one we need.  This was just making a movie to just make a movie.  The 3D was good and the animation was great, but the story was seriously stupid.

Robin Hood I don't get why a new Robin Hood had to be made, but it was not bad.  I liked the new twist on the story; although history was rewritten to accommodate divorce prior to Henry VIII and ya know the Magna Carta.  And everyone was older.  Maid Marion was Lady Marion -- married!  I don't think a sequel would make sense, since if this was the olden days, the characters would die of old age.

The Losers Not good.  The action wasn't actiony enough and the story wasn't, it just wasn't.

Kick Ass Super excellent.  Action, social message, parody, comedy, drama, crazy ass characters.  I don't even want to say more, just SEE IT!

Iron Man 2 Good sequel, and they're always the hardest (ahem, Sex and the City 2).  I was distracted by the actor switch, but otherwise, it was highly enjoyable.  Don't bother to stick around for the extra 15 seconds at the end -- it's Thor.  Spoiler, but whatever.

*not even in order, hopefully I didn't leave any out