REAL REVIEW
An entertaining movie, much like a good meal, is worth the price you pay. And even though a bad movie, unlike a bad meal, probably won’t give you the runs, paying $10 dollars to see it will make you feel like shit.Knocked Up
Production Budget: 30M
Worldwide Gross: 165.8M
Knocked Up can be summarized in two words: mindless fun. On numerous occasions, I found myself laughing pretty damn hard, at stuff that was pretty damn mindless. For this reason alone, though, I would consider Knocked Up successful in that it accomplishes what every comedy sets out to do: make us giggle and chuckle like a bunch of pre-pubescent school boys. A note of warning though: the tone and acting in which this movie is presented is pretty damn ridiculous. A point I will elucidate later in my review. Read the rest of this entry »
Premonition
Production budget: $20m
Worldwide Gross: $74.5m
At times this film confuses itself with a good movie. Then, without warning, it comes crashing back to Earth with stretches that fall desperately short of the mark. Essentially, the plot follows Linda Hanson (Bullock), as her world falls apart around her. The movie begins with Linda waking up to her normal routine. An empty bed devoid of her husband, two daughters who need to go to school, and the mundane tasks of a house wife, really spark the viewers’ interest. (Ah, the glorious life of the unemployed, how I again yearn for thee.) However, the busy day of Home Depot runs and dry cleaning pickups takes a serious turn for the worse when Bullock is visited by a local police officer. The officer gives her the crushing news of her husband’s death. This scene is one of the few Read the rest of this entry »
Superbad
Production Budget: 20M
Worldwide Gross: 68.5M
I would like to thank the Boston Globe and the Hollywood Reporter for giving this movie a C. Without consistent, accurate, and well thought out reviewing like that, I would have never started reviewing movies in the first place. It’s because of blowhards like Stephen Farber (Hollywood Reporter), and Welsey Morris (Globe), that this blog exists. Gentlemen, if this is a C movie, my first girlfriend was a C cup, and that was in third grade… so not so much. If this movie is a C, than Stevie Wonder can SEE. If this movie is a C, than I give up, because I thought it was “elbow your neighbor” and “high five a total stranger” funny. It filled the theater with laughs, at times groans, but it filled the theater consistently with chatter. It has lovable-loser characters, moments of uncontrollable hilarity, the requisite level of emotional attachment, and the number one comedic element in recently successful comedies: The loser guys that just can’t get laid. Read the rest of this entry »
