Alex Bethke
Misleading title confuses critic
Harold and Kumar are back for another chaotic adventure in Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, where everything can and will go wrong. Writers of the past and present H&K, Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, also take a stab at directing this one. This is their first time directing for both of them.
Hawaiian getaway turns foul
The Judd Apatow gang is back for another genius comedy. The so-called ‘gang’ spawned when Apatow produced cult-favorite TV shows Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared. They are more recently known for the hit movies Superbad, Knocked Up and The 40 Year Old Virgin.
Physical humor always funny
Leatherheads is a throwback movie in more ways than one. Not only is it about professional football in 1925, but it’s also a slapstick comedy. A slapstick comedy is defined by answers.com as a type of comedy characterized by broad humor, absurd situations and vigorous, often violent action (e.
Harvard leads to journey and counting across Vegas
Counting cards. It’s something we’ve all heard about but have never taken the time to understand how it works. 21, which is a spin-off from the true story of six MIT students who took Vegas for huge sums of money in the 90s, takes us on that journey. The script by Peter Steinfeld and Allan Loeb was loosely adapted from Ben Mezrich’s best-selling novel Bringing Down the House.
Mammoths stampeding around Egypt lacks continuity of time travel
Writer-director Roland Emmerich is usually anything but realistic. He has directed such films as Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow. The concept of reality has absolutely no grasp on his imagination. We saw it when the earth went from normal to Ice Age in about three days in The Day After Tomorrow, and we surely see it again in 10,000 B.
Doing the laundry is hard without a washing machine
Semi-Pro is a classic Will Ferrell movie that features Ferrell as Jackie Moon. Moon is the one-hit-wonder singing artist who uses his music earnings to own, coach and play for the Michigan-based Flint Tropics. The Tropics are an American Basketball Association (ABA) team in 1976.
A movie worth jumping out the window, screaming for help
If you’ve watched any sort of television in the last three months, then you knew the movie Jumper was coming to theaters. It has been advertised for months, including: sponsorship of playoff football games, cast appearances at the Super Bowl and on American Idol, as well as a tie-in advertisement with HP that featured Hayden Christensen “jumping” around the screen during a seemingly normal HP commercial.
Eight Oscar nods does not guarantee quality
The Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan Coen, return to the silver screen with No Country for Old Men. The critically acclaimed film is up for eight Oscar nominations, including: Best Achievement in Cinematography, Best Achievement in Directing, Best in Editing, Best in Sound, Best in Sound Editing, Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role (Javier Bardem), Best Writing Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published and last but certainly not least, Best Motion Picture of the Year.
New actors and monsters with a tilt
It’s Godzilla meets Blair Witch Project, but better, much better. “I saw it! It’s alive! It’s huge!” I was already so into the movie and anxious with anticipation from the unrevealing trailers and television commercials that I literally leaned left and right in my theater seat to get a better look at the creature.
Sarcasm lightens up teen pregnancy issue in new movie
Juno is a delightfully light-hearted comedy about a rather serious situation, unwanted teen pregnancy. Directed by Jason Reitman (Thank You For Smoking), the movie is placed in a small Minnesotan town somewhere within an hour of St. Cloud and begins with a chair.
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