Sex In The City 2

The fun, the friendship, the fashion: Sex and the City 2 brings it all back and more as Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Samantha (Kim Cattrall), Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) take another bite out of The Big Apple--and beyond--carrying on with their busy lives and loves in a sequel that truly sparkles.


Never watched the show or first movie.


Won't ever watch the show or the first movie.


You are on your own with this one.

Predators

Robert Rodriguez presents a bold new chapter in the Predator universe. The film stars Adrien Brody as Royce, a mercenary who reluctantly leads a group of elite warriors who come to realize they've been brought together on an alien planet... as prey. With the exception of a disgraced physician, they are all cold-blooded killers - mercenaries, Yakuza, convicts, death squad members - human "predators" that are now being systemically hunted and eliminated by a new breed of alien Predators.


This was the first legit Predator movie since the first one. I'm not saying that is a must see or as awesome as the first Predator was, but this had the same feel to it finally. There was a lot of stuff that didn't need to be in there and did nothing but run the time of the movie longer (I'm talking specifically about Laurence Fishburne's entire arc here, people), and the acting was horrible. But, the Predators were pretty bad ass, the action was cool enough to suffice, and they finally went with the gore infused R rating.


I would recommend this movie to those of you that were looking forward to it. Its not as kick ass as it could have been, but its worth the time if you are a fan.

Oceans

Disneynature, the studio that presented Earth, brings Oceans to the big screen on Earth Day, 2010. Nearly three-quarters of the Earth's surface is covered by water and Oceans boldly chronicles the mysteries that lie beneath. Directors Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud dive deep into the very waters that sustain all of mankind—exploring the playful splendor and the harsh reality of the weird and wonderful creatures that live within.


Two things at play here. A - Not much of a fan of "nature" documentaries. Tend to put me to sleep. This one held true to form. B - I am petrified of underwater life. I'm not afraid to admit it. I am afraid of birds and underwater animals. Therefore, there is no way for this movie to have been considered good by me. I was creeped out at first and then bored to sleep. It also wasn't like Earth where it followed three families of animals. It was more sporadic and just kind of random. Not a fan.


Again - I'm biased against this movie on many levels so I'm probably not the one you should be going with recommendations from.

How To Train Your Dragon

Set in the mythical world of burly Vikings and wild dragons, How To Train Your Dragon is an action comedy that tells the story of Hiccup, a Viking teenager who doesn’t exactly fit in with his tribe's longstanding tradition of heroic dragon slayers. Hiccup's world is turned upside down when he encounters a dragon that challenges he and his fellow Vikings to see the world from an entirely different point of view.


I loved this movie! Loved it! The story was great. The characters/voices were great. The animation was amazing. And for the first time since I think Monster House, I can say that the 3D technology was actually worth it in an animated movie. And to make the whole thing even better, the main dragon literally looks like my cat in dragon form. Loved this movie!


I couldn't possibly recommend this movie any more to everyone. Adults will love it. Kids will love it. I definitely think this is going to end up on my Top 10 list at the end of the year.

Jonah Hex

Jonah Hex (Josh Brolin) is a scarred drifter and bounty hunter of last resort, a tough and stoic gunslinger who can track down anyone... and anything. Having survived death, Jonah's violent history is steeped in myth and legend, and has left him with one foot in the natural world and one on the "other side." His only human connection is with Leila (Megan Fox), whose life in a brothel has left her with scars of her own. But Jonah's past is about to catch up with him when the U.S. military makes him an offer he can't refuse: in exchange for his freedom from the warrants on his head, he must track down and stop the dangerous terrorist Quentin Turnbull (John Malkovich). But Turnbull, who is gathering an army and preparing to unleash Hell, is also Jonah's oldest enemy and will stop at nothing until Jonah is dead.


I'm being totally serious when I say that the above summary of the movie's plot is almost as long as the movie. Take away the credits and this movie is about an hour and fifteen minutes. At that point, why even bother making it? Add to the fact that this is one of the lamest movies ever, I ask again . . . . . why even bother making it? Megan Fox is easily the worst actress in Hollywood. She has no acting talent whatsoever. I still for the life of me cannot figure out how Josh Brolin and John Malkovich were in this. These are legit academy award actors. I pray to God they changed agents.


I wouldn't recommend this movie to anyone. I was done with it like 3 minutes in.

The Karate Kid

In The Karate Kid, 12-year-old Dre Parker (Jaden Smith) could've been the most popular kid in Detroit, but his mother's (Taraji P. Henson) latest career move has landed him in China. Dre immediately falls for his classmate Mei Ying—and the feeling is mutual—but cultural differences make such a friendship impossible. Even worse, Dre's feelings make an enemy of the class bully, Cheng. In the land of kung fu, Dre knows only a little karate, and Cheng puts "the karate kid" on the floor with ease. With no friends in a strange land, Dre has nowhere to turn but maintenance man Mr. Han (Jackie Chan), who is secretly a master of kung fu. As Han teaches Dre that kung fu is not about punches and parries, but maturity and calm, Dre realizes that facing down the bullies will be the fight of his life.


This movie is exactly what you would expect it to be. Its nowhere near as good and as excitement causing as the original up until the final fights at the tournament. Even then though, it seems much more forced. Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan are both good at times and extremely forced at others. And the movie is EXTREMELY too long. There is no reason for this movie to end being 2 1/2 hours. I actually found myself sitting there thinking what scenes could have been cut as they were happening on screen. Now, that I've ranted about what was wrong with the movie - I will admit that its ultimately still watchable. There are much worse things that you could waste your time watching and no matter how forced or long it is - you will still find yourself happy/cheering at the end.


I would lukewarmly recommend people checking this out. The run time really kills the movie. Its not horrible, but its not good enough that I give it my full recommendation. Its one of those middle of the road movies.

Nightmare On Elm Street

Nancy, Kris, Quentin, Jesse and Dean all live on Elm Street. At night, they're all having the same dream--of the same man, wearing a tattered red and green striped sweater, a beaten fedora half-concealing a disfigured face and a gardener's glove with knives for fingers. And they're all hearing the same frightening voice... One by one, he terrorizes them within the curved walls of their dreams, where the rules are his, and the only way out is to wake up. But when one of their number dies a violent death, they soon realize that what happens in their dreams happens for real, and the only way to stay alive is to stay awake. Turning to each other, the four surviving friends try to uncover how they became part of this dark fairytale, hunted by this dark man. Functioning on little to no sleep, they struggle to understand why them, why now, and what their parents aren't telling them. Buried in their past is a debt that has just come due, and to save themselves, they will have to plunge themselves into the mind of the most twisted nightmare of all... Freddy Krueger.


Lame. So very lame. Bored at watching people get terrorized lame. How do you pull that off? I guess I should have started by saying that of all the 80s/90s horror movie franchises, Nightmare On Elm Street was my least favorite. Loved Michael Myers, could tolerate Jason Voorhees, Leatherface was scary as hell and never got his fair due, but I was never that into Freddy Krueger. About the only good part of the Nightmare On Elm Street franchise was Freddy's witty banter and sarcasm. You knew that he would kill the kids off one by one and you basically just wondered in what absurd way would the next one die and how funny would Freddy be while doing it. In this one, there was nothing different about any of the deaths whatsoever. More upsetting though is that Freddy didn't even start with the witty ranting until the end of the movie. By the time they got to there, I was ready to leave due to the complete lack of interest in the movie whatsoever.


I do not remotely recommend people wasting their time with this movie. Of all the recent remakes, this is by far and away the lamest one.

Splice

Clive and Elsa are superstars of the genetic engineering world. They specialize in splicing together DNA from different animals to create fantastical new hybrids. The charismatic couple wants to use human DNA in a new hybrid – something that could yield astronomical medical benefits. The pharmaceutical company that funds their research, however, is more interested in exploiting their earlier triumphs for easier, short-term profit. Clive and Elsa secretly conduct their own experiment. The result is Dren: an amazing creature who exhibits an array of unexpected developments, both physical and intellectual. Dren exceeds their wildest dreams... and, ultimately, their most terrifying nightmare.


Wow. This was like watching a massive train wreck. The most deranged and "what the f#ck" face causing train wreck of all time. Adrien Brody is now my number one example of why actors or actresses should not win an Academy Award unless they have a big enough pedigree regardless of how good that one performance was. Halle Berry used to have this honor for all the crap she's made since winning a couple of years back. With this movie alone - Adrian Brody has blown her out of the water. I literally sat there for 2 hours saying "that's an oscar winner". The way that this movie got more and more absurd as it went on was mind numbing. To be honest - I have no idea how I made it through the whole movie.


I would absolutely not recommend anyone checking this giant turd out. I went in with bottom of the barrell expectations and got even less. Very rarely am I this embarassed to say that I saw a movie.

Iron Man 2

In Iron Man 2, the world is aware that billionaire inventor Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) is the armored Super Hero Iron Man. Under pressure from the government, the press and the public to share his technology with the military, Tony is unwilling to divulge the secrets behind the Iron Man armor because he fears the information will slip into the wrong hands. With Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) and James "Rhodey" Rhodes (Don Cheadle) at his side, Tony forges new alliances and confronts powerful new forces.


This is a tough one to review. At the risk of sounding like an idiot, I liked the movie AND I didn't like the movie. Seeing this as an individual movie . . . . . it was very entertaining. Robert Downey Jr was outright hilarious. All the other characters pulled their weight as well. The story was good and kept the movie paced nice enough that I didn't find myself getting bored. The action scenes that were in the movie were awesome. Seeing this movie as the sequel to Iron Man that is should have been . . . . it could have been SOOOOO much better. Although the action scenes were great, there were literally 3 of them. With the way the movie started off, it was as if you didn't even have to see Iron Man 2. I also felt that this movie was just used as a set up for future Marvel releases related to S.H.I.E.L.D., Captain America, Thor, and The Avengers. It was a whole lot of talking.


Still, I would definitely recommend people checking this movie out. Not that my recommendation matters - people are going to see this regardless. Regardless of how much better the movie could have been, I was thoroughly entertained throughout. Just try to keep your expectations in check and you should come away with the same feeling that I did.

Get Him To The Greek

Aaron Green (Hill) gets things done. The ambitious 23-year-old has exaggerated his way into a dream job just in time for a career-making assignment. His mission: Fly to London and escort a rock god to L.A.'s Greek Theatre for the first-stop on a $100-million tour. His warning: Turn your back on him at your own peril.British rocker Aldous Snow (Brand) is both a brilliant musician and walking sex. Weary of yes men and piles of money, the former front man is searching for the meaning of life. But that doesn't mean he can't have a few orgies while he finds it. When he learns his true love is in California, Aldous makes it his quest to win her back... right before kick-starting his world domination.As the countdown to the concert begins, one intern must navigate a minefield of London drug smuggles, New York City brawls and Vegas lap dances to deliver his charge safe and, sort of, sound. He may have to coax, lie to, enable and party with Aldous, but Aaron will get him to the Greek.

This movie was pretty much exactly what I expected. There were HUGE laughs at times. And then it kind of dragged at others. I've never really been a big fan of Jonah Hill and feel that he is only good depending on who he is playing off of. Luckily, he plays great off of Russell Brand and played even better off of P Diddy. There's something I never thought that I would say. The scene with the furry walls had me doubled over laughing. Again, the one knock against this is that they could have easily made it 15 minutes shorter and this would have been perfect.

I would definitely recommend this movie to the audience that it was meant for. Its not a straight up comedy for the masses. Its full of sex, drugs and what not so its definitely an acquired taste.

Frozen

A typical day on the slopes turns into a chilling nightmare for three snowboarders when they get stranded on the chairlift before their last run. As the ski patrol switches off the night lights, they realize with growing panic that they've been left behind dangling high off the ground with no way down. With the resort closed until the following weekend and frostbite and hypothermia already setting in, the trio is forced to take desperate measures to escape off the mountain before they freeze to death. Once they make their move, they discover with horror that they have much more to fear than just the frigid cold. As they combat unexpected obstacles, they start to question if their will to survive is strong enough to overcome the worst ways to die?


Is this one of the silliest inner thoughts during skiing being turned in to an absurd movie? Or course it is. Is the acting atrocious and the set up of the story lame as hell? Of course it is. I actually think that the writers sat around just coming up with things the audience might ask out loud as to why they couldn't do things while stuck in the chairlift and went out of their way to explain them prior to them getting stuck in said chairlift. All of this being said - there are some points of these movie where the tension is creepy as hell. Most of my favorite teenage memories are of going skiing with my father. I loved to ski. I was awesome at it. However, I was petrified of the ski lift. I would get the week in the knees feeling getting on and getting off and when it would stop because someone would have trouble getting on I would come as close to $hitting my pants as humanly possible. There were many a time where I would wonder what it would be like to be stuck up there so this movie made sense to that crazy fear I used to get while going on the ski lift.


I wouldn't really recommend anyone rushing to see this movie. It is cheesy as hell even if there are some really creepy parts.

Babies

This film simultaneously follows four babies around the world – from birth to first steps. The children are, respectively, in order of on-screen introduction: Ponijao, who lives with her family near Opuwo, Namibia; Bayarjargal, who resides with his family in Mongolia, near Bayanchandmani; Mari, who lives with her family in Tokyo, Japan; and Hattie, who resides with her family in the United States, in San Francisco.


I watched 15 minutes of this. The babies cried. The babies hit each other. The babies put things in their mouths. There was barely any dialogue whatsoever. Unless these are your kids, why in the blue hell would anyone watch this for 90 minutes!?!


I wouldn't recommend this movie to anyone. Ever. Unless you enjoy crying babies for 90 minutes. Seriously.

Robin Hood

Robin Hood chronicles the life of an expert archer, previously interested only in self-preservation, from his service in King Richard's army against the French. Upon Richard's death, Robin travels to Nottingham, a town suffering from the corruption of a sheriff and taxation, where he falls for the spirited widow Lady Marion (Cate Blanchett), a woman skeptical of the identity and motivations of this crusader from the forest. Hoping to earn the hand of Maid Marion and salvage the village, Robin assembles a gang whose lethal mercenary skills are matched only by its appetite for life. Together, they begin preying on the indulgent upper class to correct injustices under the sheriff. With their country weakened from decades of war, embattled from the ineffective rule of the new king and vulnerable to insurgencies from within and threats from afar, Robin and his men heed a call to ever greater adventure. This unlikeliest of heroes and his allies set off to protect their country from slipping into bloody civil war and return glory to England once more.

I really liked this movie. I liked the action. I liked the story. I loved the characters - especially those that would go on to be his "band of merry men". All of that being said - I feel like the movie could have been better. It felt long. I mean the movie was 2 and 1/2 hours so it is long but it "felt" long. Also, it was as if they were going out of their way to tone it down for a PG-13 rating which makes such little sense to me with a movie of this nature. So as great as the battles were - there was no blood. They pulled back on most of the violence that would obviously be there in major battle scenes like in this movie. The part that people have to remember is that this isn't the typical telling of Robin Hood. This is the story of everything that happened prior to drive him towards the Robin Hood that we know of through the stories.

I would still recommend people checking this out even with all my waa-waa there. Its still entertaining even if it isn't on the same level as Gladiator or Braveheart.

Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is an epic action-adventure set in the mystical lands of Persia and based on the video game of the same name. A rogue prince (Jake Gyllenhaal) reluctantly joins forces with a mysterious princess (Gemma Arterton) and together, they race against dark forces to safeguard an ancient dagger capable of releasing the Sands of Time—a gift from the gods that can reverse time and allow its possessor to rule the world.


This movie is borderline entertaining as long as you have bottom of the barrel expecations. Hyping it to be on par with Pirates Of The Carribean is absurd. As long as you expect something more like Mummy 4 you should be somewhat satisfied. Its completely formula and cliche in every way. The action is decent. The scenery is decent. You don't really get hooked by any of the characters and that makes it seem longer than it is.


I wouldn't really recommend anyone seeing this. There are much better things out there to see considering that this is just above the level of watchable to be completely honest.

Letters To Juliet

When a young American (Amanda Seyfried) travels to the city of Verona, home of the star-crossed lover Juliet Capulet of Romeo and Juliet fame, she joins a group of volunteers who respond to letters to Juliet seeking advice about love. After answering one letter dated 1951, she inspires its author (Vanessa Redgrave) to travel to Italy in search of her long-lost love and sets off a chain of events that will bring a love into both their lives unlike anything they ever imagined.


This movie is completely formula and fluffy in every way. There isn't a single part of it that you don't see coming. However, I ended up enjoying it a lot. Its one of the better "chick" flicks to come along in a long time. Yes, the fiance is beyond annoying and you can't wait for him to get off the screen. And the prospective boyfriend is not too much less annoying. However, the voyage of trying to help the elderly woman was enjoyable. The best part of this "chick" flick is that NOBODY dies. I'm sorry if that ruins the movie for you, but I was so relieved that it didn't follow the newly enforced Nicolas Sparks template and kill anyone off. Its about damn time!


I would recommend people checking this out. Its a great date movie and is much less painful than the recent rash of "chick" flicks that have flooded the zone.