Despicable Me 2 is pretty much as good as, as funny as, as cute as, and as adorable as the first movie… which is to say, I found it an alright movie with some good laughs, visual gags, and adorable … Continue reading
Saw The Heat – the Sandra Bullock/Melissa McCarthy cop comedy – and it probably has more laughs per minute than any movie I’ve seen in awhile… and almost all of them are improv between these two very funny ladies. The … Continue reading
And caught Monsters University, Pixar’s new sequel/prequel to Monsters, Inc… (the 2nd or 3rd best Pixar flick in my book). This isn’t as good as Monsters, Inc. but it’s thankfully a solid, fun, and funny movie with some good laugh-out-loud … Continue reading
Saw a weird Tuesday showing of the new comedy This is the End starring Seth Rogan, James Franco, academy award nominee Jonah Hill, Danny McBride, and Jay Baruchel with special guest stars Emma Watson, Rihanna, a coked-up Michael Cera, Jason … Continue reading
Saw The Internship today – the Vince Vaughn/Owen Wilson comedy about Google that isn’t so much an advertisement for Google products but a recruitment video for working at Google itself (they have a slide). Vince Vaughn and Wilson plays similar … Continue reading
When checking e-mail and playing Words with Friends (in the back row so as to not bother anyone) is far more entertaining than the movie you’re watching, you know that Hangover Part 3 is a big dud. And it is. … Continue reading
Saw Pain and Gain – the Mark Whalberg/Dwayne Johnson dumb-criminals-do-dumb-crimes movie… directed by Michael (Transformers) Bay… and it’s actually quite watchable and funny. Based on a true story – three muscle-bound, roided (and Jesus’ed) up weightlifters decide to be criminals… … Continue reading
Forgot to broadcast to the world (or the few random Facebook friends I have) that I completely ran out of movies to see this weekend and went to see The Croods (it was that or Scary Movie 5 or the … Continue reading
Also saw Admission – the new Tina Fey… comedy? I guess it’s a comedy though it’s not very funny… I was really bored through a lot of it but then I kind of got weirdly fascinated by its depiction of … Continue reading
With a major dearth of new theatrical releases (I didn’t see Best Man Holiday since it’s a sequel to a 15 year old movie I’d never heard of), I gritted my teeth and went to see the turkey film Free … Continue reading