A comedy in which a married father accidentally switches bodies with his best friend, leading to a series of wildly complex difficulties.
Body switching movies is a tired and beat genre. The last good one for me was BIG, which was great, which I am not sure if it a body switching movie or not but that is a discussion for another day. Other than that, they are all the same, with a parent’s brain being put into the body of their bratty kid and vice versa (also, the title of a bad body switching movie). Sounds boring. Well now we are at why this movie is different, it switches the lives of 2 best friends. One is married, successful, a father and in a rut, while the other is single, footloose and fancy free.
I have been in both roles in my life so this movie worked for me. I totally can see how Bateman’s character would be bored and lost in the rat race and how Ryan Reynolds’ character needs to grow up and stop trolling “single mom lamaze classes” for dates.
This movie is very funny. It is great to see Jason Bateman in 2 big summer comedies and Olivia Wilde and Leslie Mann are beautiful as always. Seeing Bateman on screen always makes me think “what happened to his fat friend and the sister from ITS YOUR MOM”?
Synopsis: In present day San Francisco, a scientist (James Franco) looks for a cure for Alzheimer’s disease by experimenting on a chimpanzee named Caesar. The development of animal intelligence brings about a war for supremacy between humans and apes.
Man o Schevitz was I excited to see this movie when I first saw the trailer for it back in April. I am happy to say that it was worth the wait. Even though this is more of a remake of CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES, I feel as though it still fills in as a “prequel” to the original PLANET OF THE APES franchise of the 70′s.
Franco was perfect in his role, as was John Lithgow and Brian Cox. I don’t think I have ever seen Cox play a good guy. In one way or another, when you see him on screen, you can be sure that his character will up to no good, but I digress. The emotional bond that is made between Andy Serkis”s motion-capture Caesar, Franco and Lithgow can be seen and felt.
I do not know if there is going to be sequel for this movie or not. The ending kind of left it open but not. It left me thinking though and that is good.
The one thing I don’t like is how long the damn title is but other than that……
This movie isn’t going to be a summer blockbuster. Transformers will surely earn more at the box office than LARRY CROWNE. This movie doesn’t have explosions, sex, nude woman, car chases or any CGI. What is does do is the follow the misfortunes of one man as he struggles with life as many of us do.
This movie is a pretty good barometer for how life works. It shows that life doesn’t always go as planned and nor should it be lived according to one. It shows that the hard times lead us to the good times and what you can learn about yourself along the way.
Tom Hanks is great, when isn’t he really? Julia Roberts is as beautiful as ever. The rest of the cast is good. The jokes worked.
In 1962, Charles Xavier starts up a school and later a team, for humans with superhuman abilities. Among them is Erik Lensherr, his best friend… and future archenemy.
That is the summary of this movie from TMDB.com. It isn’t 100% accurate for my tastes. The movie ends with Professor Xavier forming his school. But I digress….
A few months ago the facebook group for this movie posted some photos of Magneto in his uniform and helmet and I turned up my nose to this movie. I gave up on it before even seeing it, thinking that it was going to suck. I am happy to report to you that I was wrong. The movie was more story based than action based. I liked a blue, furry BEAST, instead of a CGI one, that I thought I was going to get. The cast was spot on and convincing save for one or two but more on that in a bit.
Jennifer Lawernce as Mystique and Rose Byre as a revamped Moira MacTaggart stood out from the cast, aside from the leads. In the comics Moira is an authority on human genetic mutation and in this movie she is an FBI agent. None the less, it worked. James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender may not have been my picks to play Charles Xavier and Magneto, respectively but they did pretty well in their roles.
The action wasn’t too much and was over the top, the way it should be in a comic book film. The humor and cameos were ace. The music, dialogue, clothing and music all were spot on. Even the open and closing sequences worked for me.
I do think Kevin Bacon and January Jones phoned it in. Mrs. Jones is hot, yes but she has zero personality or acting ability and Bacon looked like he was half asleep. Had he applied himself more, he may have stolen the movie. Jones was just out of her league. The only other thing I didn’t like was Michael Fassbender’s accent seemed to get mixed up a bit. He is German but at times I picked up a little Irish brogue.
Over all this is a movie you should see, if you are a comic book movie fan or a movie fan in general. I hope there is a “2nd class” in the works.
Right after the bachelor party in Las Vegas, Phil, Stu, Alan, and Doug jet to Thailand for Stu’s wedding. Stu’s plan for a subdued pre-wedding brunch, however, goes seriously awry.
No sequel is ever needed. Ever. Sequels are done because the first movie made a studio a ton of cash, usually at a surprise and another movie “just like the first one, but different” is ordered. Six STAR WARS movies? I would have just put out EMPIRE STRIKES BACK and that is it. It is the best one of the six and it would have left people talking for years about unanswered questions. GODFATHER 2 was a great film, with out question but with some editing and making it a four hour film instead of three, it would have been the only film needed.
With that said, THE HANGOVER II was exactly like the first. Joke for joke, idea for idea, including the “pictures of the the end of the night” gimmick. This is not to say that the movie was bad, it wasn’t. I laughed just as much at this one than I did during the 1st one. It may as well have been HANGOVER I being replayed at the cinema than a sequel. I am sure it will make a ton of money and a third one will be ordered up.
What I didn’t like was the exotic local. One of the things I liked about the 1st one was that it was set in a city I have been to a few times but that is just me. This movie has a bunch of cool cameos, just like the first one did. I was disappointed to see that Mel Gibson’s role ended up going to someone else and it went to a guy I didn’t know. I would have replaced him with Sean Penn. The good thing about this movie is that the cast works so well together that you feel like you are part of the WOLFPACK. It does feel like you are laughing at your friends.
All in all, go see the movie or just watch the first one. It has the same jokes.
TMZ spoke with Randy’s brother, Lanny Poffo, who tells us the wrestling legend suffered a heart attack while he was behind the wheel around 9:25 AM … and lost control of his vehicle.
Earlier this month, Savage celebrated his 1-year anniversary with his new wife Lynn.
Savage was 58.
Macho Man began wrestling in the WWF in 1985 and became a superstar with his trademark catchphrase “Ooooooh Yeaahhhhh.” Savage was so popular, he became the spokesperson for Slim Jim in the mid ’90s … and became virtually synonymous with the brand.
UPDATE: Florida Highway Patrol tells TMZ … Savage was driving his 2009 Jeep Wrangler when he veered across a concrete median … through oncoming traffic … and “collided head-on with a tree.”
Savage was transported to Largo Medical center, where he died from his injuries.
Savage’s wife was a passenger in the vehicle during the collision — but survived with “minor injuries.” She was transported to a different local hospital where she was treated.
I have been watching wrestling since 1983. From the first time I saw a Sgt. Slaughter promo, I was hooked. Who were these larger than life men? Why were they so angry? How could the invoke such emotion from the crowd with words? And there was action!
After getting a run down of all the guys on the show from my friend Chris Ambrosino, I went to the news stand on 17th ave and 86th street and picked up a copy of “Pro Wrestling Illustrated to learn more about my new hobby. Quickly, my favorites shifted from “the good guys” to “the bad guys”. The good guys were boring as fuck. The bad guys, like Roddy Piper, Ric Flair and others were vile human beings. They could start riots just before they even said a word on the microphone and they smiled. One Saturday a new face made his debut on WWF (now WWE) TV.
Randy “Macho Man” Savage! He had a smaller build than Hogan but he was a muscle guy. He wore the lavish ropes of Ric Flair. He had awesome shades. He had a voice that sounded like “he ate glass for breakfast” (still using some of your lines Grammy). His moves were great. He could brawl, he wrestled but what he did better than anyone I saw at that time was fly!
Randy Savage dropping the big elbow onto Hulk Hogan
Nowadays, guys fly around, through and over the ring but there weren’t too many that did it in the WWF back in the day. The other thing that Savage had that not too many other guys had was intensity. This guy just looked like he would knock your teeth out if you looked at him wrong. Even as a good guy, he never smiled. His promos and matches were just as carzy, angry and violent if he was cheered or booed.
To me, it is different than a movie star, rock star or sports star dying. Yeah, it is sad to lose someone that you were a fan of but with wrestlers it is different. Yeah yeah, I know wrestling is fake but its different than a soap opera or any other show on TV. Its presented to be real and for years and years was believed to be real. They are meant to pull you in and the good ones pull you right in and get the reaction from you that they need. Over time you feel as though you know them. Not personally, not like a friend, but you get to know a lot about them and when they die it is as though part of you is gone.
The powerful but arrogant warrior Thor is cast out of the fantastic realm of Asgard and sent to live amongst humans on Earth, where he soon becomes one of their finest defenders.
I have been waiting for a THOR movie since I laid my eyes on my first “THE MIGHTY THOR” comic book. A GOD living amongst humans? The HAMMER? Flying? Lightening? He just kept getting cooler. At the same time, I did have my concerns. With all of these movies being made about my favorite comic book heroes, sooner or later one was going to be a bomb. Not every movie is going to be as enjoyable as BATMAN BEGINS, there had to be a “DAREDEVIL” in the bunch. Luckily, THOR isn’t it.
CGI was great. There I said it to get it out of the way. ASHGARD looked exactly how I thought it should. Anthony Hopkins WAS Odin, he didn’t play Odin. Rene Russo was used sparingly, sadly, as THOR’s mother FRIGGA. She just keeps getting more beautiful as she gets older. Jamie Alexander as SIF was great and of course Natalie Portman was keen. Chris Hemsworth did a fine job as THE GOD OF THUNDER. I know before he was cast in the role, there were many people that didn’t think he was right for the part. The rest of the cast was spot on as well. Kat Dennings was cute as always and Clark Gregg as Agent Colson played their parts well. I was surprised to see Jeremy Renner make a cameo as HAWKEYE.
Dominic and his crew find themselves on the wrong side of the law once again as they try to switch lanes between a ruthless drug lord and a relentless federal agent.
I love car chases. I was raised on a steady diet of “The Dukes of Hazzard”, “The Fall Guy”, “Smokey and The Bandit”, and “CannonBall Run”. With that said, its surprising to me that I have never watch any of the “Fast” movies. I was even more surprised that this was the 5th movie in the franchise. After watching this movie, I do have two questions.
Question 1: Why the hell is Vin Diesel a movie star? His acting technique equates to the facial expressions of someone having a hard time having a bowl movement.
Question 2: Why did it take 4 movies BEFORE they came up with the premise of the character played by THE ROCK?
For me his character made the movie. He was over the top cheesy and goofy. He seemed like at any second he was going to bust out laughing at his own dialog. The only thing that was missing was him doing “the People’s Eyebrow”.
The movie was full with cool cars and impossible car chases. Going into any movie, you have to suspend your disbelief and FAST FIVE is no different. If you don’t do that, you will not enjoy this movie at all.
