“Bridesmaids” Shmidesmaids (the ad says ‘From the Producer of “Bridesmaids”‘), this came from the “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” guys, which is why there’s no good excuse for what an uneven pile of shit it is.

This movie could’ve been good if it knew what the hell kind of movie it was. It’s not a pile of garbage, but it sure is a pile of something more than anything organized. It’s as if the screenwriting twins from “Adaptation” wrote it, where one is busy writing emotional dialogue and then the other just suddenly goes “And then this guy gets his ass shot off and then there’s an explosion!!” The rundown is [...]

  With a premise this blatantly ripped-off from every fifth 80′s flick, it’s nice that someone had the decency to make a movie with some laughs and likable characters. While you can guess every plot point before this thing even starts (guys make wish to switch lives, get wish, screw different lives up, decide to do better, learn about themselves and grow in wacky new situation, aren’t as hip to switch back so quickly once [...]

It says quite a bit about today’s state of film that this thing’s getting praise as if there’s an original bone its body. While there are more-than-worthy moments, two to be exact, the next level is mildly amusing, then it’s down to cutesy, and then down to terribly lame. Steve Carell returns to play “Dan in Real Life” again, a nice guy with some bad luck who we gotta love because he’s just so darn [...]

Yes. Go. Now. If not because you wanna see it, then to support folks who believe in making a real effort to not allow Hollywood to turn to crap. This movie bitchsmacks Captain America, Thor, The Green Lantern, and all the Transformers in one swoop while showing that a summer popcorn flick about explosions and aliens is able to include a story worth watching and characters worth being sad over if they die violently. From [...]

  Getting picked on? TAKE STEROIDS! That’s basically the message of “Captain America,” and it’s dished out like the peppy World War 2 recruitment films shown within the film. And that’d be okay, if only it were aware of itself like “Starship Troopers” or any movie with the brains to stop and go “Hee hee, we know, it’s corny, just have fun.” Chris Evans stars at Steve Rogers, a shrimpy dude (they took Rogers’ face [...]

Almost anyone can relate to wanting to end the life of the dick who tells you what to do, whether or not we’re willing to act on it, so it’s a great premise for a dark comedy. Add some fluff and marquee names, you’ve got a not-too-bad Hollywood flick. That’s what “Horrible Bosses” is, not too bad. Worth seeing. Easily smarter than most comedies that get shoved down our throats, and easily less time-consuming than [...]

This is one of those flicks during which one must remind themselves that they’re being paid to not get up and leave. That’s for a reviewer.  For you, turn the other way and sprint from this sorry, lifeless, lame movie. Still not sure after letting this bowl of crap marinade in the brain which aspect was the most plain disturbingly lame… Was it Julia Roberts’ over-the-top anger towards things like how early the classes she [...]

  As the 5 or 6 of you who come to this site already know, speedmonkey  gets movie passes for all Universal screenings.  So you can only imagine my excitement when I got passes for Fast 5.  Wow, I thought.  This movie must be the greatest of all time, because they’ve now made 5 of them.  I always say, 5th time a charm.  Who cares that Vin didn’t want to do part 2… he’s a [...]

Can you imagine a knight with an English accent saying the f-word??? Yeah, you probably can, so there’s 95% of the jokes in Your Highness already murdered for you. Sorry, but that’s how hard the folks in Hollywood felt like trying this time. If it so happens that you’re a fourteen-year-old who just got really blazed and snuck into the theater, outwitting the staff who fell for your whole “One student ticket for Hop, please” [...]