Wednesday, July 26, 2023

The Sound of Barbie, Freedom and Summer Profits


JOY RIDE

COMEDY

PLOT:  A group of young Asian women go on a business trip but soon becomes a wacky adventure and find out about themselves.

WHAT IS RIGHT:  The cast of Asian American actresses.  Audrey ( Ashley Park) is the attractive smart female; Lolo (Sherry Cola) who is not ashamed to express herself; Kat (Stephanie Hsu)

 Audrey‘s roommate when they were in college now an actress and loves sex and Deadeye (Sabrina Wu) Lolo’s cousin who is a little strange but loves hip-hop.  It is raunchy, outrageous and very funny!  It is sad near the end.

WHAT IS WRONG:  It is a formula females  have fun and mishaps journey. You seen it before just not with Asian woman.  They put down whites a lot.

SHOULD YOU WATCH: YES.  It is a wild, funny film .  It is rated R for a reason!  Sexual situations, lots of cursing and suggestive sex and a threesome!


BARBIE

FANTASY/COMEDY

PLOT:   Barbie (Margot Robbie) lives in the perfect world of Barbieland but is beginning to have human emotions so she has to go to the real world to solve her problem.

WHAT IS GOOD:  The visual effects are AMAZING!!! Her costumes are fantastic.  Ryan Gosling is very funny as Ken. Kat McKenna is great as Weird Barbie.

WHAT IS WRONG:  You don’t want to hear a speech of hard it is to be a woman in this kind of movie.  It does have wonderful, funny moments but not enough.  It can be stupidly fun at times. 

SHOULD YOU GO:  Young girls will love it, teen girls will like the fashion and the adults will some of the silly stuff.  If you can deal with this mixed bag, GO! 


MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: DEAD RECKONING

PART ONE

ACTION/THRILLER

PLOT:  Ethan Hunt and his team have to find a unique key that could destroy the world.

WHAT IS RIGHT:  The cast starting with Tom Cruise and Ethan Hunt.  He does his own stunts and does  well in the acting department as well.  Hayley Atwell (Captain America First Avenger) as Grace, a professional thief who gets way over her head.  She is a great actress in everything she does.  The villain Gabriel (Esai Morales) is fantastic and Henry Czerny as Kittridge who will do what it takes to save the country or himself.  The action scenes are simply the BEST!

WHAT IS WRONG:  The story is familiar but you are not going for story.

SHOULD YOU GO: OH YES!  This is the summer popcorn movie people have been waiting for!  It has everything  a summer movie must have and it is done very well.  MUST SEE!


SOUND OF FREEDOM

DRAMA

PLOT:   True story of Tim Ballard, a government agent who stops sex trafficking of children.

WHAT IS GOOD:  Jim Caviezel as Tim Ballard.   He has a big family of his own and he goes way out of his way to capture pedophiles.  Caviezel is known for doing The Passion of the Christ directed by Mel Gibson.  Caviezel takes risk in his acting career and it does pay off!   The rest of the cast is great as well.

WHAT IS WRONG:  It is slow but not enough to lose interest.  Many scenes are sickening in what is implied.

THE CONTROVERSY:  The movie is 5 years old and  finally gave distribution, release the movie.  It could be because they use God’s name too much.  The quote “God’s children are not for sale.”  That is not a left issue or right issue but a crime!  At the end of the movie it reads that the most country that buys children is the United States.

SHOULD YOU WATCH:  It is NOT a popcorn movie but it is a good  film.  It is hard to stomach at times but worth watching.

 


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