Animation movies have come a long way!! Pixar has to be praised for making great animation movies but ‘Up’ is very good. What makes this movie good besides animation is great story telling. It is about an elderly man who had big dreams of going to place he always dreamed about but life got in his way. Finally he gets his wish and finds out what he really wants. It is very creative, funny and sad. You care about these characters! They are better than real actors! They are selling it like a kid’s movie but it’s not kid stuff. It is quite poignant. It is a hit at the box office and if you watch it you will know why.
Monday, June 22, 2009
This ‘HANGOVER’ You Will Like!
Summer of 2009 is very strange. Blockbusters like ‘Wolverine’, ‘Termination Salvation’ and ‘Star Trek’ are doing well but not great. Then a small budget comedy (30 million!!) comes along and racks it in!! The story is simple - four guys go to Las Vegas to give one of their friends a great time before he gets married. The adventures they get into are funny but raunchy. The shocking part is that women are going to watch the movie!! It is very funny and my guess how far they went to save a friend. It is rated R for a reason!!! If you enjoy this kind of bathroom humor by all means go if not-- wait!
‘DRAG ME TO HELL’ To The Movie –Not The Real Thing!
When you have a horror movie coming out in the summer, rated PG-13 and no gore you have to be very creative and yet Sam Raimi who did ‘Evil Dead’ series and ‘Spider-Man’ series does just that!
The story is very simple Alison Lohman is a loan officer who wants so badly that promotion as assistant manager she doesn’t give an old gypsy woman a renewal on her mortgage to prove she is a tough player. Big mistake!! The old woman puts a curse on her and before she is drag to hell-it is hell on earth for Lohman! Now in the trailer our loan officer is just ambitious-she is not as sweet as you think!
Alison Lohman is good but the star of the show is Lorna Raver as Mrs. Ganrush, the old gypsy woman-she is sympathetic one minute, scary most of the movie! There is no gore but there is gross-lots and I mean LOTS OF REGURITATION (look it up!) I do hope we see more of her in the future. The movie didn’t do so well maybe it was PG-13. I do hope it does well on video for it is good without the gore!! If Sam Raimi wasn’t involved at all this movie would have probably not been of interest at all.
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