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Unfrosted (2024)
Completely soul-less
All you need to know about this movie is that the world's greatest comedian decided that writing a cow fart joke into this movie was a good idea. Every minute of this movie is just a bother excuse to put a comedian friend into the film. The best actor in the movie is the little girl (oh and Hugh Grant) and there are some real heavyweights in this one.
It had some real potential, but just like every other movie released by Metflix, it had no idea what it wanted to be. Sometimes an Airplane wannabe, sometimes a weird art piece, and other times taking the absolute shortest path to a bad joke.
It really had potential, but it is now just the 20th straight bad movie that Melissa McCarthy has been in.
4: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)
Are you kidding me?
This movie might have been the worst written script I have ever seen. The story was OK, but the amount of disbelief that the viewer is supposed to have for this movie was way too high, even for a comic book movie. I was disgusted at how the General asks for help from the Fantastic 4, gets it (for free) and then proceeds to lock them up. To add insult to it, he then trusts a noted super criminal while discrediting F4, and making Earth shattering decisions on the fly while his ego gets in the way.
The special effects were great, and I love Michael Chiklis. Why, oh why, don't people in Hollywood ask these kind of questions before putting out a movie? Why does the Silver Surfer need The Torch's help to get through the impending doom? He can travel between planets with the greatest of ease. Why, after receiving help multiple times from the F4 is the "government" so quick to dismiss their help and knowledge? Why does the F4 need sponsors? So many unanswered questions that will just be dismissed as "movie magic". Glad I only paid matinée prices for this one.
The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
First Movie to ever give me motion sickness
I can appreciate the new and improved way the director is trying to film this movie, but I have to say that it truly made me feel a bit sick. The movie was very flat. Jason Bourne is a great character, but they spend way too much time trying to prove that the CIA is messed up instead of focusing on how much of a twisted badass Bourne is.
Matt Damon did a great job playing the character, but the hand-held camera crap needed to be toned down quite a bit. At one point in the movie, I started timing the camera cuts, and none were longer than 5 seconds. I shouldn't be exhausted after a movie...exhilarated, maybe, but not physically tired, and that is all The Bourne Supremacy succeeded in doing.
Eddie Murphy: Raw (1987)
Good, but nowhere near Delirious.
Eddie Murphy raw is good. Some might even say that it is very good. Unfortunately, the bar was set so unbelievably high with his previous offering (Eddie Murphy Delirous) that it only comes off as mildly dissapointing. If you haven't seen either, you should consider watching Raw first, even though it was chronolgically second in the series. Raw is funny at times, but the pacing was off. Eddie seems tired in his delivery, and the camera work was a bit shoddy. The camera is zoomed in too far for most of the show and plays catch-up with Eddie for the duration of the set. Part of Eddie's genius is how he uses his whole body to convey his comedy, and the camera robs us of this performance by only showing him from his chest and up.
You can also tell that Eddie has grown up a bit from watching this. He is talking more about relationships and life instead of reliving memories from his childhood (which was the really, really funny stuff from Delirious).
I don't want to discourage anyone from watching this, as it is still one of the best stand up routines of all time. I would put it at number 7 or 8 of all time, but only because Delirious takes up the top 6 spots (yes, it is that funny).
My Boss's Daughter (2003)
Couldn't be much worse...
After seeing American Wedding, I didn't know if the "teen comedy" category could get worse, but My Boss's Daughter proved that it can stoop much, much lower.
As formulaic as it was predictable, this movie was nothing but one stupid joke after another. Well, joke may be too kind of a word. The whole "Three's Company "Normal situation mistaken as innuendo"" plot line is so tired and overdone, and it just isn't funny anymore. Tara Reid is not funny, Ashton Kucher needs to stick to a role he is good at (which I don't know if he has found his niche yet, but I think there is a place for him somewhere), and whoever wrote this movie needs to put away the word processor and go back to writing 1-800-Collect commercials.
Bad.
Basic (2003)
The Names Could have been easier...
This movie was surprisingly good, but there were a couple of things that made me leave the suspended reality of watching a movie. First of all, the accent of the female lead was hard to believe at best. I don't know why they felt like the accent needed to be in there, and it seemed to really detract from the character.
Second, I found the plot difficult to follow, not because it was confusing, but the names of the characters didn't stand out from each other, so I got really lost trying to follow what was happening. When the names are Pike, West, Mueller, etc., it becomes hard to determine who they are talking about if you don't have the headshots laid out in front of you. So near the end of the movie, I found myself just giving up instead of trying to track what was really happening.
Travolta was good, Samuel Jackson was pretty much the same character he is in every movie, and it is really, really hard to imagine Harry Connick Jr. in the role he played. He is just too goofy to play that sort of role.
Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
Almost too funny for it's own good.
I imagine Mike Myers sitting down to write this movie and saying to himself, "I don't care what lines it crosses, if it is funny, it is going to be in this movie".
The first 10 minutes of the movie were worth the admission price alone. I almost fell out of my seat laughing. The rest of the movie didn't disappoint either. Sure, the movie has childish humor in it. Sure, the movie stops at nothing to ignite a laugh. But, having said that, I am sure you weren't expecting a Frank Darabont masterpiece here. Myers has positioned himself as the comedy master in Hollywood, and he and Jay Roach pull it off to a "T".
The movie was so funny that I found myself laughing less and less as I became more and more desensitized to the humor. This movie would have been 10 times funnier if they had given a 15 minute intermission in the middle to reset my funny bone.
Overall, very, very funny movie with enough jokes and humor to make it funny the 10th viewing.
Dumb and Dumber (1994)
This movie makes me laugh even if I am not watching it...
I personally am not all that shocked to see that there are some people who thought this movie was childish and stupid. I personally do not agree, but this still remains the only Farrely Brothers movie that I did not completely hate. Kingpin sucked. Something about Mary sucked. Even Me, Myself, and Irene was pretty terrible. But Dumb and Dumber rose above those movies by never claiming to be intelligent. It took two stupid guys (What's the soup de jour? It's the soup of the day. Mmm. That sounds good. I'll have that) and gives them a reason to really display their lack of intelligence.
This movie transcends all comedies and will remain a classic amongst true comedy lovers. Those of you who hated this movie probably think that The Piano WAS a really great movie, and are way too intelligent to like a movie like this. Those of us who enjoy the movie look beyond the relative stupidity of the script and enjoy it for what it is: a true, unadulterated comedy.
Mock. Yeah. Ing. Yeah. Bird. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Thanks, Jim and Jeff.