We all know what goes in Las Vegas – it’s Sin City after all. You get drunk. You get laid. 80% of the time you gamble away a small fortune. And depending on how long you’re visiting, you do it all over again the following night. Why? Because what happens in Vegas is supposed to stay in Vegas. Unfortunately, party boy Jack Fuller (Ashton Kutcher) and high strung commodities broker Joy McNally (Cameron Diaz) didn’t get that memo.
You see, they’ve done the ultimate sin – after knowing each other for four hours they decided to get married. Further complicating the matter, is the fact that they’re being forced to go back to New York and see it through for six months as a way to teach them a lesson. Aside from that setup, What Happens in Vegas ..., it turns out, is ...
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Movie Review: Speed Racer (2008) »
Critical Critic: LaRae | Published on: May 9, 2008
Filed under: Sporting, Action/Adventure, Family | 11 Comments
My husband and I have been playing a free race car game called TrackMania and we’ve become addicted. You fly off ramps, go upside down and avoid obstacles. It is fun because it is just realistic enough to be believable but novel enough to be fun. Movies have to find that same mix of novelty and realism to be enjoyed. Someone should have let Andy and Larry Wachowski in on that secret. They mix Speed Racer as well as chlorine and ammonia go together (look it up, it’s not good).
For those who don’t recall, Speed Racer was a campy anime cartoon that found a following in the states in the late 1960's and 70's (I only remember the chimp Chim-Chim). The film follows the exploits of Speed Racer (Young: Nicholas Elia, Old: Emile Hirsch), a boy fixated on race ...
Movie Review: Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008) »
Critical Critic: General Disdain | Published on: May 5, 2008
Filed under: Comedy, Action/Adventure | 3 Comments
There is but one reason as to why this movie review is so late – I purposely looked to avoid watching Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay. Even though I consider myself an incestuous lover of sophomoric movies, I just couldn’t consummate the affair with the original Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle – so much so that I’ve had heated exchanges with people over my insistence that even Kung Pow: Enter the Fist was wildly funnier. Further cementing my stance on avoidance was the fact that Neil Patrick Harris was being prominently marketed in advertisements (his scenes in the original film were the only funny ones). This told me writer/directors Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg didn’t have much material to go with.
It hurts when I’m right. Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay is worse than it’s predecessor. The over-driving factor ...Movie Review: Iron Man (2008) »
Critical Critic: LaRae | Published on: May 2, 2008
Filed under: Thriller, Science Fiction, Drama, Action/Adventure | 7 Comments
Like the wise one says, “Necessity is the mother of invention” and Tony Stark’s mother birthed the crude chrysalis of Iron Man in a cave in Afghanistan. While demonstrating the Jericho Missile, spoiled, womanizing, arrogant weapons manufacturer and brilliant engineer Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) is kidnapped by the Ten Rings terrorist group led by Raza (Faran Tahir). Luckily, he is held captive with a doctor, Yinsen (Shaun Toub), who manages to save him from death by attaching a device to his chest and together they manage to escape alive. Instead of recreating the missile for the terrorists, Tony develops the beginnings of what will become Iron Man, both emotionally and mechanically.
To the chagrin of many, the film isn’t a huge modernized Rock-em Sock-em Robots revision, nor is it a strict superhero movie – it deals with the very beginning of the Iron Man legacy ...