Popcorn with Dynamite
I just want to be friends, Beth Cooper...
Maybe Chris Columbus and George Lucas should take a long vacation together, so they'll stop making movies. The valedictorian of the high school realizes his graduation speech will be the last time he'll have the chance to say anything to Beth Cooper before their ten year reunion, so he goes for it. It's all down hill from there. There's no real character development throughout the movie.
The Other Mall Cop Movie
They tell you not to call it the "other mall cop movie," but that's what it is... if Paul Blart was allowed to swear. Mall cop with dreams of becoming a real cop? Check. Mall cop with crush on a mall worker? Check. Someone robbing the mall? Check.
Fast & Furious, without the The
Pulling in the highest April opening for a movie ever, "Fast & Furious" drove in the best 4th installment of a movie since "Rocky IV." Okay, so the competition for that prize is "Star Wars Epsiode I" and "Indiana Jones 4," but neither of those have Jordana Brewster. If you liked the original, then you'll like the fourth. If not, then probably not so much. The four core cast members return with *SPOILER ALERT* Michelle Rodriguez making an early exit.
"Miss March," tasty!
Maybe "Fired Up!" had just set my expectations so low, but "Miss March" was actually pretty enjoyable. The story revolves around Eugene, who ends up in a coma just moments before he is going to lose his virginity on prom night. Fast forward four years and Eugene wakes up (using a very unique technique, which resurfaces during the end credits... so, stick around) to find his girlfriend has become Playboy's Miss March.
"Fired Up!" - Burn the Film!
If you are looking for a comedy, keep looking. My first hint should have come when I went to see the film opening day and there was only one other person in the theater. With a rating of PG-13, you don't even get the gratuitous nudity you'd expect from a film like this. Not to say there aren't plenty of beautiful women bouncing around cheer camp.
Burn the International's passport!
"The International" sports a plot to thin to be a drama and not enough action to be an action movie, which may be why it couldn't even beat out "Paul Blart: Mall Cop" (in it's 4th week... See, I told you it was funny). Clive Owen plays an Interpol agent bent on bringing down the IBBC, an international bank determined to control the world's debt. Their plan? Buy missiles and guidance systems and resell them. Why?
Fanboys
Kristen Bell dressed as Princess Leia in the slave outfit? If you need more, there's also the real Princess Leia, Seth Rogan as a pimp, William Shatner as himself, Jay and Silent Bob, Ethan Suplee, and Billy Dee Williams!
"Push" it in front of a bus
My advice. Watch the first minute of the movie, find a 90 minute movie and sneak into that theater, and go back to catch the last 30 minutes of "Push."
Paul Blart: Mall Cop
With a high potential of being horrible (it is a movie about a mall cop riding around on a segway), "Paul Blart: Mall Cop" resists the urge to be overly cheesy and is actually pretty enjoyable. The only things you'll have to overlook... 1) The mall being taken over by rejects from the X-Games and 2) The bad guys being named after reindeer.
The story line of the underdog doing something spectacular to win the girl is nothing new, but if you're looking for a good laugh "Paul Blart" is worth the watch.
The Wrestler
Does the acting live up to the hype? Surprisingly, yes. The story of a past his prime wrestler, "The Wrestler" isn't for anyone looking for a 'feel good' story. The film chronicles the struggle of fading fame and the reality of the things sacrificed in the pursuit of fame.
