Category Archives: Comedy

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Due Date (2010)

Visiting a movie theatre is not what is used to be. There once was a time where you could just buy a ticket, get your refreshments and wait for the doors to open, no more. It seems that visiting a cinema needs to be an “experience”. At least that was what I found out when visiting to see this movie.

The theatre I go to (called Pathé) has special Ladies nights, which I was not aware of. It’s quite succesful as most of the people walking around were actually women. To cater to these women they were selling clothing, makeup etcetera and a lot of women were buying. It was something I was not prepared for. After finally managing to get through the crowd it was time to watch Due Date, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis. Continue reading →

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Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

Singing in the Rain is a classic song from a classic movie which I must have hummed quite a few times while walking through the rain, but I had never seen the movie. As it has a spot in the IMDB top 250 it was enough reason to see it.

Singin’ in the rain is set at then end of the twenties, when Warner Bros was the first to release a successful movie with sound, The Jazz Singer. Other studios needed to keep up. Gene Kelly and Jean Hagen are Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont, two actors who have become stars during the silent era of movie. The current movie they are working in is picked to be the first movie their studio will add sound to. Continue reading →

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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)

After the success of the first Madagascar, in which four wild animals from the New York zoo end up in the wild of Madagascar, it is no surprise that a sequel would be made. The lion Alex (Ben Stiller), hippo Gloria (Jada Pinkett Smith), giraffe Melman (David Schwimmer) and zebra Marty (Chris Rock) decide to leave the island (together with the penguins) to return to New York. Because penguins are not the best mechanics, the plane they have fixed literally falls short of their goal to reach home and they crash in Africa Continue reading →

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Red (2010)

Despite the lakes of adrenaline action stars do get old eventually. This doesn’t prevent them from still making action movies though as we already saw earlier this year with The Expendables. Bruce Willis (55) already played a small part in it, but in action comedy Red he’s the star. The rest of the actors are not known for action movies, but Morgan Freeman (73!), John Malkovich (56) and Helen Mirren (65) show that they know how to handle weapons. Do these older actors still manage to make explosive action scenes or has their time come and should they start looking for retirement homes? Continue reading →

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The Other Guys (2010)

The first scene of the Other Guys is so good and over the top that Michael Bay probably will be impressed by it. Agents Christopher Danson (Dwayne Johnson) and P.K. Highsmith (Samuel L. Jackson) show in only a couple of minutes how to catch criminals, even if that means causing millions in damages. They are so popular that nobody really cares about something like that. They also refuse to do any paperwork (as they are way too cool to spend time on something so useless), but their boss, Captain Gene Mauch (Michael Keaton), doesn’t mind as there are enough other police officers available at headquarters that are able to do this boring job.

Allen Gamble (Will Ferrell) and Terry Hoitz (Mark Wahlberg) are two of these officers. Allen doesn’t mind doing it at all (he even volunteers doing it), but Terry hates having to sit behind a desk. Because of an error he made when he was younger he’s forced to having a desk job.
Allen however is excellent in the job he does and by doing his paperwork properly he finds out that David Ershon, a wealthy businessman, has made some mistakes related to his business. Allen and Terry decide to arrest him for it and by doing so they get entangled in a bigger case than they were expecting. Continue reading →

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In Search of a Midnight Kiss (2007)

It’s never nice to be alone during the holidays at the end of the year. Wilson (Scoot McNairy) is not looking forward to the end of the year and wishes the year to be over as soon as possible. A friend of him convinces him to get a date on the last day of the year. He places an ad on Craigslist and it doesn’t take long for replies to appear. He decides to meet up with Vivian (Sara Simmonds). The movie follows the two during the last hours of the year and shows them meeting up and talking to each other.
As the movie has won quite a lot of awards I was looking forward to seeing. Unfortunately I wasn’t prepared for such a big disappointment. Continue reading →

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Edison and Leo (2008)

Clay is something which kids can really go crazy with. Of course it’s also perfect to use it for stop motion films. The best examples are of course the Wallace and Grommit movies. Edison and Leo also belongs to this genre and tells the story of the Edison family. Edison is an inventor who has secluded himself from the rest of the world, he’s put up a high electrified fence making his house almost impenetrable. There are times when he does leave his house to “borrow” some ideas, but doesn’t do this often. He has two sons who are schooled at home and believe what they have been told by their parents about the world outside the fence.
When Edison finds his wife badly hurt he takes a train to and indian tribe who posses a magical light book and who are able to cure her. Edison decides to steal their book which results in the indians losing their powers. They decide to get their book back. Continue reading →

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This is Spinal Tap (1984)

When you first see the title of this movie you would immediately think that this is a documentary about them touring, being to watch what happens behind and off stage in the lives of the members of Spinal Tap. But when you actually start watching it you’ll find out that it’s not a serious movie, but a mockumentary. The band members are interviewed and tell a lot of crazy stories (which you know can’t be true, like why they had so many different drummers and how they kept dying) Continue reading →

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Paprika (2006)

What’s the best way a filmmaker can visualize dreams on the big screen? Of course there are the nightmare scenes where the person suddenly wakes up, sweating, but how do you show that very surrealistic feeling you have when you dream? With Inception Christopher Nolan showed his vision about dreams. The movie had some great effects (like the city folding up and all the action in the hotel), but despite these effects and the nice sets the dreams themselves were not that strange, sometimes almost normal. This is not the case with Paprika and it shows how fantastic and scary dreams can be and it does so (at least I think so) better than Inception. Continue reading →