Space Chimps

Now, I'm not usually one for cartoons that aren't Disney. They are usually disappointing and not that funny and they usually lack anything resembling a plot. We have only watched just a small few that have ever been worth watching. But I was pleasantly surprised at Space Chimps, it was actually a funny, witty movie that actually had a plot. Bo even sat and watched it and commented that it was a funny movie. If you listen closely you can catch a bunch of funny things they say in copying other space movies. Very funny. Our 3 year old liked it as well, she has watched it about 6 times now. And who wouldn't like a movie where they have the Barenaked Ladies singing to the credits?! ...Another postcard, Chim-pan-zzeeees...

Taken

This. Movie. Was. Awesome. That's all I have to say. Total guy movie, but even I enjoyed it. It's a bit violent so it's not a movie to watch with young kids in the room. First off, I really like Liam Neeson, and he's fantastic in this movie. It's rated PG-13, and it has a bit of language but if my memory serves me right, it didn't have the F-word in it and that gives it a big thumbs up from me. Bo had a coworker tell him "Taken is a movie that every dad needs to see, and that every dad needs to show his daughter." Bo is definitely going to own it!

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was an excellent movie! It's one of those movies that just doesn't come around too often. Although it's a long movie, two and a half hours, it's totally worth the time. There is a swear word or two in it and one or two sexy scene, but it's doesn't show anything. It has some really beautiful scenes in it and it had a very intriguing story line. It also had a very eautiful clock in it, that was Bo's favorite part. We would definitely give this movie 5 stars and we going definitely going to own it! See it!

New in Town

It's been a while since I've written on here, and that's been for a couple of reasons. First, we really haven't been watching very many movies. And second, I've just not had enough time to sit and write them out. So for that reason, I want to continue to write, but I'm going to keep them short. I'll give our opinion, but not much more explanation on the story line. Hope you enjoy! We've had quite the movie weekend, so I've got a couple to review.

We watch New in Town. It was okay. I mean, we liked it, and we'd probably own the movie. For the most part they kept the language clean and there wasn't any explicit sex scene. It had some cheeky humor in it that kept it entertaining. I really enjoy Renee Zellweger, and Harry Connick Jr. as well. It's a cutsie chick flick that's clean enough for family, although the story line of the politics of small town factory workers might not interest the younger crowd.

The Game Plan

In my previous afore mentioned like of The Rock....,

I thought it only fair to do a movie review on a movie of his that we saw recently. It was a month or more ago that we watched it, but I still remember my thoughts on it. First I want to mention that one of my favorite movies that The Rock is in was Walking Tall.

If you haven't seen it, see it. I may have liked this movie so much because it had nice trucks in it, but really, we thought it was a great movie (we already own it). The movie we saw recently was The Game Plan. We actually liked the movie. It was cute, and clean-cut and had a nice “packaged” ending. Happy ending with all the lose ends tied up. I had a friend tell me recently that she watched it and she said she imagined that The Rock's real life was something like that movie. Pictures of himself all over his apartment, watching video clips of himself, ya know, the stuff all the famous, pretty-people do. It made me laugh that she said that. Anyway, the movie is appropriate for kids, and fun for the whole family. We will probably end up owning it some day, when it's a little cheaper to buy!

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

If any of you know me well, you would know my sick obsession with Brenden Fraser.

I own just about every movie his in and enjoy every aspect of his cheesy-ness. My sister Jenny and I share the same obsession, she got me started liking him when I was about 12. She introduced me to the movie Encino Man, and it has remained on of my all time favorite; cave man Brenden Fraser is very nice to look at!

Since we own most of his movies, of course we own the Mummy movie collection, we even have The Scorpion King even though it doesn't have Brenden in it; it does however have The Rock in it, and he's another one of my must-see heart throbs.

Anyway, I was rather excited to see the newest Mummy movie come out, and couldn't wait to see it. So for a double date this last week we went and saw it in the theater with Jordan and her hubby. I think all in all I enjoyed the movie, but I do have to admit that I did have disappointments about it. First of all, I didn't like his “new” wife, they should've had the girl from the other movies, it would've made it better. Second, it was a bit cheesy; and I usually like cheesy. I expected a more intense story line, and at times it just fizzled. Unfortunately I have to be honest and tell you, it's not one of those movies that you need to see in the theater. You could wait until it comes out on video and be all the same for it. We will probably own it because I can't pass up the opportunity to own a Brenden Fraser movie, but it's only to the complete series... unless of course they make more movies, but I can't seem them doing that; any more, it would be over-kill.

Nim's Island

This is another movie that I thought I would really like by the way the preview looked. It seemed to have a cute story line and a cute guy in it. I was right on one account. The dad in the movie, Gerard Butler (P.S. I Love You, Phantom of the Opera), who is very nice to look at made the movie better... for me at least, but we were a little disappointed in the story line. For kids, it might be a cute movie to see, the story line is light enough to be able to follow for young minds. For adults, it just lacked. I have really been impressed with what a great actress Abigal Breslin is becoming, and she did well in this movie, it just wasn't a full enough story line. One comment Bo made was that he was continually waiting for the plot line to start. My qualm with it was that the ending was not good enough. It got to the end and just kind of ended, no real explanation of anything. I know that it's my personality to like a movie to wrap up in a nice little bow in the end, but when you lack even part of a resolution, it makes the movie just disappointing. They had some cute animals in the movie that had personality so that would be a fun aspect for kids. Boo watched part of the movie with us, and liked talking about all the different animals and what they were called. We definitely won't be owning this one, but if your kids like animals they might enjoy watching this.