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.

Jumper

I was undecided about seeing the movie Jumper. It looked good, but it could've been... I don't, not good. For a friends birthday, they had rented it so I watched it with them (Bo was out on a call so he missed it, but I took it home for him to watch later). I thought the movie was alright. It had an intriguing story line that keeps you interested, and enough funny parts to keep the movie not too serious. My issues with the movie are one, the lead guy, you know, young Darth Vader (Hayden Christensen) was in the movie. Literally, some of the faces he made were like “I didn't know this movie had Darth Vader in it.” My other issue was that they left the ending wide open in a lot of ways, when the movie wasn't really that good to make a sequel for. I mean it was good, but not that good. It even had a cute kind of love story in it, so that made it good, but still not good enough to make more than one movie. Worth seeing once, but we probably won't own it.

Casanova

We usually rent movies, but when I see one we've never seen, I try to save any money we can and record the movies on our DVR. I saw that the movie Casanova was on TV one day, so I recorded it. I watched in on another day I was folding laundry, and I really enjoyed it. I do have to comment on it that I think the actual movie is rated R, but since this one was on TV is was censored. I'm sure they cut out some bad parts of his promiscuity, but it was a rather charming movie. I like Heath Ledger a lot and liked him in this movie, and to add to the cute guys in the movie, Charlie Cox (Star Dust) was also in the movie. I tried to get Bo to watch it, but he didn't think he would really like it, I'm still trying to convince him. So, since I can't really vouch for the movie in it's entirety I can't say that you should go out and see it. But maybe if you see that's it's on TV, be sure to catch it.

The Bucket List

One reason we get interested in movies is because of who is in them. I really like Morgan Freedman so I usually see most things he's in. That's what lead me to want to see The Bucket List. It's a rather depressing movie, but I enjoyed it. Jack Nicholson can be crude at times, but he played the part in this movie quite well. Of course Morgan Freedman did a great job. The basis of the movie is about two men and their journey through battles with cancer. It has some intulectual parts in it that make you think about your own life, and the things you want to do before you die and I enjoyed that. It also had some funny humor in it that makes you laugh even through the sadness of the movie. The ending caught me a little off guard and I always like a movie that does that. I think we would own this and watch it again. It's at least watching once, but bare in mind, it's a little depressing.