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...

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!

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.

Alvin and the Chipmunks

We've actually already bought this movie, so this is just to give my opinion on it. You're thinking “If they bought it, then why is she reviewing it, doesn't that mean they already like it?” Sorta. On a visit to my sister's house on route to the doctors office, the little one saw part of Alvin and the Chipmunks and fell in love with it. So while at the doctors office, she was having a hard time so I promised a prize at the store if she was just brave. So after shots, and tears we went to the store. Can you guess what she wanted? And normally I wouldn't agree to such and expensive prize, but it was on sale and we did want to see it, so voilá, we bought it. Now, I'm not saying this to say that we didn't like it, but it was just okay. The chipmunks are cute, and sing some really catchy songs, but the rest of the acting was just okay. I like Jason Lee in his part in My Name is Earl, but he wasn't a very good Dave, just not convincing. I actually like the beginning of the movie the best, when they sing Bad Day, it's the best part of the movie, I don't usually watch after that. But on the other hand, the little one loves it. Right after we bought it she went around saying “Chicka wow wow, Chicka wow wow”, and it was so cute. That's actually what she calls the movie. So for kids, it's a pretty good movie, but adults might find it slightly mundane.

Big - Business

If you can believe it, I've never, until recently, seen the movie Big. You know, that 80's movie staring Tom Hanks. I don't know why, but I just never saw it. Lately it has been showing on TV and I seem to catch the same scene each time. Ya know, the scene where they play the big piano? Yeah, it's awesome, I plan to have one in my dream house. So I made it my mission to record it on our DVR and watch it. It recorded while I was gone so I had it waiting for me when I got back and I finally got around to watching it today while I sat and folded laundry. I rather enjoyed it, of course it was a cheesy 80's movie, but hey we don't hold their style of clothes against them. I think it adds charm to the movie. Tom Hanks is another one of my favorite actors, he has played some really great parts. Anyway, if you are a loser like me and have never seen this movie, it's one everyone should see.

Speaking of 80's movies, I also ran across one of my all time favorite movies on TV the other day. Big Business, you remember it? Bette Midler? It's awesome. I used to watch it all the time when I was a kid, so I decided to record it. When I went to watch it, I was disgusted to find that they had cut out all the funny parts of the movie. Rude! So I went online to Amazon and found it on DVD for only $8! I had to get it. Now as I watch it as an adult, I find that there was a lot of... not crude, but risk-que humor in. Mom, how could you let me watch that! :) If you've never seen it, you have to see it. It's really funny, and so very 80's. I still need to get Bo to watch it to get a real opinion on it, but I think he'll like it... or he'll hate it. Be sure to see it.

It's weird, "a crazy random happenstance"(Dr. Horrible) that I paired these movies together. I went to post them, but before I did I wanted to make sure I spelled names correctly, and came upon the dates of their release and the were released a week apart in 1988. Crazy!

Wall-E

I guess a good one to write about would be our latest trip to the movies. Bo's niece came and stayed with us for a week and one of the nights she was here we went to the movies and saw Wall-E. I was really looking forward to seeing this movie, and so was our little one as well. I've decided from the whole experience that she doesn't really like going to the theater, so I don't think we'll be taking her until she gets a little older. But back to the movie, I really enjoyed it. My only qualm would be that the robots didn't talk as much as I thought they would. I guess I just supposed that they would have more quirky lines. I also was surprised a little by the story line, it just didn't go in the direction I thought it would. I'm not saying that in a bad way, usually that's a good thing, but I guess now that I think about it, I didn't really have any thoughts on where the movie should've gone. Anyway, I did enjoy it. Being that the robots didn't talk much, they did a lot with their body language; which made it funny. So for kids, it was charming and even for adults it is cute. With how much our little one talked about it and liked it (well at least as much as she sat still to watch) we will own it.

Bee Movie

I was really excited to see that Bee Movie was coming out onto DVD! We didn't dare try the movie theater with Boo just to see it. She loses attention very quickly and I would've hated to buy a ticket just to miss it being out in the halls with her. As for our rating of the movie: It was okay, I mean, it was good. It wasn't at all what we expected... Both Bo and I were a little thrown off because we thought it was going to be super funny, and it wasn't really. We had the same thoughts about Shrek the Third; it was more of a serious movie than it was funny. This one had some funny parts in it, but it was just too serious. Bo even went as far to say that it's a little bit of an environmental movie. We do think that we would own, Boo really liked it, well at least as much as she sat and watched. It was good, just really not what we expected. We really want to watch it again, just to see if we like it better the second time around. This is really sounding like we didn't like it, but really we did, it just caught us off guard with our expectations. I think our expectations were high because of Jerry Seinfeld, he is so funny that we thought it would just ooze out in this movie, but he was rather mild. Again, we really need to watch it over.

Nancy Drew

We had been wanting to see Nancy Drew for a while and it finally came out on DVD this last Tuesday. So, I got there on Tuesday morning so that I could get the good new movies, picked up a few and headed to the "N" section to get this one and it wasn't there. So I went to the front and asked the cashier about it. Come to find out, they weren't going to get it in, I guess the company the puts the movie out raised their prices and so the movie place wasn't going to order it. I was so bummed, we had been waiting for it to come out for about a month! So I get home and tell Bo what happened, very disappointed like, and he said to me in that tone of voice that lets you know you are a complete idiot "So? We can't just get it on Pay-Per-View." Oh yeah... Right... The movies on Pay-Per-View are the same price, if not a couple cents cheaper than renting at the movie store. Long story short, we did get to "rent" it.

As for the review: We would totally own it. It was cute, it was clean and was moderately funny. Well, as for it being funny, it was; but most of the funny lines were in the previews. I hate it when a movie does that! I mean, sure put a couple of the catchy ones, but not ALL of them! It's got a cute little love story and Nancy Drew is so... cute, you just can't help but like her. All in all, even with the funny lines being exploited, we really liked it.