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.

21

When I saw the preview for 21, I was stoked to see it. I thought it was going to captivate me and keep me interested. Now seeing it, it's not that I didn't like the movie, but both Bo and I agree that we won't be owning this one... well maybe if it ends up in the $5 bin. Now let me tell you why we liked it: it was very fast paced, and was interesting, it had fresh faces in it, and who doesn't like Kevin Spacey? I have enjoyed some of the movies Kate Bosworth has been in, and enjoyed her character in this movie as well. The pauper to prince, or should I say nerd to high-roller motif, was a little over played but it worked for the general idea of the movie. The reason I didn't like it, or rather wouldn't own it is that it didn't captivate me as I thought it would've. I loved, I mean, loved the movie Catch Me If You Can.

Some people would argue that they didn't like it, but there isn't a movie out there that has taken in my job interest as well as Catch Me If You Can. After working in check fraud for a year and the bank for 5 years total, I came to appreciate the banking industry. I kind of expected 21 to real me in like Catch Me If You Can, and it was interesting but just not captivating. Now I'm not saying “don't watch this movie”, I did appreciate about the movie that it really didn't have much language. I say that because I don't remember if it even had any, sometimes we tune that out, but I'm pretty good at detecting at least the “F” word. So no really bad swearing that I remember... All in all, it's worth watching once, if you think you might like it, but we don't plan on buying it.

Juno

I was asked to review the movie Juno and and started a while back but just have never gotten around to finishing it, so here it is. Juno was an... interesting movie. It had some very funny lines in it; a very quotable movie, but it wasn't the best I've ever seen. I think Bo wants to own it, but I'd have to see it again before deciding if I liked it that much. I like the point of the movie that the girl takes responsibility for her actions by giving the baby up to a good family, but her journey is... interesting. I know that teenage pregnancy is a real problem now days, and it's something we have to really teach our children about, but this movie almost glorifies it. I appreciate that it shows the struggles of it, but it almost made her the hero instead of trying to teach our children to not get pregnant. As for it being a good quotable movie, I think I liked it okay, but the jury is still out. I want to watch it again before making my final judgment on it. Bo on the other hand really liked the movie. So, split decision on this one.