Review: Indiana Jones and the Kingdon of the Crystal Skull

Everyone's favorite whip weilding archeologist is back after 19 years in an all new adventure.

A fun, fun, fun movie. Not as great as Raiders or Last Crusade, but still good Indiana Jones. It's hard to write any sort of review without spoiling everything in the plot, so I won't even try.

Harrison Ford slips easily back into the role. Shia LaBouf's Mutt Williams is a neat sidekick. Sadly, Karen Allen as Marion Ravenwood is totally underused and Cate Blanchett's russian accent is quite laughable.

The hero in this story is my mom who watched my two week old for three hours so I could go out and see this movie. YEAH!!!

My favorite parts of the movie:

Warehouse Box
Atomic Bomb
Motorcycle chase through Princeton
"Part-time" teacher
Reference to storyline in "Young Indiana Jones Chronicles" tv show

5 out of 5 stars.

Review: Iron Man

Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) builds a super suit while prisoner in Afghanistan. Once he escapes, he perfects his design back home to become Iron Man.

This was a great movie. Action, humor, drama, romantic tension. Downey Jr. is perfect as the bad boy Stark, very dry wit. Gweneth Paltrow is charming. Jeff Bridges is kind of odd in his character.

I admit to knowing nothing about the comic book series which is probably a good thing for this movie. Iron Man is not the most popular character but his movie franchise is in excellent hands. Director Jon Favreau did an amazing job and even gets a cameo in as one of Stark's bodyguards. The next installment is due out in 2010, only two years, pretty ambitious.

My favorite parts of the movie:

Casting
Stark's robots' personalities
Storyline
Flying in the suit

5 our of 5 stars.

Feb-March-April

In those three months, I only saw two movies and they were both mediocre at best, Jumper and Fool's Gold. Movie pickins were rather slim those months.

Jumper was cool visually, the rest just ok. The plot was kind of confusing.

Fool's Gold was enjoyable because I saw it with two of my friends and I like Matthew McConaughy and Kate Hudson. The story behind the treasure was super confusing to me and the rest of the plot was so-so.

I would say these are ok to rent but probably not worth my money to see it in the theater.

3 out of 5 stars to both.