Review: Evan Almighty

Evan Baxter (Steve Carell) is newly elected to congress when he asks God (Morgan Freeman) to change the world and God responds by commanding him to build an ark.

Great comedy with lots of laughs, neat message. Wanda Sykes who plays his secretary has some wonderful one liners. A lot of critics have bashed it, it's a comedy people I am not looking for some life defining message from it. Geesh. I think even God would get a chuckle from it. He created humor.

My favorite parts of the movie:

Ark building scenes
Theater sign
Wanda Sykes
hidden jokes (i.e. Morgan Freeman wearing a name tag "AL Mighty

4 out of 5 stars.

Review: Knocked Up

Allison (Kathrine Heigl) and Ben (Seth Rogen) hook up for one night only to find out 8 weeks later that they're pregnant.

A hilariously written movie. The dialogue is fabulous. It's awkward and real sounding, plus the stuff they say is just so bizarrely funny. The movie does have a lot of nudity, language, and drug use, which I always find slightly jarring and think, "Did they really need all that?" But maybe I am just not a part of that culture. Besides one of the funniest scenes was when Ben and Pete (Paul Rudd), who is Allison's brother-in-law, are in Vegas and they take mushrooms. Paul Rudd is so freaking funny in that scene. Wonderful.


My favorite parts of the movie:

the dialogue
Mushroom scene
making fun of the bearded roommate
Allison's talks with her boss (Alan Tudyk, Go Firefly) and supervisor chick
Celebrity Cameo's

4 out of 5 stars.

Upcoming Movie: The Dark Knight (July 2008)

The Joker played by Heath Ledger is the villian of choice for Batman this time around; however, it looks like they're setting up already for the third movie, Aaron Eckhart is set to play Harvey Dent, the man who becomes Two Face.

Review: Ocean's Thirteen

Danny (George Clooney), Rusty (Brad Pitt), and the gang are all back (minus the girls) to seek revenge for Willy Bank (Al Pacino) cutting out Ruben (Elliot Gould) from his hotel.

This third installment is even better than the 2nd one, back on par with the first movie. It's back in Vegas. Andy Garcia is back as Terry Benedict and helping out our theives. Even, Bruiser, the guy who fake beats up Danny in the first movie is back. Lots of great humor, caper stunts, they even poke fun at Brad Pitt at the end a little. A couple other suprise people show up, but I won't ruin it. Wonderfully shot. Just a great film.

My favorite parts of the movie:

the scenes about Oprah
Danny and Rusty's side comments about their relationships
suprises
the poor hotel rater
what they do to Terry Benedict

5 out of 5 stars.

Trailer: Enchanted

This trailer is worth watching just to see "Cyclops" break into song at the end....