Woody, Buzz, Jesse, Rex, Slinky, Porky, and the Potato heads are back in what may be one of the best Toy Story movies yet made. Andy is off to College which means what to do with the toys? Sell them? No, put them in the attic. Everyone, with the exclusion of Woody, is put into the bag to be taken up to the attic for safe keeping. Andy’s mother ends up, accidentally, taking them to a day care called Sunny Side. Woody wants to leave the paradise, or what it seems to be anyway, however the gang is convinced that Andy is done with them. While there the toys soon realize Sunny Side is not such a paradise after the leader Lotso (A strawberry smelling care bear), Ken, and a few others such as Big Baby and purple Octopus give themselves the name the axis of evil. Woody soon escapes and finds out more about the reason Lotso’s evil ways. Now the conflict is will Woody be able to save his friends as well as reunite with Andy?
Toy Story 3 is in close competition for the best of the Toy Stories. The constant joke Ken is not an action figure but a doll. As well as the relationship with Barbie just adds on. There is even a scene where Barbie is torturing Ken by tearing all his favorite accessories. Toy Story 3 also has little add ins such as the garbage man is Sid from the first Toy Story and one of the toys owned by a girl named Mollie is the character Totorro from the film My Neighbor Totorro. With a number of take offs from Star Wars as well this tear jerking stressful comedy is the best film of the year so far. A
Monday, June 28, 2010
Thursday, June 17, 2010
A-Team
The A-Team is the story about the four members of the alpha team attempting to get their clean jail records, freedom, and ranking of positions in the military restored to them as well as prove their innocence. The story begins with Hannibal (Liam Neeson) in the middle of the desert to save his friend Face (Bradley Cooper), him hitching a ride with BA Baracaus (“Quition” Jackson). “They are the best and specialize in the ridiculous” Along the way they, with Murdock, are on a mission to return falsely printed money and are framed for the bombing of such illegally printed money. Throughout the film there are all sorts of betrayals from the CIA operatives and black operatives which give the intention to trust no one. In the end the craziest of them has a plan with one problem for BA, he doesn’t want to kill. How will the Alpha team be able to get their freedom, restore their names, and prove their innocence? This film is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Studio of America.
The A-Team is another summer action packed comedy in which deals with little character development, plot which intended to be unpredictable but evidentially fails, and with excellent action scenes. The acting of all the characters was well below average, even to Mr. Neeson who has chosen a series of action movies as of late that have flopped. Also there is a scene which two quotes from Mondates Gandhi one referring to the good of violence and one referring to the good of peace. What the movie left out is the time period of both those quotes. The one referring to the good of violence was only to the people of India during WWI so that they may gain their independence as a country from Britain for fighting with them during WWI. The one referring to peace was the use of non-violence which was after WWI and has more relevance of Gandhi today. The movie had moments of slight comedy which barely saves this film from completely being a downhill movie. C-
The A-Team is another summer action packed comedy in which deals with little character development, plot which intended to be unpredictable but evidentially fails, and with excellent action scenes. The acting of all the characters was well below average, even to Mr. Neeson who has chosen a series of action movies as of late that have flopped. Also there is a scene which two quotes from Mondates Gandhi one referring to the good of violence and one referring to the good of peace. What the movie left out is the time period of both those quotes. The one referring to the good of violence was only to the people of India during WWI so that they may gain their independence as a country from Britain for fighting with them during WWI. The one referring to peace was the use of non-violence which was after WWI and has more relevance of Gandhi today. The movie had moments of slight comedy which barely saves this film from completely being a downhill movie. C-
Monday, June 14, 2010
Get Him to the Greek
Aaron Green is a young, obese, hard worker for the music label Pinnacle Records. Life is just a tad bit abnormal with his boss, Sergio (Sean “P Diddy” Combs), pressuring him for new ideas, and his girlfriend, Daphne Binks (Elizabeth Moss), working odd hospital hours. Aaron Green has an excellent idea, to have a ten year anniversary concert for his favorite musician the party-do-go-er Aldous Snow (Russell Brand).
Aldous Snow with a once great Rock career is dashed down by a one horrific racist album restarting the apartied for South Africa, as well being the third worst thing to hit Africa just trailing war and famine, even beating out disease and poverty. The album is called “African Child”. The album is so down trending for not only his career but as well his wife Jackie (Rose Byrne). When their divorce happens life is only worse for Aldous and better for Jackie. What was the only reason not separating them sooner? Jackie having a son, and Aldous being a great father.
Anyway, Aaron is assigned by Sergio to get Aldous Snow from London to the Greek theatre in 72 hours, as well as making a few detours along the way. Some of their detours include the Today Show, Las Vegas, Aaron’s apartment, and plenty of parties. Along the way to the Greek, Aaron soon finds a rock stars life is one of the most insecure of any. Trying to be in Aaron’s position is even worse because Aldous puts Aaron through the worse making him drink, take drugs, and have intercourse just to make Mr. Snow move closer to the Greek, which only complicates his situation with Daphne. How will Aaron contain this rock star from ruining his life, his career, and his relationship? This outrageous comedy’s characters are based off the characters created from Jason Segal’s Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
Get Him to the Greek is a bit crude and talks about the insecurity and life of a rock star. “You let people use you and soon you will be all used up”-Nicolas Stroller. The film even had great songs such as “going up” and “the clap”. Get Him to the Greek touched precisely on the problems of rock stars. They are lonely people who are sad, expected to do everything right and are seen as a higher power than average people. Which actor was the winner in this film? Jonah Hill did a fine job in Get Him to the Greek, but has put on a bit too much weight for the role. Russell Brand did a very good job of being insecure, sex obsessed, having free-loading parents, as well as being an unbelievable drug and party addict. The winner is P-Diddy. Having taking acting classes, “mind fucking”, and playing a just as funny as Tom Crusie’s role in Tropic Thunder as a big wig he is the winner. Also he showed how exactly record producers deal with their rock stars “we are going to out party these partiers, until they don’t want to party” and “give him two of these he won’t feel anything he will be fine and he looks great” in response “you can’t just keep enabling him and giving him drugs.” P-Diddy won this week in a shockingly great performance. B-
Aldous Snow with a once great Rock career is dashed down by a one horrific racist album restarting the apartied for South Africa, as well being the third worst thing to hit Africa just trailing war and famine, even beating out disease and poverty. The album is called “African Child”. The album is so down trending for not only his career but as well his wife Jackie (Rose Byrne). When their divorce happens life is only worse for Aldous and better for Jackie. What was the only reason not separating them sooner? Jackie having a son, and Aldous being a great father.
Anyway, Aaron is assigned by Sergio to get Aldous Snow from London to the Greek theatre in 72 hours, as well as making a few detours along the way. Some of their detours include the Today Show, Las Vegas, Aaron’s apartment, and plenty of parties. Along the way to the Greek, Aaron soon finds a rock stars life is one of the most insecure of any. Trying to be in Aaron’s position is even worse because Aldous puts Aaron through the worse making him drink, take drugs, and have intercourse just to make Mr. Snow move closer to the Greek, which only complicates his situation with Daphne. How will Aaron contain this rock star from ruining his life, his career, and his relationship? This outrageous comedy’s characters are based off the characters created from Jason Segal’s Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
Get Him to the Greek is a bit crude and talks about the insecurity and life of a rock star. “You let people use you and soon you will be all used up”-Nicolas Stroller. The film even had great songs such as “going up” and “the clap”. Get Him to the Greek touched precisely on the problems of rock stars. They are lonely people who are sad, expected to do everything right and are seen as a higher power than average people. Which actor was the winner in this film? Jonah Hill did a fine job in Get Him to the Greek, but has put on a bit too much weight for the role. Russell Brand did a very good job of being insecure, sex obsessed, having free-loading parents, as well as being an unbelievable drug and party addict. The winner is P-Diddy. Having taking acting classes, “mind fucking”, and playing a just as funny as Tom Crusie’s role in Tropic Thunder as a big wig he is the winner. Also he showed how exactly record producers deal with their rock stars “we are going to out party these partiers, until they don’t want to party” and “give him two of these he won’t feel anything he will be fine and he looks great” in response “you can’t just keep enabling him and giving him drugs.” P-Diddy won this week in a shockingly great performance. B-
Monday, June 7, 2010
Holy Rollers
Sam Gold (Jesse Eisenberg) is a young up and coming Hasidic Jew whose father, Mendel Gold (Mark Ivanir), expects him to take over his fabric business, become a Rabi, and arranges Sam to be married with Zeldny (Stella Kietal). Living in the cold Bronx and in a house with little to no heating for a decent cup of tea Sam wants money to give his family a better life. His neighbor, Yosef Zimmerman (Justin Bartha) does exactly that by giving Sam a job to sell ecstasy. Sam’s friend, Leon, advises him to stop before Sam loses everything dear to him. Sam proving himself to his boss, Jackie (Danny A. Abeckaser) quickly moves up in rank. Soon Yosef to make even more money does side drug deals which do not go over well with Jackie, and soon the destruction of Sam comes by “getting high off his own supply” and falling for Jackie’s girlfriend, Rachael (Ari Graynor). What Leon predicted came true, no longer would Sam be a Rabi, marry Zeldny, and is even an outcast among the Jewish community and his family. Sam must make the choice between loyalty to family or financial security in life.
Holy Rollers is a strong story line for a number of reasons. A point made throughout the movie “Be calm, don’t act suspicious, always have a story, and most importantly act Jewish.” The police would not expect Hasidic Jews to be doing illegal activity. While the plot is well done the pacing is slow at parts, however is intended and found in many movies involving the Jewish religion such as A Serious Man. The roles acting level was on average but did not need a challenge and the drug business obviously fell because throughout the film the dealers were haggling. In organized business there are preset prices and there is little tension. The true events of the movie only added to how well done the film is. B-
Holy Rollers is a strong story line for a number of reasons. A point made throughout the movie “Be calm, don’t act suspicious, always have a story, and most importantly act Jewish.” The police would not expect Hasidic Jews to be doing illegal activity. While the plot is well done the pacing is slow at parts, however is intended and found in many movies involving the Jewish religion such as A Serious Man. The roles acting level was on average but did not need a challenge and the drug business obviously fell because throughout the film the dealers were haggling. In organized business there are preset prices and there is little tension. The true events of the movie only added to how well done the film is. B-
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