Movie: Sex Drive (R & UR, DVD Release Date: Feb 17, 2009)
Duration: 109 minutes (Unrated Version 129 minutes)
Rating: ***
Be careful who you watch this movie with. Featuring Seth Green, Josh Zuckerman, Clark Duke, and James Marsden, this movie is about an 18-year-old-virgin trying to lose it all as soon as humanly possible. When he is invited by his online squeeze to meet her across the country in his brother's stolen GTO, he is headed for trouble. The movie definitely has weak jokes and a relatively slow plot, but overall it is worth watching at least once. Viewer beware, this movie is one of the crudest of its kind and should only be watched with people you are very comfortable being around. Seth Green steals the show and does a wonderful job in this movie as a wisecracking Amish with a serious mouth. He is the best role in the show and deserves to have more time on screen. All in all I would advise you to rent it before you buy it and make sure that you can handle the crudeness.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Friday, February 13, 2009
Quarantine Definitely Lives Up To It's Hype
Movie: Quarantine (R, DVD Release Date: Feb 17, 2009)
Duration: 89 minutes
Rating: ****1/2
I knew before I had even put this movie into my PS3 that it was going to be good. People have been asking for months when it is going to be released, which is always a good sign. Starring Jennifer Carpenter, Jay Hernandez, and Columbus Short, Quarantine starts out with a reporter shadowing some firefighters who get a call to an apartment building. They are all promptly barricaded inside with no explanation why and left to figure out what is going on.
If you enjoyed Cloverfield then this movie is a must for you to see. The filming style and mood are so closely related it is impossible not to enjoy just one or the other. This movie also shares several similarities to the video game Left 4 Dead (released November 2008 on Xbox 360 by Valve Corporation). Both the filming style and the themes shared with Left 4 Dead combined to create the first movie that has actually scared me to watch in a long time. Quarantine is very clean cut and hard to criticize, except for that fact that a reporter and a cameraman gain ridiculous access to some scenes in the story. The story is great and brings original concepts to the classic virus-ends-humankind movie. Don't miss Quarantine and prepare yourself for a breathtakingly-intense scene at the end!
Duration: 89 minutes
Rating: ****1/2
I knew before I had even put this movie into my PS3 that it was going to be good. People have been asking for months when it is going to be released, which is always a good sign. Starring Jennifer Carpenter, Jay Hernandez, and Columbus Short, Quarantine starts out with a reporter shadowing some firefighters who get a call to an apartment building. They are all promptly barricaded inside with no explanation why and left to figure out what is going on.
If you enjoyed Cloverfield then this movie is a must for you to see. The filming style and mood are so closely related it is impossible not to enjoy just one or the other. This movie also shares several similarities to the video game Left 4 Dead (released November 2008 on Xbox 360 by Valve Corporation). Both the filming style and the themes shared with Left 4 Dead combined to create the first movie that has actually scared me to watch in a long time. Quarantine is very clean cut and hard to criticize, except for that fact that a reporter and a cameraman gain ridiculous access to some scenes in the story. The story is great and brings original concepts to the classic virus-ends-humankind movie. Don't miss Quarantine and prepare yourself for a breathtakingly-intense scene at the end!
Friday, February 6, 2009
Madagascar 2 - Rent It First
Movie: Madagascar - Escape 2 Africa (PG, DVD Release Date: Feb 6, 2009)
Duration: 89 minutes
Rating: **1/2
Those of you thinking of purchasing this film for you children (or yourself) to enjoy let me offer some words of advice: rent it first. Featuring the voice talents of Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, and Jada Pinkett Smith, this is a sequel to a movie about four animals who escape from Central Park Zoo and end up on the island of Madagascar. This story starts off with a scene reminiscent of The Lion King (one of the movie's better parts) explaining how Alex ended up at the zoo. We are then brought back to the present with the four trying to get back to Manhattan on a rebuilt airplane. They crash land in the heart of Africa and end up meeting Alex's father. The animation for this movie was very well done, but the jokes were lame and the plot was weak and not very well thought out, which is to be expected in a kids sequel movie unfortunately. To wrap it up I would advise all to rent the movie and see how you like it first because this may not be a movie you will want to watch over and over again like your kids are bound to make you do.
Duration: 89 minutes
Rating: **1/2
Those of you thinking of purchasing this film for you children (or yourself) to enjoy let me offer some words of advice: rent it first. Featuring the voice talents of Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, and Jada Pinkett Smith, this is a sequel to a movie about four animals who escape from Central Park Zoo and end up on the island of Madagascar. This story starts off with a scene reminiscent of The Lion King (one of the movie's better parts) explaining how Alex ended up at the zoo. We are then brought back to the present with the four trying to get back to Manhattan on a rebuilt airplane. They crash land in the heart of Africa and end up meeting Alex's father. The animation for this movie was very well done, but the jokes were lame and the plot was weak and not very well thought out, which is to be expected in a kids sequel movie unfortunately. To wrap it up I would advise all to rent the movie and see how you like it first because this may not be a movie you will want to watch over and over again like your kids are bound to make you do.
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