A HAUNTED HOUSE

A Haunted House – In the house

This is definitely a prime time ticket winner.

It’s just something about that Wayan’s Family! Anytime they touch a project you can usually count on two things: 1) Its going to be funny, 2) Its going to be successful. We’ll baby brother Marlon is taking on the challenge all by himself this time.

Malcom (Marlon Wayans) is getting ready to embark on a new journey in his relationship with his girlfriend Keisha, (played by Essence Atkins) by moving her into his house. Though some try to warn him, he believes everything is going to be wonderful and plans to film the entire ordeal. Once she moves in, reality starts to kick in along with some mysterious occurrences.

Well we are here to tell you that Marlon successfully accomplished 1 of the 2 Wayan’s Family guarantees. We must prepare you though, the humor (as usual with the Wayan’s Family) takes you right to the edge of acceptability. No worries though, they usually do so without going too far, so you will find yourself laughing pretty much throughout the entire film.

Outside of it being funny, we find it necessary to point out that this is the only scary film which was purposely written as a comedy without spoofing other movies. According to Marlon during his Question and Answer session at the screening, he was intrigued by this project, because a project of this nature had never been done before.

This is certainly a prime time ticket winner here ladies and gentlemen. We can’t predict whether Marlon will accomplish guarantee #2 of it being successful, but it certainly has the right ingredients to do so.

HERE COMES THE BOOM

HERE COMES THE BOOM – AN ORIGINAL

Good original film, but only worthy of a Matinee ticket

We must be honest. We didn’t know what to expect from this film. A comedy about MMA fighting. Hmmmm! The only thing that made us give it a chance was the fact that Kevin James was the leading character. If anyone can make a film funny, Kevin can.

High school biology teacher Scott Voss (Kevin James) is one of many teachers in the school with little interest in teaching. Once Scott learned that the school was going to cut the music program, he gets energized to do whatever he can to raise money to save it. After some  thought, Scott decides to earn the money by becoming an MMA fighter.

Writers Kevin James, Allan Loeb and Rock Reuben get an “A” for originality, because they were really reaching for a new comedic idea. We weren’t sure how they were going to make this movie funny, while maintaining the realistic feel MMA fight fans are used to. Come on let’s face it, Kevin doesn’t exactly have an athletic look to his physique.

Surprisingly it worked! Kevin and his supporting cast actually were funny. More importantly, the realistic feel and look of MMA was maintained by casting some true MMA legends. The story line was intrigueing considering the negative publicity our school systems are recieving today, but the writers managed to bring a positive spin to an already ugly situation.

Grab your family and head out to see this film. Its not worthy of a prime time movie ticket, but its definitely worth a matinee see.

PITCH PERFECT

PITCH PERFECT – PERFECTLY PITCHED

Grab the kids and your credit card because this is NOT a matinee movie. 

We gathered our kids for this premiere, because we knew to get a real sense of how good this film was, we would need a teens opinion. Lucky for us we have more than enough kids between us and our friends.

Beca played by Anna Kendrick, begins college  at Barden University as a freshman. Attempting to find her place in this new world, she decides to find a campus group which would enhance her love for music. At first she had difficulty finding a group in her specific genre, but after some convincing she joined a group called the Bellas. By joining this group, she learned a lot about herself and what she really wanted out of life.

The movie looked cute and funny in the trailers and reminded us of one of those dance movies like Step It Up or You Got Served. We wondered if it was going to have any original points to it or if it was going to be a complete copy of something that has been done many times in the past.

We were pleasantly surprised to find that it was funnier than the trailers projected it to be thanks to Fat Amy (Rebel Wilson). She almost stole the show with her performance. The kids laughed the entire movie thanks to her antics and thought she was the best part of the movie.

Best of all, the movie taught our kids some valuable lessons. As a parent you can’t ask for more out of a movie.  If we had to pay for it, we would gladly have done so. This is definitely worth a full price ticket, but if your anything like us, your gonna end up taking them to the 7pm show, because by 9pm, they better be in bed. HA YEA RIGHT!

Don’t delay this is worth your hard earned cash!

HIT & RUN

HIT & RUN – FUNNIER THAN EXPECTED

HOME RUN, Pick up a full price ticket

Watching trailers sometimes, you just never know exactly what your going to get. Here we thought we were in for an action/romance oriented film with a little comedy and to our surprise we got a comedy with some romance and action thrown in.

Charlie Bronson (Dax Shepard) is a ex getaway driver in the witness protection program. While in hiding, Charlie meets the love of his life Annie played by Kristen Bell. Comfortable living the simple life, Annie gets offered her dream job in California. Unfortunately, California is exactly where Charlie had his troubles. His love for Annie forces him to put his fears behind him and risk meeting his ex friends who want to kill him and get the money he owes them.

We figured with Tom Arnold playing a prominent role in the film, that there would be some funny moments, but we found ourselves laughing pretty much the whole movie. Were not talking slap stick jokes either. We are talking natural comedy which seemed to flow with the storyline.

The chase scenes and the romantic banter between the lead characters was entertaining, but the comedy definitely stole the show. This isn’t a film we would say run out and see on the release day, but its worthy of grabbing your significant other and going out for a good dinner and a movie on your next date night.

This is a home run, so you won’t regret spending your money here.