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18 Oct 2009There are lots of movies featuring zombies (if you doubt that, you can look at the listing on Wikipedia), and Zombieland is one of the easiest to recommend comedic zombie films. The movie follows the story of Columbus, played by Jesse Eisenberg, who has avoided human contact as much as possible and now that an [...]
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1 Aug 2009Sacha Baron Cohen is Bruno, a disgraced gay fashion reporter from Austria that seeks fame in the United States through a series of staged and not-so-staged events, very reminiscent of his previous movie Borat.
The movie is pretty short (at just 80 minutes) but if you have an open mind, and realize Bruno is not [...]
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2 Mar 2009The worst thing that a comedy could do is to make you bored, and Role Models certainly succeeded in boring me until the very end which was a recreated medieval pretend battle between warring “nations”. Of course, citing that as my highlight can tell you already how boring the rest of the movie was. The [...]
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19 Dec 2008If you are a drama teacher at a local high school, and it was up to you to create a brand new play to save the art program, a sequel to Hamlet may not be your first choice. And this is exactly what happens in the movie Hamlet 2 featuring Steve Coogan and Catherine Keener. [...]
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3 Dec 2008Ben Stiller’s latest creation is perhaps one of his finest, gently walking on the line between slapstick comedy and parody. Tropic Thunder is the story of 4 Hollywood actors who are stuck making a big-budget action film set in the Vietnam War. These actors’ antics force the director to opt for a more guerilla approach [...]
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8 Oct 2008Unfortunately, Hancock feels like several movies have been stitched together (say, like Frankenstein) to create a Will Smith vehicle. Some parts are brilliant, others are barely mediocre.
Will Smith stars as John Hancock, a superhero living in LA who can’t remember his past because he suffers from amnesia (superheroes should really invest in protective headgear). The [...]
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6 Oct 2008Mike Myers’ latest movie The Love Guru is an improbable comedy on many fronts. First of all, Toronto Maple Leafs in the running for the Stanley Cup is virtually unheard of, Mike Myers character of Guru Pitka is unconvincing and Justin Timberlake as a French Quebecker is just insulting.
The story follows a Maple Leaf player [...]
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4 Jun 2008Spoof films show no sign of slowing down, and Meet the Spartans clearly shows the genre needs a reboot. Actually Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, the writer-directors of this movie can be blamed for pushing out mediocre and outright crappy spoof films in the past few years. When done properly, spoof movies offer guilty pleasures [...]