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Now Playing Review – How To Train Your Dragon

03/29/2010 by Lauren Leave a Comment

DreamWorks’ How to Train Your Dragon is an entertaining and adorable (don’t worry boys, you will still be manly if you see it) film that is by far one of their best attempts at removing Pixar from the computer animation throne.

In the Viking community a name can say a lot about the person; so with a name like Hiccup people probably aren’t going to expect that much from that individual. Growing into his name, Hiccup is seen as the community screw-up, far from one with the battle prowess of the others in the village. Especially when it comes to killing dragons, the village pest problem. Though everyone has little faith in what Hiccup is capable of, he has not given up on becoming a great warrior against the dragons and actually brings an elusive Night Fury down with one of his inventions during a dragon food raid on the village. With this final straw, the village warriors (AKA the majority of the village) leave to find and eradicate the dragon nest, leaving Hiccup to his own devices. However, when he finds the downed dragon he realizes that maybe he just doesn’t have what it takes to do what is expected with him, starting an unheard of friendship with the enemy. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Movie Review Tagged With: America Ferrera, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Craig Ferguson, Dreamworks, Gerard Butler, How to Train Your Dragon, Jay Baruchel, Jonah Hill, Kristen Wiig, T.J. Miller

Review: How To Train Your Dragon

03/26/2010 by Zac Leave a Comment

How to Train Your Dragon is a high quality effort from DreamWorks that while still a far cry from Pixar overcomes its duller moments with some really amazing scenes of wonder.

The film follows our unlikely hero, Hiccup, who on an island full of Vikings that’s only goal is to fight dragons is not very good at the job. To make things worse, Hiccup is the son of the tribe’s leader and best warrior, Stoick. Hiccup spends most of his time as the town blacksmith’s, Gobber, apprentice and actually shows some skill as a craftsman. When the latest dragon attack brings the illusive Night Fury Hiccup gets a clean shot on it with a grappling device and takes it down in the woods outlying the city. When Stoick leads the village on an expedition to find the Dragon’s nest to try and eliminate the dragons for good, Hiccup gets enrolled in the dragon slaying training course with the local youths but has problems getting involved as he forms an unlikely bond with the downed Night Fury and the two become closer and closer friends.

Review: The Bounty Hunter

03/19/2010 by Zac Leave a Comment

The Bounty Hunter is a blah effort that while not absolutely horrible, is no where near being good either. The film’s identity crisis only fuels this mediocre effort at best.

Milo and Nicole are ex-husband and wife and haven’t seen each other since the divorce. Nicole works for a local paper and is on the brink of breaking a story about a potential faked suicide that runs deep with implications to who is involved. Nicole has a court appearance for assaulting an officer and when she skips on bail at her trail hearing chasing a lead a bounty is put out on her head and that is where Milo comes in. An ex-cop, Milo is now a bounty hunter and getting paid five grand to bring in his ex and help pay off his sizeable gambling debt, that has goons hunting him while he hunts bounties, is sweet news to his ears. The two finally catch up to one another in Atlantic City but the trip to jail becomes complicated as each of their enemies begins throwing multiple obstacles on their path back to NYC.

Now Playing Review – Gamer

09/06/2009 by Lauren Leave a Comment

There is no doubt in my mind as to who Gamer is made for, and though I wish people would finally acknowledge that girls like both video games and action films, I will refrain from stewing on the number of boobs I had blown up in my face for the entirety of this film. Especially considering that, even with all these little awkward moments, Gamer is still an awesome movie.

Gamer takes place in the near future, where the video gaming world has made huge advances. Two games that have taken the forefront across the globe are Society, a more mature cousin to the Playstation Home (found on the PS3 today) where people can meet with the “avatars” of other players from around the world to communicate, dance, and do pretty much whatever else they want, and Slayer, a more violent MMO (massively multiplayer online) where players shoot their way to the finish line. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Movie Review Tagged With: Gamer, Gerard Butler, Michael C. Hall

Now Playing Review – The Ugly Truth

07/26/2009 by Lauren Leave a Comment

The Ugly Truth is that the romantic comedy has hit a low point. Now I know that most films of this genre are not that original when you think about their basic structure, however, there are some that hide this fact a lot better than others. Or at least know how to keep the hopeless romantics, such as myself, unaware of this because we are too invested in and rooting for the characters to get their happy ending.

This is the first place that this movie went wrong. The characters felt underdeveloped. Take Abby (Katherine Heigl); though she holds a strong position at work, the character traits that apparently helped her get there are all considered her flaws, and when she isn’t using these to get her way she is being put in her place by her overbearing boss (but don’t even get me started on that guy). [Read more...]