AVATAR

Avatar! We saw this in 3-D the other night....
Good: It was a special effect feast, good storyline (although, You knew what was going to happen next), good ending. GREAT imagination!
Bad: It took me 2 days to recover from those 3-D glasses. The headache I had! When the movie was over, Emma and I both could'nt walk straight. I'll never do 3-D again, don't care if they profess it's the newest, must-see movie tech ever made. Also, the language was horrible. It's an army movie, so therefor you must have bad language? There was some alien love going on too, nothing graphic, but you didn't have to imagine too much.
Would I see it again? In 3-D, never. Rent it with a free coupon, maybe not because of language.
Would I let anyone under 12 see it? No way (language), I didn't even like Emma seeing it.

Out of 10 Kodak Digital Cameras, I would give it a 3. I hope there's no part 2 being made.

Cloudy With A Side Of Meatballs

Emma and I saw this in 3-D! Thought I would get a headache, but they've come a long way since I saw a 3-D movie last!

This was a very enjoyable, funny little movie. Emma's 2nd time in seeing it. Take the kids to this one, it's a keeper! No language, no bad stuff, except falling pancakes and one little boy gets a tummy ache from eating too many jelly beans.

Flint, the inventor, invents food from water vapor and thinks he is saving his town. You see before your eyes the mayor growing larger as does his ego. Mr. T is pretty funny, yes Mr. T finally got a job! I know he's been unemployed since the cancellation of the A-Team.

So, out of five Blackberry Flip phones, I give it a 4.9. We'll probably buy it, but it won't have the same effect of coolness if I can't see it again in 3-D.

Julie and Julia

Just saw Julie & Julia! We laughed and laughed. This is a funny movie.
It's a story about how Julia Childs became a french cooking rock star and how a writer, Julie, tested and made all Julia Childs' recipes in her The Art Of French Cooking cookbook.

I would even say this movie was delightful. BUT... it does have strong language, not alot but the "F" word was used once and other strong words. It also has some sexual innuendo scenes, from both Julia and Julie.... not together, with their respected husbands.

Speaking of husbands, this movie depicted something we haven't seen hardly anything of... husbands and wives actually working out problems together, showing support for each other, being happy they are married, showing respect and honor to each other... no one went out and had an affair. That was refreshing to see.

Meryl Streep was FANTASTIC! She really captured the real Julia Childs. I remember watching when I was a little girl, the real Julia on her cooking show and wondering if she really was a little tipsy trussing a turkey.... the answer is yes.

Gramma Walker has her cookbook, I've even tried making some of the recipes from it. I am not a French Chef.

Out of 5 Med-Surgical Nursing Books, I will give it a 4. One off for the language and sexual content. Would I see it again? Maybe on video, definately on TV with the stuff cut out.

Bon Appetite!

So this movie will be premiered in September. I don't know what it is rated, yet.
It's about two men, fighting in Iraq, about their lives, etc....
Why am I advocating this movie? I know the director, writer and producer. Yeppers, I know someone who is/going to be famous. His name is Chris Bender and I worked with him at Frontier.

He is by far, the most intelligent man I've ever known, a genious. He helped me out so many times with HORRIBLE customers, he's a good guy. He liked coming to me to do vouchers, etc... because I didn't get flustered in typing while he was standing over me giving instructions.

Anyway, good luck to him! I'm hoping it's not rated R so I can go and see it.

Just saw Harry Potter! We were a little late in not getting to the premier like everyone else in the world.
I loved the movie. Albeit it's more of a love story than a Voldemort story. Some "snogging", lots of action. No Lord Voldemort scenes, pretty much it's how he came to be from Tom Riddle to Lord V. Lost of history as to why things are the way they are.
Would I see this again? Of course. Will I be buying it? Of Course.
Read the book too, it adds to the movie. The ending, a little disappointing if you haven't read the book. Yes, Hannah cried in the end. Best scene: When Harry drinks the Felix Felcias (sp?) potion that makes him lucky. This movie has it's funny parts, too. I cannot wait for the last movie!

Out of 5 Sleeping black kitties... I will give it a 5.

Night At The Museum, 2

Night at the museum, 2.....................WHAT A FUNNY FUNNY MOVIE! We went last week, and we are still doing one liners from it. That's a good movie in my book.

Ben Stiller, who is now a successful inventor / infommercial mogul goes back to the museum to see everything packed, and being put into the national storage unit (under the Smithsonian), Joe figured out that this is the same place where Indiana Jone's Arc of the Covenent would've been taken (not in the movie, Joe's own opinion). Ben goes to save his friends.... makes new ones on the way.

Ben Stiller's character is minor, compared with all the other characters. The egyptian king (shown) stole the show. The little men (the cowboy and Roman guard, Octavious) had important, FUNNY parts. The Jonas Brothers were in it, way way funny! The security guard, Brandon (pronouced BRUNDON), has a short part... should have been longer, he was too funny.
The heroine, Amelia Earhart... eh. Her character annoyed me, with all her 1930-ish lingo.

Lanuage? I couldn't remember any, nothing that impressed upon my memory.
Sexual content? Maybe one kiss, one fall on top of each other, and the Jonas brother are naked throughout the movie. OK, this is rated PG..... they are little cherub statues that fly around. GOTCHA.
Intensity? There were some parts that were intense, some very scary parts with an octopus that scared me. Would I let someone under 10 see it, yes if they can handle scary.
Would I see it again? And again? and again? YES! I"ll be buying this one. There are so many one liners that were so funny, that my girls and friends repeat (and Joe).

Out of 5 dirty chickie towels (these are things that I see on my computer table right now!) I would give it a 5.

UP! This is a 3D movie, which is also shown in 2D. This means, buy glasses / don't have to buy glasses. We saw it in 2D. To sum it all up in one word, DELIGHTFUL. Having said that, we hated it. Confused?

Disney/Pixar really know how to pull the heartstrings. I cried, sobbed 5 times. 5 separate times in this movie I said, "Why did we come to this horrible movie?" "We are NOT buying this!".

The whole story is about Mr. Frederickson trying to get to a place where his wife wants to go for her ultimate adventure. He takes along Russel, the scout, by mistake. Russel is trying to get his "assist the elderly" merit badge and he's relentless in trying to get it. Along the way they find Kevin (the bird), and dog (the dog) who has to wear the "Cone of Shame" (See picture above). Ed Asner is the voice for Mr. Frederickson, PERFECT!

I laughed out loud many times, MANY funny parts in this movie... anyone who has a scout or who has been a scout would like some of the scenes. It was intense at times, but not too intense that I couldn't handle it. Sad? Of course. No language, no sexual themes (well, except when the wife sees babies in every cloud and POOF, she's pregnant).

There is a cartoon short in the beginning of the movie. We think that should have been shown at the end so we could've left feeling better. The short was VERY VERY funny.

Would we see this again? Yes, if we rented it with one of Joe's FREE Red Box coupon's. Would I buy it? I'd have to see it again.

Out of 5 lip glosses; I'd give it a 4.8 - .2 off for all the kleenex I wished I had and had to use Hannah's shirt.

WOLVERINE!

Wolverine rated PG-13. I'll be honest, I didn't do my homework on this film before we went last night. We are all X-Men fans, so it didn't cross my mind to read up on it.

This was a pre-quill to the 3 X-men series, it gave some history as to how/why Wolverine, aka Logan, aka Hugh Jackman, was the way he was. It tied up some loose ends about his history. The film was action packed, violent-violent-violent, and there was nudity. All in the name of medical science, during Wolverine's transformation to a SUPER mutant. Didn't matter, he was nakey. Hannah took it as an Anatomy lesson I'm sure. There's language in it, did I mention violence? I know X-Men is an action packed film, but they really got into killing innocent people, maybe way too much for what the story needed.

Would I go again? No. Would I let my daughter's see it again, No. Would I rent it? No. Would I watch the watered down, television, edited version? In a heartbeat. If you do go, we stayed until all the credits were done and there is a scene at the very end.... we were all disappointed.

To rate the movie as a whole: Out of 5 McDonald's Soft Drink Cups, I'd give it a 3.5 . One off the the nakey scene, half off for the violence and half off for incorrectly referring to a drug and what it does (I picked that out right away, kind of ruined that scene for me). Good story line, good acting, good characters.

There are some pretty good movies coming out this summer! Can't wait to see UP!

Hannah Montana... the Movie

My girls went and saw this last weekend. Joe and I couldn't bring ourselves to go and see this movie. We don't really like Hannah Montana (well, I like her dad!).

Hannah and Emma LOVED the movie. I knew they would, but they said they even cried. There is a song in the movie that Miley Cyrus and BillyRay sing together that is really good. I'm sure that the song is on their IPOD's by now. It's good for all ages, I'm sure we will be buying this one. Maybe I'll see it someday.

Out of 5 IPODs, I'll give it a 4.... just because Hannah and Emma loved it, but I didn't see it.

On the laugh-o-meter, this movie gets a 10. This was a really funny movie. Maybe because alot of what we saw reminded us of Joe.

It has some watered down swearing, meaning the "H" and "A" word. No sexual type scenes, no blood and gore scenes. Lots of chase scenes on segways and scooters and skateboards. Lots of surprises though and one drinking-bar scene. It was intense at times, but I could handle it. I don't like intense.

As we left the theater, Joe made the comment that he has a new appreciation for Mall Cops and that he wants a segway now.

Would I let a 12 year old or under see it.... probably. The kids (ages 15-19) that we took laughed thru the whole thing, including Joe and I.

Out of 5 staplers, I would give it a 4. And we are probably going to buy this one.

EAGLE EYE

OK.... we just rented this and I can't wait to tell you it's boring. Save your $1 from renting it and go buy an ice cream cone at Mcdonald's instead.

Pretty much it's the same story line at War Games, with Matthew Broderick back in the late 1970's movie. A computer takes over (this computer is much more sophisitated though, it uses liquid nitrogen to make it live) and decides that humans aren't needed to make decisions.

When it ended, Joe and I looked at each other and said, "Well, that's 2 hours of our lives we'll never get back."

It has strong language and violence. Not recommended for anyone under 99.

Out of 5 chocolate covered peanuts, we give it a 1 (and the 1 is for Shia LaBeouf being the main actor)