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 Here's Reviews For The Newest Movies! Sleep Over- Ok, SLEEPOVER is one of those completely "little girl," giggle movies with all the corny stuff, like when Alexa Vega is skateboarding in that oh so mentioned rEd DrEsS. The camera does a slow motion look on her and it just makes you want to laugh! And there's this stupid policeman who only makes, well, stupid people laugh- a really sad attempt at humor. I'm sorry, but it's true. I didn't really think the plot was good at all... Going on a scavenger hunt to win a seat at the popular table. In the first place, I SO doubt that the popular girls would even admit to the losing of their seats. They?d sit there anyways... screw the fact that the outcasts won. I have to say that there WAS something to be interested in the movie....the guys. they're eye candy alright- So people if you're planning to watch this movie don't expect to be wowed in terms of good film, but, I'm sure you'll have a little satisfaction in watching the guys!! So overall this movie is a total waste of money and 2 hours of your life you will never get back. So if you have an extra $8, you?d have a better time throwing it down the toliet. written by a viewer Only mean girls would make you watch this mediocre teen comedy. Having just graduated from junior high, Alexa Vega (a Spy Kids kid) invites her best friends to a slumber party. But things get totally nutty when some snotty popular girls challenge them to an all-night scavenger hunt. Hoping to up their coolness quotient, the gal-pals attempt to fulfill the tasks, which include nabbing boxer shorts from the hottie skateboarder Sean Faris, who Vega is so totally crushing on. Then there's a big high school dance. Oh, boy. Sleepover wants so badly to be a 'tween Sixteen Candles, but it lacks the charm and wit. And despite a smattering of chuckles, the farce gets flattened by surprisingly stiff direction and dialogue that tries too hard to be hip. Unless you're, like, 12 years old, you'll probably snooze through this one. written by E!Online 
Anchorman- Don't get me wrong, i am a huge Will Ferrill fan, but this movie was not worthy of his greatness! The movie was very entertaining, but so unbelievably random that it kind of killed the movies direction. Every time they would start to build on hilarity they would kill it with some SNL worthy action. Overall I give the movie a B- because god knows this could have been ten times better. written by a viewer If you really want a clue about this movie notice every negative review consists of about 1 line with no explanation of what would make it so bad. Simply put: if you're expecting a great story and some social commentary this is not the movie for you. Chances are though if you're watching it you're interested in neither. Will Ferrell is simply hilarious. He can make you laugh doing the simplest things and is probably my favorite snl cast member ever. Overall the movie is full of laughs (no you didn't see half of them in the trailers) and is only spoiled by occasional spots of seriousness. Thankfully it doesn't try to put a realistic story in but that wouldn't have fit anyway. Realism may not be the strong suit here but we want to laugh and it has plenty. written by a viewer This just in: Will Ferrell is a really, really funny dude. Because only he and his pals (Fred Armisen, Steve Carell, Chris Parnell) could take this one-note joke and turn it into high comedy. In an excuse to wear polyester and bad wigs, Ferrell stars as a pompous, Scotch-drinking '70s-era newsman whose world is threatened when female coanchor Christina Applegate takes a seat next to him. These are obviously just stitched-together bits that these improv masters worked through until they got funny. Their dedication pays off more often than not, especially when the cast strives for outrageousness. So, you may shake your head a few times, but you'll also be busy laughing. And that's always good news. written by E! Online
King Arthur- had very low expectations for this film. The trailers were poorly put together and the critical reviews were pretty bad. That aside, I was pleasantly surprised by what I saw. The acting was very good...even though it was a mediocre script. Some of the dialogue was sophomoric and really not needed-but it wasn't terrible. The cinematography was nicely shot and effectively captured the feel of the film. Hans Zimmer's score was nothing much to talk about--I normally will purchase a score if it is really noteworthy and good but I think I will pass on this. The directing was okay...not great and that is what made this film almost great. I did not like "Training Day" because of the directing...I am not a fan of his style. He gets the point across without focusing on the heart and psyche of the characters and the story. The leading cast was very good--all of the actors worked really well together on screen. Overall, I liked it and would like to watch it again--if only there was just a little more care given to the details. The take on the legend of King Arthur was interresting and not too far fetched that it was absurd. I just wish that Fuqua took a little more care with directing a good cast and a good story. It wasn't terrible but it just wasn't great. written by a viewer Neither knights nor Keira Knightley's exposed navel can save this medieval mess. In an attempt to put the legend of King Arthur into historical context (somewhere between the fall of the Roman Empire and the Dark Ages, in case you're keeping score), this movie strips most of the magic and fantasy out of the tale. Arthur (Clive Owen) and his heavy-metal-wearing pals are forced to work for a nasty Catholic cardinal and (action-movie alert!) have one more mission before being set free. In the process of becoming heroes, they run across a barbarian-like Knightley and a forest-dwelling hobo-like version of Merlin. But the movie is as dreary as the British Isles' weather, and the toned-down fight scenes (for that PG-13 rating) make it hardly better than a made-for-cable historical movie. Not to mention that Owen--who has displayed a cool tough-guy charm in smaller flicks--is so not the blockbuster action-hero type. King for a day? Not even close. written by E!Online -By: Courtney First Daughter- "First Daughter" is all heart and has the best intentions in the world, but what a bore. It's a beat slower than it should be, it makes its points laboriously, and the plot surprise would be obvious even if I hadn't seen the same device used in exactly the same way earlier this year in "Chasing Liberty." Even the ending isn't as happy as it thinks it is. Katie Holmes, so fetching in "Wonder Boys" and "Pieces of April," stars as Samantha Mackenzie, daughter of a United States president whose party is carefully not mentioned even though when we learn the United Auto Workers support him, the secret is out. She has spent her entire life as a good, sweet, dutiful daughter, smiling loyally at the side of her parents (Michael Keaton and Margaret Colin) as they campaign for office. Now it is time for her to go to college, and she yearns to be treated as a normal kid. Her definition of this is that she would get to drive herself there in her little Volkswagen, with a cooler in the front seat that has a can of beer hidden under the bologna sandwiches. What is wrong with this picture? (1) As we find out at the end of the movie, it's a classic VW bug, not one of the new models, and the kids who dreamed of driving off to college in one of those are now closer in age to, oh, say, the filmmakers. (2) Today's progressive modern parents, spotting the beer and the bologna, would gasp in horror, "Bologna?" Samantha enrolls at the University of Redmond, where to her horror the school band plays "Hail to the Chief" while she walks into her dorm with the chief and first lady. Her new roomie, Mia (Amerie), is a cutey-pie who's used to getting all the attention herself and doesn't want to play second banana to the F.D. Samantha wears clothes that inspire Joan Rivers monologues on TV, she sits in a roped-off section of lecture classes, flanked by Secret Service agents, and she is thoroughly miserable. So she stages a revolt that is painfully awkward in its conception and execution, pretending to be a bad girl, so the president will hear her cry for help. Her first transgression is to slide down a hill on a wet tarp at a frat party, which gets her on the front page of the New York Post, a paper more easily shocked in this movie than in life. Her slide seems to me like a plus (first daughter is real kid, has harmless fun), but no: She gets a scolding, and then she gets a severe scolding when Mia talks her into attending another party dressed, so help me, like a go-go dancer in the days when the words "go-go" were being used. (High white lace-up boots, denim miniskirt, pink fur pimp hat, the works.) Realizing Samantha is serious about wanting more privacy, or maybe fearing that she will in desperation pose for Playboy if he doesn't relent, the president agrees to pull back her Secret Service detail. Half of her agents disappear. Joyous with her new freedom, she has a Meet Cute with James Lansome (Marc Blucas), the handsome faculty adviser who just happens to be the resident on her floor of the dorm. Soon true love blooms between them. No, really. The stages by which "First Daughter" arrives at this point and travels onward are so deliberate that the movie seems reluctant to proceed. It keeps pausing and looking back to make sure we're keeping up. Katie Holmes plays Samantha with wide-eyed wonder, underlining every point. Her normal kid is a strange anachronism, like the 1940s music that plays at all of the dances; she'd be right at home as a freshman in, say, "The Glenn Miller Story." No first daughter in recent memory has been this square. She doesn't even seem to have met Paris and Nicky Hilton. ,br> The surprise, when it comes, is sadly unsurprising. It leads to a formula in which Samantha must first be depressed, then be resolute, then be joyous again. All fine, except that the movie makes her depressed again and resolute again, and ends with muted joy, and then with more resolution. Girls have renounced thrones and entered convents with less trouble. Even worse, everyone in the movie, but surely no one in the audience, believes it arrives at the correct ending. Having tortured us with cliches for more than 100 minutes, the movie denies us the final upbeat cliche that we have paid our dues for. Who wants a movie about a first daughter who finds, loses, refinds, re-loses, sort of refinds and probably loses perfect love, only to end up alone and responsible? By: The Chicago Sun-Times Inc. Copyright © 2004, ,Girl Stuff All Rights Reserved. |