Archive for the ‘Comedy’ Category
Friday, March 13th, 2009
Review
Dog’s are arguably one of God’s greatest physical gifts to man kind. Those that have them know that no matter how much trouble they are they love you unconditionally. They don’t care if you’re rich or poor, smart or dumb, ugly or beautiful; you’re always the best thing in their eyes. This is the surface message of Marley and Me, but there’s so much more.
Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson star in a movie that will be adored by dog lovers everywhere. Successfully mixing comedy and drama in a two hour heart warming storing that’s deeper than you might expect. Great acting and brilliant direction gives this it a depth and uncompromising honesty. If you walk out this movie with dry eyes you probably don’t have a heart.
The chemistry between Aniston and Wilson is believable and entertaining but the real star of the film is Marley, affectionately labelled the worst dog in the world by his owners. The dog manages to cause every kind of trouble as this family goes through the ups and downs of life. Wilson’s character struggles between his wife, his kids, his work and his over active dog, thus creating a wonderful commentary on the juggle of work and home.
The movie isn’t perfect, at times opportunities for extreme laughter or heart wrenching moments are missed, but overall the movie is difficult not to love.
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
Tags: balls, barry hilton, chief, DAVID MARKOWITZ, everything happens for a reason, finding lenny, lenny vincent, Madiba, nu metro, soccer, South Africa, st benedicts, trailer
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
Review
After the huge success of the first Pink Panther, and my absolute adoration for it, I had high hopes for the sequel. They had the right ingredients, a great cast, and a huge history to create a good story from but too my great dismay this sequel isn’t even slightly entertaining.
Filled with slap stick comedy and an extremely boring plot line the movie fails to take off before crashing miserably with a horrifically predictable ending. There’s no presence in the film because the actors are totally underutilised and diminished to stupid conversations about nothing. Gone is the originality and unpredictability of the first film. We know what’s coming and this time, it’s not funny.
The Pink Panther 2 can’t hold it’s own for a diverse audience anymore. It’s taken a step down and began catering for young kids with repeated pie in your face jokes that anyone over eight is officially sick of. I would like to speak to whoever came up with the script; they must have some serious form of writers block.
1/10
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Saturday, January 17th, 2009
Review
People are interesting to say the least. Have you ever sat and watched how funny people are? Have you ever looked at yourself and seen how funny you are? We do weird things, behave irrationally and take ourselves far too seriously. Burn After Reading pokes fun at life and people in general.
The story in itself is so confusing and ridiculous that it’s funny. The plot balances on a thin spy-thriller rope. It involves a CD lost by a disgraced CIA employee and found by a couple of, to put it nicely, unintelligent gym employees. What it really covers though is a collection of caricature (fancy word for exaggerated personality) studies stirred together and displayed for the world to see. It’s real are raw and different to most movies you will ever see. It is a commentary on the complete idiocy of man kind. With the catch phrase, “intelligence is relative,” it has to be.
What keeps this movie from going in all the wrong directions is essentially brilliant acting. Brad Pitt and George Clooney seem to love playing their idiotic characters as they experience some of the most absurd things. Full credit must be given to Frances McDormand who really shines as a totally believable idiotic gym worker, Brad Pitt’s co-worker, who is obsessed with having cosmetic surgery.
As usual, movies with sex, nudity, violence, and bad language loose points with me. For two main reasons: As a Christian I don’t appreciate it, an explanation which comes with so many different questions but I will leave it at that. The second is that it limits the amount of people who can watch it or would be willing to. This is not a family movie in any sense. This movie is only rated 13 yet it contains the full collection of SNVL. Although I will not rant about the disgusting job the ratings board is doing at the moment it should have been rated 16 at least.
Although the movie can and probably will be totally overbearing to the average viewer it provides an originality and truth that is undeniable. This one is for an acquired taste.
7/10
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
Tags: Anant Singh, bones, cast, director, Durban, gallery, Gray Hofmeyr, Hekule, Helena Spring, Kaseran Pillay, Kuvuki, Kuvukiland, Leeanda Reddy, Leon Schuster, Meren Reddy, Mr. bones, producers, Redcoat, South Africa, springbok, synopsis, Tongayi Chirisa, writers
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