Movies: Review: The Wedding Crashers

Hilarious. Freakin' hilarious. Witty, too - it's nice to see a comedy these days that doesn't rely completely on gross-out humor and sight gags. Plus it was cool that they didn't try to please everyone and go for a PG-13 rating. Nah, they stuck with a good ol' R rating. Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson have awesome chemistry - they seem to have been best buddies for life. The movie's very re-watchable and has plenty of memorable lines, so I'm definitely buying this DVD when it comes out.

Bottom line: Go see it - twice.

DVD: Guess Who

I kinda wanted to see this in the theaters - I'm glad I didn't waste $30 on tickets and ridiculously-priced snacks. It was ok, but it seemed like a bit too much of a complete and total rip-off of Meet the Parents. The same gags - the awkward car ride, lying about stuff to impress the future in-laws, sneaking around the house to fool around with the fiancee, the list goes on... I chuckled quite a bit, but it wasn't exactly a gut-buster, and the constant emphasis on the race thing was making me squirm a bit. Okay, we get it - he's white, she's black. Move on!

Bottom line: Eh... maybe.

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Movies: Transformers, TCON: TLTWATW

In case you're wondering, that second acronym stands for "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe," which may be the longest movie title ever. Being the two most favorite things of my youth, I am so stoked for these movies. Here are the official sites:

http://www.narnia.com
http://www.transformerslive.com

I really hope they do Narnia right, and if so, continue to do all 7 books in the series.

DVD: Review: Alone in the Dark

Horrible, just horrible. It's my fault however, for allowing my wife to listen to her friends when it comes to movie picks. This film, as I found out all too late, is an adaptation of a video game starring Christian Slater and Tara Reid. Everything about this movie was random - random love scenes, random effects for the sake of effects and random shoot-out scenes, all with seemingly no point at all. The dialogue must have been simply painful for the actors:

"Everything I've been looking for my whole life is behind this door."
"Some doors were meant to stay closed."

For those who thought Tara Reid couldn't act, they now have proof. Apparently she can't run either, even with a 10-foot demon chasing after her - it looks more like she's on her morning jog.

Let's put it this way: I can't wait for that memory-erasing technology from Total Recall to come out.

Bottom line: Avoid at all costs. To benefit others, go to the video store and hide all their copies of this movie behind Gigli, where they'll never be found.