Movie Reviews

Wreck It Ralph (2012)

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Director:

Rich Moore

Starring:

John C. Reilly

Jack McBrayer

Jane Lynch

Sarah Silverman

Plot:

A video game villain wants to be a hero and sets out to fulfill his dream, but his quest brings havoc to the whole arcade where he lives.

Review:

I probably would have enjoyed this movie more if I hadn’t watched Frozen so recently. It was a good movie don’t get me wrong but Frozen was awesome and most movies will pale in comparison if viewed so soon after.

Wreck It had its moments and it was a good movie. I thought the premise was original and hope they explore it more in the future. Honestly I liked it but I can’t think of anything that stood out for me.

3/5

Odd Thomas (2013)

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Director:

Stephen Sommers

Starring:

Anton Yelchin

Addison Timlin

Willem Dafoe

Plot:

In a California desert town, a short-order cook with clairvoyant abilities encounters a mysterious man with a link to dark, threatening forces.

Review:

I’m ashamed to say that they got me with that ending. I was so sure that the person that did end up dying in the end was going to die and then it looked like they didn’t but they had. I forgot his powers. It just meant that the ending got me more emotionally than it should have.

Good movie. Good story. Would love a sequel or maybe a TV show like one review I read mentioned. Have added the book to my never ending To Read list.

4/5

Admission (2013)

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Director:

Paul Weitz

Starring:

Tina Fey

Paul Rudd

Plot:

A Princeton admissions officer who is up for a major promotion takes a professional risk after she meets a college-bound alternative school kid who just might be the son she gave up years ago in a secret adoption.

Review:

This was supposed to be a comedy, or at least that’s what I thought. It had Paul Rudd and Tina Fey they’re comedians surely they’d be funny in a movie together. Nope. The funniest person was Lily Tomlin and she was barely in the movie. I didn’t hate the movie which is the only reason it’s not getting one star. It was not a movie I would recommend and it was completely unremarkable.

2/5

Best Man Holiday (2013)

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Director:

Malcolm D. Lee

Starring:

Monica Calhoun

Morris Chestnut

Melissa De Sousa

Taye Diggs

Terrance Howard

Plot:

When college friends reunite after 15 years over the Christmas holidays, they discover just how easy it is for long-forgotten rivalries and romances to be reignited.

Review:

The previews for this movie made me thing comedy. There were some funny elements, mainly from Terrance Howard, but this movie was mainly about rebuilding relationships. I cried a lot.

I saw the ending coming, there were just too many signs. My husband laughed at the football scene just because they used every cliché possible.

Overall it wasn’t a bad movie but it wasn’t anything remarkable either.

2.75/5

Ender’s Game (2013)

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Director:

Gavin Hood

Starring:

Harrison Ford

Asa Butterfield

Hailee Steinfeld

Plot:

Young Ender Wiggin is recruited by the International Military to lead the fight against the Formics, a genocidal alien race which nearly annihilated the human race in a previous invasion.

Review:

So I read Ender’s Game before I knew anything about Orson Scott Card’s politics. The book was amazing and I told anyone who would listen to read it. Now I look for it in used bookstores because I would love to own it but I don’t want to give money to Card. Oh well.

I was wary of the movie because as every reader knows Hollywood almost always crushes our preciouses with their CG and incomprehension of what really makes the book amazing.

Maybe it’s because I haven’t read the book in a couple years but I thought the movie was pretty good. It wasn’t amazing but it wasn’t the horrible piece of crap I thought it was going to be. I guess all I really need to do is go into a movie with super low expectations and I will more often be pleasantly surprised.

I did think they should have cast someone even smaller in the roll of Bean. And I don’t remember there being a romantic relationship between Ender and Petra. Maybe I was reading too much into it.

3/5