A Few quick movie reviews

Wall-E 5 stars
Hancock 4 stars
Meet Dave 2 star
Eastern Promises 4 stars
Tropic Thunder 3.5 stars
Sweeney Todd 3.5 stars
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SWEENEY TODD

Another movie directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp.
Basically a horror, revenge, musical.
Who could have known that Depp and Helena Bohnam Carter could sing so well.

I was really surprised how much I liked this.
Usually I could do without a musical, this one was really good.
Almost All the songs worked, and there was plenty of blood.

The ending really came out of the blue for me, I really
never expected that to happen.

3.5 stars out of 5
Recommended


TROPIC THUNDER

Ben Stiller stars in and directs a movie that's a movie within a movie.
Robert Downey Jr. plays, a dude playin', the dude, disguised as another dude!
Downey steats the show as a method actor who
surgically alters his look to look like a black man.

This is a comedy/satire but it also pretty gory being a film about making a war film.
great stuff and a few surprise cameos too.
Any movie that makes fun of Hollywood and does it well is worth a look for me.

3.5 stars out of 5
Recommended

EASTERN PROMISES

Viggo is a driver for the Russian mob.
He is there mostly to clean up the mess the the bosses son keeps getting himself into
but this time he has to clean up the boss's mess.
Seems a diary was found on a young pregnant girl who died during childbirth.
The boss is implicated in a horrific crime in the diary.

Mortenson was nominated for an Oscar as a leading actor and he deserved it.
He was one scary son of a gun in this movie.
He has a fight with two thugs that is not like any other fight scene I've seen before.

This movie is a Must See.
4 out 0f 5 stars


Meet Dave

Eddie Murphy's latest is almost a have to see it to believe it.
Murphy is a spaceship from another world coming here to find a probe that landed months before as they are looking for water to save their home world.

Dave is piloted by an army of tiny aliens and the captain looks just like Eddie Murphy.
While I actually laughed out loud a few times this is just typical slapstick and really just for younger kids or preteens.

2 out of 5 stars

Hancock

Will Smith's most recent summer blockbuster finally comes to dvd.
Smith is John Hancock and has superman like powers but has no idea how he got them or were he's from.

Hancock reluctantly saves the day but usually has to be prompted into action.
At least once by a child on the street who has to wake Hancock from a drunken sleep on a city bench.

Hancock is not the typical hero and always causes much financial damage
everytime he stops the bad guys.

Finally the city has had enough and he has to turn himself in as consequence
for his destructive behavior.

It won't be long before the city needs him again to stop all the rising crime while he's in jail.

So with a new attitude and help from a Public Relation specialist, Jason Bateman,
Hancock learns how to become a real hero.
That's not the end of the story.
He learns someting that he never thought possible.

Any more and it gives away too much.
Hancock is an action movie but it is more then just that.
It's also a character study and an unusual love story.

4 out of 5 stars
Highly recommended

Wall-E

Saving the best for last this week.

Based partly on Chaplin's CITY LIGHTS, this movie is practically a silent film
as there is very little dialog until the second half of the movie.

700 years in the future there are no people left on Earth and only one
little robot, who for 700 years has been trying to clean the planet of all the trash
and junk that has piled up.

A ship soon comes from the sky and another little robot comes out.
It's love at first site for Wall-E and his adventure begins.

EVE, goes back into the ship and Wall-E grabs on and goes for a ride and
an exciting surprise.

Sure it's animated but Wall-E is the best movie I have seen this year.
Wall-E, I think, is the best movie so from from Pixar,
Including both Toy Story movies and The Incredibles.

This is story telling at it's best, with very few spoken words to mess it up.

5 out of 5 stars
Highest Recommendation