Juno Review

Ellen Page plays Juno, a sixteen year old girl who now is pregnant and decides that she can’t go through with abortion decides with a llittle help from her friend Leah (Olivia Thirlby) suggest giving it to a couple looking for a child in the penny savers. Through the penny savers she meets the perfect couple played by Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner. We follow Juno thought the step of pregnancy through the highs and lows till the big day.

The first thrity minutes (besides the animated opening credits, which I like) of Juno, I hated. I just didn’t liked the dialouge I felt like it was trying to be too quirky and that put me off. Then once it got up till the point after Juno and her father (played by J.K. Simmons) meet with the couple Juno plans on giving her child to. After that I fell right back into the movie with open arms and enjoyed the rest of the movie.

The Cast of Juno were all great for me Ellen Page was only OK, why the supporting cast (like J.K. Simmons, Jason Bateman, Jennifer Garner and Allison Janney) really did a good job. Is it me or does Micheal Cera have the same acting technique for all type of characters he plays. He acts the exactly like his characters from television show Arrested Development and his other movie Superbad.

Overall sitting down and watch Juno in the beginning I hated but once you get past that then its full sailing and everything fits in all together. From the acting to the original story of Juno it just seem so right. I recommend see this movie.

Cloverfield Review

Well, I remember sitting in the theatre about to watch Transformers and I see a trailer for a unknown movie and got me really excited. I went through all the online shenanigans that went on up till the release date of what was titled Cloverfield.

Cloverfield stars Michael Stahl-David who plays Rob Hawkins along with Jessica Lucas, Odette Yustman, Lizzy Caplan, Mike Vogel and T.J. Miller who plays the camera man throughout the movie. The main story of Cloverfield revolves around an monster attacking New York and we see the attacks through these peoples eyes (or well through the camera anyway).

I must say as the date of this movies release drew near I was becoming a little skeptical of the film. Basically become of the way it was filmed, with the shaking camera technique. Only in a couple of films have I like it like Children of Men (A movie that I loved) and I was tolerant with it with the Bourne Trilogy, but with this It worked for me. It made me feel that I was with the characters experiencing the events has you were right with them.

The actors I thought did a good job I think It was smart to cast some unknown actors it sort of adds to the realism to the film. I really like the character Hud, a lot of his remarks were great.

The look and feel, felt like something new and we haven’t seen a good creature feature in a long time and am glad to see one that’s really enjoyable. I would recommend watching Cloverfield.

The Forbidden Kingdom Review

The Forbidden Kingdom stars action legends Jackie Chan (who plays Lu Yan) and Jet Li (playing the Monkey King and The Silent Monk) along with Michael Angarano, Yifei Liu (played Sparrow) and Collin Chou playing the Jade Warlord.

Well the main plot of The Forbidden Kingdom starts off with the Monkey King (Jet Li) causing mischief against the Jade Warlord (beating up some jade warriors atop a group of mountains), and the Jade Warlord challenges the Monkey King to a duel. During the duel the Jade Warlord (Collin Chou) turns the Monkey King into stone just after the Monkey King casts his staff away.

Switch to sort of present day and we see Jason (played by Michael Angarano). He get out of bed and goes to a store in China town to buy some kung fu movies (this is were we see Jackie Chan in make up to make him look old playing the shop owner). Afterwards he gets chased after by as group of bullies and Jason is ends up inside The Forbidden Kingdom. Here he first meets Lu Yan (Jackie Chan) and they start a journey to help return the staff to his rightful owner. On the way they meet Sparrow (Yifei Liu) and the Silent Monk (played by Jet Li) who helps him on his journey.

Now as being a big Jackie Chan Fan some could thing that this is a no brainer of which way I might swing, but I’m not going to lie I loved this movie. I was grinning from ear to ear, I was like a kid in a candy shop seeing Jackie Chan and Jet Li on screen together.

Over and over, film after film Woo-ping Yuen always delivers when It comes to the choreography he is truly the greatest of his profession. Jackie Chan and Jet Li both are excellent during there selection of fight scenes with the best of course in my mind being when the two fought each other inside the temple.

Along with the great fight scenes the Forbidden Kingdom is really funny I was actually surprised on how funny it was, most of the scenes came from when Jet Li and Jackie was training the kid and a “raining” scene which is hilarious.

As a huge fan when it comes to pretty much anything about martial arts films I’ll like from anything thing these two actors do all the way to any Shaw Brothers Films. For me The Forbidden Kingdom fit perfectly together I loved every minute of it. I highly recommend this movie.

Baby Mama Review

Baby Mama stars Tina Fey and Amy Poehler who were both on SNL together while Tina as left Amy Poehler is still there. Both did one of my personal favorite segments on SNL The Weekend Update. Baby Mama is Directed by Michael McCullers which is his first job as director.

When Kate Holbrook (Tina Fey) finds out that she can’t get pregnant she turns to having a surrogate having the baby for her. That woman is Angie Ostrowiski (Amy Poehler) who agrees to put Kate’s baby inside her and we follow the two through the course of the pregnancy.

I like this movie a lot but then on some parts I didn’t. The first parts of the movie I thought was dull with some quick bits of laughter here and there,only up till Amy Poehler moves in with Kate (Tina Fey) does this movie start to get funny. Some of the reasons why has to be with this movie not having a script and at times was a little dull and very predictable.

Aside from those flaws, Baby Mama is a very funny movie. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have great chemistry and that shows I hope in the future they can do more movies together. Some of my favorite moments come from Romany Malco who plays Oscar, he is a very funny person I especially liked him in the 40-Year-Old Virgin and on the Showtime hit Weeds. Another funny character was Steve Martin (who plays Tina’s boss), he has this very funny awkward scene.

Baby Mama I thought was funny but still with the flaws the movie is still watchable. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have great chemistry and I hope they do a lot more movies together in the future. I still Recommend Baby Mama.