Funny People
I think this movie is going to take a lot of people by surprise, because it’s more than a comedy and when it changes it never goes the direction you expect. The good thing about this movie is that it seems real, it doesn’t make the assumption that incredible situations turn people into self-sacrificing, perfect individuals, which to me is incredibly intriguing. The movie, if you’ve happened to look at the run time, is quite long for what is being advertised as an almost slaphappy comedy at over 2 hours. The stand-up comedy bits and the behind the scenes give us that feel of getting to know Adam Sandler a bit better, or even Seth Rogan, but what I think is the focus of this movie is not necessarily the comedy but that it shows that people are who they are and that does not necessarily change when they face adversity or get saved from it.
Aliens in the Attic
In this week’s kids film a family goes to a house in Maine, when suprise Aliens attack. They’re cute and funny and everything you expect for a kids movie, and of course the family bands together in the way you’d expect and saves the day. The plot is nothing we haven’t seen before but then again that is the way of most kids movies, you pay not necessarily to be entertained but to keep the kids occupied for a good hour and a half. This movie will accomplish that especially if the kids are a bit younger, it’s rated PG mainly for suggestive comedy and language but expect a little bit of violence (nothing gory or truly scary).
The Collector
When I first heard the plot of this movie, it made me laugh out loud because not only is it really unbelievable but it’s hard to see the situation as not being funny. A thief breaks into a house in order to steal some sort of valuable gem, but wait! A derranged madmad has also decided to come to this house and have some fun, oops, did I come at a bad time? So in true Hollywood fashion, the bad guy becomes the hero as the thief has to rescue the family and find a way out of the now booby trapped mansion. Expect lots of scares and lots of gore as these booby traps are exactly what you’d expect from the guys who wrote Saw4, 5, and 6.