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Action on November 8th, 2006 by Chad Everett
You might think that The Dukes of Hazzard return in this big screen fiasco, but you’d be wrong. About the only thing that remains the same between this movie and the original The Dukes of Hazzard
is the name, the name of the players and the General Lee.
The Duke boys do shoot those arrows that explode when they hit something, and the place names are the same.
Oh, and you could almost count Willie Nelson, because he used to play with Waylon Jennings. Willie plays the new Uncle Jesse, and Waylon used be The Balladeer. But that’s about as close as it gets, and that’s also the end of the comparison. Sad, really.
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Adventure on July 8th, 2006 by Chad Everett
The second installment of the Pirates franchise clocks in just a few minutes longer than the first movie, but in some ways it seems quite a bit longer. Perhaps we’ve become used to Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp, in the role he was born to play), or perhaps it just went on too long. One thing is sure, and that’s that the visuals are superb.
From the opening sounds of the lonely pirate singing, you are whisked off to a world of adventure with Captain Jack. Unfortunately it gets a bit bogged down after that. There’s an adventure on an island which, while fun, could probably be dropped in its entirety without affecting the rest of the movie one bit. The movie then drags for a while before another fun bit that goes on and on and on. And then it goes on some more.
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Adventure on April 8th, 2006 by Chad Everett
This one won’t make many classic lists. It won’t make many lists at all, unless you count lists of movies that need to be thrown out. But it is typically good for an afternoon (or morning, as the case may be) of fun. Starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter (talk about diverging career paths) as two high schoolers on the verge of flunking history.
Lucky for them, Rufus (played by the inimitable George Carlin) is on his way from the future with a time-traveling phone booth that will allow them to pick up some of history’s most notable characters, bring them back to present-day San Dimas, and pass their history report.
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Comedy on April 1st, 2006 by Chad Everett
Average Joe’s gym, owned by regular guy Peter La Fleur Vince Vaughn, suddenly needs $50,000 to pay off their mortgage. It looks like the only way there is through a dodgeball tournament, so they put together a rag-tag team and sign up. The rest of the movie is, well, pretty predictable, though it takes a roundabout way to get there.
The most notable speed bump on the way is through White Goodman (Ben Stiller), owner of the competing gym that wants to buy Average Joe’s (and coincidentally, the reigning dodgeball champs).
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