Tuesday, July 12, 2011

MOVIE REVIEW: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2


It has been a weird time for me at the movies lately,I still haven't seen Bad Teacher, Larry Crowne and Transformers: Dark of the Moon but I saw both Zookeeper and Horrible Bosses days before the actual opening day and make that 3 with the last chapter in the Harry Potter series; Deathly Hallows Part 2 last night.
What a fitting ending to one of the biggest moneymaking film franchises of all time since Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. The first part of Deathly Hallows clearly set up on what was to be the ultimate duel almost a decade in the making; Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort. After all the anguish that Harry had been too in the other books and the first part, he is now edgier and ready to finish it all, this is Daniel Radcliffe's best performance in the series and rightfully so in the last one.
Those who weren't able to read the book or maybe skipped a book, film or both can still catch up while watching the film. It gave a good backgrounder from Harry's parents to even his mentors Professor Dumbledore and Severus Snape.
This is epic filmmaking at it's best. I saw it in the 3D version but save your hard earned money. Seeing it on a regular screen is well worth it.

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

MOVIE REVIEW: Horrible Bosses


Gross, unpredictable and very funny, these are the words that describe Horrible Bosses; the new film by Seth Gordon, who also directed Four Christmases, a movie that will always have a place in my heart.
Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis of Saturday Night Live and Charlie Day of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia play buddies who all have stable jobs but with HORRIBLE BOSSES!!
Bateman's boss is played by the great Kevin Spacey (wickedly funny and evil), who slaves him to work, not granting him his promotion and sees the minor small detail that can get people fired.
Sudeikis' is Colin Farrell (with a hideous hairpiece), the cokehead son of his former boss, who wants to drain the company's bank account.
Jason Day plays an engaged dentist assistant, who's boss Jennifer Aniston, is giving him all the sexual innuendos possible to him borderlining on sexual harrassment.
Together, with the help of a hired killer mastermind (Jamie Foxx), they all conspire to murder their bosses who makes them miserable in life.
Among the three leads, it is Charlie Day who steals the movie. He has the best lines in the film and I'm pretty sure that after this movie, he would be a household name in the same way that Zach Galifianakis become in the first Hangover.
Brutally dark comedy but very very funny. Horrible Bosses, joins Bridesmaids as the funniest film of 2011.