Movies, movies, movies!

I absolutely adore watching movies and have managed over the course of a few days to catch quite a bit. I will spare a review of the latest Disney channel movie that I happend to see today, but here are a few notables:

Get Smart
I wont lie I got dragged to this one by a friends of mine. The movie itself is not too shabby, just not my cup of tea. It centers around a man named Maxwell Smart (Steve Carell) who is a dimwitted employee of a spy agency called "Control." When a group called "chaos" wrecks well...chaos on the spy agency it is up to Maxwell and another agent played by Anne Hatheway to save the day. The movie plays up to the typical laughs that go along with these comedies. A side-plot with Hatheway's character adds some depth to her character, but it is a pretty typical comedy. Some of the best performances I believe in this movie were given by Bruce and Lloyd (played by Masi Oka and Nate Torrence) the nerdy friends of Maxwell. If you like cheesy comedies without much depth (think a little more Not Another Teen Movie and a little less Juno) or just like Steve Carell then I would say this movie is for you. If not save it for a rainy day onDemand rental. (PS the Rock aka Dwayne Johnson is in the movie...and he's not half bad!)

P.S. I Love You

This movie is the first I have rented from the Red Box rentals you see at every grocery store in America. You know the one's that offer a movie a night for only $1...needless to say I'm addicted. But back to the movie. This one came out awhile ago, and the trailers that followed told a good deal of what the movies about...okay they told like the whole movie. So in case you didn't see the trailers heres the gist of it: Hilary Swank plays a woman whose husband (Gerard Butler) has died and left her a series of letters instructing her to do various tasks to help her cope with his death. Along for the ride are a host of well know characters: her mom (played by Kathy Bates), a guy who works at her moms bar with a really bad case of ADHD (played by Harry Connick Jr.), her two friends (played by Gina Gershon and Lisa Kudrow) and another cute guy that Swank's character meets in Ireland (played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan aka "Denny"). Needless to say with all those big names the movie was not a winner. It was somewhat redundant, definitely depressing, and might I add during the scenes between Swank's character and her departed husband I felt more than uncomfortable. I understand that showing the love between a husband and his wife was important to get the real sadness of the film, but instead I felt as though I were viewing some kind of really private moment in a voyaristic kind of way...not cool. Needless to say watching Gerard Butler for an hour and a half was well worth the $1 and a good bonus at seeing "Spike" from Buffy legacy aka James Marster make it to my big screen.

No Reservations

Another sappy romantic comedy for $1. This one is so predictable, but so good at the same time. A comedy about a chef (played by the always lovely Catherine Zeta Jones) whose life revolves around work and is so uptight her boss has forced her to go see a shrink. Following a family tragedy, Catherine's character must care for her sisters daughter (played by Abigail Breslin). The restaurant she works at also happens to hire an additonal chef (Aaron Eckhart) while Catherine's character takes leave to deal with her family. Upon returning to work she finds that her tight-ship of a kitchen has gone the opposite with the help of Eckhart's carefree like attitude. I am sure you can figure out the rest as the story follows typical romantic comedy lines. Not a fantastic movie, but if all you want is a romantic comedy then this movie definitely dishes (no pun intended) it up.