Justin Bartha

The Hangover (Unrated Edition) [Blu-ray]
$35.99
I am not kidding. I saw this movie the weekend my grandmother died, and as I left her hospital room to take a break from all the drama, I thought I needed a little laugh. I laughed so hard at this movie, I had tears streaming down my face throughout. Tyson, the little Asian dude, the baby - WTF? As I walked out of the movie, people were still laughing hysterically, long after the credits were over. (The credits are almost the highlight of the movie).

This is no joke. If you haven't seen this movie - you have to.

Failure to Launch (Special Collector's Edition)
$14.98
If ever a films title should persuade you to walk in the other direction, `Failure to Launch' is truly telling. I am so tempted to give this an `F' and be done with it, but I find that there is at least one redeeming factor in this big pile of unrealistic, clich���d garbage; the stars. Yes, no matter how ridiculous and unintelligible and utterly preposterous this lazy mess of a film really is, each and every actor involved does all they can to make it watchable.

So, for you Zooey, Matthew, Kathy and Jessica; I give this horrible film a D.

The film revolves around Paula, a professional motivator who is hired by Al and Sue, parents of man-child Tripp. Tripp is approaching his middle-age years and he has yet to move out of the house; causing his parents to resort to Paula as a way to get him out the door. Of course, as you probably could have guessed, Paula falls in love with Tripp, Tripp finds out that she is scamming him and breaks things off, everyone's life falls apart and then they make up and things are happy again. The issue I have with the film isn't the formula, because it's become apparent that there really is no other formula available to screenwriters today. My issue is the reckless abandon with which the screenwriters chose to formulate the formula. It's just very mediocre, and when it tries to be original (there are far too many animals here) it winds up being so preposterous that it is almost insulting to the audience.

Thank God Almighty for the charm and comedic timing of Zooey Deschanel and Sarah Jessica Parker. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Matthew McConaughey does his usual schtick and looks `super hot' (according to my wife) and so bonus points for him or whatever, but really this movie is not about him. No, if it wasn't for Parker's undeniable charm and comedic chemistry or Deschanel's flawless timing and sensual draw this movie would have been a complete waste for me.

Kathy Bates is generally good in everything, so bonus points for that.

In the end though, I hate to say that I cannot recommend this movie to anyone. In fact, when anyone I know that has seen this finds out that I've seen it they roll their eyes and ask why I didn't turn it off before it started; it is that bad. There is nothing new, nothing remotely memorable and nothing that warrants repeated viewing at all. I love you Zooey, and you really worked your cute little buns off to make me enjoy every moment you were on screen; but even your quirky charm cannot save this disgrace from my trash bin.

Seeing her made me realize that I NEED to get to the movies and see `(500) Days of Summer' though!

Gigli
$9.95
Well, sometimes I like to watch movies that most people hate to know what is so bad about them... You know what? I actually think that it's VERY underrated! Sure, it's not very good and I guess that the acting is bad (who cares?), but it's nowhere near as bad as it's made out to be! It has some fairly funny bits. I really don't understand why it's so hated (because the hate some people have for it is pretty damn extreme)... It's just another silly romantic comedy. It isn't worse than all of the others.

Oh well, my guess is that they hate it only because it's the "cool" thing to do. Hell, I bet that some of them liked it, but they're too afraid to say what they really think.

Gigli
$2.99
Well, sometimes I like to watch movies that most people hate to know what is so bad about them... You know what? I actually think that it's VERY underrated! Sure, it's not very good and I guess that the acting is bad (who cares?), but it's nowhere near as bad as it's made out to be! It has some fairly funny bits. I really don't understand why it's so hated (because the hate some people have for it is pretty damn extreme)... It's just another silly romantic comedy. It isn't worse than all of the others.

Oh well, my guess is that they hate it only because it's the "cool" thing to do. Hell, I bet that some of them liked it, but they're too afraid to say what they really think.