Forgetting Sarah Marshall

An original romantic comedy, oxymoron right? For once that's actually a plausibly statement when it comes to the movie, Forgetting Sarah Marshall. I realize calling it a romantic comedy is a stretch but really thats only because its actually funny
Jason Segal is our protagonist. When his movie star girlfriend (Kristen Bell) breaks up with him. Not handling it well, Segal decides to go to Hawaii to get away from everything. There he meets Mila Kunis who is working at the hotel. When Segal arrives he discovers his ex has also decided to come there with her new boyfriend, rocker Russell Brand. I won't spoil anything, but from there is where this movie really throws surprises at you.
Cast:
Segal, who also wrote this movie, is hilarious, and never gets sappy and barely a joke misses.
Kristen Bell as Sarah Marshall plays a great role because the movie actually shows that she had reasons for what she did, and is a reasonably multi-sided character.
Mila Kunis is the true star of this film, being truly hilarious, and of course, really damn hot. Her role is unique how it is portrayed, in that she isn't just the perfect girl Segal goes after. She actually has her own issues and personality.
A big part of the humor comes from the supporting cast. Great bit roles by Bill Hader, Jonah Hill, Paul Rudd, and Jack MacBryor ("30 rock guy") add some comedic depth.
Russel Brand does a good job playing his character. Another role that is more than one sided. Even if you aren't a fan of Brand, he actually doesn't get overly annoying.



Pretty hard to forget that.








Now I must warn you this movies comedy, is alot about sex, literally. The humor isnt too crass and is still very funny but... don't watch it with your mom. Especially considering a moment of male full frontal, (I know it sounds bad but it's done perfectly so its hilarious (I didn't think it was possible either))
This movie is something special, it's a romantic comedy aimed at guys. It ignores the usually sappy and boring moments to keep the movie constantly running with funny jokes and new character developments. In general, this movie is a definite watch, through all the dirty jokes you actually see true character feelings. I'd give this movie, an 9/10, memorable, funny, and brilliant.

Iron Giant

Warner Bro's animated films usually aren't very varied, it's mostly looney tunes, scooby doo and other hanna barbara and DC comic movies like the Justice League, o yea and Osmosis Jones but lets not bring that up. No I'm here to talk about a GOOD movie where Warner Bro's broke the mold, the Iron Giant.
The Iron Giant was an animated science fiction film about a large alien robot lands in a small 1950's town. With a solid voice cast of Harry Connick Jr., John Mahoney (Frasier's dad!), a rare good performance from Vin Diesel, and surprisingly Jennifer Anniston.
The plot revolves around a young boy named Hogarth who discovers a giant robot from space, with the help of a junkyard artist Hogarth hides the robot from a government agent out to confiscate it for the government.
The plot here is brilliantly paced with good action and tension while still taking those pauses for fun humor. All the characters are portrayed with depth and seem believable. A great part of this movie is how it's able to avoid stereotyping its characters and moments, most characters are not onesided. The emotion portrayed in the serious scenes is unbelievable in it's realism.
A great side of this movie is the visuals, made in 1999 the animation has that nostalgic feeling of older disney films while still holding beautiful detail in every scene, the style of animation helps you involve yourself more in the 1550's time period. The animation excels, beyond belief, at it's sense of motion while still holding that classic style of art. To put it simply, as a fan of animation, this is probably one of the best animated films ever, just judging by the visuals.
The best scenes in this movie happen between Hogarth and the giant just having fun, for example a trip to a lake. It is amazing how they are able to build a strong character in the giant without having him say many words at all. His facial expressions and actions define how he reacts in certain situations and those forms of reactions stay consistent throughout the movie. This movie parallels E.T. in many ways (parallels, not copies), an alien that is misunderstood and helped by a young boy.
Overall this movie is enjoyable for all ages, it's focused at kids but funny enough and heartfelt for adults. This movie will truly be memorable. I suggest, no matter your age, the next time your free, find the full movie on youtube. I give it a 10/10 (that's right, it's perfect, sure thats a bit of my nostalgia, but whats wrong with people giving perfect scores! I can't find fault in this film)

Prince of persia

O great a movie, by disney, with the star from Brokeback Mountain doing action, playing a different race...... and yea it's from a videogame. Sounds like ultimate doom right? Don't worry Prince of Persia was actually pretty good.

As a quick spoiler free summary Gyllenhaal plays the prince Dastan who finds the Dagger of Time, a blade that can reverse short moments of time. This is a valuable item wanted by the bad guy, so Gyllenhaal must go on an adventure with the princess, played by a hot Gemma Arterton, to not let the dagger fall into the wrong hands. Generic right? well it's done well and the ending took me by surprise completely.

If you can get over the fact that Jake Gyllenhaal is white and not anywhere close to being Persian, (he doesn't have to be the right race, he's just so handsomely tough!) he does do a good job as the leading man. Admittedly he is pretty built and fits in well with the action.

The bad guy, Ben Kingsley, is quite obvious which is disappointing, because the movie tries to play it like it's a reasonable surprise. Yea big surprise the evil looking guy wearing eyeliner who's first line is encouraging the attack on a holy city is evil, big surprise.

The Gemma Arterton as the princess fits in well, however it is disappointing that the most beautiful princess in all of persia is an english actress. She does plays her character believably, she has one of the best performances of the film, the only problem is that I think they cast her on her looks (which I do not disagree with) and her serious whisper so when she has to yell or scream it often comes out as a high pitch whine.

The action here is good but its hurt with the new theme in directing which is the shaking camera and quick shots of something. Sometimes I would like them to just zoom out a little and see Gyllenhaal take the guy down, not a shaking close up where you can only kind of get the idea of what he just did. The action will keep you excited but when it comes down to it you sometimes wish they would just a show a shot of what is happening to show the scale of what he's doing, like running across rooftops acrobatically, I'd rather just see him do it, then these flashy quick movements.

Quick mentions go to the soundtrack and the comedy relief character, which is a comedy relief character, not much else to say about him, he can be funny but annoying like all comedy relief characters. The soundtrack of this movie is great, it fits in with the atmosphere and well represents the moment at hand.

The romance between Gyllenhaal and the princess is surprisingly well done. I hate romances in films, especially action films, because you know what's going to happen you, you know they are going to get together. But even I enjoyed this one, they didn't do anything original, but they kept it light and moving, it didn't drag down the whole plot like most do and it didn't fall into the old, "well the good guy won so there for the girl that he had no chemistry with now loves him" thing.

The magic is handled a little inconsistent, the idea of the dagger of time and it's abilities is well presented and believable. However when other things occur it's confusing if this is because of the same kindof magic elements. For example there is a character that can control snakes, now are these just his well trained pets, or is that some kind of spell or magic or something, it's not explained.

On a bit of a side note I think it is interesting how people are able to simply believe whatever is shown to them on the screen. In the movie 300 hundred the persians were these overly mystical ruthless savages, here they are presented with reasonable honor, what is with the change? Maybe we are supposed to believe that because two of princes are white guys that they are all suddenly righteous. All I'm saying is that people don't ever question what is told to them on the screen often movies point to someone and say "he's the bad guy because he's evil!" and most Americans reply with "ok, he's a foreigner so I can buy that."

Anyways sorry about that, my conclusions on the movie is simple. This film is kickass! And you should have an enjoyable experience watching it, it does have it's moments of stupidity but not enough to take you out of the movie. For a video game movie, this is truly a cut above, it is not special, not a great movie to go down in history, but it's more like a solid james bond film, this movie is just a kick ass action film that will keep you entertained the whole time.

Prince of Persia accomplished what it wanted to do, be a fun action film, I'll give it a 8/10