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2010 Movie Reviews

‘Toy Story 3’ (2010) — movie review

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Who’s in it?: voices of Tom Hanks (Big, Turner and Hooch), Tim Allen (TV’s Home Improvement, Galaxy Quest), Michael Keaton (Batman, Mr. Mom)

Bravo, Pixar.  If you’ve seen the first two movies and enjoyed them, then you’ll love this one.  The fact is all, or at least most Pixar movies are amazing.  Not only because of the animation, but the story telling is top notch; Bug’s Life, The Incredibles, Wall*E, Up.  Maybe not Cars.  I still don’t get that one.  Talking cars that race in front of an audience of other talking cars?  What the —-?  It’s a little perverse isn’t it?  So, except for Cars, which was stupid, the rest of the movies have been pretty damn good.  Mainly because they are more aimed at adults than the animation would leave you to believe.  Well guess what?  This one will kick adults right in the nuts.  Without mercy.  Kids won’t get the real impact of this movie for 20-25 years.

I will get into that here in a few, but this movie pissed me off because it was so good and it just showed how much movies have God damn sucked this year.  When Toy Story 3 is one of the best movies that comes out over the summer, for me a 30 something year-old man, there is a real problem.

Back to Woody and Buzz. Like I said, this movie is going to kick most adults right in the sack.  I don’t care if you have a sack or not, you’re gonna cry during this movie.  Try not to.  I dare you.  Look we’ve all had to grow up, right?…and it sucks.  You know it and I know it.  And we all know the best time of our lives was our childhood.  We all wish we could go back to the days when our biggest problem was not having enough time in the day to play with all of our toys fairly and equally.  And if you have kids now, you see that again in them.  You want them to enjoy their childhood and try and tune out all of the violence and evil in this God damned world and just play with their Star Wars guys.

But you can’t.  And this movie is going to remind you of that time in your life.  Then you will look at your children.  They will look back at you and smile and then they will make fun of you for crying at the end of Toy Story 3 because they will think you’re an idiot.  Then someday when they have kids, show them that flick again.  Niagara Falls, baby.  Payback is a bitch.

8/10

Would I recommend this?: If you can’t enjoy Toy Story, I can’t help you.

2010 Movie Reviews

‘The Karate Kid’ (2010) — movie review

Who’s in it?: Jaden Smith (Pursuit of Happyness, The Day the Earth Stood Still-2008), Jackie Chan (Rush Hour, Rumble in the Bronx)

Remakes.  You know you cringe every time you hear about another one.  I know I do and I did especially when I heard about this one.  After all, it happened because Will Smith was looking for a movie series for his 11 year-old son, which is enough to make you want to throw up already.  The original movie is one of my all-time childhood favorites.  As far as I was concerned, this movie was fucking untouchable.  I was for sure I would hate this piece of shit.

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2010 Movie Reviews

‘The A-Team’ (2010) — movie review

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Who’s in it?: Liam Neeson (Taken, Krull) as Colonel Hannibal Smith; Bradley Cooper (The Hangover, TV’s Alias) as Lt. Faceman Peck; Quinton Jackson (?) as Bosco B.A. Baracas; Sharlto Copley (District 9) as Captain H.M. Murdock; also starring Jessica Biel (Blade:Trinity) and Patrick Wilson (Watchmen, Lakeview Terrace [review coming])

“I love it when a plan comes together.”, is a famous line from The A-Team.  I loved this shit when I was 10.  Mr. T was cool as hell back then and you know it.  The line of dialogue also applies to this movie finally getting made.  It took forever and it almost didn’t happen but let’s face it, all of these God damned TV remakes are for the most part, absolute rubbish.  But come one, this just made sense to make; and putting Liam Neeson it it was a stroke of genius because he was a total bad ass in Taken.

You can read my Kansas City TV Examiner review.

But I will say this, I’m not sure if i liked this because of how good it was or just because it was better more than most of the shite that came out this summer.  There were some shitty movies and I’m not sure this in in my top 5 for the summer.  I think this one seemed good because everything else was so bad.  But I was entertained when I watched it, even though I don’t think it will be much of a memorable movie. It had some good action sequences and the actors were great for the characters they had to portray.

Does that mean it was bad or just forgettable?….or does it have something to do with the fact that I watched 88 fucking movies after I saw this God damn thing.

7/10

Would I recommend this movie?: Yeah, sure.  Look, it is what it is.  A decent, entertaining remake of an 80’s TV show that you will like if you liked the show and be able to follow even if you have never heard of The A-Team before Bradley fucking Cooper and Qui Gon Jinn.