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Hard Breakers

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Movie: Hard Breakers (2011)

Studio : Oceanfront Productions

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Runtime : 98 min

Website : www.hardbreakersthemovie.com

Rating : R

Trailer :
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbjicu

Review:

Lindsay (Sophia Monk) and Alexis (Cameron Richardson) are best friends, with a common problem. Both of their fathers are jerks and thus they feel that men are equally as bad. But they still need a little loving in their lives, so they decide the best way to do that is as it was in cavemen times, only in reverse. Hit them over the head and make them their own in what they refer to as a catch and release program. But things get complicated between them when Alexis falls in love with one of their targets. Lindsay, feeling abandoned, falls in with the local woman gun store owner (Tia Carrere), who teaches her how to really hunt down men. Can they resolve their friendship and their daddy issues before the end of the film? Read more…

Comedy cameron richardson, chris kataan, Comedy, oceanfront productions, r, sexy, sophia monk, tia carrere, tom arnold

 

 

Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family

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Movie: Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family (2011)

Studio : Lionsgate Entertainment

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Runtime : 106 min

Website : madeasbighappyfamilymovie.com

Rating : PG-13

Trailer :
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xiahjw

Review:

Madea (Tyler Perry), as you know from the other movies, is a very shall we say, intense person who creates a whole lot of trouble in what should be normal activities of her family and friends, even though she means well. In this one, her older niece Shirley (Loretta Devine) is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and she wants nothing more than to get her family together to tell them the sad news. But her adult children are too busy with their own issues to even notice that she’s withering away with the chemotherapy or even to stay there long enough for them to find out the truth. Her daughters Tammy (Natalia Desselle Reid) and Kimberly (Shannon Kane) have domestic issues, while their brother Byron (Shad “Bow Wow” Moss) is pushed into returning to drug dealing after getting out of prison. Madea, however, is there for Shirley, along with Aunt Bam (Cassi Davis) if that’s a good thing and will get the family back on track no matter what she has to do, and she’s willing to do quite a bit. Read more…

Comedy, In Theaters cassi davis, Comedy, lionsgate, loretta devine, madea, natalia desselle reid, pg13, shad bow wow moss, shannon kane, tyler perry

Hot Tub Time Machine

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Movie: Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)

Studio : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

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Runtime : 100 min

Website : hottubtimemachinemovie.com/

Trailer :http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbmlpy

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Adam (John Cusack), Lou (Rob Corddry), and Nick (Craig Robinson) are lifelong friends who are unhappy with their lives, who along with Adam’s nephew Jacob (Clark Duke), find themselves trapped in 1986, via the hot tub time machine, as their younger selves, reliving their past and missed opportunities, with a possibility (or impossibility?) of changing their present/future.

Much of the film’s strength is the fact that it takes place in the 80’s–the funky hair, the music, the slang, and the nostalgic factor. Loosely based on Back to the Future’s time traveling plotline, it also pokes fun at Quantum Leap, and various other 80’s films. Added to that is male-bonding comedy about lovable losers reliving their pinnacle moments of their past, and to the film’s credit, those moments provide poignancy.

This is a sci-fi B-movie-style broad comedy. This film is directed by Steve Pink who wrote the screenplay for Grosse Pointe Blank and High Fidelity. I wished he had also written this film because this film could’ve used some of his sharp wit. While the film is mostly funny overall, occasional jokes do fall flat and some parts could’ve used one more draft of rewrite. Better or for worse, much of the humor (although not surprisingly) involve toilet and sexual humor, with some gratuitous drug use and nudity.

This isn’t sophisticated stuff, but this film isn’t trying to be. It’s called Hot Tub Time Machine, after all. The film works because the characters are likeable and the time travel concept is fun. John Cusack plays his usual, likeable everyman role. Lou (Rob Corddry) provides much of the extreme, wild humor. There are fun geeky references, familiar faces, and nostalgic elements for those of us who grew up in that era–the younger generation may have a hard time fully appreciating some of that. Nevertheless, the filmmakers know it’s silly stuff and they milk and revel in the concept to its fullest extent, which is all one can ask for.

-“D-Art” Kang

Comedy, In Theaters, Reviews by Genre Comedy, John Cusack

Extract

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Movie: Extract (2009)

Studio : Miramax Films

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Runtime : 92 min

Website : extract-the-movie.com

Trailer :http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9oeph

Review:

The title of Extract comes from what the main character (Joel) sells: flavor extract. He is the founder of a local factory that makes nothing but flavor extract and loves talking about the stuff the same way a Trekker loves talking about the Enterprise. When one of his workers busts a nut at work (literally), things begin to get irksome as a pretty young con artist steps in to push Joel, his business, and his home life, into the ground.

Mike Judge has a talent for noticing characters that are absurd but strangely true to life, and this movie takes no exception with the minor roles of this film. If you ever worked in a menial manual labor job, you might recognize quite a few characters in the movie such as: the associate who keeps “voluntarily” soliciting you to go to events you don’t want to go to, the guy who remembers nobody’s name despite how long he’s been there, the musician who seems to be into really obscure musical niches, the gabby old lady who’s always been there and does nothing but gossip and blame the silent and unculpable immigrant worker for everything. There’s a lot there that I have (unfortunately) seen and experienced at one point or another, and I couldn’t help but praise Mike Judge for seeing this.

While it has its share of scenes that are funny just to watch, the humor as a result tends to borderline enough to make it a little too cerebral for the people looking for a quick laugh, and a little too primitive for folks wanting something witty, and I think this will not make it too popular. Still, considering how Mike Judge’s films tend to go cult as time passes, I can see this film’s popularity gaining steam once it hits DVD.

If you do find this film funny, you might also want to check out “The Promotion,” which is also fairly low-key, and strangely true-to-life (that, or my life is very, very, demented).

-Donald Lee

Comedy, In Theaters Comedy, extract, mike judge