In the saturated, over-done world of remakes, can a long forgotten but widely loved comedy spoof survive as a movie? Can Steve Carell continue his entertainment success outside of The Office?
Romantic comedies are all handicapped by the same thing, predictability. You know the girl will be heartbroken, turn bitterly against all men, and then slowly realize that her true love is the one she’s overlooked time and time again, and “Someone Like You” is no different…
A modern-day fairytale ripped straight from the animated world and left for dead in the mean streets of New York is where we find Enchanted taking us, a journey that left me thinking Disney could have done so much more…
If I told you I was going to make a movie where I would have the great Christopher Walken married to female-fat-suit-wearing John Travolta and that their offspring would be an average looking, short, stocky girl who actually beats out very attractive girls to be the star dancer on a teeny-bopper TV show starring X-Men’s own Cyclops and High School Musical’s Zack Efron, would you ever even think of investing 1 cent into it?
The performance and likability of little movie star Abigail Breslin is what made this movie watchable. If this movie didn’t have her in it, I wouldn’t have thought twice about seeing it. Aside from Abigail’s performance, this was just another romantic comedy that failed to ignite any real romance…or comedy for that matter.
I can remember watching Mystery Men in college and spending hours on the floor laughing my guts out…this time around, almost 8 years later, I found myself giggling a few times and for the most part, scratching my head in curiosity as to why I thought this was so funny. I still think it’s one [...]
