This review contains spoilers… you’ve been warned…

It was a toss up between seeing this and “the Smiths”. This started fifteen minutes earlier so I choose this one. It is an average summer action flick. Lots of stuff get’s blown up and new ways to vaporize people with fictional weapons were shown. What pissed me off the most is…. here comes the spoilers… the way the aliens are defeated. How lame is it that they just up an die!!!! Second thing that really pissed me off… the big cities seem to pretty much get vaporized, but then the people they are traveling to are somehow untouched and unfazed in Boston. His son magically made it there first with no explanation about how. For popcorn flick prowess, this movie rates a matinee ticket. However, you might leave the theater pissed off about the ending. I know I did. i think they pretty much ran out of ways to blow stuff up and said “ok, it is time to end the picture, so lets do it NOW”.

I’ll start by saying I’m not a big fan of Russel, but he has done some decent flicks. Same thing for Ron (I didn’t see his brother who is in most of his movies). All in a all, a good movie. You manage to forget its Russel, Mrs. Chesney does a good job of playing his wife. It was nice to see a good boxing flick, especially some old school boxing. Well worth a matinee price.

Short Review… It was back to the more basics for Sandler. I think he had enough of the serious acting or comedies with too much plot. Enough story to keep me interested. Enough comedy to keep me laughing. And just enough Chris Rock. Even that Cowboy receiver did a good job, didn’t realize it was him ’till I saw the credits. Well worth a matinee, probably an evening admission if you enjoy a good Sandler flick.

I managed to avoid all of the hoopla surrounding this. Didn’t really watch the previews (although I did see them, if you know what I mean), didn’t go digging for info or anything like that. It was originally going to be an adaptation of Year 1, and then it was changed to what it was, and I found that a little disappointing since I’m a big Year 1 fan.

Having seen the movie, I would say wow. Great job adapting Batman to the big screen. Excellent job on the back story and showing the turmoil he deals with walking the fine line between super-hero and vigilante/criminal. A was definitely adverse to the Batmobile shown in the previews, but seeing how he acquires it, it makes great sense. Same with just about all of his gadgets. I thought they did a good job keeping the character count down (a huge problem with later Batman flicks). Scarecrow was done differently, but was well done. It took me a little bit to figure out who he was. Ra’s was also well done. I didn’t know much about this character going in, but I like him. It was also great to see the Asylum introduced, loved that bit. All in all, very happy with this movie. Well worth an evening admission (or two if you like the real Batman)!

Finally getting a chance to update my blog… first thing on the list, my SW review. In a nutshell, best of the new trilogy. It contained the story we’ve been waiting to see. Very well done. Would have been better if they could have avoided the scenes between Anikan and Padme (she’ll always be Padme to me) since the two of them can only act when they are with others. Or maybe it was their lack of dialog or entirely too much direction. Anyway, I enjoyed it a lot.

My question is this… Why couldn’t they have crammed the first two movies into the first hour of the EP1 and then started this story then. The new trilogy would have been soooo much better.