Due Date (2010)

Due Date (2010) — This movie doesn’t break any new ground.  In fact it’s pretty much Planes, Trains & Automobiles with Robert Downey Jr. and Zack Galifianakis replacing Steve Martin and the late John Candy (and none of that Christmas stuff).  But fuck originality, it works.  I laughed heartily from beginning to end and that’s … Continue reading

Dinner for Schmucks (2010)

Dinner for Schmucks (2010) — I laughed.  A lot. That’s really all that’s relevant to reviewing this movie but I am far too long-winded to leave it at that. Paul Rudd, the onetime star of indie dramas like The Cider House Rules and The Shape of Things, seems to have settled into a career as … Continue reading

Fired Up! (2009)

Fired Up! (2009) — Ain’t what I’d call great cinema but fuck it, I laughed.  Never mind that Eric Christian Olsen has got to be in his 30s by now [he was making high school movies when I was still in high school] and all the “high school girls” were strait from a modeling agency.  … Continue reading