Becky and I went to see Click the other night at the AMC theaters in Highlands Ranch. The MovieFone website at Click describes the movie as follows:

‘Click’ focuses on a workaholic architect, Michael Newman, (Adam Sandler) who discovers a universal remote control which allows him to fast-forward and rewind through different parts of his life. However, when the remote begins overriding his choices, life goes from calm to chaos overnight.

The Review

When I first saw the previews for Click I thought it looked pretty lame and figured it would be another predictable and pretty stupid Adam Sandler film. I was hopeful that it might have the kinds of laughs that Happy Gilmore had, but I didn’t have high expectations for Click.

That may be why the film clicked with us. It is as much a drama as a comedy. It’s definitely not a chidren’s film by any stretch with adult language and situations. Click has a very good story and shows how easy it is to get lost in work while missing out on the best things that life has to offer. It also showed how easy it is to mentally tune people while still being physically around and get lost in your own world, which I think many viewers will relate to.

Adam Sandler was believable in the role as Michael Newman who is a workaholic architect who gets a universal remote control that allows him to control his own universe. It doesn’t take long to realize that fast-forwarding through the difficulties of life’s relationships and situations or spending your life living in the past is a terrible idea. God allows us to go through challenges to build character and give us the opportunity to impact the lives of others. That’s what was great about Click.

Becky thought the message of the story was the same as that of RV and I would have to agree, but it was very well done. Becky and I both thought tht it was Worth The Trip.

John – *** Worth The Trip
Becky – *** Worth The Trip
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Auto Broker – John Boyd “The Cool Car Guy”
John is an automotive consultant with JFR & Associates in Denver, Colorado. He can help you save time and money on any make or model, new or used, lease or purchase – nationwide! Call or email John about your next vehicle! jboyd@coolcarguy.com

Becky and I took the kids to see Nacho Libre last Wednesday. AMC theaters have a deal that on Wednesday nights you get free popcorn with your Movie Watcher card. Keep that in mind for taking your kids to the movies. The Fandango website at Nacho Libre describes the movie as follows:

Jack Black stars as Ignacio (friends call him Nacho), a Mexican cook who moonlights as a lucha libre wrestler to raise money for an orphanage in this comedy from the creators of Napoleon Dynamite and the writer of School of Rock.

The Review

Like Napoleon Dynamite, Nacho Libre is such a stupid movie that it’s quite funny. The kids all thought it was a funny movie and there were a few scenes where we were wondering if it was age appropriate, but overall it’s definitely a kid’s film.

There are a few parts of the movie that are pretty mean-spirited and it’s not a film of non-stop laughs. It’s just really silly and I think that there will be plenty of people repeating lines from this film for some time. Jack Black is funny as always and there are some really funny parts of the movie, especially if you have any sort of Catholic or wrestling background.

Becky and I thought it was more of a rental, but the kids thought it was worth the trip.

John – ** Rental
Becky – ** Rental

The Kids Review
Corban – *** Worth The Trip
Bianca – *** Worth The Trip
Conroy – *** Worth The Trip
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Auto Broker – John Boyd “The Cool Car Guy”
John is an automotive consultant with JFR & Associates in Denver, Colorado. He can help you save time and money on any make or model, new or used, lease or purchase – nationwide! Call or email John about your next vehicle! jboyd@coolcarguy.com

Becky and I went to see the new Sandra Bullock & Keanu Reeves film The Lake House this Friday in Castle Rock at the Colorado Cinema theaters. The Yahoo Movies site describes The Lake House as follows:

“An independent-minded doctor (Sandra Bullock) who once occupied an unusual lakeside home begins exchanging love letters with its newest resident, a frustrated architect (Keanu Reeves). When they discover that they’re actually living two years apart, they must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it’s too late.”

The Review
Becky and I are suckers for romance movies and we thought The Lake House would be a good one based on the reviews by the film critics. Well, they could have called this movie “The Magical Mailbox” and it might have made more sense. Actually, it wouldn’t have made anymore sense no matter what you called this flick.

A woman doctor leaves a glass house to move to the city and puts an envelope in the mailbox for the new tenant. The new tenant happens to live in the past, about two years before the doctor, and they start writing love letters and leaving them in the mailbox for each other. Who needs email when you have a mailbox like this one?

The Lake House is whacky to say the least, but you will get emotionally involved in the film. The characters are good together, which we all discovered when the two paired up in the movie Speed years ago. Sandra Bullock is great in the movie, even though the script is kind of nuts. Keanu is his normal monotone self, much like his character Neo in the Matrix in construction clothes rather than black leather and sunglasses.

Becky really didn’t like this movie because it was so confusing. I didn’t have as much of a problem with the bizarre plot as she did, but I would suggest waiting for the rental.

John – ** Rental
Becky – * Don’t Bother
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Auto Broker – John Boyd “The Cool Car Guy”
John is an automotive consultant with JFR & Associates in Denver, Colorado. He can help you save time and money on any make or model, new or used, lease or purchase – nationwide! Call or email John about your next vehicle! jboyd@coolcarguy.com

Becky and I finally took the kids to see the movie RV this weekend at the Elvis Cinemas in Lakewood. In Colorado there are dollar movie theaters that you can go and see first run movies after they have been out for a few weeks. Elvis Cinema’s is just $2 per ticket.The Yahoo Movie website at RV describes the movie as follows:

“ An overworked Bob Munro, his wife Jaime, their 15-year-old daughter Cassie and 12-year-old son Carl are in desperate need of some quality time together. After promising to take them on a family vacation in Hawaii, Bob abruptly changes plans without telling them. Instead of a week in a tropical paradise, they’re going on a road trip to Colorado in a recreational vehicle.”

The Review
We waited for RV to hit the dollar theater because we thought it would be as stupid as Benchwarmers, which I just realized was so bad that we never wrote a review on it. We were totally wrong about RV, which was a very funny and entertaining film.

It reminded us of the movie Vacation with Chevy Chase where the family takes a vacation with crazy things happening on a continual basis. In this case, the “family roadster” is a huge RV that the father (Robin Williams) of the Munro family has rented to go to Colorado after cancelling their trip to Hawaii.

As you might expect in a comedy with Robin Williams, there are many absolutely ridiculous situations, but it’s really funny. Becky and I could really identify with the family, especially since our idea of camping is a Holiday Inn. Mrs. Munro tells her husband Bob when he shows up with the RV in the front yard “Bob, we’re not campers. We like to shower.”, which was one of the best lines in the film for us.

Anyway, whether you are campers or not, you and your family should enjoy this flick. It’s a good clean film and nice to see Robin Williams in a fun comedy again.

John – *** Worth The Trip
Becky – *** Worth The Trip

The Kids Review
Corban – *** Worth The Trip
Bianca – *** Worth The Trip
Conroy – **** Don’t Miss It
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Auto Broker – John Boyd “The Cool Car Guy”
John is an automotive consultant with Centennial Leasing & Sales in Denver, Colorado. He can help you save time and money on any make or model, new or used, lease or purchase – nationwide! Call or email John about your next vehicle! jboyd@coolcarguy.com

Becky was out of town this weekend, so I took the kids to see the new Pixar animation flick Cars today at the Highlands Ranch AMC 24 theater. This theater has a great deal going for the Summer. If you go to a movie before 12PM on Wednesday, Saturday or Sunday you can get in for just $5 per ticket.

The Fandango website at Cars describes the movie as follows:

“On the way to the prestigious Piston Cup Championship, a hotshot race car who cares only about winning learns about what is really important in life from the automotive inhabitants of a town along historic Route 66.”

The Review
As a car enthusiast, auto broker and the host of CoolCarGuy.com I was as anxious to see Cars as my kids. I expected Cars to be on the same level as Shrek and The Incredibles, since Pixar is great at putting out very cool animated films like DreamWorks, and they delivered once again with Cars.

Even if you’re not a fan of animated films or cars you will love the story and the life-like characters of Cars. The story has a great message for kids about putting other people first, showing respect to others and building friendships with others. What better way to educate kids on the important things in life, like building lasting relationships with others and showing respect, than with automobiles?

I’m sure we’ll be buying this one when it hits DVD and seeing it a second time while it’s in the theaters. We all liked this movie and definitely would rate it as one of the better films of 2006. Our advice is not to miss this one, even if you have to borrow a neighbor kid to take to the movies, it will be worth your time.

John – **** Don’t Miss It

The Kids Review
Corban – **** Don’t Miss It
Bianca – **** Don’t Miss It
Conroy – **** Don’t Miss It
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Auto Broker – John Boyd “The Cool Car Guy”
John is an automotive consultant with Centennial Leasing & Sales in Denver, Colorado. He can help you save time and money on any make or model, new or used, lease or purchase – nationwide! Call or email John about your next vehicle! jboyd@coolcarguy.com

Becky and I went to see The Break-Up last week and I’m finally getting around to writing the movie review. The Fandango Website at The Break-Up describes the movie as follows:

“The Break-Up starts where most romantic comedies end: after boy and girl have met, fallen in love, moved in to start their happily-ever-after…and right when they wind up driving each other crazy. Pushed to the breaking-up point after their latest “why can’t you do this one little thing for me?” argument, art dealer Brooke (Jennifer Aniston) calls it quits with her boyfriend, Gary (Vince Vaughn), who hosts bus tours of Chicago. What follows is a series of remedies and underminings suggested by the former couple’s friends, confidantes and the occasional total stranger. When neither ex is willing to move out of the condo they used to share, the only solution is to continue living as hostile roommates until somebody caves. But somewhere between protesting the pool table in the living room, and the sports played at sleep-killing volume in the middle of night, Brooke begins to realize that what she may be really fighting for isn’t so much the place but the person.”

The Review
The Break-Up had a definite breakdown. Becky and I were both looking forward to seeing this film based on the Previews and pretty funny commercials.

Unfortunately the film didn’t live up to our expectations. So, if you decide to see it just don’t set your expectations as high as we did and you might like it more than we did, but I doubt it.

The movie starts out pretty funny with Vince’s character true to his zany sense of humor, but before long it turns into a pretty heavy drama. “There’s no crying in baseball” and we didn’t go to The Break-Up to see Jennifer Aniston crying either. Maybe if they would have played it on TNT first we would have known that it was a Drama.

Well, maybe it isn’t even a drama. It’s really a movie about a couple that decides they want to break-up over some lemons for a centerpiece and the failure for the guy to want to be happy about doing dishes. Once that happens all hell breaks loose and there is plenty of screaming, yelling, crying and making all of their friends, along with the audience, feel really uncomfortable.

Don’t pay $9 for that experience, just look for re-runs of Jerry Springer or that Dr. Phil guy has some weird people on his show too. Probably a better ending too because the ending in this film is terrible. I threw my hands up in the air at the ending of the movie and felt the frustration of George Costanza on an episode of Seinfeld .

Becky and I differed just slightly on this one, but we both would recommend skipping the trip to the theater.

John – * Don’t Bother
Becky – ** Rental _________________________________________________________________________
Auto Broker – John Boyd “The Cool Car Guy”
John is an automotive consultant with Centennial Leasing & Sales in Denver, Colorado. He can help you save time and money on any make or model, new or used, lease or purchase – nationwide! Call or email John about your next vehicle! jboyd@coolcarguy.com