Becky and I went to see the movie The Boss on opening day at the AMC Theater’s in Castle Rock, CO. The Fandango website at The Boss describes the movie as follows…

“Hugely successful businesswoman Michelle Darnell (Melissa McCarthy) is convicted of insider trading and sentenced to prison. After being released, she is forced to move in with a long-suffering employee of hers (Kristen Bell), and tries to earn redemption and revamp her public image by helping a group of young girls in their quest to sell brownies….”

The Review:  The Boss is a ridiculous comedy starring Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Bell about a woman who faced adversity as a child, only to get to the top of her game, like a Martha Stewart with a much more boisterous personality.

She is on her “A game” in life, when she gets convicted of insider trading, like Martha Stewart, only when she comes out of prison her world is completely different.  She has lost everything and has to start from ground zero and ends up living with her former employee and her daughter.  It’s more like a Trading Places type of situation, if you remember that film with Eddie Murphy and Dan Ackroyd, where Dan found himself living like a pauper after being accustomed to the “good life”.

The story is pretty funny and entertaining.  It has some good laughs, but be prepared for the ridiculous and the unrealistic as well, so don’t go into this movie expecting something close to reality.  It’s just goofy entertainment, but we both liked it.  The acting is good and the story is fun because it’s so ridiculous.

This is a film that is somewhere between being a rental that you can wait for to come out on Redbox or Netflix and going to see it on the Big Screen at AMC or Regal Cinema’s which is where we usually end up watching most of our movies.

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

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Becky and I went to see the movie Criminal this Weekend at the AMC Theater’s in Castle Rock, CO. The Fandango website at Criminal describes the movie as follows…

“Sociopathic death-row inmate Jerico Stewart (Kevin Costner) is implanted with the memories of a deceased CIA agent (Ryan Reynolds) in a desperate attempt to thwart a deadly plot involving a Dutch hacker (Michael Pitt). At the same time, Jerico reconnects with his own humanity…”

The Review:  Criminal has an all-star cast, but apparently not much of a marketing budget since we saw very little promotion for this film before going to see it.  We didn’t really know what to expect going into the movie, other than that it had Kevin Costner and Ryan Reynolds, but it also starred Gary Oldman and Tommy Lee Jones and the acting and directing of this movie was excellent.  In fact, I thought the whole movie was extremely well done and both Becky and I really liked it.  It’s extremely violent at times, but it’s about a murderer who is used by the CIA to find out about a plot to take over the United States weapon defense system.

The story is rather fascinating, I doubt that it is possible, but the concept is to transfer the memories of a person to another person in order to gain access to information that only the first person had about a special mission.  The movie though is suspenseful and action packed, but it’s really violent.  The criminal is played by Kevin Costner and he does an excellent job playing this character who doesn’t have a conscience and cannot discern between good and evil.  He’s being hunted by the CIA for most of the film, along with the bad guy who wants what is inside his mind and he’s also the hunter at the same time.  All of this chaos makes for an interesting movie, along with some personal conflicts.

I thought this movie was a Don’t Miss It and Becky thought it was Worth The Trip.  I probably liked it more than she did since I’m a fan of thriller and action flicks probably a little more than she is.  I think most people who see this movie that enjoy those type of films with some crazy elements to them will like it..

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

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Becky and I went to see the movie The Jungle Book today at the Regal Cinema’s in Lone Tree, CO with our son Conroy and daughter Bianca. The Fandango website at The Jungle Book describes the movie as follows…

“In this reimagining of the classic collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling, directorJon Favreau uses visually stunning CGI to create the community of animals surrounding Mowgli (Neel Sethi), a human boy adopted by a pack of wolves. The appearance of a villainous tiger named Shere Khan (voiced byIdris Elba) forces Mowgli’s guardian, the panther Bagheera (Ben Kingsley), to shepherd the child to safety in the “man village.” Along the way, the boy meets an affable, lazy bear named Baloo…”

The Review:  The Jungle Book is a Disney remake of the classic cartoon that I grew up watching as a kid from the Rudyard Kpling classic.  It has the classic characters, including Mowgli and Bagheera the black panther and Baloo the lazy bear that are found in the cartoon, along with the snake that wants to eat him.  The movie though is different than the cartoon that is much more light hearted than this new rendition.  The animation is great in the movie that combines realism with the cartoons in much the same way that a Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings film can take a person into an imaginary world of Elves or Witches, this movie takes the audience into the jungle.  It’s very well done and the animals come to life.

However, it is a bit too serious of a movie in my opinion and loses a great deal of the light heartedness that makes the cartoon such an entertaining classic, in the same way as Winnie the Pooh or other childhood stories tend to be.  The movie tries to be too much of a good verses evil and the law of the jungle with man being the bad guy, which is probably closer to the book.  I just know that I liked the cartoon much better than this movie because of that aspect of the film.  The characters are good, the giant python Kaa doesn’t show up for very long in this film, but in the cartoon it has a much larger part as the Siberian Tiger is on its quest to find the boy.

Overall, this movie is entertaining and it will do well at the box office with the kids.  Becky didn’t like it as much as I did or Conroy and Bianca liked it enough that she saw it twice, if that tells you anything.

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

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Becky and I went to see the movie Elvis & Nixon at the AMC Theaters in Highlands Ranch, CO today, after running a marathon. The Fandango website at Elvis & Nixon describes the movie as follows…

“This comedy depicts the real-life 1970 meeting between rock star Elvis Presley (Michael Shannon) and then-president Richard Nixon (Kevin Spacey) at the White House, which led to an iconic photo of the two men shaking hands. During the meeting, Elvis offers his services as an undercover agent in the war on drugs. Directed by Liza Johnson (Hateship Loveship)…”

The Review:  Elvis & Nixon is a strange Independent Film about the true story of when Elvis Presley met President Richard Nixon and took a famous photo together.  The film is really bizarre as it shows how crazy Elvis Presley was and how man in power respond to situations that can benefit themselves personally.  The acting in this movie is brilliant, even if there isn’t a great deal to the story other than taking you through the whacky world of Elvis Presley wanting to be an undercover agent to help stop drugs and communism from taking over the United States.  That is what makes the film really funny.

Kevin Spacey is great as President Nixon and although Michael Shannon doesn’t look like Elvis, he played the part of The King of Rock and Roll extremely well.  It shows how eccentric Elvis Presley was and how it was such an iconic era in American History for Elvis to be able to actually gain an audience with Richard Nixon to achieve his goal.  Becky and I both liked the film and thought it was entertaining and actually fascinating more than anything.  We thought it was Worth The Trip.

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

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Becky and I went to see the movie Sing Street at the AMC Theaters in Castle Rock, CO last night.  The Fandango website at Sing Street describes the movie as follows…

“After his parents’ money woes force him to transfer schools, shy Dublin teenager Conor (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) finds himself as an outsider at the rough-and-tumble new academy. One day, he spots the trendy Raphina (Lucy Boynton), and unable to think of a reason to talk to her, asks her to star in the first music video for his band. She agrees, but Conor is in a bind given the fact that his band does not yet exist…”

The Review:  Sing Street is a quirky movie about an Irish teenager who is struggling with his school and friends to find his identity.  He decides to start a band because he wants to impress an older girl in his neighborhood, but he has no experience in music.  He recruits some friends and forms a band and then starts making music videos and writing songs.

The story shows his life with his family and his brother and it’s as much about him and his brother as it is about the boy himself. His brother is a stoner and his family is dysfunctional, but his brother keeps encouraging him that he can be a singer in a band and be successful.  The film is actually really good even though it’s a low budget production, we thought it had a great deal of heart and it was enjoyable as well as entertaining.

Becky and I both liked this movie and it has some good music from the 1980’s, some good jokes and shows the challenges of teenagers growing up in Ireland as poor kids with little opportunity.  We thought it was Worth The Trip and will definitely make for a good rental.

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

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Becky and I went to see the movie Meet The Blacks at the AMC Theaters in Highlands Ranch, CO last night with our friends Mark and Maria.  The Fandango website at Meet The Blacks describes the movie as follows…

“After obtaining a great deal of money, the patriarch (Mike Epps) of a black family decides they should move from Chicago to a posh neighborhood in Beverly Hills. However, they are soon terrorized by home intruders who want them out of the affluent community in this comedic spoof of the Purge films….”

The Review:  Meet The Blacks was a film that we really knew nothing about and found out at the last minute that it was a comedy.  It’s about an African American family who’s last name is Black and the Father comes into some money from an illegal drug deal in Chicago and move his family to Beverly Hills.  It just so happens that right after they move into their new house, it is the night of the Purge, another stupid movie that we have never seen about crime including murder being legal one night a year.

The writers of Meet The Blacks must have thought the idea for The Purge was stupid as we do since they made this film to make fun of it.  Unfortunately, it just turned into another bad movie.  The whole movie is filled with people using the “n” word as though it’s a term of endearment and it is filled with inappropriate and racist jokes.  There are a few good laughs, but it’s really like a horror movie comedy and just terrible.  Becky fell asleep for most of it and Mark and I walked out shaking our heads about how stupid it was.  Maria didn’t like it and there isn’t really much more to say about it.

This is definitely a Don’t Bother in our opinion.  It was just too stupid and wouldn’t be worth watching even if it was on t.v. for free.

John – * Don’t Bother
Becky – * Don’t Bother

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