Category: Comedy
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Love, Wedding, Marriage: I squished my fish…
Love, Wedding, Marriage – 2011 Directed by Dermot Mulroney Starring Mandy Moore, Kellan Lutz, Jane Seymour, James Brolin, Christopher Lloyd, Michael Weston, Jessica Szohr Written by Anouska Chydzik, Caprice Crane I would like to say James Brolin is an idiot. It’s really not too much of a stretch to say the guy who said “Happy 9/11” in a seemingly…
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I Don’t Know How She Does It: Watch if you like your family and your job
I Don’t Know How She Does It – 2011 Directed by Douglas McGrath Starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Greg Kinnear, Pierce Brosnan, Olivia Munn, Christina Hendricks, Busy Phillips, Kelsey Grammer, Seth Meyers Written by Aline Brosh McKenna, based on the book by Allison Pearson There is a smooth and safe sheen to I Don’t Know How…
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Fright Night: Yelchin breaks even with yet another reboot
Fright Night – 2011 Directed by Craig Gillespie Starring Anton Yelchin, Colin Farrell, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, David Tennant, Imogen Poots, Toni Collette Written by Marti Noxon based on the original story by Tom Holland One of the first horror movies I remember watching alone as a teenager, the original Fright Night has always held a special place…
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CPE and Em: Mr. Popper’s Penguins is a pleasantly silly ride
Mr. Popper’s Penguins – 2011 Directed by Mark Waters Starring Jim Carrey, Carla Guigino, Angela Lansbury, Philip Baker Hall, Clark Gregg, Madeline Carroll, Maxwell Perry Cotton Written by Sean Anders, John Morris, Jared Stern based on the book by Richard and Florence Atwater Looking at Jim Carrey’s career, I am astonished to find that he hasn’t…
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Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol: Chaplin, Chan, Cruise
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol – 2011 Directed by Brad Bird Starring Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Paula Patton, Simon Pegg, Michael Nyqvist, Vladimir Mashkov, Samuli Edelmann, Léa Seydoux Written by André Nemec, Josh Appelbaum There are some incredible visuals in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, taking one to some of the most picturesque landmarks in the world: Budapest, Moscow, Dubai, Mumbai…
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30 Minutes or Less: Or Less.
30 Minutes or Less – 2011 Directed by Ruben Fleischer Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Dilshad Vadsaria, Danny McBride, Aziz Ansari, Nick Swardson, Michael Pena, Fred Ward Written by Michael Diliberti 30 Minutes or Less is a nihilistic, sadistic, pessimistic and hedonistic mess trying to pass itself off as a caper movie. Parts of it work, but other parts make…
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Our Idiot Brother is a younger, dippier Dude.
Our Idiot Brother – 2011 Directed by Jesse Peretz Starring Paul Rudd, Zooey Deschanel, Emily Mortimer, Elizabeth Banks, Adam Scott, Kathryn Hahn, Rashida Jones, Hugh Dancy, Steve Coogan, T.J. Miller, Shirley Knight Written by Evgenia Peretz, David Schisgall An interesting thing for me about Our Idiot Brother is that I spent the entire movie thinking that…
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Crazy Stupid Love has plenty of all three
Crazy Stupid Love – 2011 Directed by Glen Ficarra and John Requa Starring Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore, Emma Stone, Kevin Bacon, John Carroll Lynch, Marisa Tomei, Analeigh Tipton Written by Dan Fogelman This is the kind of movie, made so many times in Hollywood, The Big Chill, Parenthood, Love Actually and Valentine’s Day…
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Cool Papa E Reviews The Movies of Todd Phillips, backwards
The Hangover, Part II – 2011 Written by Scot Armstrong, Craig Mazin and Todd Phillips Starring Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Justin Bartha, Ken Jeong, Paul Giamatti Synopsis Second verse, same as the first, only this time it takes place in “Thighland,” Helms character is getting married and his future brother-in-law is the one getting married.…
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The Change-Up: Because The Switch was already taken
The Change-Up (Unrated)- 2011 Directed by David Dobkin Starring Ryan Reynolds, Jason Bateman, Leslie Mann, Olivia Wilde, Alan Arkin, Written by Jon Lucas, Scott Moore There is a moment in The Change-Up when Ryan Reynold’s character, who is at that moment played by Jason Bateman, explains that Bateman’s original character’s boss may be an anti-Semite.…
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