Category: Movie Reviews
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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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Rise of the Planet of the Apes: Don’t let Draco take care of your chimps
Rise of the Planet of the Apes – 2011 Directed by Rupert Wyatt Starring James Franco, Freida Pinto, Andy Serkis, John Lithgow, Brian Cox, Tom Felton Written by Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Premise suggested by La planète des singes by Pierre Boulle One of the metrics I like to use to test the effectiveness of a movie is how…
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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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Pirates of the Carribbean: On Stranger Tides must be viewed with subtitles on
Pirates of the Carribean: On Stranger Tides Directed by Rob Marshall Starring Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Penélope Cruz, Ian McShane, Keith Richards, Kevin McNally, Richard Griffiths, Sam Claflin, Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey Screenplay by Terry Rossio, Ted Elliott based on the book On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers It’s quite a testament that Geoffrey Rush has made it through…
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Super 8: Kind of like the Goonies, only good.
Super 8 – 2011 Written and Directed by J.J. Abrams Starring Joel Courtney, Elle Fanning, Kyle Chandler, Ron Eldard, Riley Griffiths, Ryan Lee, David Gallagher, Noah Emmerich, Bruce Greenwood, Amanda Michalka When seeing The Goonies at age 14, I remember asking myself what the hell Spielberg, Columbus and Donner must have thought of kids. Given that the…
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Water For Elephants is an easy job until the elephants arrive
Water for Elephants – 2011 Directed by Francis Lawrence Starring Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattison, Christoph Waltz, Tai, Hal Holbrook, Paul Schneider, James Frain, Ken Foree, Tim Guinee, Mark Povinelli, Scott McDonald, Jim Norton, Richard Brake Written by Richard LaGravenese, based on the novel by Sara Gruen One thing that is apparent in watching the first half hour…
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The Complete Muppet Theatrical Movie Series, Reviewed by Cool Papa E
The Muppet Movie Release Date – June 22, 1979 Directed by James Frawley Starring Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt, Dave Goelz (The Muppets) Charles Durning, Austin Pendleton Written by Jack Burns, Jerry Juhl Review – The international phenomenon, for the first time on the big screen, would have been an easy film to…
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2: Every promise fulfilled
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 – 2011 Directed by David Yates Starring Alan Rickman, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Gint, Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter, Robbie Coltrane, Jim Broadbent, Warwicke Davis, Tom Felton, Jason Isaacs, Jim Broadbent, John Hurt, Michael Gambon, Maggie Smith, Julie Walters, Mark Williams, David Thewlis, Matthew Lewis, Evanna…
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Cars 2 Looks like Pixar, plays like something less
Cars 2 – 2011 Directed by John Lasseter and Brad Lewis Written by Ben Queen Starring Owen Wilson, Larry The Cable Guy, Bonnie Hunt, Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, Jason Isaacs, Thomas Kretschman, Eddie Izzard, Bruce Campbell, Tony Shaloub Discovering that the next Pixar sequel coming out was to be Cars 2 was disappointing. Finding out that it…
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