Real Time

2008 - 1/5

This movie was not horrible; but I can't give it anything higher than a 1. It was a Canadian movie and it showed. I'm happy it wasn't long because it didn't need to be. Jay B did fine with the role - I like the guy and I think he can act. Randy Quaid did a fine job with his character as well. The plot was good, but not amazing. I probably wouldn't recommend this to people mainly because there really wasn't a lot of substance - it just was.

Young Adult

2011 – 1.7/5

Point form review it is!

-It has Charlize Theron – It can’t be bad! Right?
-The intro was so long and whenever the cassette player was rewound made it feel even more dragged out.
-Two minutes in and how many product placement items did I see? Who produced this movie?
-The plot is interesting enough that I want to see what happens.
-I really liked Patton Oswalt in this. I really liked his character Matt Freehauf and the chemistry he had with Mavis (Theron).
-There was a lot of build up to nothing.
-It was a plain movie. It wasn’t complicated or cheesy for the sake of it. It just was.

Magic Mike

2012 - 0/5

It was a very slow movie. I want to say that all the good parts were in the trailer, but even that wasn’t that good. I feel as if a bait-and-switch happened. From the trailer I was promised an exciting movie about male strippers. I got a movie that had as much female nudity as male – figure that one out! The time spent on stage wasn’t nearly as much as it should have been. I think this movie played down what it really was. I think all the drama was added to make it something more than a stripper movie but none of the pieces fit the puzzle.

It had a choppy plot with no direction. There wasn’t any depth to it, meaning that I didn’t care what happened to any of the characters. It was hard to ‘root’ for anyone in this movie because there really wasn’t anything to root for. Case in point (SPOILER ALERT), had the Kid died from an overdose, I wouldn’t have cared; if anything, that would have made the movie better. Mike (Channing Tatum) kept saying he was an entrepreneur, but that never amounted to anything.

The one thing that really bothered me about this movie was Cody Horn as Brooke. That girl cannot act. She was the worst part about this movie. Although I could tell she was trying to be emotional at times, she just sucked. The look on her face was pathetic and everything she did seemed forced.

This movie in a nutshell:
-Boring plot
-Underdeveloped characters
-Dialogue that fails to hold any interest.

No amount of shirtless-Channing Tatum could save this movie. And I usually love my shirtless Channing Tatum!