Showing posts with label trailer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trailer. Show all posts
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Hannah Montana the Movie Trailer
As Hannah Montana’s popularity begins to take over her life, Miley takes a trip back to her hometown of Crowley Corners, Tennessee to get some perspective on what matters in life the most.
Billy Ray Cyrus, Emily Osment, Jason Earles, Mitchel Musso and newcomer Lucas Till join the starlet in her first big screen adventure. Hannah Montana: The Movie opens in theaters on April 10th.
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008
17 Again Trailer
Zac Efron stars in this highly-anticipated film about a guy whose life didn’t quite turn out how he wanted it to and wishes he could go back to high school and change it. He wakes up one day and is seventeen again and gets the chance to rewrite his life.
Leslie Mann, Michelle Trachtenberg, Margaret Cho, Nicole Sullivan and Thomas Lennon also star.
17 Again hits theaters in April 2009.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Living Proof Trailer
Amanda Bynes will play the student assistant of Hary Connick Jr's character, Dennis Slamon. The film is based on the book about the UCLA doctor who developed the breast cancer drug Herceptin.
Angie Harmon, Bernadette Peters, Swoosie Kurtz, Regina King, Jennifer Coolidge, Trudie Styler, Tammy Blanchard, John Benjamin Hickey Paula Cale and Harry Connick Jr. round out the cast.
Friday, August 22, 2008
The Secret Life of Bees Trailer
The Secret Life of Bees, a new film adaptation of the Sue Monk Kidd novel.
It's 1964 and young Lily Owens (Dakota Fanning) is on the run from her cruel father (Paul Bettany). She and her caregiver, Rosaleen (Jennifer Hudson), stumble onto a group of sisters in South Carolina who give them refuge and don't ask any questions. The sisters are played by Queen Latifah, Sophie Okonedo, and Alicia Keys.
Now, because we mentioned that the movie is set in South Carolina in 1964, you can probably see where some of this story is headed since we have a white teenager living with four black women. Some folks in South Carolina still prefer the Confederate flag, so...
Anyway, it's hard not to take notice of the cast and the appearance of the Fox Searchlight studio logo has been a pretty good indicator of quality over the past few years. All in all, this looks like one you may need to take seriously.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Another Cinderella Story Trailer
Selena Gomez stars in the straight-to-DVD Movie Another Cinderella Story, coming in stores September 16th. The Soundtrack will come out on August 26th.
Monday, July 14, 2008
High School Musical 3 teaser trailer
The motion picture soundtrack will be released on October 21. HSM3 is being scheduled for a theatrical release on October 24.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Thursday, June 05, 2008
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
The Picture This official trailer
Movie to See this Week : Kung Fu Panda
Almost every week I recommend a movie you should see .
the trailer
The plot
When threatened by a gang of snow leopards, the jungle animals call upon an inept panda to become a kung fu master and save the Valley of Peace.
rating and cast
June 6th, 2008 (wide)
MPAA Rating: PG
for sequences of martial arts action.
STARRING
Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Jackie Chan, Ian McShane, Lucy Liu, Angelina Jolie, David Cross, and Seth Rogen
reviews
The Hollywood Reporter
Martial arts movies have always had a certain cartoonish element, so DreamWorks' martial-arts cartoon "Kung Fu Panda" makes perfect sense. Taking full advantage of Cinemascope's wide screen to splash quicker-than-the-eye action across striking Chinese landscapes, animators led by directors John Stevenson and Mark Osborne deliver a movie that is as funny as it is frantic. Though aimed primarily at youngsters, "KF Panda" embraces humor that plays well across age groups and nationalities. Certainly the sustained applause at its Palais debut here in Cannes bodes well for international boxoffice success.
The stroke of genius is, of course, the film's hero -- the big, lovable bear that is the Chinese panda. Sweet looking, perhaps a bit clumsy, seemingly unflappable, what could be an odder hero for a kung fu movie? Transforming a panda named Po -- voiced by big, lovable Jack Black -- into a kung fu fighter to save a threatened village in ancient times is essentially the entire movie.
He does not start with a lot of promise, only a boundless enthusiasm for the discipline and a seeming inability to perform its simplest tasks. His dad, a goose named Mr. Ping (James Hong) -- that discrepancy is never clarified -- runs a noodle shop and expects his son to follow in his web steps. to red the rest of the review click here
ReelViews
Kung Fu Panda adopts a different, less zany tone than one might expect from a movie with that title, especially considering that Jack Black has been brought on board to provide the lead voice. While it would be unfair to say that the movie doesn't present its share of comedic moments, the animated production as a whole jettisons non-stop jokiness in favor of something a little more serious. Thus, Kung Fu Panda ends up presenting a message about believing in oneself that might not have come across as successfully had it tended toward outright fatuousness.
The film is set in and around China's Valley of Peace, where there are no humans, only talking animals. Po the Panda (voice of Black) spends his time daydreaming about being a martial arts hero when he's not working for his father (James Hong) making and serving noodle soup. Meanwhile, at a nearby temple, the head monk, Master Oogway (Randall Duk Kim), has had a vision that the power-mad Tia Lung (Ian McShane) will escape from prison and ravage the Valley in his quest for dominance. To stop this, Oogway must discern the one who deserves to become the Dragon Warrior. There are five obvious candidates, all apprentices to Master Shifu (Dustin Hoffman): Monkey (Jackie Chan), Tigress (Angelina Jolie), Viper (Lucy Liu), Crane (David Cross), and Mantis (Seth Rogen). Yet, as the result of a seemingly random series of events, Oogway chooses Po. This comes as a surprise not only to an outraged Shifu but to his pupils as well. The thought of Po confronting Tia Lung is laughable since the fat panda has trouble making it to the top of the temple's stairs. But, as must be the case for the movie to have any traction, Po has hidden talents that Shifu is able to discover and unlock, even as time grows short.
The film contains plenty of martial arts action and, without the constraints of needing live action actors, it's able to play fast and loose with the laws of physics. There are nods to the fighting styles of Jackie Chan and Jet Li, as well as homages to the wire-fu and computer enhanced approaches used in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and The Matrix. This is mixed and matched with a cartoonishness that often seems closer to the fighting in the old Batman TV series than to that in any "serious" kung fu movie. From Po's training to Tia Lung's prison escape to the final confrontation, Kung Fu Panda keeps things moving, and it tells its story in a tidy 90 minutes. This is one summer movie that doesn't feel bloated.
The filmmakers get some comedic mileage out of making Po a Kung Fu fanboy. There's a tongue-in-cheek scene that has him examining artifacts in the temple and revealing the kind of minutia that only a true fan would know. He's a die-hard Trekkie suddenly set loose on the Enterprise soundstage. For him, meeting the Furious Five is a dream come true. Even though he's the legendary Dragon Warrior whose arrival has been greatly anticipated, he is awestruck and tongue-tied around Monkey, Tigress, Viper, Crane, and Mantis.
As Po, Jack Black brings his usual mix of puppy dog eagerness and rambunctious humor to the panda. One never forgets that Black is Po - his voice is too distinctive - but that's not a distraction. The reality is that Black plays most of his live-action roles like a cartoon character, so this is perfect for him. The other two main parts - Dustin Hoffman as Master Shifu and Ian McShane as Tia Lung - are well-cast. Hoffman brings authority and McShane adds menace, and their voices, while familiar, are not immediately recognizable. After that, however, it's mostly stunt casting. Angelina Jolie doesn't have more than handful of lines, so she's in this mainly to add some star power to the cast. Then there's Jackie Chan. Chan is far from an adept enunciator of English, but the opportunity to have him on board was probably too good to pass up. to read the rest of this review click here
source for plot, cast and rating
the trailer
The plot
When threatened by a gang of snow leopards, the jungle animals call upon an inept panda to become a kung fu master and save the Valley of Peace.
rating and cast
June 6th, 2008 (wide)
MPAA Rating: PG
for sequences of martial arts action.
STARRING
Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Jackie Chan, Ian McShane, Lucy Liu, Angelina Jolie, David Cross, and Seth Rogen
reviews
The Hollywood Reporter
Martial arts movies have always had a certain cartoonish element, so DreamWorks' martial-arts cartoon "Kung Fu Panda" makes perfect sense. Taking full advantage of Cinemascope's wide screen to splash quicker-than-the-eye action across striking Chinese landscapes, animators led by directors John Stevenson and Mark Osborne deliver a movie that is as funny as it is frantic. Though aimed primarily at youngsters, "KF Panda" embraces humor that plays well across age groups and nationalities. Certainly the sustained applause at its Palais debut here in Cannes bodes well for international boxoffice success.
The stroke of genius is, of course, the film's hero -- the big, lovable bear that is the Chinese panda. Sweet looking, perhaps a bit clumsy, seemingly unflappable, what could be an odder hero for a kung fu movie? Transforming a panda named Po -- voiced by big, lovable Jack Black -- into a kung fu fighter to save a threatened village in ancient times is essentially the entire movie.
He does not start with a lot of promise, only a boundless enthusiasm for the discipline and a seeming inability to perform its simplest tasks. His dad, a goose named Mr. Ping (James Hong) -- that discrepancy is never clarified -- runs a noodle shop and expects his son to follow in his web steps. to red the rest of the review click here
ReelViews
Kung Fu Panda adopts a different, less zany tone than one might expect from a movie with that title, especially considering that Jack Black has been brought on board to provide the lead voice. While it would be unfair to say that the movie doesn't present its share of comedic moments, the animated production as a whole jettisons non-stop jokiness in favor of something a little more serious. Thus, Kung Fu Panda ends up presenting a message about believing in oneself that might not have come across as successfully had it tended toward outright fatuousness.
The film is set in and around China's Valley of Peace, where there are no humans, only talking animals. Po the Panda (voice of Black) spends his time daydreaming about being a martial arts hero when he's not working for his father (James Hong) making and serving noodle soup. Meanwhile, at a nearby temple, the head monk, Master Oogway (Randall Duk Kim), has had a vision that the power-mad Tia Lung (Ian McShane) will escape from prison and ravage the Valley in his quest for dominance. To stop this, Oogway must discern the one who deserves to become the Dragon Warrior. There are five obvious candidates, all apprentices to Master Shifu (Dustin Hoffman): Monkey (Jackie Chan), Tigress (Angelina Jolie), Viper (Lucy Liu), Crane (David Cross), and Mantis (Seth Rogen). Yet, as the result of a seemingly random series of events, Oogway chooses Po. This comes as a surprise not only to an outraged Shifu but to his pupils as well. The thought of Po confronting Tia Lung is laughable since the fat panda has trouble making it to the top of the temple's stairs. But, as must be the case for the movie to have any traction, Po has hidden talents that Shifu is able to discover and unlock, even as time grows short.
The film contains plenty of martial arts action and, without the constraints of needing live action actors, it's able to play fast and loose with the laws of physics. There are nods to the fighting styles of Jackie Chan and Jet Li, as well as homages to the wire-fu and computer enhanced approaches used in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and The Matrix. This is mixed and matched with a cartoonishness that often seems closer to the fighting in the old Batman TV series than to that in any "serious" kung fu movie. From Po's training to Tia Lung's prison escape to the final confrontation, Kung Fu Panda keeps things moving, and it tells its story in a tidy 90 minutes. This is one summer movie that doesn't feel bloated.
The filmmakers get some comedic mileage out of making Po a Kung Fu fanboy. There's a tongue-in-cheek scene that has him examining artifacts in the temple and revealing the kind of minutia that only a true fan would know. He's a die-hard Trekkie suddenly set loose on the Enterprise soundstage. For him, meeting the Furious Five is a dream come true. Even though he's the legendary Dragon Warrior whose arrival has been greatly anticipated, he is awestruck and tongue-tied around Monkey, Tigress, Viper, Crane, and Mantis.
As Po, Jack Black brings his usual mix of puppy dog eagerness and rambunctious humor to the panda. One never forgets that Black is Po - his voice is too distinctive - but that's not a distraction. The reality is that Black plays most of his live-action roles like a cartoon character, so this is perfect for him. The other two main parts - Dustin Hoffman as Master Shifu and Ian McShane as Tia Lung - are well-cast. Hoffman brings authority and McShane adds menace, and their voices, while familiar, are not immediately recognizable. After that, however, it's mostly stunt casting. Angelina Jolie doesn't have more than handful of lines, so she's in this mainly to add some star power to the cast. Then there's Jackie Chan. Chan is far from an adept enunciator of English, but the opportunity to have him on board was probably too good to pass up. to read the rest of this review click here
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Monday, April 07, 2008
Movie to See in Theaters : Prom Night
Almost every week I blog about a movie you should see in theaters. I show you the trailer,reviews,the plot and more.
the trailer
clips
interviews
reviews coming soon....
plot
Donna’s senior prom is supposed to be the best night of her life. After surviving a horrible tragedy, she has finally moved on and is enjoying her last year of high school. Surrounded by her best friends, she should be safe from the horrors of her past. But when the night turns deadly, there is only one person who could be responsible…a man she thought was gone forever. Now, Donna and her friends must find a way to escape the sadistic rampage of an obsessed killer, and survive a night “to die for.” --© Sony Pictures
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the trailer
clips
interviews
reviews coming soon....
plot
Donna’s senior prom is supposed to be the best night of her life. After surviving a horrible tragedy, she has finally moved on and is enjoying her last year of high school. Surrounded by her best friends, she should be safe from the horrors of her past. But when the night turns deadly, there is only one person who could be responsible…a man she thought was gone forever. Now, Donna and her friends must find a way to escape the sadistic rampage of an obsessed killer, and survive a night “to die for.” --© Sony Pictures
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Monday, February 25, 2008
Movie to see in Theaters : Semi Pro
Each week I recommend a movie you should see in theaters.I will show you the trailer, plot, reviews and more.
trailer
plot
Jackie Moon is one-hit wonder who used the profits from the success of his chart-topping song "Love Me Sexy" to achieve his dream of owning a basketball team. But Moon's franchise, the Flint Michigan Tropics, is the worst team in the league and in danger of folding when the ABA announces its plans to merge with the NBA. If they want to survive, Jackie and the Tropics must now do the seemingly impossible -- win.
Genres: Comedy and Sports
Release Date: February 29th, 2008 (wide)
Distributors:
New Line Cinema
Stars of the film : Will Ferrall (Jackie),Woody Harrelson (Monix) ,
André Benjamin (Clarence)
interviews
Will Ferrall
MySpace Celebrity interviews Will Ferrell for Semi-Pro
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André Benjamin
MySpace Celebrity Q&A with Andre Benjamin
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reviews
by NewsBlaze
Equal parts mockudrama and Saturday Night Live 'skits'-ophrenia with lewd tendencies, Semi-Pro pays pretend tribute of sorts to the defunct American Basketball Association during its 1967-76 heyday, before being nearly swallowed whole and corporatized into the NBA. Debut director Kent Alterman, a former small screen scribe for Michael Moore's TV Nation, flexes his spectator sport skills for Semi-Pro, with mixed results. While a knowledge of basketball or the ABA is not a must to get this movie, a strong stomach for gross-out locker room humor is decidedly helpful.
Will Ferrell is Jackie Moon in the testosterone-steeped Semi-Pro, the fancy 'fro-sporting owner, coach and over-the-hill beer-gut player on the low rent Flint, Michigan Tropics of the ABA, a team in the process of spiraling into incompetent oblivion. When an entourage of NBA corporate suits and their lawyers show up to terminate the team, Moon frantically gets into a different kind of game plan to save the Tropics by training and wish-fulfillment winning of some upcoming competitions. Among his last chance hopefuls are the rude and unpredictable Monix (Woody Harrelson) and flashy Clarence 'Downtown' Withers (Andre Benjamin).
The the point of Semi-Pro seems to be an affectionate if incessantly foul-mouthed off-court defense of the regional, mostly flabby abs homeboy team concept counting all sort of eccentric, nutty and deeply lovable players before sports went commercial and big time with a prioritizing of commercial interests. But these oddly high-minded sentiments tend to get buried under piles of lame gutter humor and really bad etiquette. Read more of the review here
by EmanuelLevy.Com
If you liked "Talladega Nights" and "Blades of Glory" you will like Will Ferrell's new vehicle, "Semi Pro," an intermittently raucous comedy that repeats (recycles?) basic elements of the funny man's former films.
Directed by Kent Alterman, and written by Scot Armstrong (who had penned the remake of "Starsky and Hutch"), "Semi-Pro" concerns a down-and-out basketball team that give the National Basketball Association a run for its money. Like Ferrell's other flicks, it's about dreaming big and playing low, except it's set in the swingin’ and stylin’ 1970s, when the hairdos were huge.
Occasionally rowdy but mostly dominated with good-natured laughs and butt-slapping camaraderie, based on the on-screen chemistry between Will Ferrell and Woody Harrelson, "Semi-Pro" is a movie fantasy that should please anyone who has ever had a really big dream, and really really bad hair.
Will Ferrell (call me Wilf) plays Jackie Moon, a man who made a fortune when “Baby Who Wants To Love Me Sexy,” a one-hit-wonder he wrote topped the charts. Knowing his talents weren’t in songwriting (he actually stole the song from his mother), Jackie invested his not-so-hard earned cash in his real love--basketball.
Jackie is now the owner, coach and star player of The Tropics, a semi-professional basketball team in Flynt, Michigan, which is the same town where Michael Moore based his seminal docu, "Roger and Me". The Tropics are a rag-tag bunch of crazies, like Clarence, who knows more about smoking pot than dribbling, and Bee Bee, who’s better at turning cartwheels than making baskets. Read more of the review here
source for plot
trailer
plot
Jackie Moon is one-hit wonder who used the profits from the success of his chart-topping song "Love Me Sexy" to achieve his dream of owning a basketball team. But Moon's franchise, the Flint Michigan Tropics, is the worst team in the league and in danger of folding when the ABA announces its plans to merge with the NBA. If they want to survive, Jackie and the Tropics must now do the seemingly impossible -- win.
Genres: Comedy and Sports
Release Date: February 29th, 2008 (wide)
Distributors:
New Line Cinema
Stars of the film : Will Ferrall (Jackie),Woody Harrelson (Monix) ,
André Benjamin (Clarence)
interviews
Will Ferrall
MySpace Celebrity interviews Will Ferrell for Semi-Pro
Add to My Profile | More Videos
André Benjamin
MySpace Celebrity Q&A with Andre Benjamin
Add to My Profile | More Videos
reviews
by NewsBlaze
Equal parts mockudrama and Saturday Night Live 'skits'-ophrenia with lewd tendencies, Semi-Pro pays pretend tribute of sorts to the defunct American Basketball Association during its 1967-76 heyday, before being nearly swallowed whole and corporatized into the NBA. Debut director Kent Alterman, a former small screen scribe for Michael Moore's TV Nation, flexes his spectator sport skills for Semi-Pro, with mixed results. While a knowledge of basketball or the ABA is not a must to get this movie, a strong stomach for gross-out locker room humor is decidedly helpful.
Will Ferrell is Jackie Moon in the testosterone-steeped Semi-Pro, the fancy 'fro-sporting owner, coach and over-the-hill beer-gut player on the low rent Flint, Michigan Tropics of the ABA, a team in the process of spiraling into incompetent oblivion. When an entourage of NBA corporate suits and their lawyers show up to terminate the team, Moon frantically gets into a different kind of game plan to save the Tropics by training and wish-fulfillment winning of some upcoming competitions. Among his last chance hopefuls are the rude and unpredictable Monix (Woody Harrelson) and flashy Clarence 'Downtown' Withers (Andre Benjamin).
The the point of Semi-Pro seems to be an affectionate if incessantly foul-mouthed off-court defense of the regional, mostly flabby abs homeboy team concept counting all sort of eccentric, nutty and deeply lovable players before sports went commercial and big time with a prioritizing of commercial interests. But these oddly high-minded sentiments tend to get buried under piles of lame gutter humor and really bad etiquette. Read more of the review here
by EmanuelLevy.Com
If you liked "Talladega Nights" and "Blades of Glory" you will like Will Ferrell's new vehicle, "Semi Pro," an intermittently raucous comedy that repeats (recycles?) basic elements of the funny man's former films.
Directed by Kent Alterman, and written by Scot Armstrong (who had penned the remake of "Starsky and Hutch"), "Semi-Pro" concerns a down-and-out basketball team that give the National Basketball Association a run for its money. Like Ferrell's other flicks, it's about dreaming big and playing low, except it's set in the swingin’ and stylin’ 1970s, when the hairdos were huge.
Occasionally rowdy but mostly dominated with good-natured laughs and butt-slapping camaraderie, based on the on-screen chemistry between Will Ferrell and Woody Harrelson, "Semi-Pro" is a movie fantasy that should please anyone who has ever had a really big dream, and really really bad hair.
Will Ferrell (call me Wilf) plays Jackie Moon, a man who made a fortune when “Baby Who Wants To Love Me Sexy,” a one-hit-wonder he wrote topped the charts. Knowing his talents weren’t in songwriting (he actually stole the song from his mother), Jackie invested his not-so-hard earned cash in his real love--basketball.
Jackie is now the owner, coach and star player of The Tropics, a semi-professional basketball team in Flynt, Michigan, which is the same town where Michael Moore based his seminal docu, "Roger and Me". The Tropics are a rag-tag bunch of crazies, like Clarence, who knows more about smoking pot than dribbling, and Bee Bee, who’s better at turning cartwheels than making baskets. Read more of the review here
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Monday, February 18, 2008
Movie to See In Theaters : Be Kind Rewind
Each week I will recommend a movie you should see in theaters. I will show you the trailer,plot,reviews and more.
Here is the trailer
Jerry, a junkyard worker, attempts to sabotage a power plant that he believes is melting his brain. But when his plan goes awry, the magnetic field that he creates accidentally erases all of the videotapes in a local video store where his best friend Mike works. Fearing that the mishap will cost Mike his job, the two friends team up to keep the store's only loyal customer - a little old lady with a tenuous grasp on reality - from realizing what has happened by recreating and re-filming every movie that she decides to rent. From "Back to the Future," to "Robocop," to "Rush Hour," to "The Lion King," Jerry and Mike become the biggest stars in their neighborhood by starring in the biggest movies ever made.
Genres: Comedy
Release Date: February 22nd, 2008
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some sexual references.
New Line Cinema
reviews
by HollyWood Reporter
For all of Gondry's undeniable talent, it would be hard to imagine him pulling off this delicate and even cornball conceit without his star, Jack Black. With irrepressible exuberance and going-in-five-directions energy, Black is the embodiment of Gondry's whimsical notion that a small-town Ed Wood could infect an entire downtrodden neighborhood with the filmmaking fever.
As with most Gondry films, "Rewind" is not for all tastes. Its good-natured sweetness will appeal to many; others may shun the fractured fairy tale altogether. Yet this French filmmaker has developed enough of an international fan base for his fanciful films to fully support this modestly budgeted effort. New Line releases the film Feb. 22.
Certain that microwaves from the power plant he lives near are killing him, Jerry (Black), a mechanic in the struggling New Jersey town of Passaic, tries to sabotage the plant. Only he gets caught in an electromagnetic field that leaves him dazed, confused and magnetized. He thus inadvertently erases every videotape in a rental store run by his childhood pal Mike (Mos Def) while its owner, Mr. Fletcher (Danny Glover), is away.
When customer Miss Falewicz (Mia Farrow) wants to check out "Ghostbusters," Jerry and Mike stall her until the end of the day. They spend that time making their own version of that film using a video camera, homemade props and playing all the roles themselves. Miss Falewicz, who has never seen the film, actually likes their version. So the two continue the ruse by making crude versions of "Rush Hour," "Robocop," "Boyz N the Hood" and "The Lion King" for loyal customers. Jerry calls the process of re-enacting these popular movies "sweding," though the reason for that term is a bit hazy. see more of the review here
by About.com
There were scenes in Michel Gondry's Be Kind Rewind that made me laugh so hard that I was in pain. Really. The intense pleasure started started around the time that a magnetized Jerry (played by a wonderfully nerdy Jack Black) and the tormented video store manager Mike (an equally wonderful, wide-eyed Mos Def) decided to remake the 1980s classic film Ghost Busters.
All the videos in the independently owned video store Be Kind Rewind had been erased, and Miss Falewicz (Mia Farrow), an important customer, demanded to rent the movie. Jerry and Mike have only a day, and they start in their New Jersey library, filming that famous opening scene, the ghost and the librarian in the stacks. With just one handheld video camera, they do it all: the gooey marsh mellow monster, the sound track, the saving of New York. The run time: "Only twenty minutes." Twenty minutes. You have to be there, in the theater, to know how funny that line is. The screening room was filled with film critics, holding their stomachs, laughing. Or maybe that was just me.
The remake of Ghost Busters turns out to be a huge success. Miss Falewicz positively loves it. Which leads to the next customer request: Rush Hour 2, in which Jack Black impersonates Jackie Chan, making his eyes go offensively squinty to become Asian. Once again, the film is a hit. Mad throngs of returning customers, in fact, love all the Sweded movies.
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plot source
Here is the trailer
Jerry, a junkyard worker, attempts to sabotage a power plant that he believes is melting his brain. But when his plan goes awry, the magnetic field that he creates accidentally erases all of the videotapes in a local video store where his best friend Mike works. Fearing that the mishap will cost Mike his job, the two friends team up to keep the store's only loyal customer - a little old lady with a tenuous grasp on reality - from realizing what has happened by recreating and re-filming every movie that she decides to rent. From "Back to the Future," to "Robocop," to "Rush Hour," to "The Lion King," Jerry and Mike become the biggest stars in their neighborhood by starring in the biggest movies ever made.
Genres: Comedy
Release Date: February 22nd, 2008
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some sexual references.
New Line Cinema
reviews
by HollyWood Reporter
For all of Gondry's undeniable talent, it would be hard to imagine him pulling off this delicate and even cornball conceit without his star, Jack Black. With irrepressible exuberance and going-in-five-directions energy, Black is the embodiment of Gondry's whimsical notion that a small-town Ed Wood could infect an entire downtrodden neighborhood with the filmmaking fever.
As with most Gondry films, "Rewind" is not for all tastes. Its good-natured sweetness will appeal to many; others may shun the fractured fairy tale altogether. Yet this French filmmaker has developed enough of an international fan base for his fanciful films to fully support this modestly budgeted effort. New Line releases the film Feb. 22.
Certain that microwaves from the power plant he lives near are killing him, Jerry (Black), a mechanic in the struggling New Jersey town of Passaic, tries to sabotage the plant. Only he gets caught in an electromagnetic field that leaves him dazed, confused and magnetized. He thus inadvertently erases every videotape in a rental store run by his childhood pal Mike (Mos Def) while its owner, Mr. Fletcher (Danny Glover), is away.
When customer Miss Falewicz (Mia Farrow) wants to check out "Ghostbusters," Jerry and Mike stall her until the end of the day. They spend that time making their own version of that film using a video camera, homemade props and playing all the roles themselves. Miss Falewicz, who has never seen the film, actually likes their version. So the two continue the ruse by making crude versions of "Rush Hour," "Robocop," "Boyz N the Hood" and "The Lion King" for loyal customers. Jerry calls the process of re-enacting these popular movies "sweding," though the reason for that term is a bit hazy. see more of the review here
by About.com
There were scenes in Michel Gondry's Be Kind Rewind that made me laugh so hard that I was in pain. Really. The intense pleasure started started around the time that a magnetized Jerry (played by a wonderfully nerdy Jack Black) and the tormented video store manager Mike (an equally wonderful, wide-eyed Mos Def) decided to remake the 1980s classic film Ghost Busters.
All the videos in the independently owned video store Be Kind Rewind had been erased, and Miss Falewicz (Mia Farrow), an important customer, demanded to rent the movie. Jerry and Mike have only a day, and they start in their New Jersey library, filming that famous opening scene, the ghost and the librarian in the stacks. With just one handheld video camera, they do it all: the gooey marsh mellow monster, the sound track, the saving of New York. The run time: "Only twenty minutes." Twenty minutes. You have to be there, in the theater, to know how funny that line is. The screening room was filled with film critics, holding their stomachs, laughing. Or maybe that was just me.
The remake of Ghost Busters turns out to be a huge success. Miss Falewicz positively loves it. Which leads to the next customer request: Rush Hour 2, in which Jack Black impersonates Jackie Chan, making his eyes go offensively squinty to become Asian. Once again, the film is a hit. Mad throngs of returning customers, in fact, love all the Sweded movies.
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