Mr. Poppers Penguins

Mr. Poppers Penguins is absolutely the most hilarious film of Jim Carey's career.  Nimrod the penguin steals the show by being sillier than Jim Carey usually is!  Jim 's character gets to learn about his family's life by learning to have a compassionate heart.  He learns this "compassionate thing" throughout the movie.  He gets the penguins as a weird gift from his Dad.  He ends up taking care of an egg from one of the penguins for a good part of the film.  This was a really heart warming part of the movie.  Jim's character battles repeatedly with an obnoxious zoo person who is so smarmt that you just want to see him get a smack in the face.  This zoo keeper is kind of like Jim's character in the beginnin gof the movie--utterly heartless.  The zoo keeper was condescending as well.  In the end, Jim learns to have a big and open heart.  Absolutely a big 10!

The Brothers Bloom

The Brothers Bloom is a somewhat funny romantic comedy.  It is about two con brothers. One is reckless and always getting hurt, but seems to always avoid getting himself killed.  The other guy is depressed and does not live his life to the fullest.  The depressed brother falls in love with their target--a rich girl who quickly catches on to their scheme.  Then things got very confusing with a plot line involving lots of money and the girl tryiing to help them con someone else.  The reckless brother dies at the end of the film.  I give this only an 8.5 as it is hard to keep up with where the plot line is going throughout the film.

A Town Called Valentine BOOK REVIEW

A Town Called Valentine by Emma Cane is a rich romance with social problems.  It is about learning to balance the possible future with the painful past.  It talked about the way you can take healthy and good risks in life so you can find your dreams, even if they were crushed or destroyed before. This book exemplies this and uses small town life as a means to teach you to take the good with the bad and to make you not afraid of spontinaity.  Dreams really can come true if you bother to put forth the effort.  This is the theme of this book.  Get it today to learn more about the plot and characters.

My Sisters Keeper (Movie Review)

My Sisters Keeper was a sad but inspiring and heartbreaking kind of film where you just want to cry.  It was very socially realistic because the plot line was based on something that could actually happen.  It was sad to see Anna tear her family apart over  her sister's illness.  Anna was angry all the time because her mother was unwilling to let her sister just die from her illness.   It was a really good drama but sad when Katie died anyway at the end. 

I think that if I was in Anna's position, I would have been more practical.  I would have been less angry and hurtful but I think I still would have sued my parents.   I give this a 9.9

Pitch Black (Movie Review)

This is a movie from 2000.  Carolyn Fry was a heroine who gave her life to give hope and peace to a serial murderer.  She inspired him and gave him back his sense of humanity.  She took charge and led the others in the movie to safety in the dead of night.  This was a gory horror movie but it was inspiring because I liked that Carolyn went out of her way to be as human as possible and help a bad person regain his own sense of humanity.  I give this a 9.9

The Box (Movie Review)

I thought this was a rather disappointing and down right creepy movie.  It was more about aliens than a box.  There is a horribly disfigured man who is making people make horrible moral choices because he like his employer, is possessed by aliens.  For instance people were made to choose between money and people's lives. The man was heartless the whole time.  I thought that the movie title was kind of false pretenses because it did not mention anything about aliens in the title.  When something is called "The Box" I thought it would be more about the actual box.  I was disappointed and give this a 5.6

Dinner For Schumucks

. . . a meta palooza of metaphors and a laugh o ut loud comedy that is the schmuckiest of them all.

Paul Rudd learns the value of true friendship,while Steve makes fun of himself anyway.  The goats and birds on the ranch, were a metaphor for balancing life's guilty pleasures and life's tranquil moments of inner peace (like nature.) 

I really like the painter used the metaphor about the true beauty of birthing a zebra and that beauty is in the mundane. 

Goofball Steve and Zak Galifianakis at the dinner, had a contest of "brain control vs mind control." This was freaking hilarious and it was one of my favorite parts of the movie.

The metaphor they discribed about laying eggs in ones brains was about life's struggle to get along with other people.  I could relate to this since I have a hard time getting along with my mom all the time.  To me, the severed finger was a visual metaphor for separating oneself from cruelty.

The people at the dinner were more concerned about saving the finger from the bird than putting out the fire or stopping the bleeding. I think this showed how dumb the people were, which was part of the point of the movie.

The blind swordsman was pretty cool, even though because he couldn't see, he really fought at nothing. 

The broken window was a metaphor for Paul starting to make big changes in his life and attitude.  He changed his attitude about what was important to him in life.  Paul learned there are more important things in life than money and promotions,  and he learned not to mock people, but to cherish them and value them for who they were.

I rate this movie a big hilarious 10