Horrible Bosses Movie Reviews Posters

Oh look, Movie Fans: Horrible Bosses posters have been released, including this one, which features Jennifer Aniston and a bang. By now, millions have seen the trailer for America’s Sweetheart next soiree at the box office, in which the usually clean-cut bombshell stars as a sex-crazed dentist who harass her subordinates and enjoys a banana in lingerie. Jen shares the screen with Jason Sudeikis and Colin Farrell in Seth Gordon’s raunchy comedy, in theaters July 8.

Pirates of The Caribbean

Then Pirates of The Caribbean came roaring into theaters, and that was the end of Johnny Depp as an actor. Yes, he’s made a few smaller films since that film shattered everyone’s expectations, and yes, he’s still one of the most talented people working in Hollywood. But Pirates of The Caribbean: Curse of The Black Pearl seemed to mark the beginning of the end for the Ed Wood-Johnny Depp. In his place, we got…Captain Jack Sparrow. At first, this was fine and dandy– we all loved Jack Sparrow– but three films and a billion dollars at the box office later, the schtick’s worn thin, Ed Wood-Johnny Depp is a rapidly-fading memory, and Pirates of The Caribbean 4: On Stranger Tides is here to rub it in all our faces.On Stranger Tides? It’s more like The Curse Of The Bloated Blockbuster as the series’ much-heralded back-to-basics approach founders on the rocks of dull backstory, too many characters and a sense of tiredness.With that are-we-nearly-there-yet? running time, Pirates 4 offers convincing proof this franchise has lost its sea legs.It kicks off in 18th century London with Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) cheating the gallows only to be ensnared by former love Angelica (Penélope Cruz – her eyes practically screaming, ‘get me out of here’).Forming an uneasy alliance with her and her dad Blackbeard (Ian McShane), they sail off to find The Fountain Of Youth, also being sought by the Spaniards. Along the way, they meet man-eating mermaids, zombie deckhands and Sparrow reunites with one-legged pal Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush).

It says a lot that Pirate veterans Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom have jumped ship, but Depp is back thanks to a reported £40m pay cheque. As far as value for money goes, that makes him the Fred Goodwin of acting, with his turn as the fey and unbalanced seaman rather one-note, while Sparrow’s backstory clogs up the film’s first 40 minutes.His relationship with Angelica is also so simplistic and devoid of spark it could have been written by a child.If you can be bothered, look out for small, pointless appearances from Judi Dench and Rolling Stone Keith Richards as Sparrow’s dad. Again.Depp said this movie was going to take us back to the pared-down but exuberant first film, The Curse Of The Black Pearl. But director Rob Marshall has taken us back to the lob-everything-at-the-screen formula of Dead Man’s Chest and At World’s End. Even compared to these, the gags are a little less funny, the action a little less gripping and the gaps between both a little bit longer.

The Dilemma Movie Reviews

Film: The Dilemma

Director: Ron Howard, Producer: Brian Grazer under Universal Pictures.

Script: Allan Loeb

Cast: Vince Vaughan, Winona Ryder, Kevin James, Jennifer Connelly, Channing Tatum, Queen Latifah.

The Dilemma is a movie based on the storyline of best friends Ronny ( Vince Vaughn) and Nick ( Kevin James) who are also partners in business. The two set up a design house and while trying to make it big in their business deals and catching up on a big project sooner or later.

All goes on fine until Ronny discovers one fine day that Nick’s wife Kevin James (Winona Ryder) was into the kissing thing with another man Zip Hanson ( Channing Tatum). Ronny searches desperately for answers until he discovers that Nick has a big story of his own going on behind everybody are back.

The hilarious situations of Ronny trying to find a way to tell Nick about his wife and her cheating ways makes the entire movie into a complete laugh riot.

Despite the first promo of the movie falling into some sort of entangle due to the use of the word Gay in an inappropriate manner, it was sorted out after the word was taken off. However, the movie itself has the term as it was originally incorporated into it.

The movie is to hit theaters this Friday, so don’t miss it!

The Green Hornet Movie Preview

Directed by Michel Gondry, the movie The Green Hornet tells the story of Britt Reid (Seth Rogen), who is a playboy kind of man. He is the son of a rich newspaper publisher called James Reid (played by Tom Wilkinson). Following the sudden death of his dad, Britt becomes the new publisher of Los Angeles’ ‘The Daily Sentinel’.

Being the sole heir of his father, he meets an employee of his father called Kato (played by Jay Chou). Kato has something more in him than he apparently looks and he is a kung fu expert. After some time, he realizes that he and Kato are not utilizing their hidden abilities to its best. Then, the duo decides to fight against crime in the guise of the ‘Green Hornet’.

Britt’s new secretary Lenore Case (Cameron Diaz) helps him to discover that the city’s criminal underworld is controlled by that Russian criminal Benjamin Chudnofsky (Christoph Waltz). On the other hand, Chudnofsky is stressed to think that he is losing his position as a crime boss. He unites all the crime gangs of the city and proposes to get hold of the Green Hornet, whom he believes to be the greatest threat of his plans.

Britt and Kato also become able to stop a robbery as the masked superhero ‘The Green Hornet’. Douglas Young has written the story of the movie, which is releasing tomorrow.

The Tourist Movie Review

This job gives me the chance to enjoy and then enthuse about original and compelling movies that distil universal truths from specific stories. The Lives of Others, the feature debut of director von Donnersmarck, was one such film.

But occasionally I catch myself wondering whether I’m being paid enough to sit through derivative tosh of such tonsil-aching banality that I want to eat my fist. The Tourist, the second feature by director von Donnersmarck, is one such film.

Based on a 2005 French caper flick about the chase for a money-launderer in the Riviera, the ferociously silly new film moves the setting to Venice, which is where Elise (Jolie) heads after being delivered a mysterious message from Alexander, an old flame.

Alexander has nicked a gangster’s millions and both Scotland Yard and the gangster (Berkoff, who else?) are on Elise’s trail because she’ll lead them to him. Instead, she hooks up with Frank Tupelo (Depp), a milquetoast maths teacher from Wisconsin, and invites the astonished tourist to join her in a flash hotel. When bullets start flying all she can say is, “I’m sorry I got you involved in this”.

The film they were trying to make Hitchcock already made, of course: To Catch a Thief with Cary Grant and Grace Kelly, which it freely quotes. But even the Oscar-winning writing talent Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park) and Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects) can’t breathe any life into this pallid imitation of a romantic thriller.

That’s because von Donnersmarck is tone-deaf to the genre he’s dealing with – comedy-drama that is equal parts thriller and farce. To carry it off requires the tongue-in-cheek insouciance that Grant had in spades but which Depp, for all his considerable skill, just can’t summon. It doesn’t help that there’s zero chemistry between him and Jolie, but the fact is that there’s zero chemistry anywhere in the film: the scene between a hapless Frank, arrested in his pyjamas, and a sceptical police chief, would, in Billy Wilder’s hands, have been both dramatic and hilarious. Here it is neither. The one-liner just makes matters worse and an outrageous twist at the movie’s end (you can see it coming from about minute 20) just adds insult to injury.

What’s left is pretty gowns and a nice setting. If off-the-shoulder Jolie and Venice are your idea of eye-candy, you’ll be in heaven. Me, I’m hoping the skin on my knuckles grows back.

Cast: Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp, Paul Bettany, Timothy Dalton, Steven Berkoff
Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Running time: 103 mins

Gulliver Movie Review

The really annoying thing about Jack Black’s ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ is not so much that it`s a bad movie — it is bad, but only run-of-the-mill bad, not epic-misfire bad — but that the movie sullies a piece of literature that has endured for nearly 300 years for the sake of a cheap kiddie flick that`ll be forgotten in a month.

With Black`s giant footprints all over it, Jonathan Swift`s tale of Gulliver’s voyages is pretty much out of bounds for any filmmakers who actually might have wanted to make a good, faithful adaptation (you never know, it could have happened).

You can hear some studio executive listening to the pitch a decade or so from now: “Gulliver? Didn`t somebody make that piece of shipboard adventure 10 or 15 years ago?”

Hollywood runs in cycles, and Black`s movie takes Gulliver off the table for a good long time.

The live-action filmmaking debut for Rob Letterman, a co-director on the animated movies ‘Shark Tale’ and ‘Monsters vs. Aliens,’ ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ is set in modern times and borrows only a few key elements from Swift`s work.

Black`s Lemuel Gulliver is a mailroom sluggard at the New York Tribune who bluffs his way into a travel-writing assignment in the Bermuda Triangle to impress Darcy (Amanda Peet), an editor on whom he has a huge crush.

Gulliver sails into some sort of vortex that transports him to an alternate world, where he washes up on Lilliput, an island of tiny people 3 inches high.

Initially imprisoned as a beast, Gulliver gabs his way into the hearts of the Lilliputians with tall tales of his exploits borrowed from ‘Star Wars,’ ‘Titanic’ and ‘Avatar’ (all movies in which ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ studio 20th Century Fox has a stake, in case anyone`s counting).

Gulliver winds up as guardian of Lilliput against the enemy Blefuscians and befriends commoner Horatio (Jason Segel), who has his own crush on Lilliput`s Princess Mary (Emily Blunt), daughter of the goodhearted king and queen (Billy Connolly and Catherine Tate).

But evil General Edward (Chris O`Dowd), displaced as his realm`s protector, plots to expose Gulliver and banish him from the land.

‘Gulliver`s Travels’ has been adapted a few times before, most notably in Max Fleischer`s 1939 animated version. Richard Harris played Gulliver in a 1977 adaptation, while Ted Danson starred in a 1996 TV version.

In Black`s version, Swift`s biting satire is softened to innocuous family fare, with enough cute little gags and mugging by Black that young children should stay interested, if not enthralled, for the movie`s brisk running time.

There`s not much there for older kids and adults, the simple-minded story from screenwriters Joe Stillman (‘Shrek’) and Nicholas Stoller (Segel`s director on ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall’) giving Black little to do but bumble and bray.

The story is so slight — Lilliputian, really — that the clever visual effects continually dominate ‘Gulliver`s Travels.’ Black tugging an armada of Blefuscian ships or simply strolling among the sand-castle-sized buildings of Lilliput are far more interesting to watch than any of the exchanges he and the little people have among themselves.

The movie was needlessly converted to 3-D. The images are not blurry and distracting as some 3-D conversions have been, but neither are they terribly impressive, adding nothing but a few extra dollars to the price of a ticket.

‘Gulliver`s Travels’ is preceded by an animated short featuring Scrat, the squawking little guy from the ‘Ice Age’ movies, whose next feature-length instalment is due out in 2012.

Scrat`s been chasing his beloved acorn for so long, and the new short pounds him into such a pulp, that it`s all starting to seem a little sadistic.

As for ‘Gulliver`s Travels,’ maybe by the book`s 300th anniversary in 2026, it`ll be time for a new big-screen version. And maybe a new quality-over-commerce attitude will have taken hold in Hollywood then, so we`ll get a smart, classy take on Gulliver.