Tag: movie previews

Are We Done Yet?

MPAA Rated – PG
It’s 1:32 Long
A Review by:
– The Dude on the Right

Are We Done Yet?
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Starring: Ice Cube, Nia Long, Aleisha Allen, Philip Bolden
MPAA Rated: PG
Released By: Columbia Pictures
Directed By: Steve Carr

First off, unless there is absolutely nothing else playing the weekend this movie comes out, I probably won’t see it. It’s not that it doesn’t look kind of cute, but it just doesn’t look to be this bachelor’s cup of tea. You, on the other hand, might wonder “Why are they making a sequel to ‘Are We There Yet?’” Well, when a movie has a budget of around $32 Million and the film does around $83 Mill, well, you get to make a sequel.

Anyway, reminding me of “Money Pit,” “Are We Done Yet” brings us Ice Cube as Nick, with his new wife Suzanne (Nia Long). When he finds out he’s going to be a daddy, Nick decides Suzanne and her kids, along with his up-and-coming kid, need to move to the suburbs/woods, and live in his dream home. The problem is that his dream house is a fix-er-upper, and as much as Nick thinks he is a handyman, he’s not, and hilarity ensues.

The movie does look cute, especially for the fans of “Are We There Yet?” so it should do well. And if they keep it PG, it should be cute for the kids as well.

That’s it for this preview! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!

The Ant Bully

MPAA Rated – PG
It’s 1:28 Long
A Review by:
– The Dude on the Right

The Ant Bully
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Starring: Jake T. Austin, Nicolas Cage, Alan Cumming, Zach Tyler Eisen, Paul Giamatti, Myles Jeffrey, Regina King, Cheri Oteri, Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin
MPAA Rated: PG
Released By: Warner Bros.
Directed By: John A. Davis

It’s an animated movie, and it looks cute. You get a little kid, Lucas, pissing off an ant hill of, well, ants, usually by drowning them with the water hose. Low and behold, somehow, the ants get a magic potion that will shrink a child down to ant size. Ah, now it time for our little Lucas to learn a lot of lessons about working together, friendship, and being strong, by becoming one with the ant colony.
The movie looks cute, but maybe more for the kids rather than the adults. I’ll still probably try to catch it, but this doesn’t seem to have the fun adult fair other animated movies tend to throw in.

That’s it for this preview! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!

Annapolis

MPAA Rated – PG-13
It’s 1:48 Long
A Review by:
– The Dude on the Right

Annapolis
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Starring: James Franco, Tyrese Gibson, Jordana Brewster, Donnie Wahlberg
MPAA Rated: PG-13
Released By: Touchstone Pictures
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Directed By: Justin Lee

Opening in January, finally most of the artsy movies will be done, and we can just get a decent movie about a recruit joining the Naval Academy. Isn’t that what we all want after Christmas?

Here’s the simple synopsis…

James Franko is Jack. He’s a dude who doesn’t have nearly the connections or standing in society to get into the United States Naval Academy, yet from the trailer, he pesters his way in. Cole is played by Tyrese Gibson. For most of those at the Academy, they got in after high school, yet Cole found his way there after serving a couple of tours of duty and now is an instructor. Cole sees a great future for Jack, only Jack doesn’t always see it, and the story isn’t new, but it looks fairly entertaining. It’s also got Jordana Brewster, who’s looking great.

I’ll have to see how the football season is going if I get a chance to see this film, but it doesn’t look horrible, just kind of re-hashed at a different military school. So what.

That’s it for this preview! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!

Amusement

MPAA Rated – R
It’s 1:25 Long
A Preview by:
– The Dude on the Right

Amusement
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Starring: Keir O’Donnell, Katheryn Winnick, Jessica Lucas, Laura Breckenridge, Tad Hilgenbrink
MPAA Rated: R
Released By: Picturehouse Entertainment
Directed By: John Simpson

The teaser trailer seems to try to build this movie on the “Saw” genre of horror films, and really, there isn’t too much to really care about other than the basic synopsis is that some dude wants to stalk some dudettes related to something when they were all young ins.

The key for this film will be the obvious for the horror genre being a little more fun than the “Saw” side of things, namely some nudity and some sex. It’d got the women, hopefully they will get naked, and then if things are done right there will be blood, and a lot of it. Right now the teaser trailer is only out, it’s from Picturehouse Entertainment so that might mean it won’t even make it to my gigaplex, but in any case I sort of look forward to seeing this on my small screen where I can jump in my seat without the fear of ridicule from the theater goers around me.

That’s it for this preview! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!

Big Trouble

MPAA Rated – PG-13
It’s 1:25 Long
A Preview by:
– The Dude on the Right

Big Trouble
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Starring: Tim Allen, Rene Russo, Omar Epps, Dennis Farina, Janeane Garofalo
MPAA Rated: PG-13
Released By: Touchstone Picures
Release Date: 2002
Directed By: Barry Sonnenfeld

The trailer shows a quirky comedy and that’s about it. It doesn’t really give any hints at the story except seeing some thieves and hitting a goat. But after some research the movie, get this, intertwines a divorced dad, cops, the FBI, a housewife, and a homeless dude when there’s a nuclear bomb in a suitcase. And, oh yea, it also has a toad, a python, and a theme park.

From Barry Sonnenfeld and based on a book by Dave Barry, well, who knows. The trailer is kind of funny and now that I know a little more about the story it actually sounds like this could be a wacked-out movie that might just please me.

That’s it for this preview! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!

Big Momma’s House 2

MPAA Rated – PG-13
It’s 1:39 Long
A Preview by:
– The Dude on the Right

Big Momma’s House 2
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Starring: Martin Lawrence
MPAA Rated: PG-13
Released By: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: 2006
Directed By: John Whitesell

I didn’t find the first “Big Momma’s House” very entertaining, thought it tried too hard to get laughs, even giving it only 2 out of 5 stars. It should come as no surprise, then, that my initial thought of hearing they are making a sequel was “Why in God’s name would you make a sequel for this movie?” I guess when the original was budgeted around $30 million and made over $100 million you give Martin Lawrence a few bucks to put on the fat lady suit once again to try and fight some crime. After seeing the trailer, this movie really looks horrible, and that’s all I’ve got to say about this.

That’s it for this preview! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!

Becoming Jane

MPAA Rated – PG
It’s 2:00 Long
A Preview by:
– The Dude on the Right

Becoming Jane
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Starring: Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy
MPAA Rated: PG
Released By: Miramax
Directed By: Julian Jarrold

Sometimes I have no problem with the girly-type film, hell I liked “Nancy Drew,” but other than the fact Anne Hathaway is in this film I have no real desire to see it. Supposedly it’s about Jane Austen before she became famous, and how she developed her style because of the things that happened around her.

Look, I’m not saying it doesn’t look like a decent film, it does look like some fun for young girls, but I really don’t like period pieces set across the pond. Take the girls to see “Becoming Jane,” I’ll probably be catching “Rush Hour 3.”

That’s it for this preview! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!

Because I Said So

MPAA Rated – PG-13
It’s 1:42 Long
A Preview by:
– The Dude on the Right

Because I Said So
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Starring: Diane Keaton, Mandy Moore, Piper Perabo, Lauren Graham
MPAA Rated: PG-13
Released By: Universal Pictures
Directed By: Michael Lehmann

Okay, I know this is totally a chick-flick, and I’m a Mandy Moore and Piper Perabo fan, but so far the only reason I have to legitimize my going to see it is because there doesn’t seem to be any other movies I really want to see that opens the same weekend. I can see myself in the theater right now, with about 20 dudettes, all of them looking at me funny.

The things I have to do to review movies sometimes.

That’s it for this preview! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!

Batman Begins

MPAA Rated – PG-13
It’s 2:20 Long
A Preview by:
– The Dude on the Right

Batman Begins
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Starring: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Morgan Freeman, Gary Oldman, Ken Watanabe, Katie Holmes
MPAA Rated: PG-13
Released By: Warner Bros.
Kiddie Movie:
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Directed By: Christopher Nolan

I hate to stereotype an actor, but the first thing that comes to mind when I hear the name Christian Bale is some Huey Lewis & The News playing, a diatribe about Huey’s music, and a woman being chased with a chainsaw. Such is the influence of Christian Bale from “American Psycho.” But how does that relate to “Batman Begins?” Well, it doesn’t, it’s just that’s the first thing I think of hearing the name Christian Bale.

Alright, this movie is a ways out, but it looks to return to the darkness that made the “Batman” with Michael Keaton one of my all time favorite movies. This one gives us a younger Bruce Wayne, a Bruce Wayne learning how to fight, learning there is a cave under the mansion, and learning to become Batman. He has his mission, keep Gotham City safe from the bad guys, and this one gives us one of the favorite comic book bad guys, The Scarecrow.

The story is there, the bad guy is there, as long as they don’t mess around too much with the Batman formula, this should be a good one. We’ll have to wait and see as things get a little closer.

That’s it for this preview! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!

Bangkok Dangerous

MPAA Rated – R
It’s 1:40 Long
A Preview by:
– The Dude on the Right

Bangkok Dangerous
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Starring: Nicolas Cage
MPAA Rated: R
Released By: Lionsgate
Directed By: The Pang Brothers: Oxide Pang Chun, Danny Pang

Some roles I don’t like Nicolas Cage in, but “Bangkok Dangerous” seems to be one of those movies I think I’ll like to see because he seems to play the brooding, loner, in this case being a kick-ass assassin, but then develops some kind of morals, maybe forgetting his basic rule of not getting personally involved with, well, people. For this one Joe (Cage) is hired to off a group of dudes, and, needing some help, he hires a street dude to sort of be his personal delivery boy. All of a sudden Joe learns a lot more about the killing work he has been hired to do, sure, there’s a cute Asian girl involved, and now he is on the run, looking to, oh, who cares? It’s rated R, there looks to be some quality kills, some sex, and maybe even some bad language tossed in for good measure!

That’s it for this preview! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!