This is a musical about a barber who is falsely accused of being, uh, bad? Sent to die in some far off place by an evil judge who then tries to steal his wife and marry his daughter. If that sounds weird, it should, it’s a musical. Musicals are always a wonderful paradox of logic and reason. So it makes perfect sense that a musical would be set around a psycho killer.

The movie’s music itself is widely ranging from shitty to holy freaking awesome. All the singing is pretty darn good, since it’s better than I can do in the shower, or at all for that matter. The real singing star in this move is the kid and Borat to a lesser extent. They have some very funny and memorable song(s)/moments.

In the effects department they get a thumbs up for blood and gore, they get a thumbs down for an annoying shitty After Effects opening to the movie that doesn’t even feel remotely like an overture. The first 30 minutes of the movie are not good, and it should be said that the love story between the other kid and what’s-her-pretty-face should have been ignored for the most part. Cause you don’t care about it and it doesn’t get resolved in the end of the film so I felt annoyed they even left it in from the play version.

This movie is an odd mishmash of totally awesome and super fun, and bleh. Live past the first 30 minutes and you’ll have a lot of fun.

This is a movie about a girl who sees weird monsters and stuff and goes off doing silly missions for a weirdo in an f-ed up (freekin cool) costume.

The movie is in spanish, I was surprised by this and kept thinking that they’d switch into english to keep me from having to reed subtitles. Sadly they did not. However for being a foreign movie it has really good CG! Better than most Japanese films I’ve seen and thats an achievement for sure. Just goes to show that half of CG is lighting and the other half is animation cause the models could look like shit as long as they look like their standing next to a real person. Er… never mind.

Anyway the story is fairly so so, it’s nothing special, aside from having an awesome Nazi bad guy who beats peoples faces in with bottles. I can see why this won academy awards for makeup and cinematography. A lot of the fantasy characters are real people in suits and it was a good choice. It looks way better than if they were CG.

So as the movie goes on the protagonist must face off against giant toads, friggin awesome scary monsters, and in her final battle she must face off between a drugged psycho Natzi with a gun while she is armed only with a baby. Guess who wins! Intense stuff.

This move is good overall, I recommend it.

Juno is a movie about a girl who gets pregnant and instead of getting an abortion she decides to have the baby and find parents for it. This movie’s premise is very simple and thusly can be described easily in one run on sentence. The movie itself is also very simple and could be spoiled easily in one paragraph. However this does not make it boring. You may want to watch this move simply for one liners and smart mouthed remarks. Juno is funny, and smart and it doesn’t feel too manufactured either.

This is an indy film so it gets some leeway in the effects department, though it has a very nice stop-motion/animated opening. The pregnancy is well done enough that I didn’t think too hard about the fake belly on Juno. Mostly thanks to the acting.

For the most part the acting is really good. Especially Juno and her friend ___, they really make the movie fun. The adults too on Juno’s side are superb. The adopting family is not so good in comparison but I think that may have been intentional.

Overall this movie is worth ….