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Shoot ‘Em Up [Blu-ray]

Bluray DiscEvery action movie has a moment so over the top you have to laugh; Shoot ‘Em Up consists of nothing but these moments. A carrot-eating, lone wolf kind of guy named Smith (Clive Owen, Children of Men, Inside Man) steps in to protect a pregnant woman from a gunman–and finds himself, with the aid of a lactating prostitute (Monica Belluci, The Matrix Revisited), defending the newborn child from a sleazy contract killer Mr. Hertz (Paul Giamatti, American Splendor, Sideways) and his army of thugs. That’s pretty much the plot, but story is beside the point. Writer/director Michael Davis (Monster Man) has a keen sense of what matters in an action movie. The rapid-fire editing is scrupulously coherent; you always grasp what happened in every shoot-out, even if it flagrantly violates the laws of physics or basic plausibility. Explaining how Smith survives a four-story fall–even if that explanation is beyond ridiculous–demonstrates both a sense of wit and a winking respect for the audience’s imagination. As a result, Shoot ‘Em Up is ten times more entertaining than the likes of Transformers or Rush Hour 3, movies so self-satisfied with special effects or movie stars that they forgot to be fun. (Shoot ‘Em Up’s only weakness is a sliver of misogyny, the one action movie cliche that it’s not clever enough to transcend.) –Bret Fetzer

User Ratings and Reviews

1 Stars Got to be kidding-can’t go lower than one star ?

This was the worst movie I have ever seen. From start to finish it was totally rediculous. The humor was poor, the action was really poor and so far fetched. The only ones who would think this would be possibly entertaining would be people who get off on watching people get shot. No suspense at all. Just mindless shooting. Would not recommend this movie. It went straight in the trash !.

There should be a A, B,C, D, F raiting. One star is not acceptable at all to review this movie.

It is a total “F”

1 Stars I only lasted 20 minutes and that was enough
Well i only lasted 20 minutes with this crap. It was so over the top and rediculous that it wasn’t worth watching beyond 20 minutes.

Ummm…..jumps through a glass window holding a baby and noone gets hurt. You’ve got to be kidding.

So all i know is someone is after this woman and her newborn child. I know not why and i don’t care.

5 Stars wild, outrageous and fun
One of my early Blu-ray purchases. From the first 30 seconds to the end, it’s a wild ride. Outrageous and fast paced. Paul G, Clive O and of course Monica B. What more do you need? Oh yes, tons of shoot-em-up action. Great guy flick. So , glad I bought it. Will watch it with friends again and again.

5 Stars Shoot ‘Em Up
Basically, this movie is very good. Awesome soundtrack to compliment the over-the-top (and at times unbelievable) action sequences. Very entertaining.

1 Stars horrible - walked out of the theater
This movie was absolutely horrible. I walked out of the theater after 10 minutes. I never walk out of theaters. The movie starts with a really generic guy saves girl scene and part of this involves clive owen taking some guy out with a carrot. so stupid. wow. huge waste. do yourself a huge favor and don’t waste one second of your time or 1 cent of your money on this terrible movie.

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Point of No Return [Blu-ray]

“She is society’s worst nightmare, an antisocial misfit convicted of murder and sentenced to die. But a covert government agency may be able to transform her into a sleek, cool-as-ice assassin. Bridget Fonda (Single White Female, Jackie Brown) stars as Maggie in this thriller directed by John Badham (WarGames, Stakeout). Dressed to kill, trained to survive, shes set loose in a deadly world where unexpected romance complicates things even more. Gabriel Byrne, Dermot Mulroney, Anne Bancroft and Harvey Keitel also star.Point of No Return is one of those Hollywood remakes of a European hit in which one can visualize a committee of studio executives sitting around and saying, “Okay, we know what made the original film unique and different and fun. How can we make that same movie and do exactly the opposite?” For-hire director John Badham (Saturday Night Fever) took La Femme Nikita, Luc Besson’s undeniably sexy, original, and kitschy French film about a female assassin, and translated it into a calculating, mechanistic American thriller with no distinctive style. Bridget Fonda gamely plays the willowy street punk who becomes a high-society killer, but once that provocative irony is in place, the movie is pretty much a series of by-the-numbers action set pieces. Until, that is, Dermot Mulroney shows up as a love interest; but even that twist can’t save this film. You’re much better off with the original, subtitles and all. –Tom Keogh

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars A Must See!
If you haven’t seen the movie yet, make it a point to! GREAT movie!

5 Stars More than a mindless action flick
“Point of No Return” is a 1993 American remake of the 1990 French film “La Femme Nikita,” which spun a tv series that ran from 1997-2001. There’s also a Hong Kong version made in 1991 called “Black Cat.” My only familiarity with this franchise is that I vaguely remember seeing one of the tv episodes with Peta Wilson many moons ago. Hence, this review will be based solely on the merits of “Point of No Return” itself (which isn’t necessarily a bad thing since fans of original films tend to be excessively critical of remakes).

THE STORY: Maggie (Bridget Fonda) is a drug-addicted loser who gets the death penalty for being a cop-killer. There’s a ‘burial’ but she mysteriously wakes up in a secret governmental institution and is offerred the opportunity to live; the catch is that she must now perform the government’s dirty work as an assassin. She spends numerous months learning the skills and social graces necessary. After training she takes the code name Nina and re-enters society living in Venice Beach, CA. There she discovers normalcy (compared to her past life) and love. The consequence of becoming whole and civilized is that Nina develops a conscience and comes to resent being a nasty tool of the government. Unfortunately her controller (Gabriel Byrne) informs her that there is no ‘out’ and dissenters automatically get a bullet in the brain.

“Point of No Return” is one of those films that I didn’t expect much from and wasn’t overly impressed with the first half hour, but when Nina passes her final ‘test’ and re-enters society the film caught my interest and wholly captivated until the end.

The movie plays like a mish-mash of “The Mechanic” (1972), where Charles Bronson plays an assassin, and secret agent flicks like James Bond, but it lacks the goofiness and silly gadgets of many Bond films and the characters have more depth. For instance, the viewer comes to care about Nina and her plight; this is basically a story of redemption and we want her redemption to be successful but how can it be when she’s conscripted to kill people? Did I say ‘conscripted’? Enslavement is more like it since Nina HAS to obey orders or die; and the secret agency can get away with it because to all intents and purposes she doesn’t even exist.

Late in the story Harvey Keitel has a small and entertaining role as ‘The Cleaner’. He effectively portrays an emotionless, lifeless person who’s completely hardened his heart in order to perform his ultra-violent work.

Here’s an interesting point brought up by reviewer Richard Ballard: The Armed Forces labor to instill esprit de corps and comradeship amongst their members, e.g. ‘We are strongest as a team and nobody gets left behind.’ By contrast the three Nikita films and the tv series share a common weakness: How can a threatening organization expect quality performance and loyalty from its agents? Continuous internal threats would naturally weaken agents’ morale. When crisis occurs threatened agents cannot run to the threatening organization. Even though agents are under the threat of death and, in a sense, have nowhere to run, the threatening nature of the agency itself naturally creates disloyal dissenters who will eventually seek escape, unless of course they’re total mindless automatons like ‘The Cleaner’.

A few criticisms: Some scenes are formulaic and therefore predictable, like the end of the Hotel scene and the hoodlum sequence in New Orleans, plus Dermot Mulroney isn’t always convincing as Nina’s boyfriend, also some of the action is too over-the-top (e.g. the restaurant scene); but I consider these minor flaws in light of the film’s overall compelling force.

The picture runs 109 minutes and was shot on location in Washington DC, Los Angeles, Culver City, Venice Beach and New Orleans.

FINAL SAY: I was expecting another dumb action flick like “Speed” but instead got something that drew me in and really wowed me. “Point of No Return” is an engrossing action film with depth.

GRADE: A-

4 Stars Point of No Return
A punk female murderer is transformed into a bourgeois assassin by an underground government agency. This is a really brutal movie. I think Gabriel Byrne is what made this movie. He was great as Bob and the chemistry between him and maggie/Nina was overwhelming. I think this was a movie made good by the cast. I thought Fonda and Byrne were incredible. Still it’s a good movie, I think besides the incredible chemistry between Byrne and Fonda the story was moving and makes you want to know what happens next.

1 Stars No Point To It At All
I just saw this movie (again) two days ago, I had seen it many years back when it first came out. Unfortunately at the time I had not seen La Femme Nikita and my sister recommended the original. I was stunned! Up until this point I had no idea that Hollywood actually copied material in this manner (honestly I didn’t). As I watched the original I became more and more disgusted with this American version.

I really wonder though if I should blame the American people or Hollywood for this travesty. I am not put off by sub titles and if you look at “The Passion of the Chirst” people clearly will pay money to see a movie with not a single English word spoken. So is Hollywood really “forced” to remake great movies in order for us to see them, or is Hollywood underestimating us by feeding us this remade junk? As some have pointed out, this movie is scene for scene a remake of the original - and to me it is a horrible remake.

You know, I can actually bring up another example. There is an English show called “Coupling” which they tried to duplicate here. I saw an original episode and then a remade episode. The American remade episode - even though it was identical scene for scene just wasn’t funny. The same is true of this movie - the drama and everything else that went with it, just wasn’t there.

The scenes are truly not idential and even those little differences were better in the original. Mind you, I saw the original AFTER I saw this junk of a movie. You would think that I would be swayed by this movie because I saw it first - nope. The fact is that the world out there makes some great movies, but we can’t enjoy them the way they were meant to be. We have to be dumbed down and spoon feed with an American actor, english words or we are just too far out of our comfort zones to care. I think in the end that is not true because if it was then there wouldn’t be so many people here pointing to the original and proclaiming how much the original one is to this one.

2 Stars Another Blu Ray Hall-of-Shamer…
*** BLU RAY 2009 REVIEW ***

If ever a disc was a textbook example of how NOT to present BLU RAY, then “Point Of No Return” (called “The Assassin” in Europe) is it.

The print is awful almost the whole way through. There’s blocking everywhere, blurriness and clearly no attempt to restore the film. Depressingly this release on BLU RAY only accentuates how badly filmed it was in the first place - in short its worse on this format than it was on DVD. It’s not as bad as “The French Connection” or “2010″ on BLU RAY (see reviews), but it’s close. There are no extras either. Personally, I’ve always liked the movie, but I wanted a better copy of it - and this is NOT it.

This shoddy release only reconfirms the worst fears of movie fans - film companies are throwing any amount of crap at the BLU RAY wall at the moment to bolster up the sales numbers - and it’s being done without any care being given to the release.

Even if you’re a lover of the movie, hire it first before you buy - 20 minutes in and you’ll be too disappointed to reach for the credit card…

“The Assassin/Point of No Return” on BLU RAY is a very real reason as to why Amazon reviews exist.

One to avoid I’m afraid.

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Transformers (Two-Disc Special Edition + BD Live) [Blu-ray]

From director Michael Bay and executive producer Steven Spielberg comes a thrilling battle between the heroic Autobotsr and the evil Decepticonsr. When their epic struggle comes to Earth, all that stands between the Decepticonsr and ultimate power is a clue held by young Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf). Unaware that he is mankind’s last chance for survival, Sam and Bumblebee, his robot disguised as a car, are in a heart-pounding race against an enemy unlike anything anyone has seen before. It’s the incredible, breath-taking film spectacular that USA Today says ”will appeal to the kid in all of us.””I bought a car. Turned out to be an alien robot. Who knew?” deadpans Sam Witwicky, hero and human heart of Michael Bay’s rollicking robot-smackdown fest, Transformers. Witwicky (the sweetly nerdy Shia LaBeouf, channeling a young John Cusack) is the perfect counterpoint to the nearly nonstop exhilarating action. The plot is simple: an alien civil war (the Autobots vs. the evil Decepticons) has spilled onto Earth, and young Sam is caught in the fray by his newly purchased souped-up Camaro. Which has a mind–and identity, as a noble-warrior robot named Bumblebee–of its own. The effects, especially the mind-blowing transformations of the robots into their earthly forms and back again, are stellar.

Fans of the earlier film and TV series will be thrilled at this cutting-edge incarnation, but this version should please all fans of high-adrenaline action. Director Bay gleefully salts the movie with homages to pop-culture touchstones like Raiders of the Lost Ark, King Kong, and the early technothriller WarGames. The actors, though clearly all supporting those kickass robots, are uniformly on-target, including the dashing Josh Duhamel as a U.S. Army sergeant fighting an enemy he never anticipated; Jon Voight, as a tough yet sympathetic Secretary of Defense in over his head; and John Turturro, whose special agent manages to be confidently unctuous, even stripped to his undies. But the film belongs to Bumblebee, Optimus Prime, and the dastardly Megatron–and the wicked stunts they collide in all over the globe. Long live Transformers! --A.T. Hurley

More Than Meets the Eye

The Original Movie

Transformers Mania

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Transformers Image Gallery (click for larger image)

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars If you don’t have it by now, roll out.
If you’re reading this review, chances are you are not a huge Transformers fan. This being a week after the movie was released and you’re waiting for my golden words to tell you if you should see it or not. That’s fine with me, you are my target audience, non-fan, because I am one as well. I never had anything against the cartoon, it just missed me somehow when it was taking over America. Luckily I don’t think a Rainbow Brite movie is on the horizon for me to pretend not to be excited about.

So this week’s Movie Of The Summer is here. And to just lay it out there for you, dear reader, it’s not a bad way to spend a summer afternoon. The movie is fun, well shot, has good music, and it has a really good sense of humor about itself. This is good because had it taken itself seriously at all I think I would have hated it, given its origins.

In addition to being an adaptation from an 80’s pop culture icon, the script reeks of stolen property from attempted franchise films past, most notably Independence Day, and Small Soldiers. On the Independence Day front, the alien menace attacks a military base, destroying it and leaving the majority of the personnel dead. The pentagon studies the signal from the threat but it takes a civilian computer hacker to crack the code, though in this one our hackers are hired by the government as opposed to a guy who works for the cable company. And oddly enough there’s a secret branch of the government that has known about the presence of the aliens and has been keeping a crash-landed specimen in a hidden bunker since the 40’s, a bunker so hidden even top levels of the administration don’t know about it.

Then we have Shia LeBeouf, as an awkward teenager who discovers his new toy, in this case a Camarro instead of an action figure, is alive, and is in a state of war against another group of toys. He also enlists the aid of a girl from school he has a crush on in his attempt to help his friends the Gorgonittes… I’m sorry, the Autobots, in their efforts to defeat their enemy. The movie even went so far as to cast Kevin Dunn in the role of the boys father.

LeBeouf however more than holds his own as the closest thing the movie has to a protagonist. I have a feeling this kid is becoming a punchline simply because of the amount of movies he has been in recently, but he’s got some chops. More props however go to John Turturro who is just awesome as a takes-him-self-too-seriously government agent.

The only thing I didn’t like about it speaks less about this movie and more towards a general resentment I’m starting to feel towards Hollywood blockbusters, which is that I find CGI-on-CGI fights to be boring. It’s why I didn’t like the fight sequences that much in King Kong, but why I loved the ones in Lord of the Rings, which also used miniatures and loads of extras. The big pitch of this movie was “let’s take that cartoon and make it live action,” but at the end of the day, when all the impossible stuff is being made on a computer, isn’t it just a cartoon with a real-world background?

4 Stars bluray
watched it once, it was a bit skippy. dont know if it was that the disc was new and first time but still excellent comparable to bluray quality!

5 Stars Nice image and sound quality
I primarily bought this item after being dissapointed whith my first interaction with a blu-ray moovie quality in my 46″ Bravia Full HD HDTV (Spideman moovie) and than i looked for something visually stuning and with an excelent sound effects quality. If you want to see your brand new home theater blast your room, put these and turn up the volume!

Good: Image and sound, excelent orerall quality, funny…

Bad: The film theme may not interest your wife as much as you and your kids… (Be sure you are into action and fiction moovies and you ‘ll be fine.

4 Stars Nice Deal
The price of this off Amazon at my time of purchase (18 bucks) is typically the same as watching it with a friend at the movies once. Not only does it look just as AMAZING on Blu-ray, but you can watch it as much as you want with bonus features If you wanna see some quality visuals in HD, this movie is well worth it!

4 Stars Typical summer blockbuster, but exemplary CGI and lots of action; good blu-ray edition
3.8 stars

We got this for a Friday night mind-numbathon, expecting nothing. I saw part of its sequel in a multi-plex last year before walking out, and was hoping this was better. It was.

Certainly no masterpiece, it does however have a ton of action, some good humor, and maybe the best CGI I’ve ever seen. The Transformers work perfectly and never seem fake; they are in fact amazingly realistic. LaBouef is good in his part, Fox lives up to her name, and Turturro is quite funny. Voight hams it up a bit too much, but this movie never takes itself too seriously, its saving grace.

I’ve watched few of Bay’s movies; haven’t even seen Armageddon, The Rock, or most of the others. This may be just like them, in which case I’ll give them a shot next time I want to stop thinking and just see some flashy eye candy. The blu-ray did look very sharp, with good depth and colors, certainly one of the better transfers I’ve seen. Lots of extras too, for the true Trans fans. I never even saw the original cartoon, so have no idea how faithful this is, but coming in cold I did enjoy this movie, cheese and all.

The funniest parts are the pathetically obvious GM product placements. The bad guys show up as planes, etc, but the good guys always arrive in a convoy of GMC vehicles (no doubt getting 10 mpg) to save the day. Of course, in reality their cars would have broken down halfway there and the company would have gone bankrupt, but oh well, take that product placement money while you can!

Hardly any work of genius, except for the guys who CGI’ed the Transformers themselves, this flick nonetheless overcomes its occasionally daft script and is a fine choice for a colorful, action-filled couple hours of suspending disbelief and being amazed at how far CGI has come in the last decade.

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Bruce Almighty [Blu-ray]

Comic genius Jim Carrey stars with Jennifer Aniston and Morgan Freeman in the entertaining comedy hit of the year that critics are applauding as a “laugh a minute” (Jim Ferguson, FOX-TV). Bruce Nolan (Carrey) is a TV reporter who believes the entire universe is stacked against him. In a life-altering encounter, the Big Guy Upstairs (Freeman) endows Bruce with all His divine powers and challenges Bruce to take on the big job to see if he can do it any better. Bruce Almighty is the wildly funny comedy featuring “Jim Carrey at his best” (Leonard Maltin, Hot Ticket).

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5 Stars great
Awesome service! Arrived quickly and in great shape. Would be happy to do business again with this seller. Thanks

3 Stars I can do anything better than you.
No you can’t.

Yep Bruce is really down on his luck, and we are reminded of that old saying,” never hit a man when he is down, Kick him it is easer.”

After assessing the situation he comes to the conclusion that his situation is the direct results of gross negligence on the part of his maker. He makes the monumental decision to express his thought. Naturally in the tradition of the “Oh God” movies, only this time Morgan Freeman is god, Bruce is challenged to see if he could do any better. This time instead of, “Death takes a Holiday” (1934), God takes his. Now that Bruce has a chance to be in charge. What changes will we see? Was Bruce’s assessment of the situation correct or a tad jaded from the situation?

Of course this is a formula movie with the outcome determined before we start. Jim Carrey relies on his “Carrey faces” to carry the movie. These facial expressions were cute in “Once Bitten” (1985) but get a little long in the tooth by now. Jennifer Aniston, of “Office Space” (1999) fame, does an excellent supporting role.

Once Bitten

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Whip It [Blu-ray]

Hang onto your helmet and get ready to break away from the pack! Ellen Page scores huge laughs as Bliss Cavendar, a small-town teenager with a big dream: to find her own path in the world. Tired of following in her family’s footsteps of compliance and conformity, Bliss discovers a way to put her life on the fast track…literally. She lands a spot on a rough-and-tumble roller derby team and becomes “Babe Ruthless” — the hottest thing on eight wheels! Co-starring Drew Barrymore (in her feature film directorial debut), Marcia Gay Harden, Juliette Lewis, Daniel Stern and Jimmy Fallon, Whip It is a triumphant, free-spirited comedy loaded with high-speed action and nonstop fun!

• Audio: English: 5.1 DTS HD Master Audio / Spanish: 5.1 Dolby Digital / French: 5.1 Dolby Digital
• Language: Dubbed: English, French & Spanish / Subtitled: English, French & Spanish
• Theatrical Aspect Ratio: Widescreen: 2.40:1

Drew Barrymore makes her bow as a director with this Roller Derby coming-of-age number, which shares the spirit of so many of Barrymore’s movies: it’s loosey-goosey, cheerful, and buoyant in waving its “Girls Rule!” flag. On screen, Barrymore relegates herself to a slapstick supporting role, handing the lead to Juno gal Ellen Page. Page plays a Texas teen with a yen to join Austin’s Roller Derby squad, complete with new professional moniker Babe Ruthless, but she’ll have to keep the side career secret from her beauty-pageant-obsessed Mom (Marcia Gay Harden) and football-watchin’ Dad (Daniel Stern). A coming-of-age tale emerges between bouts of skating on the RD track (Jimmy Fallon plays the goofy Derby announcer), with a dash of romance added in the form of a generic Dude in a Band. Kristen Wiig does surrogate-mom duty as a teammate, Juliette Lewis is appropriately out-there as a track rival, and Andrew Wilson (bro of Owen and Luke) gets some hilariously poker-faced lines in as the team’s coach. All the pleasant stuff makes you almost overlook how ramshackle the movie is, and how standard-issue the parental tensions (even if Harden is a total pro, as always). Ellen Page doesn’t offer the innate audience-friendly cuddliness of Barrymore herself–thus her apt casting as Juno’s brittle heroine–but her rapt focus is something to behold. “Babe Ruthless” indeed. –Robert Horton

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User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars Great movie…lack of special features hurt.
Saw the movie in the theater…thought it was pretty good even though I haven’t seen a banked track in roller derby since the 80’s. Got the DVD and really did enjoy it again. Since it’s off season for the local derby team right now it’s a great way to get keep the derby spirit alive. My only complaint about the dvd and it’s a small complaint is the lack of special features. I saw that the Blu Ray version has a short making of feature…the standard DVD just has a single disk with a few outtakes. Would have been nice had they taken the time to maybe put a making of feature on the regular version too…and also maybe a history of the sport itself would have been really cool. seemed to be a pretty high priced dvd for what little was included in the disk.

5 Stars LOVED IT SOOOO MUCH!!!
I’ve never rated anything on Amazon before, but I had to with this…I just loved it

2 Stars A cold and dull Hollywood Product
If you pour heavy cream into a cold bowl and add sugar, vanilla and air, you get one of the tastiest concoctions known to man. If you mix water, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, hydrogenated coconut oil, hydrogenated palm kernel oil, some flavors, gums, and glues, and freeze it, you get something that looks like whipped cream but bears no other resemblance.

This film aspires to be whipped cream, but is tepid whip at best. Start with every teenager-as-protagonist cliche: overbearing, obsessive mother, browbeaten father, cute-as-a-button-little sister, no-one-understands me teen. Add quirky best friend. Stir in newly-met sexy person of opposite sex who looks trustworthy, but, oh well. Mix in a bunch of wild and crazy supporting characters (and make sure one of them drives a cool 60’s car, MG if possible, but Karmann Ghia will do in a pinch.) Seen this film a hundred times before?

After the viewer is thoroughly bored, pour in a healthy dose of plodding action. Now, I’ve been to lots of roller derby bouts. They can be very exciting. But those I’ve attended looked nothing like the action shown here. These were both too fast, as our little inexperienced skater scooted through huge crowds effortlessly, and too slow, as the camera tried to create action where there was none. The failure of the roller derby scenes would not doom the film. Heck, this could be a stage play with some Equus-style skating. But since they went to the effort to try to create it, it did not work.

OK, so by now you’ve got a cliche-riddled tepid mixture of overcooked and bland ingredients. But then, just to show your culinary skills, drop in the most silly and outlandish “Lose your virginity” scene ever filmed. Toss in the requisite “parents coming to the teen’s point of view” conclusion, and you have created Bland Whip. Follow your heart, straight to your grocer’s freezer.

5 Stars Babe Ruthless…..
“Whip It” is the most fun I’ve had all month!

An outstanding cast starring Ellen Page Juno as Bliss Cavendar a.k.a. Babe Ruthless, produced by Drew Barrymore 50 First Dates starring as Smashley Simpson . Also starring -

Jimmy Fallon … ‘Hot Tub’ Johnny Rocket Fever Pitch & Late Night w/ Jimmy Fallon

Kristen Wiig … Maggie Mayhem Adventureland & SNL

Zoe Bell … Bloody Holly Death Proof

Eve … Rosa Sparks Barbershop & Barbershop 2: Back in Business

Juliette Lewis … Iron Maven The Other Sister & From Dusk Till Dawn

A very smart comedy that will keep you smiling & laughing throughout.

Great cast, smart writing, alot of fun and a outstanding soundtrack, what more could you ask for?

Ellen Page is a major star, she shines bright in every movie she is in & I look forward to her next one!

“Whip It” is based off the novel by Shauna Cross - Whip It, which was originally released as “Derby Girl”!

Enjoy~

2 Stars I must have seen another movie!
I really wanted to like this, but I just never warmed up to it. Three big problems: script, casting & directing. The script falls so flat - how can a movie about women’s roller derby be so lethargic? And yet, it is. Most of the action scenes are destroyed by the horrible casting of Jimmy Fallon who’s play-by-play banter is just plain annoying and grating and … bad. Page is good, but her brittle, smarty-pants schtick is showing it’s limitations in a role that calls for more warmth. Wiig and MGH fare best. Then the directing: She tries, but the energy never gets to where it should be. Especially when the off-track scenes go nowhere you haven’t been 30 million times before. Take a pass. Too bad, really.

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