Wes47

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Sky High
(2005)

Disney just keeps right on doing it!
Disney pulls out all the stereotypes, and crams them into this movie. Famous parents who expect too much of their kids. Kids whose biggest problem is finding someone to take to Homecoming. Moody badboy who has to work, while his classmates fight over who's going to win the Popularity Contest. Big kids beating up little kids.

Average boy next door who doesn't notice average girl next door. Average boy mooning over the cutest girl in school. High School Freshman dating High School Senior. Kids fighting in the cafeteria, and no one to stop them. Kids throwing house-trashing parties as soon as their parents' backs are turned. Kids saving the day and the school, instead of, you know, being kids and actually learning something in school.

All these and more are in this movie. And these are the movie's good points.

None of the Freshmen were young enough to be Freshman. At 54, Kurt Russell was too old for this part. His suit had a LOT of padding. Every woman in this movie seemed to be wearing a push-up bra, as if that's an essential part of every costume. And Lynda Carter's in this to announce that she's not Wonder Woman to a bunch of kids who want her to let them out of Detention. Why would Wonder Woman do that? Only Disney knows.

Worth seeing for free, but if you're paying to watch this, don't!

A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story
(1992)

Meredith Baxter shines here as a deranged psycho.
This movie was more along the lines of Hitchcock's Psycho than a compassionate biography.

Betty Broderick claimed that her husband used her, abused her, then dumped her for a younger woman. It would make sense for her to file for divorce and try for sole custody. Instead, she inexplicably decides to leave her children with her abuser, and then fight for custody and against the divorce that he filed on her. It makes it difficult for me to believe anything she says.

And nothing Betty Broderick could have experienced justifies tormenting him by setting his clothes on fire, leaving hundreds of obscene messages on his phone, vandalizing his house, and finally going to his house with a gun and "accidentally" killing him.

The fact that Betty Broderick shows no remorse means that she will probably spend the rest of her life in prison, keeping her from becoming a threat to her children.

Son of the Pink Panther
(1993)

(Not) the Son of the Pink Panther
The original Pink Panther (1963) was a light-hearted comedy. This one features The Princess from the original as Clouseau's widow, because apparently, forgetting that she's a Princess, making her the wife of a dead Clouseau, and having Clouseau's son not know who he is is very funny. And apparently, it's also funny for Clouseau's son to be mistaken for a pink diamond.

There was also about a million bullets flying everywhere (more humor?). Having a new Princess who acts like she's drunk when tranquilized and kidnapped (over and over) is supposed to be funny. And her Mother (who looks to be about the same age as her daughter) is behind the kidnapping, just because. About the only funny thing about this movie is that Clouseau's Mother is only 13 years older than her son.

Meaning that she had Clouseau's son before she ever met Clouseau.

Mom at Sixteen
(2005)

Hate it
Agree with another reviewer who posted that this movie was made by people who have no idea what being a single parent or a high school student is like.

The characters we're supposed to relate to are completely unrealistic and extremely unlikable. They start taking drugs for no reason and get mad when they don't get their own way. One of the teachers injects herself with a fertility drug right there at school, and holds discussions about casual sex.

And I couldn't help but notice that the camera often aimed at their chests. They're supposed to be underage, so making a movie about girls taking drugs and talking about sex while zooming in on their breasts is way beyond creepy. But hating the parents for trying to be responsible while their kids take drugs and talk about sex is just cruel.

Mixed Nuts
(1994)

Worst movie I've ever seen
This amazing cast came together on Christmas Eve to make the worst movie of all time.

The employees of a suicide hotline are in worse trouble than their callers. You're better off not calling Lifesavers. They give bad advice, tell you their problems, hang up on you, walk out and leave the phones unattended, and sometimes a complete stranger wanders in and answers the phone.

They kill their landlord, but instead of getting into trouble, get rewarded because he turns out to be a serial killer. Lewis' character starts jumping up and down, and of course, that makes her water break. She literally has the baby 2 minutes later.

And when the employees of Lifesavers get depressed, they cheer themselves up by having sex.

Frasier
(1993)

The best part of this show was the title card.
264 episodes, about 30 good ones. Most of the series is like watching a demolition derby. Everyone tries to make themselves feel better by attacking everyone else.

If my brother kept accusing me of undermining his career, hurling insults at my best friend, and staying in a loveless marriage while drooling all over my maid, I'd not only tell him he needs his head examined, he should have it removed first.

The only character I consistently liked was Eddie, the dog. He should have gotten his own show. -------- I have nothing more to say about the show. This text is just here to meet the 10 line requirement. Really. Nothing more to see here. Move on now, OK?

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
(1953)

Better when muted.
I tried to like this, since this movie shows that beautiful women have brains, too. But the songs rarely have anything to do with the scene, Russell looks better when facing the other way (someone should have shot her hairstylist), and Monroe sounds better when she's not talking.

Marilyn Monroe plays a girl obsessed with one thing: finding a guy rich enough to shower her with diamonds, complacent enough to do anything she says, and dumb enough to lose every argument. She casts her lure at every guy she sees, even though she's already engaged to the guy she just described.

Jane Russell plays a chaperone who's too busy getting into trouble to keep her charge out of it. Specifically, she's also engaged - in an exercise of futility - that of landing a beefcake who will stop exercising long enough to notice her. Eventually she does get her happily-ever-after in a poor guy willing to sacrifice his morals for her beauty.

The only reason to watch this atrocity is to drool over Monroe and Russell in their prime.

16 Wishes
(2010)

Surprisingly good
It got off what (to me) seemed like an awkward start. Maybe "Sweet 16", where you're given a car, get your driver's license, and a big party is just a girl thing. I remember seeing my 16th birthday as the end of childhood. Time to get ready for adulthood now.

And at first this movie was exactly like a fairy tale; where the poor, neglected, downtrodden girl finally blossoms into a beautiful princess who gets everything she's ever wanted through no effort of her own and is adored by everyone.

I had to pause the movie several times because I kept thinking "This girl has her own room, a loving family with a nice house, friends. So why does she keep feeling sorry for herself and keep wishing her life would just be magically perfect?

Then they turn the tables and grant her wishes. She gets the life she's always wanted, but it doesn't turn out the way she thought. By the end she realizes she has a lot of growing up to do, and a lot to be thankful for.

Teen Titans Go!
(2013)

Teen Titans Go...AWAY!
I tried to like this show. It claims to show what the Teen Titans' life is like when they're not fighting crime. So what do they do in nearly every episode? Fight crime.

I pushed that aside and watched anyway. What else does this show have? Gorging on junk food, video games and TV. Robin acting like a dictator who can't keep his mind off THE RULES or Starfire. Beastboy acting like a 10 year-old who loves burps, farts, and crushing on Raven. Cyborg is more cowardly than hero.

The last episode I watched had the Titans trying to show Starfire the true meaning of Black Friday. Because unless she acts like a wild animal in a mindless killing spree, the Titans will surely be crushed to death.

Not something I want to see. Ever again.

Perfect Opposites
(2004)

Not a Rom Com
I guess they thought they were being innovative by starting after the beginning, but I like things to start at the beginning. Call me a stick-in-the-mud if you will, but that doesn't change my preference.

So I didn't like that this film starts about 1/4 of the way through, then goes back to the beginning. I also don't like the voice-over, another "innovative" technique that I think has been done to death.

I also didn't like that she dumped her boyfriend to go out with the main character, and he didn't respect her boundary that she was already taken. Treat each other with disrespect from the beginning, and you'll go right on doing it.

That's what eventually broke this couple up - he didn't keep his promises to her nor keep his eyes to himself. She didn't let him have a say in the decisions that they were supposed to make as a couple.

Both of them blame the other person and don't accept responsibility for their trail of broken relationships. So although it's no surprise that they're both single at the end of the film, they are inexplicably thinking about getting back together again.

This movie goes in my "Watch it Once and Only Once" category.

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