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Bad Boys II
(2003)

Great Action and Comedy
A great movie with plenty of car chases, explosions, and comedy. Bad Boys 2 starts out with Detective Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) and Detective Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) is investigating the flow of ecstasy into Miami. The car chase is massive: it all starts with a bunch of Jamaicans start to chase Syd (Gabrielle Union). She is an undercover cop and Marcus' sister, who is carrying money for the drop off. Marcus and Mike, who is driving a brand new Ferrari, catch up to these Jamaicans. Syd ends up wrecking into a car and starts a pile up, which starts a shootout. Finally, the Jamaicans hijack an 18-wheeler hauling cars, so the chase starts up again. The end up on the Miami Bridge and the Jamaicans end up letting the cars roll off of the trailer. It was a great action sequence that lasts for little more then ten minutes. The rest of the film has another car chase and two more shootouts, which are great. This movie also has plenty of great cars in it, such as the new Cadillac CTS, some great American Muscle cars, and a 2003 Buick Blackhawk Concept Car. Martin Lawrence and Will Smith are great together; they are very funny and just are awesome together. The whole crew seemed to work together very well. For being a sequel, it did very well, and I think this one was better then the first one. What is even better is that there is talk of them making a third one. I haven't heard any of the main details, but Martin Lawrence and Will Smith will be in it. Even though this movie is two and a half hours long, everyone should see it. This movie has great action and comedy that everyone will like.

Tommy Boy
(1995)

Great Comedy Everyone Needs to See
This is a comedy in which Thomas 'Tommy' Callahan III (Chris Farley) who is a slow-witted, clumsy guy who recently graduated college after attending for seven years. His father, Thomas 'Big Tom' Callahan II (Brian Dennehy), owns an auto parts factory in Ohio. When Tommy arrives back home, he finds he has a position at the factory waiting for him. His dad also introduces Tommy to the new brake pad division of the factory and to Tommy's soon-to-be stepmother, Beverly Barish-Burns (Bo Derek), and her supposed son Paul Barish (Rob Lowe). But when Big Tom dies, the factory threatens to go under unless the new brake pads are to be sold. Therefore, Tommy must go on the road to sell them, along with the assistance of Richard Hayden (David Spade), Big Tom's right-hand man. Beverly and Paul who are con artists and also husband and wife who try to con Tommy and his family out of the company's money. Tommy and Richard travel all over the Midwestern United States trying to sell a half a million brake pads. If they don't sell the half a million brake pads, the company will be sold to Ray Zalinsky (Dan Aykroyd). This movie is full of great laughs and everybody will enjoy it. If Chris Farley was alive today, I bet there would be many more great and funny movies like this one. There are plenty of great passages that I hear everyday from this movie. I have seen it so many times I have lost count. I pretty much know it by heart. It is that great of a movie. Everybody needs to see it.

Gone in Sixty Seconds
(2000)

Car Thievery at its Best
`Gone in 60 Seconds' is a movie in which Randall `Memphis' Raines (Nicolas Cage), an ex-car thief, has to steal fifty cars for Raymond Vincent Calitri (Christopher Eccleston) in one day. If he doesn't steal all of these cars, Calitri is going to kill his brother Kip Raines (Giovanni Ribisi). So Memphis has to round up his old gang and try to get these cars, while the police are breathing down their necks. Some of his old gang includes Sara `Sway' Wayland (Angelina Jolie), Otto Halliwell (Robert Duvall), and The Sphinx (Vinnie Jones). About half of the fifty cars are exotics -- and there are some very nice ones I may add -- but in the end the last car was the best of them all. I don't want to spoil the ending, but there is an awesome car chase in which Memphis steals a 1967 Shelby Mustang, and is chased by the cops. There is intense action in this movie that keeps everybody on the edge of their seat. Some of the dialogue could have been better, like this one line towards the end: Calitri says, `It never rains but it pours,' because of Memphis Raines, but it makes no sense at all. There are some funny parts in this flick too: such as when Otto's dog eats three keys that they need to steal three new Mercedes Benz, Memphis tells one of the guys to go buy some exlax to give it to him. This movie tries to show that no matter what a person has to do, even if it is something that I told my mother that I would never do again, we will always save our family members. No matter what it is, even if it could get me killed, I will always make sure the family is going to be safe.

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