Sometime it helps to take up a film that is so predictable that you can predict not only the story but also the box-office business as well. The method has been practiced to perfection; hate leading to love is a bull’s eye hit at point blank range that only a moron can miss. You absolutely do not need to let your imagination on a fly to understand what might happen next! Who can not figure out that antagonism is only skin-deep in What Happens in Vegas? This Cameron Diaz - Ashton Kutcher starrer supposedly romantic comedy takes you for a journey between hate and love with the background of a surprise shower of fortune. Though these two can not fall in the list of best romantic category, they give a seasoned performance and is quite a welcome break from the most unlike pairs of Hollywood that have flooded the screen of late. (more…)

(Stills) Comedy is definitely not enjoying the greatest heights today. And even if we do have splashes of comedy, they are primarily built on situational or contextual podiums that do not feature a perfect comedy of errors or comedy of manners. Judging a movie in a comedy scale makes one get anxious. Fine, no apprehensions, the audience does laugh, but that is definitely not an answer to the all-pervasive question, was it comic enough? This is when you rate a movie average, answerable for the fact that you are in a superb fix. So, when Walt Disney decided to take a break from its trademark fairytales and go for a pure comedy, it turned out to be a farce, a mere slapstick opera. Created for a teen audience, College Road Trip can not be tagged as a masterpiece, though it does take you for a light hearted family trip with the drizzle of laughter that occasionally takes the shape of a tropical thunder storm. Director Roger Kumble has given us a G-rated movie that deals with or rather showcases the good-natured clash between an over-protective father and freedom-loving daughter. Keeping this storyline everything goes for a pure surprise-free comedy. We expect a complete menace and we do get one by and by. (more…)

The first Rush Hour flick was entertaining; I’ll give you that. The second got on your nerves a little, but then again, the first was a hit so there was no avoiding that. But when the third installment of the movie came out, I braced myself before entering the movie hall. You see, I feared that I would be subjected to mindless antics of tired stars who were doing the entire thing on a lark and the whole purpose of the movie is to rake in the moolah on the strength of the popularity of the predecessors. How I wish that I could say I was being simply paranoid and prejudiced and that the film is not quite bad! Sadly, I was right bang on and I could not wait to get out of the theatre. (more…)

Enchanted is a classic fairy tale about a princess Giselle who lands up in New York city due to a spell cast by an evil queen. After her arrival in New York she meets a divorce attorney and starts staying with him as she has nowhere to go. Let us however start at the beginning. Princess Giselle, played by Amy Adams meets and falls in love with Prince Edward essayed by James Marsden and they decided to get married. However, the prince’s stepmother Queen Narissa portrayed by Susan Sarandon is against the marriage as it will deprive her of power and control over the kingdom. So she disguises herself as an old woman and tricks Princess Giselle in to falling in to a wishing well. (more…)

Fred Claus starring Vince Vaughn is meant to be a jolly, good- humored Christmas tale and does succeed to an extent. So we have Fred Claus, the not so famous brother of Santa Claus who has fallen on bad times and seeks his good brother’s help to bail him out of a messy situation. Santa agrees to help his sibling provided Fred comes to the North Pole to help out in the week before Christmas. (more…)

Shemaroo Entertainment has had a superb experience with their first English title release. The wonderful packaging of Cloud 9 drew a lot of attention from the retail shops. Further, Cloud 9 went ahead with exciting activities that were conducted for the first time in Shemaroo. The movie was released on the Friendship Day wherein Café Coffee Day had a special Cloud 9 Combo in their menu card. Anybody on the friendship day who would order a Cloud 9 Combo would get the exclusive movie Merchandise. On that special day all the Coffee Day outlets had a Cloud 9 Table Mat which contained a SMS contest with Phoney Tunes and the winner would stand a chance a win a Gift hamper. (more…)

Bet director Steven Soderbergh was counting on this play of fate to make his third in the Ocean series - Ocean’s 13, a runaway hit. Can’t really blame the guy - third movies almost always run out of steam unless its like Star Wars or The Trilogy of The Lord of the Rings; but then again, that’s a totally different league all together. Anyway, coming back to Ocean’s 13, it has two great predecessors. Ocean’s 11 was mind blowing, we all know that. The sequel was a little off the bull’s eye, but nevertheless, it made enough money for there to be a third part. (more…)

Shemaroo Entertainment releases ‘On the Right Track’ starring the popular Gary Coleman of the American sitcom - Diff’rent Strokes – fame, where he played the role of Arnold Jackson. This show was broadcast from 1978 to 1986 and was a quick success. Capitalizing on this fame, Coleman starred in a number of feature films including On the Right Track, which also features Maureen Stapleton, Norman Fell and Michael Lembeck. (more…)

Comedies really are nice to have around. I mean, you return home all stressed out from work and may be feeling down. A comedy will get your spirits up right away. Romantic comedies are even better - you can watch them with your chick friends or with your guy. That’s for the girls. What about the guys? Nah! Romantic comedies are for pansies, there is no way you will catch a real boy watching that stuff! No way until girl wants to watch the film. So to solve the dilemma that the poor guys face, Judd Apatow has magnanimously come up with a movie guys don’t have to be ashamed of watching. (more…)

This is really unfair. If god is honestly just materializing in front of people and giving them the opportunity to become him, I want in! How come this does not happen to normal people?! Yes, you might think this is the hysterical outburst of a small child, but truly, when you see films like this don’t you just want to scream? I thought Bruce Almighty was a mistake that Jim Carrey made. Of course, he made the mistake more watch able, but it was mistake nonetheless. Just when I had thought that was behind me, here comes Evan Almighty - the sequel! Tom Shadyak sure does not believe in learning from mistakes otherwise he would never make this film. (more…)