Movie Review - Elle: A Modern Cinderella Tale

Title: Elle: A Modern Cinderella Tale

Year Of Release: 2010

Review Date: June 30, 2012

Rating: PG

Running time: 90 minutes

Box Office Gross: NA

Site Rating: 1 out of 10 stars

"Elle: A Modern Cinderella Tale" stars Ashlee Hewitt as Elle Daniels, dreaming of being a pop star, while working at a terrible record company, filled with vapid artists. Daniels vies for the attention of a famous Justin Bieber like pop star named Ty Parker and through a misunderstanding ends up lying about her identity, in order to impress him. 

Elle is forced to expose a mean group of jealous singers and a covetous female solo artist, intent on working with Parker at all costs. While mildly entertaining, "Elle: A Modern Cinderella Tale" is derivative and not just because it is based on the story book.

Movie Review: Jack And Jill

Title: Jack And Jill

Year Of Release: 2011

Review Date: May 31, 2012

Rating: PG-13

Running time: 91 minutes

Box Office Gross: $149,673,788

Site Rating: 1 out of 10 stars

"Jack And Jill" starring Adam Sandler is his usual gross out fare, with crass humor and bodily functions gone disgusting awry. There are no real jokes behind this movie, just cheap shots and juvenile humor. Sandler plays the two lead characters, fraternal twins named, you guess it, Jack and Jill.

Jill the female (I have to write that because it is switch hitting Hollywood) is very immature, clingy and clueless. Jack is more sensible, but incredibly mean to her, for wanting to foster their fraternal bond. I must state, Sandler makes one ugly woman.  

This film contained scenes of domestic violence, which I disliked. It also features Al Pacino in a movie credit he can definitely leave off his resume, as it fall short of his previous work, by mere association with this movie.

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Movie Review: In Time

Title: In Time

Year Of Release: 2011

Review Date: May 31, 2012

Rating: PG-13

Running time: 109 minutes

Box Office Gross: $172,020,095

Site Rating: 1 out of 10 stars

You ever see a company make a movie thinking it is so cool, but they are the only ones that think that. Ladies and gentlemen, introducing "In Time" starring pop singer, Justin Timberlake. "In Time" is the unoriginal pseudo thriller about people having to buy time in strange ways in order to live.  

The main plot centers around people being forced to have time stamps placed in their hands in order to pay bills and eat. It is reminiscent of themes in the Bible, regarding the mark of the beast, where one is sinfully forced to have a condemnatory number placed on one's forehead or in one's arm, to buy things in the future, in a time where believers are taken to heaven and the anti-Christ temporarily rules the earth. However, the time stamps in "In Time" are the minutes and hours one has to live, with each purchase reducing said life span.

However, that's not what makes "In Time" unoriginal. Some dialogue and other story lines present in the film are very derivative. Timberlake overdoes it in this film and is very affected in the lead role. It makes the move hard to get into or enjoy.  

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Movie Review: Puss In Boots

Title: Puss In Boots

Year Of Release: 2011

Review Date: May 31, 2012

Rating: G

Running time: 90 minutes

Box Office Gross: $554,709,226

Site Rating: 3 out of 10 stars

"Puss In Boots" is the animated tale of a cat that is falsely accused of theft and ends up on the run. His longtime friend Humpty Dumpty, a greed thief, gets him into trouble causing a rift in their friendship.

"Puss In Boots" dragged at points, causing grown viewers to lose interest at times. Some of the jokes were too sophisticated for the film's target audience of kids, who probably did not get some of the humor. The film was warm, but at times the storyline was not cohesive.

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Celluloid Film Review - Monte Carlo - Movie Review

 

Title: Monte Carlo

Year Of Release: 2011

Review Date: April 28, 2012

Rating: PG

Running time: 109 minutes

Box Office Gross: $39,667,665

Site Rating: 2 out of 10 stars

"Monte Carlo" stars Justin Bieber's girlfriend, Selena Gomez, as one of three friends that take a vacation to France but end up in Monte Carlo instead, due to a case of mistaken identity. Gomez plays Texan Grace, who is mistaken for wealthy British heiress, British heiress Cordelia Winthrop-Scott. 

 

 

The trio run up a massive tab on the heiress' dime, which leads to trouble and confusion in the city. "Monte Carlo" was...

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Celluloud Film Review: Cowboys And Aliens - Movie Review

Title: Cowboys And Aliens

Year Of Release: 2011

Review Date: April 28, 2012

Rating: PG-13

Running time: 118 minutes

Box Office Gross: $174,822,325

Site Rating: 2 out of 10 stars

"Cowboys and Aliens" is the science fiction film starring Daniel Craig, as a bitter man battling against strange invaders in the sky. The film is set in 1837 in the U.S. state of Arizona. The primitive people are faced with futuristic aliens that descend on earth to capture and kill humans...

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Celluloid Film Review - Mama I Want To Sing - Movie Review

Title: Mama I Want To Sing

Year Of Release: 2011

Review Date: March 31, 2012

Rating: PG

Running time: 95 minutes

Box Office Gross: N/A

Site Rating: 5 out of 10 stars

"Mama, I Want to Sing!" starring singer, Ciara, is a take on the famous play of the same name. The play and film are based on the life of the late 1960s singer, Doris Troy, a preacher's daughter, who got her start in the church choir. Troy signed a record deal with a major label and faced many of the temptations artists in the mainstream do. "Mama, I Want to Sing!" the movie has been changed from the play in some ways. Some of the messages remained true to the faith, while others were a bit off the mark.

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Celluloid Film Review - Footloose - Movie Review

Title: Footloose

Year Of Release: 2011

Review Date: March 31, 2012

Rating: PG-13

Running time: 113 minutes

Box Office Gross: $62,000,000

Site Rating: 0 out of 10 stars

I never saw the original "Footloose" in the 1980s that came out when I was a kid, but this remake is undeniably bad and looks cheaper than the clips available of the original. The original "Footloose" became wildly popular off the song of the same name by Kenny Loggins and the accompanying music video featuring actor Kevin Bacon dancing his butt off.

The movie remake has a flat soundtrack with no hits, to go with this corny, cliché, blasphemous and boring film. The fictitious story revolves around a small town in Georgia that has banned dancing as sinful. How cheesy. People danced in the Bible, which does not label it sinful (well, unless you're a stripper).

The 2011 "Footloose" features disrespectful scenes, such as a preacher, played by the ever odd and sacrilegious Dennis Quaid, slapping his daughter across the face in a church, after she tells him she is no virgin and men have been in her "panties." Typical Hollywood offending the church with its blasphemy.

I didn't care for the domestic violence in this movie either, via watching the same wayward young woman getting beaten up by her meathead boyfriend. Overall, this was not a good film and one you'd be better off skipping.

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Celluloid Film Review - The Debt

Title: The Debt

Year Of Release: 2011

Review Date: March 31, 2012

Rating: PG-13

Running time: 113 minutes

Box Office Gross: $45,636,368

Site Rating: 3 out of 10 stars

"The Debt" is the 2011 remake of the 2007 Israeli film of the same name, which translates into "Ha-Hov" in Hebrew. The film is about a group of three Israeli Mossad agents, a woman and two men, chosen to capture a obstetrician named Dieter Vogel, who is dubbed "The Surgeon of Birkenau."

He stands accused of killing Jewish people during World War II, something he is secretly proud of and strangely so. The trio's plan goes awry and they end up lying to the public about capturing and killing Vogel. It leads to fame, but guilty consciences. During the sad film, what was to be a capture, becomes a messy mission for revenge, that consumes and destroys the agents. It is an example of how a lie can mushroom and destroy.

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