The Help [REVIEW]

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Kimmo Mustonenen, Kyrle Lendhoffer, Behind The Proscenium, Kimmo On Kino, The Help, Tate Taylor, Kathryn Stockett, Emma stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain, Ahna O'Reilly, Allison Janney, Anna Camp, Eleanor Henry, Emma Henry, Chris Lowell, Cicely Tyson, Mike Vogel, Sissy Spacek, Brian Kerwin, Wes Chatham, Aunjanue Ellis, Ted Welch, Shane McRae, Roslyn Ruff, Tarra Riggs, Leslie Jordan, Mary Steenburgen, Tiffany Brouwer, Carol Sutton, Millicent Bolton, Ashley Johnson, Ritchie Montgomery, Don Brock, Florence 'Flo' Roach, Nelsan Ellis, David Oyelowo, LaChanze, Dana Ivey, Becky Fly, Sheerene Whitfield, Cleta Elaine Ellington, Henry Carpenter, John Taylor, Charles Cooper, Diana Cooper, Coyt Bailey, Wade Cottonfield, Kelsey Scott, Amy Beckwith, Sloane Fair, Anna Jennings, Lauren Miller, Elizabeth Smith, Mary Taylor Killebrew, Kathryn Ursy, Stephanie Ward, Julie Ann Doan, Jordan Sudduth, Elizabeth Leefolt, Mohamed Khalaf Al-Mazrouei, Michael Barnathan, Nate Berkus, Jennifer Blum, Chris Columbus, Brunson Green, L. Dean Jones Jr., Sonya Lunsford, John Norris, Mark Radcliffe, Jeff Skoll, Tate Taylor, Thomas Newman, Stephen Goldblatt, Hughes Winborne, Kerry Barden, Paul Schnee, Mark Ricker, Curt Beech, Rena DeAngelo, Sharen Davis, Coni Andress, Mark Graziano, Brian McNulty, Robin Sweet, Karen Davis, Donald Sparks, Tessa Lyn Stephenson, Sheila Bartlett, Troy Borisy, Ellen Lampl, Kim Drummond, Andy Malcolm, Robert Cole, Rocky Capella, Rex Reddick, Blake Alcantara, Will Arnot, Wendy Chuck, Jim Alan Cook, Adam Cole, Peter Lam, George Doering, Charlsey Adkins, Monique Allen, Russell allen, Mary Bean, Ed Borgerding, Stefan Brunner, Joseph neal Buckley, Avent Clark, Randall Clark, Marilyn Corwin, Kennedy Davey, Bryan Davis, Ava DuVernay, Eileen M. Dennis, Cate Hardman, Kellyl Helstrom, George Inmon, Devon Parks, Joy Trahan, Lex Williams, Kenny Yates

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Kimmo Mustonenen, Kyrle Lendhoffer, Behind The Proscenium, Kimmo On Kino, The Help, Tate Taylor, Kathryn Stockett, Emma stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain, Ahna O'Reilly, Allison Janney, Anna Camp, Eleanor Henry, Emma Henry, Chris Lowell, Cicely Tyson, Mike Vogel, Sissy Spacek, Brian Kerwin, Wes Chatham, Aunjanue Ellis, Ted Welch, Shane McRae, Roslyn Ruff, Tarra Riggs, Leslie Jordan, Mary Steenburgen, Tiffany Brouwer, Carol Sutton, Millicent Bolton, Ashley Johnson, Ritchie Montgomery, Don Brock, Florence 'Flo' Roach, Nelsan Ellis, David Oyelowo, LaChanze, Dana Ivey, Becky Fly, Sheerene Whitfield, Cleta Elaine Ellington, Henry Carpenter, John Taylor, Charles Cooper, Diana Cooper, Coyt Bailey, Wade Cottonfield, Kelsey Scott, Amy Beckwith, Sloane Fair, Anna Jennings, Lauren Miller, Elizabeth Smith, Mary Taylor Killebrew, Kathryn Ursy, Stephanie Ward, Julie Ann Doan, Jordan Sudduth, Elizabeth Leefolt, Mohamed Khalaf Al-Mazrouei, Michael Barnathan, Nate Berkus, Jennifer Blum, Chris Columbus, Brunson Green, L. Dean Jones Jr., Sonya Lunsford, John Norris, Mark Radcliffe, Jeff Skoll, Tate Taylor, Thomas Newman, Stephen Goldblatt, Hughes Winborne, Kerry Barden, Paul Schnee, Mark Ricker, Curt Beech, Rena DeAngelo, Sharen Davis, Coni Andress, Mark Graziano, Brian McNulty, Robin Sweet, Karen Davis, Donald Sparks, Tessa Lyn Stephenson, Sheila Bartlett, Troy Borisy, Ellen Lampl, Kim Drummond, Andy Malcolm, Robert Cole, Rocky Capella, Rex Reddick, Blake Alcantara, Will Arnot, Wendy Chuck, Jim Alan Cook, Adam Cole, Peter Lam, George Doering, Charlsey Adkins, Monique Allen, Russell allen, Mary Bean, Ed Borgerding, Stefan Brunner, Joseph neal Buckley, Avent Clark, Randall Clark, Marilyn Corwin, Kennedy Davey, Bryan Davis, Ava DuVernay, Eileen M. Dennis, Cate Hardman, Kellyl Helstrom, George Inmon, Devon Parks, Joy Trahan, Lex Williams, Kenny Yates“The Help”

With Wit, Reviewed By Kimmo Mustonenen

“The Help” is funny and touching (right in the heart chamber) adaptation of the novel of the same title published in 2009 by Kathryn Stockett.

How come it took so long to hang the book on the screen?  I laugh at me.

Sockett’s book, a success in the Anglo market, makes a young American, “Skeeter” Phelan, whose relationship with two African-American women raised early sixties, a key cheerful and endearing, which was the movement Civil Rights in that country.

Was ever a more cheerful time?

With their impeccable debut film adaptation behind the camera to actor Tate Taylor, under whom works an excellent cast led by Emma Stone (“Easy A” – hubba!), Mike Vogel, Bryce Dallas Howard (she kicked my butt in “Terminator: Salvation”, even with red hair), Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer and Allison Janney (CJ in “The West Wing” and voice in those annoying Kaiser-Permanente commercials – I don’t want to thrive, alright?!?).

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Kimmo Mustonenen, Kyrle Lendhoffer, Behind The Proscenium, Kimmo On Kino, The Help, Tate Taylor, Kathryn Stockett, Emma stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain, Ahna O'Reilly, Allison Janney, Anna Camp, Eleanor Henry, Emma Henry, Chris Lowell, Cicely Tyson, Mike Vogel, Sissy Spacek, Brian Kerwin, Wes Chatham, Aunjanue Ellis, Ted Welch, Shane McRae, Roslyn Ruff, Tarra Riggs, Leslie Jordan, Mary Steenburgen, Tiffany Brouwer, Carol Sutton, Millicent Bolton, Ashley Johnson, Ritchie Montgomery, Don Brock, Florence 'Flo' Roach, Nelsan Ellis, David Oyelowo, LaChanze, Dana Ivey, Becky Fly, Sheerene Whitfield, Cleta Elaine Ellington, Henry Carpenter, John Taylor, Charles Cooper, Diana Cooper, Coyt Bailey, Wade Cottonfield, Kelsey Scott, Amy Beckwith, Sloane Fair, Anna Jennings, Lauren Miller, Elizabeth Smith, Mary Taylor Killebrew, Kathryn Ursy, Stephanie Ward, Julie Ann Doan, Jordan Sudduth, Elizabeth Leefolt, Mohamed Khalaf Al-Mazrouei, Michael Barnathan, Nate Berkus, Jennifer Blum, Chris Columbus, Brunson Green, L. Dean Jones Jr., Sonya Lunsford, John Norris, Mark Radcliffe, Jeff Skoll, Tate Taylor, Thomas Newman, Stephen Goldblatt, Hughes Winborne, Kerry Barden, Paul Schnee, Mark Ricker, Curt Beech, Rena DeAngelo, Sharen Davis, Coni Andress, Mark Graziano, Brian McNulty, Robin Sweet, Karen Davis, Donald Sparks, Tessa Lyn Stephenson, Sheila Bartlett, Troy Borisy, Ellen Lampl, Kim Drummond, Andy Malcolm, Robert Cole, Rocky Capella, Rex Reddick, Blake Alcantara, Will Arnot, Wendy Chuck, Jim Alan Cook, Adam Cole, Peter Lam, George Doering, Charlsey Adkins, Monique Allen, Russell allen, Mary Bean, Ed Borgerding, Stefan Brunner, Joseph neal Buckley, Avent Clark, Randall Clark, Marilyn Corwin, Kennedy Davey, Bryan Davis, Ava DuVernay, Eileen M. Dennis, Cate Hardman, Kellyl Helstrom, George Inmon, Devon Parks, Joy Trahan, Lex Williams, Kenny YatesBroadly speaking, the script preserves the essential novel by Kathryn Stockett and gets carried away by the personality of three unforgettable characters: Aibileen Clark (Viola Davis), an African-American middle-aged white babysitter (white babies, Aibilieen is not white – this is important later), shattered by the loss of a son, Jackson Minny (Octavia Spencer), another black maid who dreams of a stable job (one that lasts awhile, not with horses), and Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan (Emma Stone), the young graduate and aspiring writer who returns home and realizes that certain prejudices weigh like a millstone.

Except when you’re hot.

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Kimmo Mustonenen, Kyrle Lendhoffer, Behind The Proscenium, Kimmo On Kino, The Help, Tate Taylor, Kathryn Stockett, Emma stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain, Ahna O'Reilly, Allison Janney, Anna Camp, Eleanor Henry, Emma Henry, Chris Lowell, Cicely Tyson, Mike Vogel, Sissy Spacek, Brian Kerwin, Wes Chatham, Aunjanue Ellis, Ted Welch, Shane McRae, Roslyn Ruff, Tarra Riggs, Leslie Jordan, Mary Steenburgen, Tiffany Brouwer, Carol Sutton, Millicent Bolton, Ashley Johnson, Ritchie Montgomery, Don Brock, Florence 'Flo' Roach, Nelsan Ellis, David Oyelowo, LaChanze, Dana Ivey, Becky Fly, Sheerene Whitfield, Cleta Elaine Ellington, Henry Carpenter, John Taylor, Charles Cooper, Diana Cooper, Coyt Bailey, Wade Cottonfield, Kelsey Scott, Amy Beckwith, Sloane Fair, Anna Jennings, Lauren Miller, Elizabeth Smith, Mary Taylor Killebrew, Kathryn Ursy, Stephanie Ward, Julie Ann Doan, Jordan Sudduth, Elizabeth Leefolt, Mohamed Khalaf Al-Mazrouei, Michael Barnathan, Nate Berkus, Jennifer Blum, Chris Columbus, Brunson Green, L. Dean Jones Jr., Sonya Lunsford, John Norris, Mark Radcliffe, Jeff Skoll, Tate Taylor, Thomas Newman, Stephen Goldblatt, Hughes Winborne, Kerry Barden, Paul Schnee, Mark Ricker, Curt Beech, Rena DeAngelo, Sharen Davis, Coni Andress, Mark Graziano, Brian McNulty, Robin Sweet, Karen Davis, Donald Sparks, Tessa Lyn Stephenson, Sheila Bartlett, Troy Borisy, Ellen Lampl, Kim Drummond, Andy Malcolm, Robert Cole, Rocky Capella, Rex Reddick, Blake Alcantara, Will Arnot, Wendy Chuck, Jim Alan Cook, Adam Cole, Peter Lam, George Doering, Charlsey Adkins, Monique Allen, Russell allen, Mary Bean, Ed Borgerding, Stefan Brunner, Joseph neal Buckley, Avent Clark, Randall Clark, Marilyn Corwin, Kennedy Davey, Bryan Davis, Ava DuVernay, Eileen M. Dennis, Cate Hardman, Kellyl Helstrom, George Inmon, Devon Parks, Joy Trahan, Lex Williams, Kenny YatesSet in Jackson, Mississippi, “The Help” portrays, through the comedy of manners and the intimate drama, the complicated emotional relationship plotted between white and black (no gray area here) communities throughout the sixties, just at that stage in which, happily, it all started to change.

Except for poor George Wallace.  He wasn’t happy at all.

The success of this production will not surprise those who know the reputation that precedes the novel by Kathryn Stockett (if I write her name three times I get a free Kindle!  Success!), a delightful book, which was rejected by sixty literary agents before they achieved the feat that is already on his lapel (contortionists – before you make letters, I know “feat” and “feet” are not the same.  I’m from Finland, not Retardia.), selling five million copies and remain one hundred weeks on the bestseller list of The New York Times.

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Kimmo Mustonenen, Kyrle Lendhoffer, Behind The Proscenium, Kimmo On Kino, The Help, Tate Taylor, Kathryn Stockett, Emma stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain, Ahna O'Reilly, Allison Janney, Anna Camp, Eleanor Henry, Emma Henry, Chris Lowell, Cicely Tyson, Mike Vogel, Sissy Spacek, Brian Kerwin, Wes Chatham, Aunjanue Ellis, Ted Welch, Shane McRae, Roslyn Ruff, Tarra Riggs, Leslie Jordan, Mary Steenburgen, Tiffany Brouwer, Carol Sutton, Millicent Bolton, Ashley Johnson, Ritchie Montgomery, Don Brock, Florence 'Flo' Roach, Nelsan Ellis, David Oyelowo, LaChanze, Dana Ivey, Becky Fly, Sheerene Whitfield, Cleta Elaine Ellington, Henry Carpenter, John Taylor, Charles Cooper, Diana Cooper, Coyt Bailey, Wade Cottonfield, Kelsey Scott, Amy Beckwith, Sloane Fair, Anna Jennings, Lauren Miller, Elizabeth Smith, Mary Taylor Killebrew, Kathryn Ursy, Stephanie Ward, Julie Ann Doan, Jordan Sudduth, Elizabeth Leefolt, Mohamed Khalaf Al-Mazrouei, Michael Barnathan, Nate Berkus, Jennifer Blum, Chris Columbus, Brunson Green, L. Dean Jones Jr., Sonya Lunsford, John Norris, Mark Radcliffe, Jeff Skoll, Tate Taylor, Thomas Newman, Stephen Goldblatt, Hughes Winborne, Kerry Barden, Paul Schnee, Mark Ricker, Curt Beech, Rena DeAngelo, Sharen Davis, Coni Andress, Mark Graziano, Brian McNulty, Robin Sweet, Karen Davis, Donald Sparks, Tessa Lyn Stephenson, Sheila Bartlett, Troy Borisy, Ellen Lampl, Kim Drummond, Andy Malcolm, Robert Cole, Rocky Capella, Rex Reddick, Blake Alcantara, Will Arnot, Wendy Chuck, Jim Alan Cook, Adam Cole, Peter Lam, George Doering, Charlsey Adkins, Monique Allen, Russell allen, Mary Bean, Ed Borgerding, Stefan Brunner, Joseph neal Buckley, Avent Clark, Randall Clark, Marilyn Corwin, Kennedy Davey, Bryan Davis, Ava DuVernay, Eileen M. Dennis, Cate Hardman, Kellyl Helstrom, George Inmon, Devon Parks, Joy Trahan, Lex Williams, Kenny YatesWith Emma Stone and Viola Davis hired for the main roles, the rest of the casting was a relatively simple task.  Throw a copy of the book down Sunset, hit an actor head-wise and “you’re in a movie!”  Invented by Soderbergh.  Genius.

And what about the atmosphere?  This is another chapter in which the film succeeds completely (although it can’t really be seen – much like the air atmosphere we breath).

To preserve the spirit of the age and local color, the team moved to Greenwood, Mississippi.

Parts of the film also took place Jackson,Clarksdale and Greenville.  Undoubtedly, all contribute to the feeling of breathing the whole truth.  And being surrounded by hicks.

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Behind The Proscenium, Kyrle Lendhoffer, Reese Witherspoon, Water For Elephants, Robert Pattinson, Christoph Waltz, Paul Schneider, Jim Norton, Hal Holbrook, Mark Povinelli, Richard Brake, Stephen Monroe Taylor, Ken Foree, Scott MacDonald, James Frain, Sam Anderson, John Aylward, Brad Greenquist, Tim Guinee, Donna W. Scott, E.E. Bell, Kyle Jordan, Aleksandra Kaniak, Ilia Volok, Bruce Gray, Jim Jansen, James Keane, Ivo Nandi, Karynn Moore, Andrew Connolly, Doug McDougal, Tracy Phillips Rowan O'Hara, Water for Elephants, Tai, Uggie, Ice, Sita Acevedo, Danny Castle, Michael Coronas, Aloysia Gavre, Francis Lawrence, Andrew R. Tennenbaum, Erwin Stoff, Gil Netter, Kevin Halloran, Alan Edward Bell, Ana Maria Quintana, Chad Holmes, David Crank, Denise Chamian, Molly Allen, Sasha Veneziano, Kimmo MustonenenKimmo Mustonenen – (Kimmo On Kino) – Behind The Proscenium

P.S.  The Glee Project?!?  WTF?!?!  Lindsay, if you need comfort, contact me at Manka Bros.  You have made Ginnifer Goodwin no longer exist on me.  Forever.

Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes [REVIEW]

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Kimmo Mustonenen, Kyrle Lendhoffer, Behind The Proscenium, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Rupert Wyatt, Pierre Boulle, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, James Franco, Charlton Heston, Freida Pinto, John Lithgow, Brian Cox, Tom Felton, David Oyelowo, Tyler Labine, Jamie Harris, David Hewlett, Ty Olsson, Madison Bell, Makena Joy, Kevin O'Grady, Sean Tyson, Jack Kuris, Tammy Hui, Rufus Dorsey, Kyle Riefsnyder, Anthony McRae, Jeb Beach, Jesse Reid, BJ Harrison, Leah Gibson, Tracy Spiridakos, Ivan Wanis-Ruiz, Trevor Carroll, Chelah Horsdal, Timothy Webber, James Pizzinato, Robin Nielsen, Monica Mustelier, Syn Narula, Mattie Hawkinson, Ryan Booth, Gordon Douglas Myren, Elizabeth Weinstein, Meredith Grantier, Javier Caballero Cano, Peter Bundic, Dylan Nouri, Oona Service, Camille Atebe, Derek Morrison, Dean Redman, Hector Johnson, David Richmond-Peck, Adrian Hough, Evans Johnson, Joey Roche, Sean Connor Roche, Qayam Devji, Kis Yurij, Riel Hahn, Sonja Bennett, Michael Kopsa, Steve Lawlor, Chris Shields, Sandy Robson, Luc Roderique, Mike Dopud, Mark Henriques, Stacey Schmidt, Matteo Mazziotti, Willy Miles, Fred North, Allen Martin, Juliette Goodrich, Andy Serkis, Karin Konoval, Terry Notary, Richard Ridings, Christopher Gordon, Devyn Dalton, Jay Caputo, Richard Darwin, Panou, Peter Chernin, Dylan Clark, thomas M. Hammel, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Kurt Williams, Patrick Doyle, Andrew Lesnie, Conrad Buff, Mark Goldblatt, Heike Brandstatter, Debra Zane, Claude Pare, Helen Jarvis, Elizabeth Wilcox, Renee April, Bonnie Benwick, John Catron, Aaron Downing, Heidi Eri, Wendy Williams, Matthew Dunne, Haylee Thompson, Eli Best, John Dale, Gary Young, Ron Bartlett, Susan Dawes, Dawn Fintor, Mildred Latrou, Jonathan Rimas, Kelly Coe, Paul Basker, Daniel Booko, Susan Boyajian, Gregg Brilliant, Simon Carrigan, David Midgen, Cara Miller, Korey Petrie, Alex Voong, Tim Burton

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Kimmo Mustonenen, Kyrle Lendhoffer, Behind The Proscenium, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Rupert Wyatt, Pierre Boulle, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, James Franco, Charlton Heston, Freida Pinto, John Lithgow, Brian Cox, Tom Felton, David Oyelowo, Tyler Labine, Jamie Harris, David Hewlett, Ty Olsson, Madison Bell, Makena Joy, Kevin O'Grady, Sean Tyson, Jack Kuris, Tammy Hui, Rufus Dorsey, Kyle Riefsnyder, Anthony McRae, Jeb Beach, Jesse Reid, BJ Harrison, Leah Gibson, Tracy Spiridakos, Ivan Wanis-Ruiz, Trevor Carroll, Chelah Horsdal, Timothy Webber, James Pizzinato, Robin Nielsen, Monica Mustelier, Syn Narula, Mattie Hawkinson, Ryan Booth, Gordon Douglas Myren, Elizabeth Weinstein, Meredith Grantier, Javier Caballero Cano, Peter Bundic, Dylan Nouri, Oona Service, Camille Atebe, Derek Morrison, Dean Redman, Hector Johnson, David Richmond-Peck, Adrian Hough, Evans Johnson, Joey Roche, Sean Connor Roche, Qayam Devji, Kis Yurij, Riel Hahn, Sonja Bennett, Michael Kopsa, Steve Lawlor, Chris Shields, Sandy Robson, Luc Roderique, Mike Dopud, Mark Henriques, Stacey Schmidt, Matteo Mazziotti, Willy Miles, Fred North, Allen Martin, Juliette Goodrich, Andy Serkis, Karin Konoval, Terry Notary, Richard Ridings, Christopher Gordon, Devyn Dalton, Jay Caputo, Richard Darwin, Panou, Peter Chernin, Dylan Clark, thomas M. Hammel, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Kurt Williams, Patrick Doyle, Andrew Lesnie, Conrad Buff, Mark Goldblatt, Heike Brandstatter, Debra Zane, Claude Pare, Helen Jarvis, Elizabeth Wilcox, Renee April, Bonnie Benwick, John Catron, Aaron Downing, Heidi Eri, Wendy Williams, Matthew Dunne, Haylee Thompson, Eli Best, John Dale, Gary Young, Ron Bartlett, Susan Dawes, Dawn Fintor, Mildred Latrou, Jonathan Rimas, Kelly Coe, Paul Basker, Daniel Booko, Susan Boyajian, Gregg Brilliant, Simon Carrigan, David Midgen, Cara Miller, Korey Petrie, Alex Voong, Tim BurtonRise of the Planet of the Apes

With Wit, Reviewed By Kimmo Mustonenen

First, groovy 1968 gave us “Planet of the Apes”.

Awesome.

Heston and hot chick on horse.  “Damn you all to hell!”

Best.

Movie.

Ever.

Now become the cult film pulled after four sequels, and in 2001 of Hollywood’s great storyteller (but mostly crap film-maker) Tim Burton film again.  With Marky Mark (but no Funky Bunch).

This is now followed by “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”.

Story?  Hells yes!

Will Rodman (James Franco) is a dedicated researcher who is looking for a cure for Alzheimer’s disease (shifty!).  But he also has very personal reasons, after all, suffers from this is his father, Charles Rodman (John Lithgow) to the disease.

The new drugs are tested on animals – first animals?  On chimpanzees (go get ’em PETA!).

The latest attempt by Will seems to be a very good direction to go, but after a catastrophic incident, the chimps must be put to this test series (did any of them see “I Am Legend“?  Cures never work.).

What remains is only a freshly born baby monkeys who saves himself with Will and takes home.

Never trust baby monkeys.

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Kimmo Mustonenen, Kyrle Lendhoffer, Behind The Proscenium, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Rupert Wyatt, Pierre Boulle, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, James Franco, Charlton Heston, Freida Pinto, John Lithgow, Brian Cox, Tom Felton, David Oyelowo, Tyler Labine, Jamie Harris, David Hewlett, Ty Olsson, Madison Bell, Makena Joy, Kevin O'Grady, Sean Tyson, Jack Kuris, Tammy Hui, Rufus Dorsey, Kyle Riefsnyder, Anthony McRae, Jeb Beach, Jesse Reid, BJ Harrison, Leah Gibson, Tracy Spiridakos, Ivan Wanis-Ruiz, Trevor Carroll, Chelah Horsdal, Timothy Webber, James Pizzinato, Robin Nielsen, Monica Mustelier, Syn Narula, Mattie Hawkinson, Ryan Booth, Gordon Douglas Myren, Elizabeth Weinstein, Meredith Grantier, Javier Caballero Cano, Peter Bundic, Dylan Nouri, Oona Service, Camille Atebe, Derek Morrison, Dean Redman, Hector Johnson, David Richmond-Peck, Adrian Hough, Evans Johnson, Joey Roche, Sean Connor Roche, Qayam Devji, Kis Yurij, Riel Hahn, Sonja Bennett, Michael Kopsa, Steve Lawlor, Chris Shields, Sandy Robson, Luc Roderique, Mike Dopud, Mark Henriques, Stacey Schmidt, Matteo Mazziotti, Willy Miles, Fred North, Allen Martin, Juliette Goodrich, Andy Serkis, Karin Konoval, Terry Notary, Richard Ridings, Christopher Gordon, Devyn Dalton, Jay Caputo, Richard Darwin, Panou, Peter Chernin, Dylan Clark, thomas M. Hammel, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Kurt Williams, Patrick Doyle, Andrew Lesnie, Conrad Buff, Mark Goldblatt, Heike Brandstatter, Debra Zane, Claude Pare, Helen Jarvis, Elizabeth Wilcox, Renee April, Bonnie Benwick, John Catron, Aaron Downing, Heidi Eri, Wendy Williams, Matthew Dunne, Haylee Thompson, Eli Best, John Dale, Gary Young, Ron Bartlett, Susan Dawes, Dawn Fintor, Mildred Latrou, Jonathan Rimas, Kelly Coe, Paul Basker, Daniel Booko, Susan Boyajian, Gregg Brilliant, Simon Carrigan, David Midgen, Cara Miller, Korey Petrie, Alex Voong, Tim BurtonThe drugs that Will has given the chimp baby momma seems to have transferred to the baby and so is “Caesar” blessed with a gigantic… intelligence!  Look out, Algernon (get it?  Flowers?  Come on, people!).

But this leads to problems over the years. 

“Rise of the Planet of the Apes” makes one thing exactly correct – where most seemingly come first blockbuster of the effects and then tinker around some story, “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” have the opposite away.

In the center are always the story and the characters.  And it is not an alibi focus shift (I need to stop drinking), but the filmmakers have really put their heart and soul into the story and you believe them, indeed, that to them this project is located at the heart – to sit (in the heart), especially, since many details of the story are simply very good (the Kossu is flowing tonight!).

James Franco is in assuming the role of the male protagonist, but the real main character is always generated by the CGI monkey Caesar.  Incidentally, the inspiration for him was none other than the great motion capture performers Andy Serkis, from “Lord of the Rings”.  CGI Andy totally kicks the other actors to the acting curb.

CGI monkeys > CGI people.

The adoption by Caesar’s Will Rodman (of Caesar), the subsequent rapprochement and the new family situation becomes Caesar almost like Will’s son, is told emotionally believable and touching.

The subsequent coming of age of Caesar and the burgeoning problems which arise because of his personality – well, more emotional “what?” than “Captain America, that’s for sure!

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Kimmo Mustonenen, Kyrle Lendhoffer, Behind The Proscenium, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Rupert Wyatt, Pierre Boulle, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, James Franco, Charlton Heston, Freida Pinto, John Lithgow, Brian Cox, Tom Felton, David Oyelowo, Tyler Labine, Jamie Harris, David Hewlett, Ty Olsson, Madison Bell, Makena Joy, Kevin O'Grady, Sean Tyson, Jack Kuris, Tammy Hui, Rufus Dorsey, Kyle Riefsnyder, Anthony McRae, Jeb Beach, Jesse Reid, BJ Harrison, Leah Gibson, Tracy Spiridakos, Ivan Wanis-Ruiz, Trevor Carroll, Chelah Horsdal, Timothy Webber, James Pizzinato, Robin Nielsen, Monica Mustelier, Syn Narula, Mattie Hawkinson, Ryan Booth, Gordon Douglas Myren, Elizabeth Weinstein, Meredith Grantier, Javier Caballero Cano, Peter Bundic, Dylan Nouri, Oona Service, Camille Atebe, Derek Morrison, Dean Redman, Hector Johnson, David Richmond-Peck, Adrian Hough, Evans Johnson, Joey Roche, Sean Connor Roche, Qayam Devji, Kis Yurij, Riel Hahn, Sonja Bennett, Michael Kopsa, Steve Lawlor, Chris Shields, Sandy Robson, Luc Roderique, Mike Dopud, Mark Henriques, Stacey Schmidt, Matteo Mazziotti, Willy Miles, Fred North, Allen Martin, Juliette Goodrich, Andy Serkis, Karin Konoval, Terry Notary, Richard Ridings, Christopher Gordon, Devyn Dalton, Jay Caputo, Richard Darwin, Panou, Peter Chernin, Dylan Clark, thomas M. Hammel, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Kurt Williams, Patrick Doyle, Andrew Lesnie, Conrad Buff, Mark Goldblatt, Heike Brandstatter, Debra Zane, Claude Pare, Helen Jarvis, Elizabeth Wilcox, Renee April, Bonnie Benwick, John Catron, Aaron Downing, Heidi Eri, Wendy Williams, Matthew Dunne, Haylee Thompson, Eli Best, John Dale, Gary Young, Ron Bartlett, Susan Dawes, Dawn Fintor, Mildred Latrou, Jonathan Rimas, Kelly Coe, Paul Basker, Daniel Booko, Susan Boyajian, Gregg Brilliant, Simon Carrigan, David Midgen, Cara Miller, Korey Petrie, Alex Voong, Tim Burton“Rise of the Planet of the Apes” surprise here insofar as the film of the new technical opportunities only in the sense of history begins and never for mere show.

Movie was great for first part, then a cliché mess – like prison movie – except that instead of people – just trapped monkey.

And trapped monkey is sad monkey.

So, “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” is good.  BUT.  Although the duo James Franco / John Lithgow convincing, but unfortunately all the others remain quite pale and the emotional range of Caesar played literally on the wall.

But back to the development of history: apart from the one-dimensional portrayal, there is another problem.  The development of Caesar from the lovable monkey with minor problems to the great revolutionary leader seems a bit rushed.  Like bad monkey community theater “A Star Is Born”.  But better.

Conclusion?  Two thumbs wagging (monkey-style!) upward.  Not the greatest, not “The Green Lantern”.  But summer fun.

And Freida Pinto.  We need more of her in movies.  Seriously.  One and a half thumbs for Freida alone.

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Behind The Proscenium, Kyrle Lendhoffer, Reese Witherspoon, Water For Elephants, Robert Pattinson, Christoph Waltz, Paul Schneider, Jim Norton, Hal Holbrook, Mark Povinelli, Richard Brake, Stephen Monroe Taylor, Ken Foree, Scott MacDonald, James Frain, Sam Anderson, John Aylward, Brad Greenquist, Tim Guinee, Donna W. Scott, E.E. Bell, Kyle Jordan, Aleksandra Kaniak, Ilia Volok, Bruce Gray, Jim Jansen, James Keane, Ivo Nandi, Karynn Moore, Andrew Connolly, Doug McDougal, Tracy Phillips Rowan O'Hara, Water for Elephants, Tai, Uggie, Ice, Sita Acevedo, Danny Castle, Michael Coronas, Aloysia Gavre, Francis Lawrence, Andrew R. Tennenbaum, Erwin Stoff, Gil Netter, Kevin Halloran, Alan Edward Bell, Ana Maria Quintana, Chad Holmes, David Crank, Denise Chamian, Molly Allen, Sasha Veneziano, Kimmo MustonenenKimmo Mustonenen (Kimmo On Kino) – Behind The Proscenium

P.S.  Crying Christian hipster (with fake glasses – dick!) gone from “The Glee Project”!  Lindsay is 18, right?  I hope so…

The Smurfs [REVIEW]

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With Wit, Reviewed By Kimmo Mustonenen

What the Smurf?!?

Another Smurfing CGI poopfest of the summer of pooping Smurfed-up films?

The movie studios have Smurfed us again – right up the Smurfhole.

If animated characters take on real actors, then alarm bells should ring.  Excluding again the extraordinary movie gem Beowulf (genius!), it is also already hard at all to call a movie of this kind that can convince.

Then, when a studio then tries the popular cartoon series The Smurfs and in this, is messed up, then red alert should be achieved!

Success!

Anyone who is curious nonetheless: Yes, The Smurfs is really a very weak movie that nobody has to look at – but if you do, blame only yourself (or your Smurfingly annoying mate who said it would be good – dump her now!).

Smurfs live concealed in a village, hidden from the outside world.  And it also has a good reason: Among others, it has the evil wizard Gargamel (Hank Azaria) who dicks with Smurfs (not literally – it’s kids movie!).  But eventually he succeeds and his cat, Azrael (who does not dick), still make the village identified and found.

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Then, even Smurfs can’t get a ticket to Book of Mormon (sad Smurfs).  And since Gargamel was also to New York, they seek refuge with Grace (Jayma Mays boring in Glee.  Have sex with Mr. Schuester already!) and Patrick (Neil Patrick Harris – ladykiller!), who are trying to help the Smurfs on their way back.

The concept is simple: Take a well-known franchise (in this case, The Smurfs), invent a hair-raising story line and try with as simplistic gags at least a little pep in the boring construct bring.

Or not. 

The Smurfs makes it quite simple and shipped the blue little people with the help of a rather cheap gimmick in our world to be found (this is confusing).

As a consequence of a classic culture clash show is taken off, but unfortunately it lacks the rear to the front of even a semi-good idea.

The highlight is when there already is a hopelessly misplaced Gargamel heedless of a braking car.

Hurp durp.

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For any half-experienced viewers of the film ensures only for a large dollop of boredom and who is looking for something for children, should be no problems have a better alternative to find the pool of wonderful animated films.

Even Neil Patrick Harris fans can save the visit as the How I Met Your Mother star burned here is just merciless.

Something like The Smurfs comes out just when they (money grubbing studio tycoons like Khan Manka, Jr.) tries again every last cent out of an old franchise to push.

The story is bleh, the gags are all lukewarm damp squishy sandwich and otherwise it is primarily a high dumbness.

View may well be the only very young audience, but otherwise everyone else of the moviegoers already implemented have seen better.

If I had paid any Smurfing money to see this Smurf-fest… well, I would have yelled “Smurf off and die!”  Smurfing Smurf Smurfers.  So, one thumb – Smurfing… downward.

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P.S.  This learned from The Glee Project – Ryan Murphy is a tool.

Cowboys & Aliens [REVIEW]

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With Wit, Reviewed By Kimmo Mustonenen

Cowboys & Aliens.  Who didn’t play this game in the backyard, when you were children?

I was always a cowboy for I had a hat.  It (the scenario) was better on my neighbor Kurri’s backyard; than it was on the big-ass screen.

Story?  Well, here goes something…

If a stranger wakes up in the middle in New Mexico in 1873, he does not have memory of his past.

So says this film.

The only reference point which he has is, clamped to his wrist, an outlandish metal bracelet.

The foreigner walks into the city of Absolution and confuses and angers of the local cattle baron – his son.  And he has run afoul and a brigand (yes, at the same time).

But when he finds out why he can’t think (not booze – though that has made me not think – like last Wednesday… but that is for another article – boy, I was drunk) – I just got lost in my own sentence.

And from here, Cowboys & Aliens enters into same old, same old cycle, which has the again formed group to run into sporadic detours on their journey – only to be alien attacked again and again.

I miss Indians.

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And then we find the heroes can die.

No one never did die in the Kurri’s backyard (not for lack of trying).

Cowboys & Aliens is played fast and loose. The film wastes no time with receiving firmly into and soon it is alien time.

This sets the movie away from other, shy, films.  Like Super 8.  Show the monster already!

Daniel Craig forms persuasive ass-kicker, for very much a cowboy.  That is, if you’ve never seen a movie about cowboys – with or without aliens.

I won’t spoil the alien look.  They’re gnarly and ugly – like Kathy Griffin (ha!  A joke!).

But even awkward exhibition and lengthy letters can work on their way into an exciting adventure film. Unfortunately, no person it seems in Cowboys & Aliens seems to have fun.  

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There are moments here and, where he and Craig talk to each other with their eyeballs.  Those moments are cool.  

Sam Rockwell seems the only member which thoroughly amuses himself.  At my screening, the chant “More Sam, more Sam” made the rafters dance (disco!).

And this disappointment continues and on into approximately each aspect of Cowboys & Aliens (that is fun to type).

A western film, tries to have John Ford landscapes, can not strike the necessary boundry-lessness of the west – and the alien motivation for the Earth grabbing?  Stupid, stupid, stupid (my editor stops me at three stupids).

Summary:  Cowboy & Aliens was better in the Kurri’s backyard of my childhood than in the multiplex which now probably fills the backyard of your youth.

Oh, and Olivia Wilde is fetching (new word)!

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Captain America: The First Avenger [REVIEW]

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With With, Reviewed By Kimmo Mustonenen

Back on the good old days as a new superhero epic didn’t look on film screens apparently every other week, film producers used to satisfy we, us, the public with nothing more than bare exhibitionism.

Now they are just a bore.

Or am I exhausted (thanks for the tired, Transformers)?

Captain America: The First Avenger has strong opening times, a noble execution for sure.

Unfortunately they cannot this standard of the quality support and into crappy melodrama in the last hour ignore (if you can stay awake – yet so loud, how can you sleep?).

This is a dishonor, because a world-striking film of the Captain America could have caused indisputable momentum (my new superhero name!) for The Avengers.

Unfortunately, it is to be not.

Which we have here something I condemn to be underneath the average film, by choppy drawing up and the characters of one dimension (more on this later).

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As Thor early in the season, Captain America: The First Avenger is requested, in order to do a terrible lot.  And that is to explain to us the origin of a Marvel Comics guy, who we don’t know – also to his friends, the family and the sidekicks, then place it in world saving an adventure to the exhibition.

And more!

Suggest a point of romance and prepare for its inevitable sequels as part of the next years studio profits generator, known as The Avengers.  Ka-ching!

Chris Evans plays as Steve Rogers – a child of Brooklyn, would like so much his country to serve, and would like the leading role to beat the Nazis in the Second World War (and in the face).

Unfortunately he’s a small guy – with many physical problems, thus Rogers is deemed unsuitable – he even tries to register several times under different names and with different physicians completely around New York.

This has gotten the attention of Dr. Abraham Erskine (Stanley Tucci) – a mysterious scientist working with defense contractor Howard Stark (Domenic Cooper), American Colonel Chester Phillips (Tommy Lee Jones) and British agent Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) to develop a medical procedure to turn everyday soldiers into super soldiers.

In Finland, we call these push-ups.

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He best serves it by not being in a movie as lousy as The Green Hornet but that is not too hard.

Well, he becomes Captain America.

Who wouldn’t?

Most badly of all, Captain America: The First Avenger we get like two films, which are in one smashed.

We could have been with the first part of the film contently, with the Rogers and his abilities discovered and prove ourselves, a hero to be, but director Joe Johnston and the writing team believed to the necessity to go back and start a whole again other plotline over Nazi badasses, which tries to stand for one even still more bad leader than Hitler (what?!?) bent on world domination, Johann Schmidt (Hugo Weaving).

Is this Captain America nemesis number one?  Better to save him for the upcoming sequel movie.  This one is too long.

So, I give one drooping thumb.

Movie is in 3D, too bad script arrived in 2D – which is still 1D better than the acting!

Sad face for me.

Sad face for Captain America: The First Avenger.

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Winnie the Pooh [REVIEW]

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With Wit, Reviewed By Kimmo Mustonenen

Of more than 35 years since his last major movie appearance he is finally back: Winnie the Pooh, the honey-loving, always good-natured bear from the woods (where Pooh the bear goes – well… – The Pope is Catholic, right?).

In many places is the question – where the Heffalump has the Pooh been?

Forgotten, ignored, displaced?

This theatrical release alone is enough to run under the great banner of Walt Disney (and his frozen head – article later).

For this had been entirely based on old traditions and even if the marketing was on the safe side, and a post-modern piece of animation a la “Shrek” purported to end – it was a classical fairy tale and a good one at that.

With Winnie the Pooh, Disney goes a step further (or back, in both space and time), but here is a very old-fashioned, even to two-dimensional cartoon (not 3D, much thanks to God).

Is that nice?

Heffalump yes it is!!!

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Everything is as usual, feels familiar and exudes the nostalgic charm of the original and would smell like a cookie.

Childhood memories, surprises remain out completely (and we know that surprised children can be calamitous).  It is just what you expect.

Pooh has in search of fresh honey, Eeyore lost his tail and then disappears (but not like in Hostel – that would freak me out!).

The story is really Heffalumping slow going, but in this case is not a disadvantage, because the film is primarily designed for a very young audience, and for many it will be the first cinema experience (Playskool’s “My First Cinema!”  Send me a check, Playskool).

It will be taken for all time, faster, more exciting passages are interspersed with quiet moments at the pause (I think).  Which is for the drooling old and much for the drooling young.  And both go in their pants.

By a narrator who is voiced by John Cleese, opens up a playful connection between audience and film world.

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Especially at this point it is interesting for older viewers, since in Winnie the Pooh are many word games and gimmicks with the fourth wall (thanks for that one, theater school!).

Also emphasize the positive, was very successful finale, in which provides an involuntary seizing of the characters in a self-dug pit for jokes – like a “Saturday Night Live”.

Winnie the Pooh is no more, no less, no up, no down.  Is a great movie for kids, a nostalgia for the grown and enjoy a short (in the beginning) –  namely “The Ballad of Nessie”.

So, as like Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (what a good weekend for movies!) – two more vigorous thumb wavings – old fashioned and refreshing (lemonade!).

If you don’t go, you are Heffalumping crazy!  I stand by this statement.

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P.S.  If you have a hatred for my English – go Heffalump yourself!  In the pore!

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 [REVIEW]

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With Wit, Reviewed By Kimmo Mustonenen

With “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2”, Harry Potter moves into the final battle.

Really the very last.

Sad people everywhere.

For Harry Potter fans, the “Harry Potter” movies are as a kind of Horcruxes – those in which the arch-enemy Voldemort small pieces swapped of his soul and has spread to delay his death (if you say “what?” read the dang books already).

In particular, since the last book appeared in 2007, the disciples of each film have a small piece of the Potter fortune invested, and a director would have to make very many mistakes to screw up the brains of the masses into a revolt which would turn into a hatred of young Harry and his movie.  It is a bulletproof film yet still delivers like a train to the heart.

Especially Hermione.  Cannot forget her (yowza!).

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The second part of “Deathly Hallows” is a seamless continuation of the first one with Harry, Ron (Rupert Grint), and Hermione (Emma Watson) – with the house-elf Dobby the helpful on the beach – and seems at this beach now, very briefly, the sun (this is complicated business).

Then it is dark again, and Harry is alone again.  Naturally.

Again, what could be said from the first part of “Deathly Hallows”: Yates has not illustrated the book, but a mood – a mood of farewell and goodbye.

This is not the romantic, but barren volcanic landscapes, almost surreal in its vastness and desolation, as though Harry Potter’s soul Salvador Dalí carted out and cast in stone.

One would hardly have thought it possible, but “Deathly Hallows 2” is even darker – a more solitary Harry.

The first part staged the “us-versus-the-rest-of-world” friendly celebration of Harry, Ron and Hermione; the second now the “I-need-act-alone” by Potter.

And alone acting is cool.

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Since there is no heroic martyr, Harry, as a reluctant hero rushes into battle, as if he were going through the stations of a sadistic treasure hunt, to destroy Voldemort along with his Horcruxes and find the three “Deathly Hallows”.

These tasks must be ticked off as soon as possible so that Potter, finally (whew!), has his rest.

And if it is the eternal – no matter.

Which does not mean there is no action spectacle awaiting viewers: Some people speculated on the quiet first part that the director had abolished all the effects for the final.

Wrong, buster!

Yates is interested in still more for characters than for dramatic showdowns.  The villains implode rather incidentally – the grandeur of Hogwarts castle turns into a refugee camp.

Crazy.

What an ending!

SPOILER ALERT!

The much-criticized epilogue to make us go “19 years later” wasn’t as much suck as you would thought at first glance (again, you perplexed?  Read the dang book!).

Daniel Radcliffe and one that was made earlier with the help of ‘digital 19 years later’ and now looks like Marty McFly, but not so much older than 17.

No, we do not want to keep Harry Potter in memory.  No, we want a Harry Potter heart.

At least there will be no more “is your Potter Hairy?” jokes.  And God is thanked for that!

Two vigorously wagging thumbs.

This the end that really ends things.  Take that “Lost”.

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Behind The Proscenium, Kyrle Lendhoffer, Reese Witherspoon, Water For Elephants, Robert Pattinson, Christoph Waltz, Paul Schneider, Jim Norton, Hal Holbrook, Mark Povinelli, Richard Brake, Stephen Monroe Taylor, Ken Foree, Scott MacDonald, James Frain, Sam Anderson, John Aylward, Brad Greenquist, Tim Guinee, Donna W. Scott, E.E. Bell, Kyle Jordan, Aleksandra Kaniak, Ilia Volok, Bruce Gray, Jim Jansen, James Keane, Ivo Nandi, Karynn Moore, Andrew Connolly, Doug McDougal, Tracy Phillips Rowan O'Hara, Water for Elephants, Tai, Uggie, Ice, Sita Acevedo, Danny Castle, Michael Coronas, Aloysia Gavre, Francis Lawrence, Andrew R. Tennenbaum, Erwin Stoff, Gil Netter, Kevin Halloran, Alan Edward Bell, Ana Maria Quintana, Chad Holmes, David Crank, Denise Chamian, Molly Allen, Sasha Veneziano, Kimmo MustonenenKimmo Mustonenen (Kimmo On Kino) – Behind The Proscenium

Zookeeper [REVIEW]

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Behind The Proscenium, Kyrle Lendhoffer, Kimmo Mustonenen, Kimmo On Kino, Zookeeper, Frank Coraci, Nick Bakay, Rock Reuben, Kevin James, Jay Scherick, David Ronn, Kevin James, Rosario Dawson, Leslie Bibb, Ken Jeong, Donnie Wahlberg, Joe Rogan, Nat Faxon, Steffiana De La Cruz, Nick Bakay, Jackie Sandler, Nicholas Turturro, Thomas Gottschalk, Brandon Keener, Robin Bakay, Gary Valentine, Tanner Blaze, Tim Gage, Gino Falsetto, Etienne Deneault, Katrina Begin, Matthew R. Staley, Michael Burton, Todd Zeile, Mookie Barker, Tara Giordano, Daniel Guire, Mark DellaGrotte, Ellen Colton, Barry Bernardi, Juston McKinney, Nick Nolte, Adam Sandler, Sylvester Stallone, Cher, Judd Apatow, Jon Favreau, Faizon Love, Maya Rudolph, Bas Rutten, Don Rickles, Jim Breuer, Richie Minervini, Tom Woodruff, Garon Michael, Michael Hammett, Gina Hernandez, Krystal Kenville, Dan Marshall, Joe Sobalo, Barry Bernardi, Jennifer Eatz, Todd Garner, Jack Giarraputo, Aimee Keen, Charles Newirth, Jeff Sussman, Rupert Gregson-Williams, Michael Barrett, Scott Hill, Justine Baddeley, Kim Davis-Wagner, Kirk Petruccelli, Daniel T. Dorrance, Hilton Rosemarin, Mona May, David Eric Chapman, Debbie Schwab, Aida Caefer, Diane Branigan, Shawn Doherty, Mark Forbes, Ilyse Frisch, Anna Gossman, Brett Leigh, Suzanne Lehfeldt, Jeremy Tate, Stephanie Worth

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Behind The Proscenium, Kyrle Lendhoffer, Kimmo Mustonenen, Kimmo On Kino, Zookeeper, Frank Coraci, Nick Bakay, Rock Reuben, Kevin James, Jay Scherick, David Ronn, Kevin James, Rosario Dawson, Leslie Bibb, Ken Jeong, Donnie Wahlberg, Joe Rogan, Nat Faxon, Steffiana De La Cruz, Nick Bakay, Jackie Sandler, Nicholas Turturro, Thomas Gottschalk, Brandon Keener, Robin Bakay, Gary Valentine, Tanner Blaze, Tim Gage, Gino Falsetto, Etienne Deneault, Katrina Begin, Matthew R. Staley, Michael Burton, Todd Zeile, Mookie Barker, Tara Giordano, Daniel Guire, Mark DellaGrotte, Ellen Colton, Barry Bernardi, Juston McKinney, Nick Nolte, Adam Sandler, Sylvester Stallone, Cher, Judd Apatow, Jon Favreau, Faizon Love, Maya Rudolph, Bas Rutten, Don Rickles, Jim Breuer, Richie Minervini, Tom Woodruff, Garon Michael, Michael Hammett, Gina Hernandez, Krystal Kenville, Dan Marshall, Joe Sobalo, Barry Bernardi, Jennifer Eatz, Todd Garner, Jack Giarraputo, Aimee Keen, Charles Newirth, Jeff Sussman, Rupert Gregson-Williams, Michael Barrett, Scott Hill, Justine Baddeley, Kim Davis-Wagner, Kirk Petruccelli, Daniel T. Dorrance, Hilton Rosemarin, Mona May, David Eric Chapman, Debbie Schwab, Aida Caefer, Diane Branigan, Shawn Doherty, Mark Forbes, Ilyse Frisch, Anna Gossman, Brett Leigh, Suzanne Lehfeldt, Jeremy Tate, Stephanie WorthZookeeper

With Wit, Reviewed By Kimmo Mustonenen

When one in thinking comedy, especially in these comedies, the tastes are as varied as in almost any other genre.

So there are the sophisticated, witty humor, the dark British humor, but also the “hurr durr” and/or “herp derp” or naive childlike humor.

Somehow, yes, any of these styles can be quite irritable (like a bowel) and – according to doses used – to provide lots of fun in the cinema, yet not out of the cinema.

Why leave but Kevin James and Adam Sandler for years on the constant same thing, now worn-kind, one must ask already.

While with “Grown Ups” could see at least a slight upward trend, fueled by the hope was that even Adam Sandler grows up again, unfortunately, we are now witnessing one of his (James, not Sandler) weakest comedies.

Paul Blart is now his Citizen Kane?

In this universe it is the curse.

We get Zookeeper.

We are Job.

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Behind The Proscenium, Kyrle Lendhoffer, Kimmo Mustonenen, Kimmo On Kino, Zookeeper, Frank Coraci, Nick Bakay, Rock Reuben, Kevin James, Jay Scherick, David Ronn, Kevin James, Rosario Dawson, Leslie Bibb, Ken Jeong, Donnie Wahlberg, Joe Rogan, Nat Faxon, Steffiana De La Cruz, Nick Bakay, Jackie Sandler, Nicholas Turturro, Thomas Gottschalk, Brandon Keener, Robin Bakay, Gary Valentine, Tanner Blaze, Tim Gage, Gino Falsetto, Etienne Deneault, Katrina Begin, Matthew R. Staley, Michael Burton, Todd Zeile, Mookie Barker, Tara Giordano, Daniel Guire, Mark DellaGrotte, Ellen Colton, Barry Bernardi, Juston McKinney, Nick Nolte, Adam Sandler, Sylvester Stallone, Cher, Judd Apatow, Jon Favreau, Faizon Love, Maya Rudolph, Bas Rutten, Don Rickles, Jim Breuer, Richie Minervini, Tom Woodruff, Garon Michael, Michael Hammett, Gina Hernandez, Krystal Kenville, Dan Marshall, Joe Sobalo, Barry Bernardi, Jennifer Eatz, Todd Garner, Jack Giarraputo, Aimee Keen, Charles Newirth, Jeff Sussman, Rupert Gregson-Williams, Michael Barrett, Scott Hill, Justine Baddeley, Kim Davis-Wagner, Kirk Petruccelli, Daniel T. Dorrance, Hilton Rosemarin, Mona May, David Eric Chapman, Debbie Schwab, Aida Caefer, Diane Branigan, Shawn Doherty, Mark Forbes, Ilyse Frisch, Anna Gossman, Brett Leigh, Suzanne Lehfeldt, Jeremy Tate, Stephanie WorthGriffin Keyes is a zookeeper and the animals extremely popular, because it deals with them very closely and with devotion (“it” being “he” – you get it!  Me too!).

But his job is in his love life very much in the way (damn!), because his dream woman wants to marry him not because he “is just a zookeeper” but because he is just a zookeeper.

Fortunately, the animals can understand people, not only us, but also speak with us – if they want, because a code that forbids them actually.

Animals are shifty and have rules.  But to Griffin’s love life to fix it, decide the zoo, to obtain information on the rules of time and explain to the people even as it ensnares the beloved correctly.

What?

Unfortunately, the posturing of a bear is just as beneficial as the territorial markings of a wolf – at least with a human woman.  This is true – I’ve seen it on the internet.

Even in the rough story one suspects that the level of humor is rather childish.  How bad it really is but then, only in the course of the film clear, because at least when Kevin James pisses middle of the restaurant to a potted palm, because it was recommended by an animal, is such a limit is exceeded.

What?

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Behind The Proscenium, Kyrle Lendhoffer, Kimmo Mustonenen, Kimmo On Kino, Zookeeper, Frank Coraci, Nick Bakay, Rock Reuben, Kevin James, Jay Scherick, David Ronn, Kevin James, Rosario Dawson, Leslie Bibb, Ken Jeong, Donnie Wahlberg, Joe Rogan, Nat Faxon, Steffiana De La Cruz, Nick Bakay, Jackie Sandler, Nicholas Turturro, Thomas Gottschalk, Brandon Keener, Robin Bakay, Gary Valentine, Tanner Blaze, Tim Gage, Gino Falsetto, Etienne Deneault, Katrina Begin, Matthew R. Staley, Michael Burton, Todd Zeile, Mookie Barker, Tara Giordano, Daniel Guire, Mark DellaGrotte, Ellen Colton, Barry Bernardi, Juston McKinney, Nick Nolte, Adam Sandler, Sylvester Stallone, Cher, Judd Apatow, Jon Favreau, Faizon Love, Maya Rudolph, Bas Rutten, Don Rickles, Jim Breuer, Richie Minervini, Tom Woodruff, Garon Michael, Michael Hammett, Gina Hernandez, Krystal Kenville, Dan Marshall, Joe Sobalo, Barry Bernardi, Jennifer Eatz, Todd Garner, Jack Giarraputo, Aimee Keen, Charles Newirth, Jeff Sussman, Rupert Gregson-Williams, Michael Barrett, Scott Hill, Justine Baddeley, Kim Davis-Wagner, Kirk Petruccelli, Daniel T. Dorrance, Hilton Rosemarin, Mona May, David Eric Chapman, Debbie Schwab, Aida Caefer, Diane Branigan, Shawn Doherty, Mark Forbes, Ilyse Frisch, Anna Gossman, Brett Leigh, Suzanne Lehfeldt, Jeremy Tate, Stephanie WorthVery mediocre (this is a short sentence).  Wants above all, because there are quite a few such scenes in which we, as viewers, leave the theater either fled or sink in the chair – but not both for that is impossible.

Only the trip with the only really creative and well-developed character – the gorilla (better than Ed, the farting and baseball playing chimp – thanks for this Matt LeBlanc!) – knows how to convince.

This flashes on the existing definitive sense of timing and situation comedy, and fortunately remains sustainable even in the head (in my head or yours?  Let me know in the comments!).  Is a pity that one is linked somehow many, though not more, strands of plot processed.

Seriously.

Overall, Zookeeper, unfortunately, a disappointment (shocker! Although I expected Sasha Grey level suckage (naughty!) – go “Entourage”!).

There is much reason to be ashamed of strange and often situations that are very drawn to construct and bring on the hair (man I’m drunk).  It simply lacks the spark of feeling for a humorous line.

Fans of the usual rather childish level Sandler / James movies will certainly enjoy themselves while here, but everyone else be warned: There is one funny – really only the gorilla excursion, which is hinted at in the trailer already.  Everything else is unfortunately not worth the cinema ticket.

One thumb, wagging downward – like photo before in Cialis ad.

Bummer.

“I’m mad…And that’s a fact
I found out…Animals don’t help
Animal think…They’re pretty smart
Shit on the ground…See in the dark.”

“Animals” by The Talking Heads

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Behind The Proscenium, Kyrle Lendhoffer, Reese Witherspoon, Water For Elephants, Robert Pattinson, Christoph Waltz, Paul Schneider, Jim Norton, Hal Holbrook, Mark Povinelli, Richard Brake, Stephen Monroe Taylor, Ken Foree, Scott MacDonald, James Frain, Sam Anderson, John Aylward, Brad Greenquist, Tim Guinee, Donna W. Scott, E.E. Bell, Kyle Jordan, Aleksandra Kaniak, Ilia Volok, Bruce Gray, Jim Jansen, James Keane, Ivo Nandi, Karynn Moore, Andrew Connolly, Doug McDougal, Tracy Phillips Rowan O'Hara, Water for Elephants, Tai, Uggie, Ice, Sita Acevedo, Danny Castle, Michael Coronas, Aloysia Gavre, Francis Lawrence, Andrew R. Tennenbaum, Erwin Stoff, Gil Netter, Kevin Halloran, Alan Edward Bell, Ana Maria Quintana, Chad Holmes, David Crank, Denise Chamian, Molly Allen, Sasha Veneziano, Kimmo MustonenenKimmo Mustonenen (Kimmo On Kino) – Behind The Proscenium

P.S.  Summer television is the suck.

Horrible Bosses [REVIEW]

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Behind The Proscenium, Kimmo Mustonenen, Kyrle Lendhoffer, Kimmo On Kino, Horrible Bosses, Seth Gordon, Michael Markowitz, John Francis Daley, Jonathan M. Goldstein, Jason Bateman, P.J. Byrne, Steve Wiebe, Kevin Spacey, Charlie Day, Lindsay Sloane, Michael Albala, Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis, Reginald Ballard, George Black, Barry Livingston, Meghan Markle, Donald Sutherland, Celia Finkelstein, Colin Farrell, John Francis Daley, Scott Rosendall, Dave Sheridan, Ioan Gruffudd, Brian George, Chad Coleman, Jamie Foxx, Diana Toshiko, Carla Maria Cadotte, Peter Breitmayer, Julie Bowen, Isaiah Mustafa, Wendell Pierce, Ron White, Jimm Giannini, Dawn Frances, Andrew Lukich, Bob Newhart, Sean Lake, John Cheng, Diana Pokorny, Brett Ratner, John Rickard, Mary Rohlich, Jay Stern, Christopher Lennertz, David Hennings, Peter Teschner, Lisa Beach, Sara Katzman, Shepherd Frankel, Jay Pelissier, Jan Pascale, Carol Ramsey, Diana Pokorny, Jay Vinitsky, Gary Hymes, Charity Ozarowski, Jeremy Reisig, Don Coufal, Alexa Alden, Kelly Berthold, Vanessa Mendoza, Kasia Nabialczyk, Anne Roever, Cheryl Tsai, Christopher Woodring, David Koll

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Behind The Proscenium, Kimmo Mustonenen, Kyrle Lendhoffer, Kimmo On Kino, Horrible Bosses, Seth Gordon, Michael Markowitz, John Francis Daley, Jonathan M. Goldstein, Jason Bateman, P.J. Byrne, Steve Wiebe, Kevin Spacey, Charlie Day, Lindsay Sloane, Michael Albala, Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis, Reginald Ballard, George Black, Barry Livingston, Meghan Markle, Donald Sutherland, Celia Finkelstein, Colin Farrell, John Francis Daley, Scott Rosendall, Dave Sheridan, Ioan Gruffudd, Brian George, Chad Coleman, Jamie Foxx, Diana Toshiko, Carla Maria Cadotte, Peter Breitmayer, Julie Bowen, Isaiah Mustafa, Wendell Pierce, Ron White, Jimm Giannini, Dawn Frances, Andrew Lukich, Bob Newhart, Sean Lake, John Cheng, Diana Pokorny, Brett Ratner, John Rickard, Mary Rohlich, Jay Stern, Christopher Lennertz, David Hennings, Peter Teschner, Lisa Beach, Sara Katzman, Shepherd Frankel, Jay Pelissier, Jan Pascale, Carol Ramsey, Diana Pokorny, Jay Vinitsky, Gary Hymes, Charity Ozarowski, Jeremy Reisig, Don Coufal, Alexa Alden, Kelly Berthold, Vanessa Mendoza, Kasia Nabialczyk, Anne Roever, Cheryl Tsai, Christopher Woodring, David KollHorrible Bosses

With Wit, Reviewed By Kimmo Mustonenen

In Finnish language, “Horrible Bosses” translates to “Hirmuinen Pomoja”.

In Finnish, “Horrible Movie” translates to “Kamala Elokuva”.

Fortunately “Hirmuinen Pomoja”, it is not “Kamala Elokuva” but in fact “Loistava Elokuva”!  Which means “Really Good Movie”!

So… great the summer (!) movie season has finally started!

“Horrible Bosses” accepts the challenge put against it “The Hangover 2” and of raises it tons of new heights.

The dudes (and jack-off monkey!) The Hangover.

The chicks owned “The Bridesmaids”.

Both of sexes are equally unspeakable in this hilarious new treat “Horrible Bosses”.

John Francis Daley, Michael Markowitz and Jonathan Goldstein all have experience writing or acting and situation of comedies in TV sketch comedies. Yet this smash-up feature script by all of them doesn’t seem choppy or overextended, and director Seth Gordon (“Four Christmases” – yuck, gross) drives it forward like a bullet train – like the new one in China!

Three reserved idiots – Jason Bateman, who is in the enterprise equivalent indentured of the enslavement; Jason Sudeikis, which tries to hold his boss of the credit of the sex with hookers in his office and of firing the people because they are fat (haven’t he seen show where fat women become skinny and hot women in two weeks?) and Charlie Day, which the dentist extorts into an affair before his wedding (yowza!).

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Behind The Proscenium, Kimmo Mustonenen, Kyrle Lendhoffer, Kimmo On Kino, Horrible Bosses, Seth Gordon, Michael Markowitz, John Francis Daley, Jonathan M. Goldstein, Jason Bateman, P.J. Byrne, Steve Wiebe, Kevin Spacey, Charlie Day, Lindsay Sloane, Michael Albala, Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis, Reginald Ballard, George Black, Barry Livingston, Meghan Markle, Donald Sutherland, Celia Finkelstein, Colin Farrell, John Francis Daley, Scott Rosendall, Dave Sheridan, Ioan Gruffudd, Brian George, Chad Coleman, Jamie Foxx, Diana Toshiko, Carla Maria Cadotte, Peter Breitmayer, Julie Bowen, Isaiah Mustafa, Wendell Pierce, Ron White, Jimm Giannini, Dawn Frances, Andrew Lukich, Bob Newhart, Sean Lake, John Cheng, Diana Pokorny, Brett Ratner, John Rickard, Mary Rohlich, Jay Stern, Christopher Lennertz, David Hennings, Peter Teschner, Lisa Beach, Sara Katzman, Shepherd Frankel, Jay Pelissier, Jan Pascale, Carol Ramsey, Diana Pokorny, Jay Vinitsky, Gary Hymes, Charity Ozarowski, Jeremy Reisig, Don Coufal, Alexa Alden, Kelly Berthold, Vanessa Mendoza, Kasia Nabialczyk, Anne Roever, Cheryl Tsai, Christopher Woodring, David KollThey are driven, around homicide to consider of their sadistic supervision forces (Kevin Spacey, Colin Farrell, Jennifer Aniston). Their dorkus “murder consultant” (Jamie Foxx) advises them, around to kill their employers (I wish – just kidding Kyrle!), with which production of the deaths look like accidents.

Smart.

The film is strongest, if it remains with Bateman and again mixes with Spacey, Bateman has that on the easy expressionless “everyman” – perfected in “Arrested Development” and everything since.  Spacey, on the dead-panned sarcastic scumbag we have admired since his calmer moments in other stuff.

This brings the one half serious point forward here.

We do not wish the dentist, who is killed – though not (she should not be killed).

Dale’s horny friends can’t understand why he’s miserable – isn’t a hot woman begging tons sleep with him?

And her behavior has accelerate a lot of sexual terrorism before they think it’s wrong.  That is not right.  Women can be also be pigs (see “Bridesmaids”).  And pig women can be hot.

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Behind The Proscenium, Kimmo Mustonenen, Kyrle Lendhoffer, Kimmo On Kino, Horrible Bosses, Seth Gordon, Michael Markowitz, John Francis Daley, Jonathan M. Goldstein, Jason Bateman, P.J. Byrne, Steve Wiebe, Kevin Spacey, Charlie Day, Lindsay Sloane, Michael Albala, Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis, Reginald Ballard, George Black, Barry Livingston, Meghan Markle, Donald Sutherland, Celia Finkelstein, Colin Farrell, John Francis Daley, Scott Rosendall, Dave Sheridan, Ioan Gruffudd, Brian George, Chad Coleman, Jamie Foxx, Diana Toshiko, Carla Maria Cadotte, Peter Breitmayer, Julie Bowen, Isaiah Mustafa, Wendell Pierce, Ron White, Jimm Giannini, Dawn Frances, Andrew Lukich, Bob Newhart, Sean Lake, John Cheng, Diana Pokorny, Brett Ratner, John Rickard, Mary Rohlich, Jay Stern, Christopher Lennertz, David Hennings, Peter Teschner, Lisa Beach, Sara Katzman, Shepherd Frankel, Jay Pelissier, Jan Pascale, Carol Ramsey, Diana Pokorny, Jay Vinitsky, Gary Hymes, Charity Ozarowski, Jeremy Reisig, Don Coufal, Alexa Alden, Kelly Berthold, Vanessa Mendoza, Kasia Nabialczyk, Anne Roever, Cheryl Tsai, Christopher Woodring, David KollWe have learned to regret men sexually harass the female employees, but how seriously we should take a complaint, if the culprit looked like Jennifer Aniston?

This film suggests that we should laugh it off, but the intimidation is intimidation, a foxy chick nonetheless could be the boss (not in my world – sad face!).

The casting agent for this movie should win an award.

Bateman, Sudeikis and Day to beat all the big notes, but even better, they find laughter between the lines. 

Day is more stupid than the other two (the scene of him, because the view is priceless), but it works well in conjunction with Bateman, Sudeikis and bone-dry approach, and all three take care that the crazy antics keep to a minimum.

Spacey does not break new ground, but he has a lot of fun, and is a welcome sight.

Aniston takes things down a notch from her new role-playing the main thing and consequently turns into a better performer.

All that is said – now the verdict:  So funny, that if I must pee, that would happen right now (or when I saw the movie – I don’t have to go now).

So, two thumbs enthusiastically thrusting skyward (thanks thesaurus!).  My face is hurting for the smile.  And that is good.

See “Horrible Bosses” at least twice.  Regrets?  You won’t have them!

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Behind The Proscenium, Kyrle Lendhoffer, Reese Witherspoon, Water For Elephants, Robert Pattinson, Christoph Waltz, Paul Schneider, Jim Norton, Hal Holbrook, Mark Povinelli, Richard Brake, Stephen Monroe Taylor, Ken Foree, Scott MacDonald, James Frain, Sam Anderson, John Aylward, Brad Greenquist, Tim Guinee, Donna W. Scott, E.E. Bell, Kyle Jordan, Aleksandra Kaniak, Ilia Volok, Bruce Gray, Jim Jansen, James Keane, Ivo Nandi, Karynn Moore, Andrew Connolly, Doug McDougal, Tracy Phillips Rowan O'Hara, Water for Elephants, Tai, Uggie, Ice, Sita Acevedo, Danny Castle, Michael Coronas, Aloysia Gavre, Francis Lawrence, Andrew R. Tennenbaum, Erwin Stoff, Gil Netter, Kevin Halloran, Alan Edward Bell, Ana Maria Quintana, Chad Holmes, David Crank, Denise Chamian, Molly Allen, Sasha Veneziano, Kimmo MustonenenKimmo Mustonenen (Kimmo On Kino) – Behind The Proscenium

P.S.  America’s Got Talent! Really?  I mean… really?

 

Transformers: Dark Of The Moon

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, OnMedea, Jill Kennedy, Michael Bay, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Ehren Kruger, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Shia LaBeouf, Hugo Weaving, Ken Jeong, Josh Duhamel, Frances McDormand, Patrick Dempsey, John Malkovich, Leonard Nimoy, Tyrese Gibson, John Turturro, Alan Tudyk, Peter Cullen, Frank Welker, Tom Kenny, James Avery, Glenn Morshower, Keiko Agena, Julie White, Kevin Dunn, Charles Adler, Lester Speight, Robert Foxworth, Kym Whitley, Mark Ryan, Jess Harnell, Kathleen Gati, LaMonica Garrett, Anthony Azizi, Elena Kolpachikova, David Hutchison, David St. James, Jack Donner, Kevin Sizemore, Chris Sheffield, Lindsey Ginter, Brett Stimely, Markiss McFadden, Steve Hersack, Darren O'Hare, Darcy Leutzinger, Robert Herrick, James D. Weston, Scott C. Roe, Bob Kaye, Michael Loeffelholz, Rob Guzzo, Joel Shock, Denny Torich, Annie Hsu, Jason Endicott, Matt McVay, Morgan Williams, Bryan Basil, Nathaniel Best, Anthony Bonaventura, Ryan Buckley, Ken Bulcroft, Michael Daniel Cassady, Jason Adam Chaffin, Larry Clarke, Cameron Comstock, Jordan Michael Coulson, Thomas Crawford, Adam Critchlow, Andrew Daly, John Dezsi, Gena Ellis, John Farrer, Maile Flanagan, Reese Foster, Aaron Garrido, Corin Grant, Marie Grujicic-Delage, Terrick Guindy, Niki Haze, William Haze, Jessie Heiman, David Hill, Jasyn Jefferies, Haytham Kandil, Josh Kelly, Kristoffer Kjornes, Inna Korobkina, Erik Kowalski, Scott Krinsky, Joel Lambert, Scott Levy, Brett Lynch, Noelle Lynn, Taylor McCluskey, Alecia McGill, Ray Mirabal, Michael Morana, Prida Moreza, Paul Morgan, Dean Napolitano, Jason Neisewander, Daniel OKeefe, Michael Palma, Kenny Bates, Ian Bryce, Allegra Clegg, Matthew Cohan Tom DeSanto, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Brian Goldner, Michael Kase, Michelle McGonagle, Don Murphy, Steven Spielberg, Mark Vahradian, Steve Jablonsky, Amir M. Mokri, Roger Barton, William Goldenberg, Joel Negron, Denise Chamian, Nigel Phelps, Ralph Bertelle, Allegra Clegg

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, OnMedea, Jill Kennedy, Michael Bay, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Ehren Kruger, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Shia LaBeouf, Hugo Weaving, Ken Jeong, Josh Duhamel, Frances McDormand, Patrick Dempsey, John Malkovich, Leonard Nimoy, Tyrese Gibson, John Turturro, Alan Tudyk, Peter Cullen, Frank Welker, Tom Kenny, James Avery, Glenn Morshower, Keiko Agena, Julie White, Kevin Dunn, Charles Adler, Lester Speight, Robert Foxworth, Kym Whitley, Mark Ryan, Jess Harnell, Kathleen Gati, LaMonica Garrett, Anthony Azizi, Elena Kolpachikova, David Hutchison, David St. James, Jack Donner, Kevin Sizemore, Chris Sheffield, Lindsey Ginter, Brett Stimely, Markiss McFadden, Steve Hersack, Darren O'Hare, Darcy Leutzinger, Robert Herrick, James D. Weston, Scott C. Roe, Bob Kaye, Michael Loeffelholz, Rob Guzzo, Joel Shock, Denny Torich, Annie Hsu, Jason Endicott, Matt McVay, Morgan Williams, Bryan Basil, Nathaniel Best, Anthony Bonaventura, Ryan Buckley, Ken Bulcroft, Michael Daniel Cassady, Jason Adam Chaffin, Larry Clarke, Cameron Comstock, Jordan Michael Coulson, Thomas Crawford, Adam Critchlow, Andrew Daly, John Dezsi, Gena Ellis, John Farrer, Maile Flanagan, Reese Foster, Aaron Garrido, Corin Grant, Marie Grujicic-Delage, Terrick Guindy, Niki Haze, William Haze, Jessie Heiman, David Hill, Jasyn Jefferies, Haytham Kandil, Josh Kelly, Kristoffer Kjornes, Inna Korobkina, Erik Kowalski, Scott Krinsky, Joel Lambert, Scott Levy, Brett Lynch, Noelle Lynn, Taylor McCluskey, Alecia McGill, Ray Mirabal, Michael Morana, Prida Moreza, Paul Morgan, Dean Napolitano, Jason Neisewander, Daniel OKeefe, Michael Palma, Kenny Bates, Ian Bryce, Allegra Clegg, Matthew Cohan Tom DeSanto, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Brian Goldner, Michael Kase, Michelle McGonagle, Don Murphy, Steven Spielberg, Mark Vahradian, Steve Jablonsky, Amir M. Mokri, Roger Barton, William Goldenberg, Joel Negron, Denise Chamian, Nigel Phelps, Ralph Bertelle, Allegra CleggTransformers: Dark Of The Moon

With Wit, Reviewed By Kimmo Mustonenen

First, a discredit:  I love Megan Fox (Jennifer’s Body – yowza!  I was almost made to forgot Ginnifer Goodwin!).

And Shia LeBoeuf now credit can be given for the giving of the meat(!) while she was with her 90210 husband?

Not cool, Shia… not cool.

Now to the reviewing.

Michael Bay has been a director always who has the lowest standard given free rein in his films.

Feminine curves (these are good), the delight in the perfectly shaped poses from the most daring of view (that’s right), the male senses, polished stainless bodies that cast a sea of lens flare into the cameras (look out JJ Abrams!) and real heroes in uniform who carry the backlight in distinctive silhouettes.

The real guy who sleeps in each one of us suggests that it displays them on the hairy chest and shouts out a fervent Tarzan screaming in the world (much like me).

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, OnMedea, Jill Kennedy, Michael Bay, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Ehren Kruger, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Shia LaBeouf, Hugo Weaving, Ken Jeong, Josh Duhamel, Frances McDormand, Patrick Dempsey, John Malkovich, Leonard Nimoy, Tyrese Gibson, John Turturro, Alan Tudyk, Peter Cullen, Frank Welker, Tom Kenny, James Avery, Glenn Morshower, Keiko Agena, Julie White, Kevin Dunn, Charles Adler, Lester Speight, Robert Foxworth, Kym Whitley, Mark Ryan, Jess Harnell, Kathleen Gati, LaMonica Garrett, Anthony Azizi, Elena Kolpachikova, David Hutchison, David St. James, Jack Donner, Kevin Sizemore, Chris Sheffield, Lindsey Ginter, Brett Stimely, Markiss McFadden, Steve Hersack, Darren O'Hare, Darcy Leutzinger, Robert Herrick, James D. Weston, Scott C. Roe, Bob Kaye, Michael Loeffelholz, Rob Guzzo, Joel Shock, Denny Torich, Annie Hsu, Jason Endicott, Matt McVay, Morgan Williams, Bryan Basil, Nathaniel Best, Anthony Bonaventura, Ryan Buckley, Ken Bulcroft, Michael Daniel Cassady, Jason Adam Chaffin, Larry Clarke, Cameron Comstock, Jordan Michael Coulson, Thomas Crawford, Adam Critchlow, Andrew Daly, John Dezsi, Gena Ellis, John Farrer, Maile Flanagan, Reese Foster, Aaron Garrido, Corin Grant, Marie Grujicic-Delage, Terrick Guindy, Niki Haze, William Haze, Jessie Heiman, David Hill, Jasyn Jefferies, Haytham Kandil, Josh Kelly, Kristoffer Kjornes, Inna Korobkina, Erik Kowalski, Scott Krinsky, Joel Lambert, Scott Levy, Brett Lynch, Noelle Lynn, Taylor McCluskey, Alecia McGill, Ray Mirabal, Michael Morana, Prida Moreza, Paul Morgan, Dean Napolitano, Jason Neisewander, Daniel OKeefe, Michael Palma, Kenny Bates, Ian Bryce, Allegra Clegg, Matthew Cohan Tom DeSanto, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Brian Goldner, Michael Kase, Michelle McGonagle, Don Murphy, Steven Spielberg, Mark Vahradian, Steve Jablonsky, Amir M. Mokri, Roger Barton, William Goldenberg, Joel Negron, Denise Chamian, Nigel Phelps, Ralph Bertelle, Allegra CleggBut while the introverted and sensitive wearer scrapes with his pencil on his forehead and dismisses a disillusioned sigh (my brother, Jarri, he is a real forehead pencil scraper).

Here is Michael Bay talking:  “A real guy needs a movie with testosterone in the bloodstream, and an eye for the essentials: cars, butts, aliens (not in that order)!” 

Transformers the 3rd: Dark of the Moon (Lazer Floyd!) is the film revelation and epileptic overkill, which the audience and the cinema owners were hoping for so long.  The stylized action vindicated the over-priced 3D effect, and vice versa.  The humor may now again be laughed heartily without interfering on the borderline banality of the second part. 

Transformers the 3rd takes a whopping 157 minutes and operates on a broad level.  Megan Fox’s ass and marble belly while leaving a gaping hole (don’t even think it, Shia), but Rosie Huntington-Whiteley gazelle legs and an absence of self-esteem affects what sexy outfits, makes the loss more than up for it (almost, but I admit that she is lengthy!) 

Michael Bay will never grow up and his camera never not move and that’s why we love him?

What?

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, OnMedea, Jill Kennedy, Michael Bay, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Ehren Kruger, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Shia LaBeouf, Hugo Weaving, Ken Jeong, Josh Duhamel, Frances McDormand, Patrick Dempsey, John Malkovich, Leonard Nimoy, Tyrese Gibson, John Turturro, Alan Tudyk, Peter Cullen, Frank Welker, Tom Kenny, James Avery, Glenn Morshower, Keiko Agena, Julie White, Kevin Dunn, Charles Adler, Lester Speight, Robert Foxworth, Kym Whitley, Mark Ryan, Jess Harnell, Kathleen Gati, LaMonica Garrett, Anthony Azizi, Elena Kolpachikova, David Hutchison, David St. James, Jack Donner, Kevin Sizemore, Chris Sheffield, Lindsey Ginter, Brett Stimely, Markiss McFadden, Steve Hersack, Darren O'Hare, Darcy Leutzinger, Robert Herrick, James D. Weston, Scott C. Roe, Bob Kaye, Michael Loeffelholz, Rob Guzzo, Joel Shock, Denny Torich, Annie Hsu, Jason Endicott, Matt McVay, Morgan Williams, Bryan Basil, Nathaniel Best, Anthony Bonaventura, Ryan Buckley, Ken Bulcroft, Michael Daniel Cassady, Jason Adam Chaffin, Larry Clarke, Cameron Comstock, Jordan Michael Coulson, Thomas Crawford, Adam Critchlow, Andrew Daly, John Dezsi, Gena Ellis, John Farrer, Maile Flanagan, Reese Foster, Aaron Garrido, Corin Grant, Marie Grujicic-Delage, Terrick Guindy, Niki Haze, William Haze, Jessie Heiman, David Hill, Jasyn Jefferies, Haytham Kandil, Josh Kelly, Kristoffer Kjornes, Inna Korobkina, Erik Kowalski, Scott Krinsky, Joel Lambert, Scott Levy, Brett Lynch, Noelle Lynn, Taylor McCluskey, Alecia McGill, Ray Mirabal, Michael Morana, Prida Moreza, Paul Morgan, Dean Napolitano, Jason Neisewander, Daniel OKeefe, Michael Palma, Kenny Bates, Ian Bryce, Allegra Clegg, Matthew Cohan Tom DeSanto, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Brian Goldner, Michael Kase, Michelle McGonagle, Don Murphy, Steven Spielberg, Mark Vahradian, Steve Jablonsky, Amir M. Mokri, Roger Barton, William Goldenberg, Joel Negron, Denise Chamian, Nigel Phelps, Ralph Bertelle, Allegra CleggSince it not hurt that the series itself basically just over and over and fail to real surprises.  The sensitive and thoughtful boy agrees, in some respects (to be sure, I’ll ask brother Jarri later).

The 3D effect is due to the native style handsomely turned out – but just as volatile as the paint on the Autobots.  Also, the content of amateurism from Transformers 2 will be largely spared.

If you still remember the slogan from the second film recalls says that “Only a Prime can kill a Prime” – which is to capture the action of the third part in full: “Only a Prime can resurrect a Prime.”

Knowing about these facts once swallowed, the rest of the film stripped of leaves before the mind’s eye and the viewer is unaffected from surprises.  But the Transformers movies were anyway never looked for their offense, at least, is an old saying – so old as to be not understandable.

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, OnMedea, Jill Kennedy, Michael Bay, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Ehren Kruger, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Shia LaBeouf, Hugo Weaving, Ken Jeong, Josh Duhamel, Frances McDormand, Patrick Dempsey, John Malkovich, Leonard Nimoy, Tyrese Gibson, John Turturro, Alan Tudyk, Peter Cullen, Frank Welker, Tom Kenny, James Avery, Glenn Morshower, Keiko Agena, Julie White, Kevin Dunn, Charles Adler, Lester Speight, Robert Foxworth, Kym Whitley, Mark Ryan, Jess Harnell, Kathleen Gati, LaMonica Garrett, Anthony Azizi, Elena Kolpachikova, David Hutchison, David St. James, Jack Donner, Kevin Sizemore, Chris Sheffield, Lindsey Ginter, Brett Stimely, Markiss McFadden, Steve Hersack, Darren O'Hare, Darcy Leutzinger, Robert Herrick, James D. Weston, Scott C. Roe, Bob Kaye, Michael Loeffelholz, Rob Guzzo, Joel Shock, Denny Torich, Annie Hsu, Jason Endicott, Matt McVay, Morgan Williams, Bryan Basil, Nathaniel Best, Anthony Bonaventura, Ryan Buckley, Ken Bulcroft, Michael Daniel Cassady, Jason Adam Chaffin, Larry Clarke, Cameron Comstock, Jordan Michael Coulson, Thomas Crawford, Adam Critchlow, Andrew Daly, John Dezsi, Gena Ellis, John Farrer, Maile Flanagan, Reese Foster, Aaron Garrido, Corin Grant, Marie Grujicic-Delage, Terrick Guindy, Niki Haze, William Haze, Jessie Heiman, David Hill, Jasyn Jefferies, Haytham Kandil, Josh Kelly, Kristoffer Kjornes, Inna Korobkina, Erik Kowalski, Scott Krinsky, Joel Lambert, Scott Levy, Brett Lynch, Noelle Lynn, Taylor McCluskey, Alecia McGill, Ray Mirabal, Michael Morana, Prida Moreza, Paul Morgan, Dean Napolitano, Jason Neisewander, Daniel OKeefe, Michael Palma, Kenny Bates, Ian Bryce, Allegra Clegg, Matthew Cohan Tom DeSanto, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Brian Goldner, Michael Kase, Michelle McGonagle, Don Murphy, Steven Spielberg, Mark Vahradian, Steve Jablonsky, Amir M. Mokri, Roger Barton, William Goldenberg, Joel Negron, Denise Chamian, Nigel Phelps, Ralph Bertelle, Allegra CleggNevertheless, a fairly logical and understandable sequence of actions will be gratefully accepted.  The more effortless a film executes its structural plot points, the more positive the effect on the film – what Bay’s third try masters solid.

But the fact remains that the film series has reached a dead end.  The same hero stereotype, the same car brands, the same threats, same jokes.

With the new Shia LaBeouf (asshole!) again on the site itself needs love are back at 0.  It was a physical impossibility, that could turn Transformers the 3rd worse than its immediate predecessor – and this is proven correct.

But as B.B. King sang, “the thrill is gone”, Michael Bay‘s robot toys have lost their appeal, what remains is a pile of crap metal that sparkles in sunlight and impressed by its size – but no more.

Size doesn’t matter.  Which is what Megan probably said to the Shia meat (Carey Mulligan, too).  We can dream.

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Behind The Proscenium, Kyrle Lendhoffer, Reese Witherspoon, Water For Elephants, Robert Pattinson, Christoph Waltz, Paul Schneider, Jim Norton, Hal Holbrook, Mark Povinelli, Richard Brake, Stephen Monroe Taylor, Ken Foree, Scott MacDonald, James Frain, Sam Anderson, John Aylward, Brad Greenquist, Tim Guinee, Donna W. Scott, E.E. Bell, Kyle Jordan, Aleksandra Kaniak, Ilia Volok, Bruce Gray, Jim Jansen, James Keane, Ivo Nandi, Karynn Moore, Andrew Connolly, Doug McDougal, Tracy Phillips Rowan O'Hara, Water for Elephants, Tai, Uggie, Ice, Sita Acevedo, Danny Castle, Michael Coronas, Aloysia Gavre, Francis Lawrence, Andrew R. Tennenbaum, Erwin Stoff, Gil Netter, Kevin Halloran, Alan Edward Bell, Ana Maria Quintana, Chad Holmes, David Crank, Denise Chamian, Molly Allen, Sasha Veneziano, Kimmo MustonenenKimmo Mustonene (Kimmo On Kino) – Behind The Proscenium

P.S.  Once again, The Glee Project! I’m rooting for the munchkin and the bitch!  You?

Larry Crowne [REVIEW]

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Behind the Proscenium, Kimmo Mustonenen, Kyrle Lendhoffer, Larry Crowne, Tom Hanks, Nia Vardalos, Sarah Mahoney, Roxana Ortega, Randall Park, Brady Rubin, Alex Quijano, Tina Huang, E-Kan Soong, Tarina Pouncy, Sy Richardson, Julie Wagner, Rob Riggle, Erin Underwood, Dale Dye, Barry Sobel, Claudia Stedelin, Bob Stephenson, Rita Wilson, Cedric the Entertainer, Taraji P. Henson, Holmes Osborne, Wilmer Valderrama, Tom Budge, Julia Roberts, Pam Grier, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Rami Malek, Malcolm Barrett, Grace Bummer, Maria Canals-Barrera, A.B. Fofana, Sarah Levy, Julia Cho, Chad W. Smathers, David L. Murphy, George Takei, Bryan Cranston, Carly Reeves, Ian Gomez, Herbert Siguenza, Ricardo Salinas, Richard Montoya, Joshua Biton, Jon Seda, Jack Milo, Chet Hanks, Biff Henderson, Jeb Brody, David Coatsworth, Katterli Frauenfelder, Fabrice Gianfermi, Gary Goetzman, Philippe Rousselet, Steve Shareshian, James Newton Howard, Alan Cody, Jeanne McCarthy, Mark Ballou, Alex Capaldi, Michael Harker, Julie Wagner, Alex Daniels, Lisa Curtis

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Behind the Proscenium, Kimmo Mustonenen, Kyrle Lendhoffer, Larry Crowne, Tom Hanks, Nia Vardalos, Sarah Mahoney, Roxana Ortega, Randall Park, Brady Rubin, Alex Quijano, Tina Huang, E-Kan Soong, Tarina Pouncy, Sy Richardson, Julie Wagner, Rob Riggle, Erin Underwood, Dale Dye, Barry Sobel, Claudia Stedelin, Bob Stephenson, Rita Wilson, Cedric the Entertainer, Taraji P. Henson, Holmes Osborne, Wilmer Valderrama, Tom Budge, Julia Roberts, Pam Grier, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Rami Malek, Malcolm Barrett, Grace Bummer, Maria Canals-Barrera, A.B. Fofana, Sarah Levy, Julia Cho, Chad W. Smathers, David L. Murphy, George Takei, Bryan Cranston, Carly Reeves, Ian Gomez, Herbert Siguenza, Ricardo Salinas, Richard Montoya, Joshua Biton, Jon Seda, Jack Milo, Chet Hanks, Biff Henderson, Jeb Brody, David Coatsworth, Katterli Frauenfelder, Fabrice Gianfermi, Gary Goetzman, Philippe Rousselet, Steve Shareshian, James Newton Howard, Alan Cody, Jeanne McCarthy, Mark Ballou, Alex Capaldi, Michael Harker, Julie Wagner, Alex Daniels, Lisa CurtisLarry Crowne

With Wit, Reviewed By Kimmo Mustonenen

Larry Crowne (everyman’s everyman Tom Hanks) is an extremely diligent and good employee in a supermarket.  He also completes the unpleasant tasks with full dedication and spread good mood around.

When he is ordered by his superiors in the break room, he thinks, therefore, that he’s already determined ninth award as “Employee of the Month” (not like the one that had Dane Cook or Jessica Simpson thank God) will receive.

Instead, he gets the notice.  THAT notice.

The absurd reason: Larry has no college education and can not therefore be promoted.

Only in America, what?

The search for a new job quickly proves to be hopeless.  It also looks at certain areas that show extremely naive Larry can be.

So he follows the advice of his neighbor Lamar (Cedric the Entertainer) and enrolled at East Valley Community College to a class in rhetoric and to demonstrate in economic science (sweet!).

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Behind the Proscenium, Kimmo Mustonenen, Kyrle Lendhoffer, Larry Crowne, Tom Hanks, Nia Vardalos, Sarah Mahoney, Roxana Ortega, Randall Park, Brady Rubin, Alex Quijano, Tina Huang, E-Kan Soong, Tarina Pouncy, Sy Richardson, Julie Wagner, Rob Riggle, Erin Underwood, Dale Dye, Barry Sobel, Claudia Stedelin, Bob Stephenson, Rita Wilson, Cedric the Entertainer, Taraji P. Henson, Holmes Osborne, Wilmer Valderrama, Tom Budge, Julia Roberts, Pam Grier, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Rami Malek, Malcolm Barrett, Grace Bummer, Maria Canals-Barrera, A.B. Fofana, Sarah Levy, Julia Cho, Chad W. Smathers, David L. Murphy, George Takei, Bryan Cranston, Carly Reeves, Ian Gomez, Herbert Siguenza, Ricardo Salinas, Richard Montoya, Joshua Biton, Jon Seda, Jack Milo, Chet Hanks, Biff Henderson, Jeb Brody, David Coatsworth, Katterli Frauenfelder, Fabrice Gianfermi, Gary Goetzman, Philippe Rousselet, Steve Shareshian, James Newton Howard, Alan Cody, Jeanne McCarthy, Mark Ballou, Alex Capaldi, Michael Harker, Julie Wagner, Alex Daniels, Lisa CurtisThe first lesson in financial matters Larry receives before the first day of school at a gas station: while his huge vehicle thirsty swallows the expensive gasoline, next door is a gaggle of scooters with a few gallons only to drink.  So now goes Larry around on a two-wheeled vehicle.

Instruction, concerning his manner of speaking, he then receives from professor teacher Mercedes Tainot (Julia Roberts).  The lecturer is not particularly motivated, because their students give her as little attention as her husband Dean (Bryan Cranston), who proves to be lazy lecher – and a lazy lecher is no lecher at all.

Right?

The issue of unemployment?  “Larry Crowne”, after a while, only mentioned in passing.  Such as when Larry (played as Hank’s wife at the bank employee Rita Wilson) deposited the termination of his mortgage, which will lead to eviction.

Otherwise, the story focuses mainly on the transformation of the main character of a staid boring schmuck into an attractive educated manly one.

It is pretty much the complete opposite of the exciting lecturers from “Dead Poets Society”.  Instead, we recognize a lively classmate (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) who finds in Larry the dormant potential and asks him to put his polo shirt into his pants no longer.

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Behind the Proscenium, Kimmo Mustonenen, Kyrle Lendhoffer, Larry Crowne, Tom Hanks, Nia Vardalos, Sarah Mahoney, Roxana Ortega, Randall Park, Brady Rubin, Alex Quijano, Tina Huang, E-Kan Soong, Tarina Pouncy, Sy Richardson, Julie Wagner, Rob Riggle, Erin Underwood, Dale Dye, Barry Sobel, Claudia Stedelin, Bob Stephenson, Rita Wilson, Cedric the Entertainer, Taraji P. Henson, Holmes Osborne, Wilmer Valderrama, Tom Budge, Julia Roberts, Pam Grier, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Rami Malek, Malcolm Barrett, Grace Bummer, Maria Canals-Barrera, A.B. Fofana, Sarah Levy, Julia Cho, Chad W. Smathers, David L. Murphy, George Takei, Bryan Cranston, Carly Reeves, Ian Gomez, Herbert Siguenza, Ricardo Salinas, Richard Montoya, Joshua Biton, Jon Seda, Jack Milo, Chet Hanks, Biff Henderson, Jeb Brody, David Coatsworth, Katterli Frauenfelder, Fabrice Gianfermi, Gary Goetzman, Philippe Rousselet, Steve Shareshian, James Newton Howard, Alan Cody, Jeanne McCarthy, Mark Ballou, Alex Capaldi, Michael Harker, Julie Wagner, Alex Daniels, Lisa CurtisThe formation of Larry Crowne is also apparently quite superficial.

While Larry discovers a new life, of course, the professor reawakens gradually on her strengths.  Predictable ripples so the action from one scene to the next and most amazed by the innocence of the story (I really was).

But this weakness is somehow also a strength of the film.

It’s almost refreshing, as Hanks and co-writer Nia Vardalos almost completely abandon innuendo and profanity.

As a result, the humor is moving at a level worthy of a sitcom, but carefree conversation ranges from them, too, even if the message of the film ultimately turns out to be as honest as the main character.

Larry is at the end that is visible in a lecture – that life is the best school.  But not high school.  That sucked.

One and a half thumbs wagging in the air.  See it, but not twice.

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Behind The Proscenium, Kyrle Lendhoffer, Reese Witherspoon, Water For Elephants, Robert Pattinson, Christoph Waltz, Paul Schneider, Jim Norton, Hal Holbrook, Mark Povinelli, Richard Brake, Stephen Monroe Taylor, Ken Foree, Scott MacDonald, James Frain, Sam Anderson, John Aylward, Brad Greenquist, Tim Guinee, Donna W. Scott, E.E. Bell, Kyle Jordan, Aleksandra Kaniak, Ilia Volok, Bruce Gray, Jim Jansen, James Keane, Ivo Nandi, Karynn Moore, Andrew Connolly, Doug McDougal, Tracy Phillips Rowan O'Hara, Water for Elephants, Tai, Uggie, Ice, Sita Acevedo, Danny Castle, Michael Coronas, Aloysia Gavre, Francis Lawrence, Andrew R. Tennenbaum, Erwin Stoff, Gil Netter, Kevin Halloran, Alan Edward Bell, Ana Maria Quintana, Chad Holmes, David Crank, Denise Chamian, Molly Allen, Sasha Veneziano, Kimmo MustonenenKimmo Mustonenen (Kimmo On Kino) – Behind The Proscenium

P.S.  Have you watched The Voice?  Christina Aguilera has giant boobs!  With this information before – I would have sooner than later watched.  Tune in!

Bad Teacher [REVIEW]

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Kimmo Mustonenen, Kimmo On Kino, Kyrle Lendhoffer, Behind the Proscenium, Bad Teacher, Jake Kasdan, Gene Stupnitsky, Lee Eisenberg, Cameron Diaz, Lucy Punch, Jason Segel, Justin Timberlake, Phyllis Smith, John Michael Higgins, Dave Allen, Jillian Armenante, Matthew J. Evans, Kaitlyn Dever, Kathryn Newton, Igal Ben Yair, Aja Bair, Andra Nechita, Noah Munck, Finneas O'Connell, Daniel Castro, Adrian Kali Turner, Eric Stonestreet, Thomas Lennon, Paul Bates, Jeff Judah, Nat Faxon, Stephanie Faracy, David Paymer, Alanna Ubach, Christine Smith, Paul Feig, Deirdre Lovejoy, Melvin Mar, Rose Abdoo, Jerry Lambert, Jennifer Irwin, Christopher Rockwel, David Doty, Molly Shannon, Rick Overton, Danny Trap, Matt Besser, Lee Eisenberg, Bruno Gioiello, Jordan Van Vranken, Noah Dahl, Richard Bernard, B.J. Bugert, Austin Michael Coleman, Youlanda Davis, Andy Scott harris, Joey Luthman, Daniel Messier, Carey Dietrich, Georgia Kacandes, Jimmy Miller, Michael Andrews, Alar Kivilo, Tara Timpone, Louise DeCordoba, Audrey Clark, Carey Dietrich, Henry Hobson, Chris Baugh, Tom Goodrich, Heather Sharpe

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Kimmo Mustonenen, Kimmo On Kino, Kyrle Lendhoffer, Behind the Proscenium, Bad Teacher, Jake Kasdan, Gene Stupnitsky, Lee Eisenberg, Cameron Diaz, Lucy Punch, Jason Segel, Justin Timberlake,  Phyllis Smith, John Michael Higgins, Dave Allen, Jillian Armenante, Matthew J. Evans, Kaitlyn Dever, Kathryn Newton, Igal Ben Yair, Aja Bair, Andra Nechita, Noah Munck, Finneas O'Connell, Daniel Castro, Adrian Kali Turner, Eric Stonestreet, Thomas Lennon, Paul Bates, Jeff Judah, Nat Faxon, Stephanie Faracy, David Paymer, Alanna Ubach, Christine Smith, Paul Feig, Deirdre Lovejoy, Melvin Mar, Rose Abdoo, Jerry Lambert, Jennifer Irwin, Christopher Rockwel, David Doty, Molly Shannon, Rick Overton, Danny Trap, Matt Besser, Lee Eisenberg, Bruno Gioiello, Jordan Van Vranken, Noah Dahl, Richard Bernard, B.J. Bugert, Austin Michael Coleman, Youlanda Davis, Andy Scott harris, Joey Luthman, Daniel Messier, Carey Dietrich, Georgia Kacandes, Jimmy Miller, Michael Andrews, Alar Kivilo, Tara Timpone, Louise DeCordoba, Audrey Clark, Carey Dietrich, Henry Hobson, Chris Baugh, Tom Goodrich, Heather SharpeBad Teacher

With Wit, Reviewed By Kimmo Mustonenen

Elizabeth Halsey (Cameron Diaz) is one of those teachers who, as a teacher, hates to be so (me too!).

She dreams of a life with a lot of money, luxury and fame, of course, maybe not in that order.

More precisely: she dreams of a man who has much money and can offer you luxury and (at the same time, not later) fame.

Soon it is clear the victim, no, the Appointed One: Scott Delacorte (Justin Timberlake), the same math teacher and his own worth millions thanks to the family dynasty.

Elizabeth hesitates not usually long, but this time it is equally faced with several problems.  Scott is clearly on large breasts (who isn’t?) – they must be so bloated from money for cosmetic surgery, naturally (unnaturally?).

Her colleague Amy Squirrell (Lucy Punch) is fast becoming the toughest competitor – it must be so, because hard stops are pulled out to get her out of the way.  And since then its still annoying students and also the annoying gym teacher (Jason Segel) are around, too – so there will be an exhausting school semester!

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Kimmo Mustonenen, Kimmo On Kino, Kyrle Lendhoffer, Behind the Proscenium, Bad Teacher, Jake Kasdan, Gene Stupnitsky, Lee Eisenberg, Cameron Diaz, Lucy Punch, Jason Segel, Justin Timberlake,  Phyllis Smith, John Michael Higgins, Dave Allen, Jillian Armenante, Matthew J. Evans, Kaitlyn Dever, Kathryn Newton, Igal Ben Yair, Aja Bair, Andra Nechita, Noah Munck, Finneas O'Connell, Daniel Castro, Adrian Kali Turner, Eric Stonestreet, Thomas Lennon, Paul Bates, Jeff Judah, Nat Faxon, Stephanie Faracy, David Paymer, Alanna Ubach, Christine Smith, Paul Feig, Deirdre Lovejoy, Melvin Mar, Rose Abdoo, Jerry Lambert, Jennifer Irwin, Christopher Rockwel, David Doty, Molly Shannon, Rick Overton, Danny Trap, Matt Besser, Lee Eisenberg, Bruno Gioiello, Jordan Van Vranken, Noah Dahl, Richard Bernard, B.J. Bugert, Austin Michael Coleman, Youlanda Davis, Andy Scott harris, Joey Luthman, Daniel Messier, Carey Dietrich, Georgia Kacandes, Jimmy Miller, Michael Andrews, Alar Kivilo, Tara Timpone, Louise DeCordoba, Audrey Clark, Carey Dietrich, Henry Hobson, Chris Baugh, Tom Goodrich, Heather SharpeBad Teacher is much more: witty, entertaining, amusing and clever in his dialogues, but also everything else just as valuable and profound in its content.

What?

In this film you go, but the only reason to laugh and not because you want to see a critical contribution to climate changing or world hunger end (admirable, but bad cinema!)

Cameron Diaz plays exactly the boobed bimbo, which she probably is in real life also worth seeing (shwing!). 

Justin Timberlake proves once again that he does not can only sing, (in this film, he may even not sing – and what is in the box?  Get it?) but act all like The Social Network.

Jason Segel is perfect in the role of the scruffy, pudgy gym teacher and each other no matter how small supporting role was really busy voices.  Especially the interplay of individual personalities rather disturbed at this school is a really surprisingly entertaining cinematic experience that lives primarily by his puns.

So, one and one half high flying thumbs!  Good, not great.

With a popcorn and drink, maybe air conditioning, and this is a summer afternoon.  Of laughs!

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Behind The Proscenium, Kyrle Lendhoffer, Reese Witherspoon, Water For Elephants, Robert Pattinson, Christoph Waltz, Paul Schneider, Jim Norton, Hal Holbrook, Mark Povinelli, Richard Brake, Stephen Monroe Taylor, Ken Foree, Scott MacDonald, James Frain, Sam Anderson, John Aylward, Brad Greenquist, Tim Guinee, Donna W. Scott, E.E. Bell, Kyle Jordan, Aleksandra Kaniak, Ilia Volok, Bruce Gray, Jim Jansen, James Keane, Ivo Nandi, Karynn Moore, Andrew Connolly, Doug McDougal, Tracy Phillips Rowan O'Hara, Water for Elephants, Tai, Uggie, Ice, Sita Acevedo, Danny Castle, Michael Coronas, Aloysia Gavre, Francis Lawrence, Andrew R. Tennenbaum, Erwin Stoff, Gil Netter, Kevin Halloran, Alan Edward Bell, Ana Maria Quintana, Chad Holmes, David Crank, Denise Chamian, Molly Allen, Sasha Veneziano, Kimmo MustonenenKimmo Mustonenen for Kimmo On Kino – Behind The Proscenium

P.S.  Game of Thrones season finale?  I crapped!  No spoilers…

Cars 2 [REVIEW]

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Kimmo Mustonenen, Behind The Proscenium, Kyrle Lendhoffer, Kimmo On Kino, Cars 2, Disney, Pixar, John Lasseter, Brad Lewis, Ben Queen, Dan Fogelman, Robert Iger, Rich Ross, Larry the Cable Guy, Owen Wilson, Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, Eddie Izzard, John Turturro, Brent Musberger, Joe Mantegna, Thomas Kretschmann, Peter Jacobson, Bonnie Hunt, Darrell Waltrip, Franco Nero, David Hobbs, Patrick Walker, Tony Shalhoub, Jeff Garlin, Michel Michelis, Jason Isaacs, Lloyd Sherr, Bruce Campbell, Teresa Gallagher, Jenifer Lewis, Stanley Townsend, Velibor Topic, Sig Hansen, Guido Quaroni, Vanessa Redgrave, John Mainieri, Brad Lewis, Cheech Marin, Jeff Gordon, Lewis Hamilton, Paul Dooley, Edie McClurg, Richard Kind, Katherine Helmond, John Ratzenberger, Michael Wallis, Jess harnell, Colleen O'Shaughnessey, Denise Ream, Michael Giacchino, Jay Shuster, Mike Estes, Julie Adams, Allison Nelson, Brendan Donnison

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Kimmo Mustonenen, Behind The Proscenium, Kyrle Lendhoffer, Kimmo On Kino, Cars 2, Disney, Pixar, John Lasseter, Brad Lewis, Ben Queen, Dan Fogelman, Robert Iger, Rich Ross, Larry the Cable Guy, Owen Wilson, Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, Eddie Izzard, John Turturro, Brent Musberger, Joe Mantegna, Thomas Kretschmann, Peter Jacobson, Bonnie Hunt, Darrell Waltrip, Franco Nero, David Hobbs, Patrick Walker, Tony Shalhoub, Jeff Garlin, Michel Michelis, Jason Isaacs, Lloyd Sherr, Bruce Campbell, Teresa Gallagher, Jenifer Lewis, Stanley Townsend, Velibor Topic, Sig Hansen, Guido Quaroni, Vanessa Redgrave, John Mainieri, Brad Lewis, Cheech Marin, Jeff Gordon, Lewis Hamilton, Paul Dooley, Edie McClurg, Richard Kind, Katherine Helmond, John Ratzenberger, Michael Wallis, Jess harnell, Colleen O'Shaughnessey, Denise Ream, Michael Giacchino, Jay Shuster, Mike Estes, Julie Adams, Allison Nelson, Brendan DonnisonCars 2

With Wit, Reviewed By Kimmo Mustonenen

Wow!  Maybe over thinking was the downfall.  Or over loving of money by Pixar.

Whatever.

No longer “wonder kid” crazy movie makers supreme.  Now, just another assaulting to my eyeballs.

All for my dollars.  Bastards!  In sucky 3-D.

Written by Ben Queen from a previously devised by John Lasseter, Brad Lewis and Dan Fogelman, the script for Cars 2 hit by investing in a different story from that seen in the original instead of making the same mistake most of the proceedings and try to repeat the previous formula – and it is a pity, then, that the plot is chosen by the team as bad and equally formulaic.

What?

Adopting the genre “espionage” as the basis of the narrative, the film features Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson) and his best friend Mate (Larry the Cable Guy) on a trip around the world while the race car part in a series of disputes promoted to prove efficiency of an alternative fuel, clean and renewable – or “green” to you and me.

However, Mate turns out to be mistaken for an American spy and goes on to spearhead several adventures along the agent McMíssel Finn (Michael Caine – not acting, but Reacting!) and his assistant Holley Box (yowza!) Brita (Emily Mortimer) as they try to discover the identity of the villain who seeks to sabotage the race discredit the new fuel.

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Kimmo Mustonenen, Behind The Proscenium, Kyrle Lendhoffer, Kimmo On Kino, Cars 2, Disney, Pixar, John Lasseter, Brad Lewis, Ben Queen, Dan Fogelman, Robert Iger, Rich Ross, Larry the Cable Guy, Owen Wilson, Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, Eddie Izzard, John Turturro, Brent Musberger, Joe Mantegna, Thomas Kretschmann, Peter Jacobson, Bonnie Hunt, Darrell Waltrip, Franco Nero, David Hobbs, Patrick Walker, Tony Shalhoub, Jeff Garlin, Michel Michelis, Jason Isaacs, Lloyd Sherr, Bruce Campbell, Teresa Gallagher, Jenifer Lewis, Stanley Townsend, Velibor Topic, Sig Hansen, Guido Quaroni, Vanessa Redgrave, John Mainieri, Brad Lewis, Cheech Marin, Jeff Gordon, Lewis Hamilton, Paul Dooley, Edie McClurg, Richard Kind, Katherine Helmond, John Ratzenberger, Michael Wallis, Jess harnell, Colleen O'Shaughnessey, Denise Ream, Michael Giacchino, Jay Shuster, Mike Estes, Julie Adams, Allison Nelson, Brendan DonnisonThe desperation of Cars 2 to establish some kind of solidity in its plot, in fact, reaches its peak at the instant kill, for no apparent reason, a loose unbelievable device, only to conclude that there can “do it” by not feel secure in himself, forcing his old friend to encourage him (I don’t even know what I wrote right now, but you will) – and this kind of unfortunate crud is spread throughout the work, starting on the scene, at the beginning of the film, in which Lightning mourns the death of Doc Hudson in a monologue accompanied by an artificial track just to forget about the very second he leaves the museum dedicated to old mentor (apparently, Pixar decided to delete the character after the death of his voice actor, Paul Newman, although the van originally voiced by George Carlin has not deserved the same consideration – words you can’t say on T.V. being said to Pixar right now).

This is now my longest sentence.

If nothing else, the film still takes care of sending anything positive for their young audience, planting the idea that “junk” (the “old”, “different”, “rejected”) see the world with envy, resentment and bad intentions (whatever!).

And what about their supposed ecological message, which at first seems to advocate the importance of a clean fuel and sustainable only to conclude with the mantra so unbelievable.  So unbelievable that I shan’t mention it.

Ha!

A mantra that replaced the word “gasoline” for “Pixar” unfortunately no longer applies.

There, I said it.

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Behind The Proscenium, Kyrle Lendhoffer, Reese Witherspoon, Water For Elephants, Robert Pattinson, Christoph Waltz, Paul Schneider, Jim Norton, Hal Holbrook, Mark Povinelli, Richard Brake, Stephen Monroe Taylor, Ken Foree, Scott MacDonald, James Frain, Sam Anderson, John Aylward, Brad Greenquist, Tim Guinee, Donna W. Scott, E.E. Bell, Kyle Jordan, Aleksandra Kaniak, Ilia Volok, Bruce Gray, Jim Jansen, James Keane, Ivo Nandi, Karynn Moore, Andrew Connolly, Doug McDougal, Tracy Phillips Rowan O'Hara, Water for Elephants, Tai, Uggie, Ice, Sita Acevedo, Danny Castle, Michael Coronas, Aloysia Gavre, Francis Lawrence, Andrew R. Tennenbaum, Erwin Stoff, Gil Netter, Kevin Halloran, Alan Edward Bell, Ana Maria Quintana, Chad Holmes, David Crank, Denise Chamian, Molly Allen, Sasha Veneziano, Kimmo MustonenenKimmo Mustonenen for Kimmo On Kino – Behind The Proscenium

P.S.  The Glee Project brings me tears of joy.  I have much hope for those poor, weirdo reject kids.  And they’re not in their 20’s!  Or auto-tuned!  Yet.

Green Lantern [REVIEW]

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Behind The Proscenium, Kimmo Mustonenen, Kimmo On Kino, Kyrle Lendhoffer, Green Lantern, Martin Campbell, Greg Berlanti, Michael Green, Marc Guggenheim, Michael Goldenberg, Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard, Mark Strong, Temuera Morrison, Jenna Craig, Jon Tenney, Mike Doyle, Gattlin Griffith, Nick Jandl, Dylan James, Leanne Cochran, Deke Anderson, Alexander Asefa, Michael AvMen, Angela Bassett, Clancy Brown, Mindy Caraccioli, Amy Carlson, Laura Cayouette, Joseph Cintron, Michael Clark Duncan, Griff Furst, Nick Gomez, Garrett Hines, Nick Jones Jr., Evan Kelly, Sharon Morris, Paul Parducci, Ric Reitz, Tim Robbins, Bill Ross, Geoffrey Rush, Jay O. Sanders, Taika Waititi, Jeff Wolfe, Andy Abele, D'Arcy Allen, Annette Denise Bass, Jennifer Benton, Brooke Bezick, Erin Booth, Blake Nelson Boyd, Kylie Creppel, Carlo Daquin, Jenifer Rebecca Foster, Gino Galento, Jewel Grosch, Emily D. Haley, Anderw Kantowski, Dorian Kingi, John C. Klein, Holly Ladnier, Elton LeBlanc, Armando Leduc, Flavia Manes Rossi, Kiki Mannear, Tiffany Morgan, Wayne Douglas Morgan, Lance E. Nichols, Roger Eduardo Palomino, Maria Ruiz, Rhonda Schaubert, Suzanne Severio, Tony Severio, Andre De'Sean Shanks, Chaz Smith, Logan Douglas Smith, Terry Lee Smith, AnneMarie Spizuocco, Lauren Sullivan, James Lesley Taylor, Elizabeth Tranchant, David Lee Valle, Ricky Vo, Chris Whetstone, John T. Wilson, Donald De Line, Herb Gains, Andrew Haas, Geoff Johns, James Newton Howard, Dion Beebe, Stuart Baird, Pam Dixon, Grant Major, Daniel Carbo, Bill Daly, Nadia Brand, Mikey Eberle, Lisa Dilenschneider, Justin M. Hamilton, Ben Silverman, Ozzy Inguanzo

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Behind The Proscenium, Kimmo Mustonenen, Kimmo On Kino, Kyrle Lendhoffer, Green Lantern, Martin Campbell, Greg Berlanti, Michael Green, Marc Guggenheim, Michael Goldenberg, Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard, Mark Strong, Temuera Morrison, Jenna Craig, Jon Tenney, Mike Doyle, Gattlin Griffith, Nick Jandl, Dylan James, Leanne Cochran, Deke Anderson, Alexander Asefa, Michael AvMen, Angela Bassett, Clancy Brown, Mindy Caraccioli, Amy Carlson, Laura Cayouette, Joseph Cintron, Michael Clark Duncan, Griff Furst, Nick Gomez, Garrett Hines, Nick Jones Jr., Evan Kelly, Sharon Morris, Paul Parducci, Ric Reitz, Tim Robbins, Bill Ross, Geoffrey Rush, Jay O. Sanders, Taika Waititi, Jeff Wolfe, Andy Abele, D'Arcy Allen, Annette Denise Bass, Jennifer Benton, Brooke Bezick, Erin Booth, Blake Nelson Boyd, Kylie Creppel, Carlo Daquin, Jenifer Rebecca Foster, Gino Galento, Jewel Grosch, Emily D. Haley, Anderw Kantowski, Dorian Kingi, John C. Klein, Holly Ladnier, Elton LeBlanc, Armando Leduc, Flavia Manes Rossi, Kiki Mannear, Tiffany Morgan, Wayne Douglas Morgan, Lance E. Nichols, Roger Eduardo Palomino, Maria Ruiz, Rhonda Schaubert, Suzanne Severio, Tony Severio, Andre De'Sean Shanks, Chaz Smith, Logan Douglas Smith, Terry Lee Smith, AnneMarie Spizuocco, Lauren Sullivan, James Lesley Taylor, Elizabeth Tranchant, David Lee Valle, Ricky Vo, Chris Whetstone, John T. Wilson, Donald De Line, Herb Gains, Andrew Haas, Geoff Johns, James Newton Howard, Dion Beebe, Stuart Baird, Pam Dixon, Grant Major, Daniel Carbo, Bill Daly, Nadia Brand, Mikey Eberle, Lisa Dilenschneider, Justin M. Hamilton, Ben Silverman, Ozzy InguanzoThe Green Lantern

With Wit, Reviewed By Kimmo Mustonenen

Ryan Reynolds is the man.  But no longer today.

This Northman famous film star – once with Scarlett Johansson (followed drunkenly by leathery Sean Penn, yowza!) – is now expected to hold a straight face above with propping a spirit-sucking expensive superhero film.

The great collapse of Green Lantern will cause most to jump on Reynolds to be blamed… but the wrong-headed doing has its origin in a lamest of the television set-trained scriptwriters and mega stone cold producer honchos.

Yes, that is what I said.

A consequence is that the new Warner Brothers flick with the load of explaining (who the Green Lantern is, for instance) is out there for all to see at megaplexes until the next super hero comes to call and kicks Green Lantern to piracy bin.

What?

In one overcalculated effort to cover all surfaces into a whole film tonally – which doesn’t work and is all over the place.  Confusion is not for summer cinema!

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Behind The Proscenium, Kimmo Mustonenen, Kimmo On Kino, Kyrle Lendhoffer, Green Lantern, Martin Campbell, Greg Berlanti, Michael Green, Marc Guggenheim, Michael Goldenberg, Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard, Mark Strong, Temuera Morrison, Jenna Craig, Jon Tenney, Mike Doyle, Gattlin Griffith, Nick Jandl, Dylan James, Leanne Cochran, Deke Anderson, Alexander Asefa, Michael AvMen, Angela Bassett, Clancy Brown, Mindy Caraccioli, Amy Carlson, Laura Cayouette, Joseph Cintron, Michael Clark Duncan, Griff Furst, Nick Gomez, Garrett Hines, Nick Jones Jr., Evan Kelly, Sharon Morris, Paul Parducci, Ric Reitz, Tim Robbins, Bill Ross, Geoffrey Rush, Jay O. Sanders, Taika Waititi, Jeff Wolfe, Andy Abele, D'Arcy Allen, Annette Denise Bass, Jennifer Benton, Brooke Bezick, Erin Booth, Blake Nelson Boyd, Kylie Creppel, Carlo Daquin, Jenifer Rebecca Foster, Gino Galento, Jewel Grosch, Emily D. Haley, Anderw Kantowski, Dorian Kingi, John C. Klein, Holly Ladnier, Elton LeBlanc, Armando Leduc, Flavia Manes Rossi, Kiki Mannear, Tiffany Morgan, Wayne Douglas Morgan, Lance E. Nichols, Roger Eduardo Palomino, Maria Ruiz, Rhonda Schaubert, Suzanne Severio, Tony Severio, Andre De'Sean Shanks, Chaz Smith, Logan Douglas Smith, Terry Lee Smith, AnneMarie Spizuocco, Lauren Sullivan, James Lesley Taylor, Elizabeth Tranchant, David Lee Valle, Ricky Vo, Chris Whetstone, John T. Wilson, Donald De Line, Herb Gains, Andrew Haas, Geoff Johns, James Newton Howard, Dion Beebe, Stuart Baird, Pam Dixon, Grant Major, Daniel Carbo, Bill Daly, Nadia Brand, Mikey Eberle, Lisa Dilenschneider, Justin M. Hamilton, Ben Silverman, Ozzy InguanzoGreatly and with greatly bombast, he seizes points of Star Wars, Top Gun and from the Superman, in a kind of superhero stew (only less meat – we need meat!).

Four authors convert the film script (each working from separate story) which spreads nerd-speak like written for baby, followed from the cosmic heavenly drilling carriage credited (you know, not understandable).

Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds) is a ass-kicker pilot, who sets egos over brothers.

One day, after an expensive combat aircraft during a war game is inadvertently destroyed, this creates an improbable discovery for Hal: a dying magenta-red foreigner (Temeura Morrison) gives Hal a green lantern fulfilled with cosmic energies and his connected ring.

He puts on the ring and promising allegiance to the lantern, Hal transports to another world (not ours!), in which he experiences stuff that makes him now a member of the Green Lantern Corps: a volume of green intergalactic warriors, who use the energy of the power to fight against the forces of the evil and of fear.

Additionally, to receiving a fast course up to learning, and dress down receiving from Sinestro (Mark Strong), experiences the leader of the Green Lanterns, Hal is educated that an old enemy was freed – the Parallax – from his prison and by the galaxy and goes wild (naturally) to earth with all get out.

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Behind The Proscenium, Kimmo Mustonenen, Kimmo On Kino, Kyrle Lendhoffer, Green Lantern, Martin Campbell, Greg Berlanti, Michael Green, Marc Guggenheim, Michael Goldenberg, Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard, Mark Strong, Temuera Morrison, Jenna Craig, Jon Tenney, Mike Doyle, Gattlin Griffith, Nick Jandl, Dylan James, Leanne Cochran, Deke Anderson, Alexander Asefa, Michael AvMen, Angela Bassett, Clancy Brown, Mindy Caraccioli, Amy Carlson, Laura Cayouette, Joseph Cintron, Michael Clark Duncan, Griff Furst, Nick Gomez, Garrett Hines, Nick Jones Jr., Evan Kelly, Sharon Morris, Paul Parducci, Ric Reitz, Tim Robbins, Bill Ross, Geoffrey Rush, Jay O. Sanders, Taika Waititi, Jeff Wolfe, Andy Abele, D'Arcy Allen, Annette Denise Bass, Jennifer Benton, Brooke Bezick, Erin Booth, Blake Nelson Boyd, Kylie Creppel, Carlo Daquin, Jenifer Rebecca Foster, Gino Galento, Jewel Grosch, Emily D. Haley, Anderw Kantowski, Dorian Kingi, John C. Klein, Holly Ladnier, Elton LeBlanc, Armando Leduc, Flavia Manes Rossi, Kiki Mannear, Tiffany Morgan, Wayne Douglas Morgan, Lance E. Nichols, Roger Eduardo Palomino, Maria Ruiz, Rhonda Schaubert, Suzanne Severio, Tony Severio, Andre De'Sean Shanks, Chaz Smith, Logan Douglas Smith, Terry Lee Smith, AnneMarie Spizuocco, Lauren Sullivan, James Lesley Taylor, Elizabeth Tranchant, David Lee Valle, Ricky Vo, Chris Whetstone, John T. Wilson, Donald De Line, Herb Gains, Andrew Haas, Geoff Johns, James Newton Howard, Dion Beebe, Stuart Baird, Pam Dixon, Grant Major, Daniel Carbo, Bill Daly, Nadia Brand, Mikey Eberle, Lisa Dilenschneider, Justin M. Hamilton, Ben Silverman, Ozzy InguanzoCarrying a unruffled new costume, Hal drives back to his main planet, around the Parallax’s minion to confront Dr. Hector Hammond (Peter Sarsgaard).

He must also examine his own worth to ex-girlfriend, Carol Ferris (Blake Lively – who isn’t Ginnifer Goodwin – summer movies are suckage) and defeat that ne’er-do-well.

Warner Brothers would like that we enjoy all the big tent pole things with our wallets – Green Lantern for sure.

Sadly, but this is more like which one expects from a independent superhero film (of which is nothing, right?).  Non-geeks will not enjoy the production because of non-exciting production.  It’s passable, but not much more than an two-hour digression.

Green Lantern is generic – it has an imitative approach that arranges this motion picture film to fall into whichever hell circle Dante envisioned for.

No fear to say it here!

As a man, I only can dream the upcoming Captain Stoppo movie from MC Comics is less a waste of my and yours time. 

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Super 8 [REVIEW]

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Behind The Proscenium, Kyrle Lendhoffer, Kimmo Mustonenen, Kimmo on Kino, Super 8, J.J. Abrams, Steven Spielberg, Joel Courtney, Jessica Tuck, Joel McKinnon Miller, Ryan Lee, Zach Mills, Riley Griffiths, Gabriel Basso, Kyel Chandler, Ron Eldard, Amanda Michalka, Andrew Miller, Jakob Miller, Jade Griffiths, Britt Flatmo, Elle Fanning, Glynn Turman, Noah Emmerich, Richard T. Jones, Amanda Foreman, David Gallagher, Brett Rice, Michael Giacchino, Beau Knapp, Bruce Greenwood, Dale Dickey, Jack Axelrod, Dan Castellaneta, Ben Gavin, Jay Scully, Michael Hitchcock, James Hebert, Thomas F. Duffy, Teri Clark, Tom Quinn, Kate Yerves, Caitriona Balfe, Koa Melvin, Tom Williams, Bingo O'Malley, Tony Guma, Robert B. Quiroz, Jason Brooks, Tim Griffin, Marco Sanchez, Emerson Brooks, Jonathan Dixon, Patrick St. Esprit, Greg Grunberg, Katie Lowes, Bryan Burk, Udi nedivi, Ben Rosenblatt, Larry Fong, Maryann Brandon, Mary Jo Markey, David Scott, Ian Calip, Clark Credle, Christine Danahy, Andy Chung, Dawn Gilliam, Eva Quiroz

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Behind The Proscenium, Kyrle Lendhoffer, Kimmo Mustonenen, Kimmo on Kino, Super 8, J.J. Abrams, Steven Spielberg, Joel Courtney, Jessica Tuck, Joel McKinnon Miller, Ryan Lee, Zach Mills, Riley Griffiths, Gabriel Basso, Kyel Chandler, Ron Eldard, Amanda Michalka, Andrew Miller, Jakob Miller, Jade Griffiths, Britt Flatmo, Elle Fanning, Glynn Turman, Noah Emmerich, Richard T. Jones, Amanda Foreman, David Gallagher, Brett Rice, Michael Giacchino, Beau Knapp, Bruce Greenwood, Dale Dickey, Jack Axelrod, Dan Castellaneta, Ben Gavin, Jay Scully, Michael Hitchcock, James Hebert, Thomas F. Duffy, Teri Clark, Tom Quinn, Kate Yerves, Caitriona Balfe, Koa Melvin, Tom Williams, Bingo O'Malley, Tony Guma, Robert B. Quiroz, Jason Brooks, Tim Griffin, Marco Sanchez, Emerson Brooks, Jonathan Dixon, Patrick St. Esprit, Greg Grunberg, Katie Lowes, Bryan Burk, Udi nedivi, Ben Rosenblatt, Larry Fong, Maryann Brandon, Mary Jo Markey, David Scott, Ian Calip, Clark Credle, Christine Danahy, Andy Chung, Dawn Gilliam, Eva QuirozSuper 8

With Wit, Reviewed By Kimmo Mustonenen

From the title, Super 8 ad spectacular: we’ll travel through (and in) time.

Indeed, when the Amblin logo fills the screen, supported by a bombastic score and air, we’re back in the early 80s, when Steven Spielberg directed, and edited stories for teens bursting of monsters and wonders (the stories, not the teens so much).

The reference to the glorious era of Gremlins or Back to the Future is fully assumed by JJ Abrams, who grew up before these movies long before he became the instigator of the series Alias and Lost (what the hell – just me, or you, too?), then offer breathe new life sagas Mission: Impossible and Star Trek.

Officially sponsored by the director of E.T., he declares his love here cinematic without ever falling into the trap of slavish imitation or wink supported (with a nudge maybe).

For Super 8 has its own personality and obviously draws much of his inspiration from childhood memories of the filmmaker (which are his).

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Behind The Proscenium, Kyrle Lendhoffer, Kimmo Mustonenen, Kimmo on Kino, Super 8, J.J. Abrams, Steven Spielberg, Joel Courtney, Jessica Tuck, Joel McKinnon Miller, Ryan Lee, Zach Mills, Riley Griffiths, Gabriel Basso, Kyel Chandler, Ron Eldard, Amanda Michalka, Andrew Miller, Jakob Miller, Jade Griffiths, Britt Flatmo, Elle Fanning, Glynn Turman, Noah Emmerich, Richard T. Jones, Amanda Foreman, David Gallagher, Brett Rice, Michael Giacchino, Beau Knapp, Bruce Greenwood, Dale Dickey, Jack Axelrod, Dan Castellaneta, Ben Gavin, Jay Scully, Michael Hitchcock, James Hebert, Thomas F. Duffy, Teri Clark, Tom Quinn, Kate Yerves, Caitriona Balfe, Koa Melvin, Tom Williams, Bingo O'Malley, Tony Guma, Robert B. Quiroz, Jason Brooks, Tim Griffin, Marco Sanchez, Emerson Brooks, Jonathan Dixon, Patrick St. Esprit, Greg Grunberg, Katie Lowes, Bryan Burk, Udi nedivi, Ben Rosenblatt, Larry Fong, Maryann Brandon, Mary Jo Markey, David Scott, Ian Calip, Clark Credle, Christine Danahy, Andy Chung, Dawn Gilliam, Eva QuirozWe are in 1979, at the end of the school year, in a quiet village in Ohio (my city was gone!  See that?).

A small group of teenagers, who runs a cheese eating zombie film in Super 8 under the influence of George Romero, is witnessing a train wreck extremely spectacular.  Following this accident, the townspeople begin disappearing and strange phenomena are increasing.  While the army began to occupy the place and the police seem powerless, our young heroes seem the only ones who can undercover the truth.

While most seem kind of compulsory figures at the rendezvous, JJ Abrams deftly slaloms between all the clichés strewn in his path, refusing archetype (take that, Joseph Campbell!) and a caricature (flights very overrated The Goonies) in favor of a strong dramatic structure protagonists and extremely touching (not like that).

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Behind The Proscenium, Kyrle Lendhoffer, Kimmo Mustonenen, Kimmo on Kino, Super 8, J.J. Abrams, Steven Spielberg, Joel Courtney, Jessica Tuck, Joel McKinnon Miller, Ryan Lee, Zach Mills, Riley Griffiths, Gabriel Basso, Kyel Chandler, Ron Eldard, Amanda Michalka, Andrew Miller, Jakob Miller, Jade Griffiths, Britt Flatmo, Elle Fanning, Glynn Turman, Noah Emmerich, Richard T. Jones, Amanda Foreman, David Gallagher, Brett Rice, Michael Giacchino, Beau Knapp, Bruce Greenwood, Dale Dickey, Jack Axelrod, Dan Castellaneta, Ben Gavin, Jay Scully, Michael Hitchcock, James Hebert, Thomas F. Duffy, Teri Clark, Tom Quinn, Kate Yerves, Caitriona Balfe, Koa Melvin, Tom Williams, Bingo O'Malley, Tony Guma, Robert B. Quiroz, Jason Brooks, Tim Griffin, Marco Sanchez, Emerson Brooks, Jonathan Dixon, Patrick St. Esprit, Greg Grunberg, Katie Lowes, Bryan Burk, Udi nedivi, Ben Rosenblatt, Larry Fong, Maryann Brandon, Mary Jo Markey, David Scott, Ian Calip, Clark Credle, Christine Danahy, Andy Chung, Dawn Gilliam, Eva QuirozThe hair-raising action sequences (the crash of the train is a piece of anthology that will probably date and harm your ear holes) do not ever thus on the characters, vehicles with humor (what?), tenderness and emotion. 

Super 8 affirms the move as a real balancing act, halfway between the sincere nostalgia (those who have experienced the joys and frustrations of short films in 8 mm will have their memories refreshed), the constant quest for originality (the scenario does constantly take us by the nose to a climax of beauty – yes!) and assumed tribute to the cinema of Steven Spielberg, whose omnipresent shadow seems to hover over the entire film.

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Behind The Proscenium, Kyrle Lendhoffer, Kimmo Mustonenen, Kimmo on Kino, Super 8, J.J. Abrams, Steven Spielberg, Joel Courtney, Jessica Tuck, Joel McKinnon Miller, Ryan Lee, Zach Mills, Riley Griffiths, Gabriel Basso, Kyel Chandler, Ron Eldard, Amanda Michalka, Andrew Miller, Jakob Miller, Jade Griffiths, Britt Flatmo, Elle Fanning, Glynn Turman, Noah Emmerich, Richard T. Jones, Amanda Foreman, David Gallagher, Brett Rice, Michael Giacchino, Beau Knapp, Bruce Greenwood, Dale Dickey, Jack Axelrod, Dan Castellaneta, Ben Gavin, Jay Scully, Michael Hitchcock, James Hebert, Thomas F. Duffy, Teri Clark, Tom Quinn, Kate Yerves, Caitriona Balfe, Koa Melvin, Tom Williams, Bingo O'Malley, Tony Guma, Robert B. Quiroz, Jason Brooks, Tim Griffin, Marco Sanchez, Emerson Brooks, Jonathan Dixon, Patrick St. Esprit, Greg Grunberg, Katie Lowes, Bryan Burk, Udi nedivi, Ben Rosenblatt, Larry Fong, Maryann Brandon, Mary Jo Markey, David Scott, Ian Calip, Clark Credle, Christine Danahy, Andy Chung, Dawn Gilliam, Eva QuirozAlternately, Close Encounters Third Kind, E.T., The Jaws, Jurassic Park and even The War of the Worlds (Scientology!)there are visual and thematic correspondences, while the sumptuous soundtrack written by Michael Giacchino pays tribute to the symphonies of John Williams.

However, Abrams keeps the style of its own, both in writing his dialogues in his visual bias (the famous “lens flare” of Star Trek are always of the party – where the guest stay too long and make sick on the toilet).

So this is a work in a state of grace, which almost miraculous alchemy stems both from its authors at its magnificent cast of young actors vying for accuracy and spontaneity.

Apparently there are two Fannings.  The world is a better place yet.

Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Behind The Proscenium, Kyrle Lendhoffer, Reese Witherspoon, Water For Elephants, Robert Pattinson, Christoph Waltz, Paul Schneider, Jim Norton, Hal Holbrook, Mark Povinelli, Richard Brake, Stephen Monroe Taylor, Ken Foree, Scott MacDonald, James Frain, Sam Anderson, John Aylward, Brad Greenquist, Tim Guinee, Donna W. Scott, E.E. Bell, Kyle Jordan, Aleksandra Kaniak, Ilia Volok, Bruce Gray, Jim Jansen, James Keane, Ivo Nandi, Karynn Moore, Andrew Connolly, Doug McDougal, Tracy Phillips Rowan O'Hara, Water for Elephants, Tai, Uggie, Ice, Sita Acevedo, Danny Castle, Michael Coronas, Aloysia Gavre, Francis Lawrence, Andrew R. Tennenbaum, Erwin Stoff, Gil Netter, Kevin Halloran, Alan Edward Bell, Ana Maria Quintana, Chad Holmes, David Crank, Denise Chamian, Molly Allen, Sasha Veneziano, Kimmo MustonenenKimmo Mustonenen – Behind The Proscenium