Reviews by SJMJ91

I decided to watch Jennifer's Body for the same reason as the latest two Twilight films: to just see how awful it could get! People have already said to me 'why watch it if you knew it was going to be awful?' Simple answer: because watching an awful film can be fun so you can just see how pathetic things can go and I just start laughing my head off AT it. This was a 'Ohh f**k it!' film and that's all it really is. Pretty much every single thing in this film was just dreadful! There were quite a lot of 'uhh... what the f**k?' moments that just made me laugh with pity.


Megan Fox stars as a cheerleader who's taken over by a demon and starts eating the local boys. Megan Fox is officially the most overrated woman alive who is like an instant turn-on for its audience (like Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner in New Moon and Eclipse) and she cannot act AT ALL. Now they are the things that those three actors have in common. I mean, a demon who is a cheerleader and only eating boys?! What was the point? If it has showed us anything, it has showed us that Megan is an awful actress who can just play a so-called attractive prostitute which is what she was like in this film! She was just as awful and an instant turn-on like in the two Transformers films. Amanda Seyfried, what were you thinking? I began to grow fond of her until she starred in this film! She didn't even save the film!


My oh my and we thought the directing couldn't have got any worse?! It was like a director like Uwe Boll or Michael Bay had directed it. I mean, Karyn Kusama has already shown after this (and presumably after Aeon Flux) that she is a poor filmmaker and just doesn't catch its audiences attention without turning them on with the leading female actress in the role.


Overall, Jennifer's Body is an absolutely appalling film that I just find an absolute disgrace and embarrassment to the horror genre and to cinema in general.

Over the years there have been many teen romantic comedies with many predictable consequences and I thought that this was just going to be one of those. I mean, it surprisingly isn't as predictable as the trailer made it look. The film has a bit more depth than just romance between a young man and a young woman but when there are two characters who are really the same person with two different names it is like combining Fight Club with American Pie. That is an odd combination but Youth In Revolt does show that it does work.


While his trailer trash parents teeter on the edge of divorce, Nick Twisp sets his sights on dream girl Sheeni Saunders, hoping that she'll be the one to take away his virginity. When one hears that Michael Cera is once again going to portray another nerdy virginal geek, you sorta feel like rolling your eyes and you just sigh. Yeah, he plays a character that is still a nerdy geek but he plays something in a bit more depth this time (like he did in Juno). His performance was pretty awesome as Nick Twisp but his performance as Francois Dillinger was even better because it was something that we hadn't really seen from Michael Cera before until now. Yeah, he sticks to almost the same kind of character but that is what he does best which is good enough. Portia Doubleday was dead gorgeous in Youth In Revolt and her acting was good as well.


The script was pretty damn ridiculous in most moments of the film but there were some scenes where the script was awesome. One key quote in the film that was awesome which made me laugh like some of the scenes but there were others where I would just hold my head. As far as I am concerned, it is almost like another coming of age teen film.


Overall, Youth In Revolt is another teen coming of age film that perhaps extends slightly on combining two different kinds of films together. I would call it an entertaining film of 2010 but not one of the best.

The Little Mermaid became the start of the 10 Disney Renaissances (others are The Rescuers Down Under, Beauty And The Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, Pocahontas, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, Hercules, Mulan and Tarzan) and what a great success and breakthrough it became! It was the first animated musical from Disney since The Jungle Book. I think the message of this film is that it shows how much people can fall in love no matter how different one is from the other (like Beauty And The Beast).


Set at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean of a young mermaid named Ariel who is unhappy with her life down under the sea and she seeks to become a human much to the dismay of her father King Triton. One night, she saves the young Prince Eric from drowning and then falls in love with him. She sings to him on the beach and he falls in love with her but he doesn't know her name or where she is so he ends up searching for her. When her father discovers the secret grotto of Ariel's that is filled with human artefacts including a statue of Eric that was given to him for his birthday, Ariel goes to the sea-witch Ursula and is forced to make a choice between her family under the sea or the man she loves on the land.


The Little Mermaid was originally planned as a part of one of Walt Disney's earliest feature films so development started in the late 1930s just after Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs was released and it has taken them around 50 years to make. This was the last Disney animated feature to use hand-painted cels and analog camera and film work. 1,000 different colors were used on 1,100 backgrounds. Over one million drawings were done in total. This film was the most effects-animation heavy Disney animated feature since Fantasia (1940). The two minute storm sequence alone took 10 special effects animators over a year to finish. Effects animation supervisor Mark Dindal estimated that over a million bubbles were drawn for this film, in addition to the use of other processes such as airbrushing, back lighting, superimposition, and some flat-shaded computer animation. The Little Mermaid was nominated for 3 Academy Awards and won 2 of them. It won Best Original Score and Best Original Song ("Under The Sea") and another song in the film was nominated for Best Original Song which was called "Kiss The Girl".


Overall, The Little Mermaid is a magical, funny and inspiring Disney Classic that Walt Disney himself would be proud of. Disney has been revived once again.

Over the past few years, I have been begged and begged by friends and family to watch this film and now I finally have and now I can see why they have been begging me to watch it! What a brilliant film it turned out to be with a lot of scares and violence which is, after all, what a vampire film is all about (unlike that stupid crap Twilight series). To be honest, I would say that Interview With The Vampire is one of the very few vampire films where they truly show the horror of vampires and what they do.


A night in San Francisco, during our time: A young journalist follows a man through the streets and they end up in an anonymous room. When the journalist starts to interview the man, the stranger tells him that he is a vampire, being over 200 years old. The journalist doesn't believe him, but after the man proves it's true, he tells his story: His name is Louis and in 18th century New Orleans he was 24, by this time owner of an estate and a widower already. One night, when he once again was destroying himself by drinking and other things, he was found by Lestat, a vampire, who bit him. But even after becoming a vampire, life wasn't fun for Louis until one night he met a little girl, Claudia, who should change his existence forever. The acting was absolutely fantastic from everybody in this film! Tom Cruise was just absolutely amazing as Lestat De Lioncourt! He surprisingly terrified the audiences and made Lestat in Interview With The Vampire one of his best roles as an actor. In fact, I would say that his performance in this film is just as good as his performance was in Magnolia. Brad Pitt was already a role model and had already appeared in Legends Of The Fall the same year Interview With The Vampire was released but this time, Brad goes somewhere a bit darker. Yeah, he is a vampire in this but he's the ''innocent vampire'' so to speak. Kirsten Dunst was just amazing and made a breakthrough in her career just like she did in Jumanji! I would compare Dunst's performance almost as good as Linda Blair's performance in The Exorcist. Despite she got a Golden Globe nomination, she should have earned an Oscar nomination for her role in this film!


Neil Jordan made this film absolutely brilliantly! I mean, most of the time films are set in the Victorian era and just fail but this is a vampire film and it could have been an utter disaster and it really wasn't at all! Only one fault I have with the film was that it seemed like an epic vampire film from the cover and the trailer but it didn't quite feel that way. Interview With The Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles was nominated for two Academy Awards: Best Art Direction and Best Original Score.


Overall, Interview With The Vampire is a terrifying vampire film that was beautifully made and amazingly acted! There needs to be more vampire films like this!!

The Expendables has been named by many as the ''dream action film that everybody has been waiting for'' and I can see why regarding the action. I mean, yeah it has the ultimate cast in an action film ever and it is most certainly the most explosive (but nowhere near one of the best) action films I think I have ever watched but it did have its flaws. So here are the flaws: the cast is just too good to be true but I am afraid to say that story didn't feel epic enough for the cast and the characters. Also, we didn't really know any of the characters THAT well and the development on the characters really needed improving. Also, story wasn't really that developed enough either.


The story of The Expendables is a team of elite, highly-trained mercenaries known as The Expendables are sent into South America to overthrow a ruthless cold-blooded dictator. But once the mission begins, they discover a plot far more sinister than they were led to believe. With innocent lives in the balance, the Expendables are forced to take on an even more difficult challenge. Sylvester Stallone was absolute badass as Barney Ross. I don't the film went into enough depth to express Barney's character a bit more. Jason Statham has thrilled us all over the years with the two Crank films and Death Race and he does it once again. I mean, no he isn't a brilliant actor but he certainly is an entertaining one which is what I respect about him. Unfortunately, Jet Li wasn't in it very much and neither was Dolph Lundgren but the action scene they had together was breathtaking! Oh and the action scene between Sylvester Stallone and 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin was brilliant too! Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger made brilliant cameo appearances too.


I thought despite the film's flaws that The Expendables is one of the best filmed action films that I have seen. There wasn't one moment in an action scene during the whole film where it wasn't overloaded with explosions and lasted too long unlike Transformers 2: Revenge Of The Fallen did. The Expendables itself actually reminded me a lot of Welcome To The Jungle and the dictator within the city where he is cruel to the people who live there. The script was absolute badass!! There were a few quotes that were said within that made me laugh especially with the scene with Stallone, Willis and Schwarzenegger.


Overall, The Expendables is an action film that I personally found both awesome and disappointing but in two different ways. Obviously, one of the best ensemble cast in history! It is definitely one to get on blu-ray with the explosive action! There won't be any doubt that it'll fight against The A-Team for the action film of the summer.

Having never seen the original series, my expectations were about average. To me, it looked like another action film and that is exactly what it was. I mean, there were moments that were disappointing and they were that it had a kickass opening and kickass ending but pretty flat when around half way through. The action scenes were the only things that I actually liked as far as moments in the film are concerned.


The A-Team tells the story of a group of Iraq War veterans who look to clear their name with the U.S. military, who suspect the four men of committing a crime for which they were framed. Liam Neeson in a film about the A-Team was something that I was really NOT expecting but despite having never seen the series, I thought he played Colonel Hannibal Smith quite well. Hannibal is the leader of the group. What I did like about the characters and their moments together was that they are all very different kinds of people but do stick together. We all recently recognize Sharlto Copley in the 2009 sci-fi film District 9 and stars in a blockbuster the next year but something different and did quite a decent job as Captain H.M. Murdock. but still prefer him in District 9. Now, Quinton Jackson as Bosco A. Baracus. Everyone keeps raving that he will be crap compared to when Mr. T played him in the original series but I do sort of agree, to be honest. I don't think Jackson was badass enough for the character. Bradley Cooper was quite flat as Lt. ‘Faceman’ Peck.


One thing I must point out: who is Joe Carnahan? I mean, if you're going to make a feature film based on a famous TV series at least make the director recognizable! As far as his work on the film, I thought it was good in some of the action scenes but perhaps most people think and I am probably sure that I would think when I watch the series that the film didn't have the charm like the original series did. The script was probably the best thing about the film as far as pre-production is concerned. I did like the humour within especially from Murdock.


Overall, I would say The A-Team was something that miraculously became a success critically and think fans of the series will love it or hate it so seeing as I haven't seen the series can only say it was an overall decent film that I think could have had it's improvements.

Well, my first immediate impression of Valentine's Day was 'this looks just like Love Actually. It looks very predictable, acting doesn't look brilliant but it does look like a bit of fun'. Now, that is EXACTLY what it turned out like. It is pretty much the same as Love Actually but is focused on a different occasion. It is a very girly film seeing as it is soppy romance and most girls love Valentine's Day. I mean, I think Valentine's Day is the most pointless occasion ever but the film made Valentine's Day quite a generous and nice occasion so that's the best bit of credit I can give it.


The ensemble cast is one of the largest film ensemble casts in film history. It indeed does feature some great Hollywood actors from the 90s and some of the good ones (but some unnecessarily overrated actors). Set in Los Angeles, florist Reed Bennett (Ashton Kutcher) proposes to his girlfriend Morley (Jessica Alba) who accepts, much to the surprise of Reed’s closest friends Alphonso (George Lopez) and Julia Fitzpatrick (Jennifer Garner). Julia, an elementary school teacher has fallen in love with Dr. Harrison Copeland (Patrick Dempsey), but does not know that he is married to his wife Pamela (Katherine LaNasa). On an airplane to Los Angeles, Kate Hazeltine (Julia Roberts), a captain in the U.S. Army on a one-day leave, befriends newly single Holden Bristow (Bradley Cooper). One of Julia’s students, Edison (Bryce Robinson), orders flowers from Reed, to be sent to his teacher. Edison's babysitter Grace (Emma Roberts) is planning to lose her virginity with her boyfriend Alex (Carter Jenkins). Grace’s high-school friends, Willy (Taylor Lautner) and Felicia (Taylor Swift), are experiencing the freshness of new love, and have agreed to wait to have sex. Edison’s grandparents, Edgar (Hector Elizondo) and Estelle (Shirley MacLaine) are facing the troubles of a long marriage. Sean Jackson (Eric Dane), a closeted gay professional football player, is contemplating the end of his career together with his publicist Kara (Jessica Biel) and his agent Paula (Queen Latifah). Liz (Anne Hathaway) who has started dating mailroom clerk Jason (Topher Grace). Jason is first shocked when Liz turns out to be moonlighting as a phone sex operator. So, yeah there are a lot of stories. My favourite one was the story between Reed Bennett, Jessica Alba and Jennifer Garner. So glad that overrated fake Taylor Lautner wasn't in it much so I think that has increased my rating of the film a little bit. Best performance in the film was definitely Jennifer Garner!


Garry Marshall (director of Pretty Woman, Runaway Bride and The Princess Diaries) tried something that I knew wasn't even possible and that was to try and receive a better critical response than Love Actually but it didn't. I would be ashamed of myself if I were him despite it was neither good not bad. Script was alright. Pretty cheesy most of the time but I was sort of expecting that to be honest.


Overall, Valentine's Day is an averagely entertaining film that I think is more for girls. Guys, I would give this one a miss.

Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs is where it all began and was the dawning of a new era. Walt Disney was and still is one of the world's biggest icons and I am proud to say that Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs was the start of all this magic that we see today! The animation is obviously cheesy compared to animation nowadays but that film as well as most Disney Classics before the 1990s has a great gift and that was with the drawings that made them into animated features. Because of the seven dwarfs with the seven different personalities, this film probably taught other filmmakers how to mix different sorts of characters together in a film. It was beautiful and inspiring not only because of the characters but because of the beautiful songs and the beautiful storyline of the film in general. It really made me feel great because there were some scenes that were just adorable and were just so peaceful to watch you could just cry.


Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs is the beautiful fairy tale about a beautiful princess called Snow White who is forced to obey her stepmother who is the evil queen every whim, sees her prince charming while drawing water from the well. Meanwhile her evil stepmother discovers that not she but Snow White is "the fairest of them all". So she orders a hunter to kill Snow White and bring back her heart in a case......The hunter, seeing how sweet Snow White is and recognizing the evil in the queen's heart let's her escape into the forest. Will Snow White escape her stepmother forever? Will she ever survive in the woods and will she ever be able to see her Prince Charming again? It is so beautiful because of all of the adorable and powerful characters. There isn't just Snow White and the dwarfs but the Queen, Huntsman and Magic Mirror are powerful characters too because they are better to figure out and are characters that take more twists and turns in a film. They are mostly the reasons why I like villain characters than hero ones because they are more powerful characters. This develops all sorts of different characters that have never been mixed into one film before. Especially the seven dwarfs because they all have different personalities and their main personality is their name. There are Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Dopey and Sneezy.


The direction was really good and was really well written too. Every scene adapted really well. I remember when I was a little kid watching this film on video/VHS and there was a special feature of how they made the film including comments from Walt Disney. There was a scene that was really good but wasn't really essential to the story. There is another song that is sung during the meal of the dwarfs and Snow White. That would have been an inappropriate scene to add to the film even though I enjoyed the scene a lot.


Overall, Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs is one of the most important feature films in the history of cinema and rightly so! Disney starts off with a bang and there aren't that many at all who have reached to the standard of Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs.

My oh my oh my! When are they going to stop making films about the Iraq war?! As far as I am concerned, none of them are different (except The Hurt Locker). I mean, look at Green Zone in comparison to say... The Kingdom. The plot might be a bit different but because it is in the exact same environment, very similar kinds of characters, they just feel the same. I am not taking away that it was well made and production went well but I just couldn't quite get the hang of this.


The plot unfolds deep in the highest ranks within the Iraqi military, where the country's army General who is hiding in Baghdad talks of an impeding American attack, where he proposes joining them. In the meantime, chief warrant officer Roy Miller (Damon) and his team are busy combing off warehouses in Iraqi they believe hold weapons of Mass destruction to no avail. Miller then goes through a heap of drama which ranges from his top informant being taken into custody by hostile authorities, to realizing that one of the men he is supposed to trust immensely during the exercise is no more than the enemy within, and who happens to be sharing crucial information with the enemy. Miller finds himself on the receiving end when he is kidnapped by Al Rawi's (the Iraqi army commander) men before he kills his captors and then setting out to find the general who has already fled. This is Matt Damon's third collaboration with director Paul Greengrass and I have to say, it wasn't exactly as intense, explosive or exciting as their work together on The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum were.


Paul Greengrass has always been a director of making films with a fast pace, where the camera would move all over the place like it was a documentary and where it would involve action no matter what genre. I mean, yeah it was well filmed but I just thought the camera was too fast-paced and also I don't really think there was enough action as we saw in the trailer.


Overall, Green Zone is a film that I was overall disappointed with but was impressed with as far as production. Let's hope that Damon and Greengrass's next collaboration will be better than this one (hopefully going to be the fourth Bourne film).

Well, I was gob-smacked when it was announced that The Blind Side took a Best Picture nomination instead of Invictus! It just didn't seem like Oscar Best Picture material at all and now after watching it, I just don't see why it was nominated. I mean, it was an enjoyable film but no way did this deserve that much credit especially over a film by Clint Eastwood!! The best credit I can give The Blind Side is that it is an inspiring true story that would have and did turn out a good film. Another slight problem I did have was that the American football game did make enough sense for me to enjoy the games because I just had no clue what was going on. Just by looking at the poster, it is a VERY American film! It seemed like something Disney would make but Disney are better than that!


The Blind Side tells the story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family. Sandra Bullock has been a yo-yo actress her whole career where she would be good and where she would be bad. Now, for her performance in The Blind Side, it was good but how in the flying FUCK did she win Screen Actor Guild Award for Best Leading Actress, Golden Globe for Best Actress Drama and most shockingly the Academy Award for Best Leading Actress?! Meryl Streep, Carey Mulligan and even Gabourney Sibide deserved it more than Sandra Bullock especially after she won a Razzie the night before. I mean, yeah they're different films but winning the worst and the best award in 2 nights is just shocking! So, Bullock was good but not brilliant like the others were. I liked Quinton Aaron's performance as Michael Oher. He had that innocence to him but had quite a dark side as well that we do see as the film progresses. I tell you one underrated performance in this film was from Jae Head who plays SJ (the young son of the family). He made me laugh on some occasions and played the character really well. As far as Lilly Collins goes who plays Collins Tuohy, we may not have seen her very much in the film but DAMN she is HOT!


Weird that director John Lee Hancock previously did The Alamo which didn't succeed very well and then does The Blind Side that got a Best Picture nomination (unbeknownst to us). I think if he made it epic and emotional enough for the audience, it would have deserved the Best Picture nomination but it wasn't quite epic or emotional enough. I wouldn't call The Blind Side a family film but I would call it friendly enough for 10+ year old kids to watch.


Overall, The Blind Side is an enjoyable film that is entertaining but unfortunately overhyped by the Academy and robbed Invictus and others. It's not all about the American football like it seems like to be from the poster.