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Week of August 22, 2014
You only relive twice. First up…
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
The problem with killing a radioactive human/arachnid hybrid
is it rains for, like, 6-weeks straight.
Luckily the wall-crawler in this action movie is hard to
squash.
Concerned that his actions as Spider-Man could jeopardize Gwen
(Emma Stone), Peter (Andrew Garfield) breaks things off with her.
To keep his mind occupied, he bonds with Aunt May (Sally
Fields) and battles with Rhino (Paul Giamatti), Electro (Jamie Foxx) and the
Green Goblin (Dane DeHaan).
And while fate ultimately brings Peter and Gwen back
together, it also heralds Spider-Man’s greatest loss.
Although it’s bloated on villains, this sequel is the
closest to the character this franchise has come.
Garfield’s bogus Brooklyn accent notwithstanding, his sinewy
stature and breezy banter evokes Marvel’s mascot better than his predecessor.
What's more, its treatment of the infamous Gwen Stacy
story-line is long-winded but laudable.
However, nothing is more humiliating than a super-hero walking
his girlfriend’s teacup Chihuahuas.
Green Light
Blended
When combining two families into one you may find
redundancies amongst the children.
However the blended family in this comedy is keeping their
brood intact.
Lauren (Drew Barrymore), a single-mother of two, goes out
with Jim (Adam Sandler), widowed father of three girls, and it ends terribly.
However, happenstance reunites them at the pharmacy then
again at Lauren’s home, and lastly in Africa, where their families are
amalgamated and sent on a “familymoon”.
Forced into couple’s activities, Lauren and Jim soften
towards each other, if only until they return stateside.
While this third pairing of Barrymore and Sandler endeavors
to deal with weightier issues, like children losing a parent and the
complications involved in moving on, but any hope of sincerity is lost in a sea
of trivial humour and offensive stereotypes.
And as always, the best way for new families to break the
ice is to get shitfaced together. Red
Light
***Step-by-Step Parent***
A Very Brady Sequel
The hardest part of blending families is when two kids have
the same name.
Fortunately, none of the step-siblings in this comedy share
a moniker.
When Carol’s (Shelley Long) long thought dead first husband
(Tim Matheson) turns out to be very much alive, her marriage to Mike Brady
(Gary Cole) and the home they’ve built with their six children, Greg
(Christopher Daniel Barnes), Marcia (Christine Taylor), Jan (Jennifer Elise
Cox), Bobby (Jesse Lee Soffer) Cindy (Olivia Hack), and housekeeper (Henriette
Mantel) is jeopardized.
But their bond is tightened when their mom is kidnapped and
the gang must head to Hawaii to rescue her.
One of the few sequels - especially a comedy - to equal its
original, this lampoon of the beloved 1970s sit-com plays on familiar themes
from the show but with tongue-in-cheek and incestual innuendo.
Besides, you’re not genetically related, so why can’t you
French kiss your step-pet?
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