Thursday, June 26, 2008

Milo and Otis


This movie has no plot but it's cute when you watch 8 minutes at a time. It's also cute imagining the narrator (a stodgy out British man with a heart of gold) acting out all of the voices for all of the animals in the story. His cutest role? As a toad. The cutest moment? Milo the domestic cat walking out of the ocean. The most disgusting moment to accidentally happen upon while you're in the middle of a sandwich? The spontaneous live-action and VERY I REPEAT VERY graphic birth of one (1) kitten and one (1) pug. Ew. 
*Attached image is of a dog watching the movie on a TV about the size of ours! Yay!

My Girl


Another movie about a spunky little squirt that happens to be a cute and grape-boobed 11 year-old. And guess who loved it? Moi. Why? Because anyone who grew up wearing giant t-shirts and spending half the summer damp and sticky all the way through grade school knows that there's more to life than boys... and that's men. 
And it's about being you, which is a unique, sexy woman at any age! Work it!
But don't watch this movie if you're too spunky to cry, because I guarentee you that you'll spend a lot of energy holding back the waterworks at Thomas J.'s funeral. When Veda walks in there and starts screaming "He's not wearing his glasses! How is he going to be a gymnast when he doesn't have his glasses!" that's it for me. And that'll be it for you, and you and you and you. 
Also, watch this movie if you want to see Jamie Lee Curtis while she was still a fox. Anna Chlumsky still is.

Harriet the Spy


I'll be honest: I went into this movie in love, and I left it the same way... and maybe a little teary. This movie rocks; the book is even better? Everyone always says that like they're some kind of literary historian but I personally don't remember Gully rockin' out so hard in the book version, and I don't remember Harriet and her two best friends Sport and Janie Gibbs wearing a constant palette of solid primary colors. And I don't remember all of the awesome music, and I don't remember the fish-eye lens. I do remember reading that book 6 times in one year, however, so I SHOULD KNOW WHETHER THE BOOK IS BETTER THAN THE MOVIE... but I don't. Can't we all just get along? Who cares!
Either way, watch this movie is you're an independent woman with a lot to say, and no one to answer to but yourself. Or if you want to be that way. Because Harriet, an 11-year-old with a heart of malleable steel, can help you. 
Trivia Alert! "Harriet the Spy" the book was banned in the 60s because apparently Harriet provided too spunky of an example... aka she was too much of a lesbo. So there's your cake.

Monday, June 23, 2008

Stand and Deliver


This movie was predictable and it sucked. 

101 Dalmations


The part that they don't want you to know about this movie is that there are actually only 99 puppies and then two older ones, which don't even count so this movie should actually be called 99 Dalmations and the Parents of 15 of Them, Only 5 of Which You Really Get to Know." But wait why am I being such a killjoy about this when I loved this movie and it got me through so many a tired and lonely breakfast? On the final spell, I was so into the chase scene between Cruella Devil and the escaping pooches that when she crashes into a snowbank I made my own sound for it to show my support! I also dressed up for the occasion (to be posted in the near to distant future.) I love how everyone's dogs are like their owners, and also how you get to catch all of the jokes that you missed when you were a kid. Get this: a cat saves the dogs, to be perfectly honest! Yay! Also, do not confuse this excited review with the live-action version, which is for Generation Why saps. 

Pee Wee's Great Adventure





Let's be real here: I hadn't seen Pee Wee's Great Adventure since it was released more than two years before I was born! But I saw it a few weeks ago because I'm 20, so I can rent videos now. I laughed out loud, a lot! This movie gets an all-around 360 degrees apartment approval rating - we don't even need to go there! You'll probably want some candy, chips, and soda though when you watch this, and you will need everyone to wear a big t-shirt because otherwise you're killing the funmood. Oh, and wake up late the next morning for God's sake! My favorite part of this movie was when you get to see the recreation of Pee Wee's Great Adventure - the lines stay the same but everything is a little more every-day.

The real ringer in this movie is Elizabeth Daily. That girl is a fox and a hare; she's so hot she could melt a battery. She's also hot and funny in Valley Girl, and she's also the voice of Tommy Pickles in Rugrats which is sort of a turn-off. But she's a sex god and makes me smell so I give egdaily.com a thumbs way in the air!

Andre


Andre is a lot like the geese from fly away home, except he is a seal. It's kind of sad sometimes, but that really freaking cute little girl from corina corina plays andre's best friend and main character, and i think that makes up for it all. I'm really tired, so just see the darn movie if you haven't, and if you have then it was probably a billion years ago so see it again gosh darn't. If you cry at the end, then you have a warm heart open to opening the door to a friendly seal who just needs a friend in life, if you laugh then you can suck it.