The Break-Up

jennifer aniston and vince vaughan have been dating for 2 years and share a nice condo in chicago together. eventually things get so tense between them, they decide to split, however neither wants to give up the condo to the other. in the process of trying to sell the place and seek out other partners, they do whatever they can to make the other miserable. it wasnt as good or as funny as i had expected.

Nacho Libre

jack black is the only non-hispanic in this movie from nickelodeon studios and the guy that made napoleon dynamite. he's this priest at an orphanage who has a deep desire to be wrestling champion. it had it's moments, but you can tell it's trying too much to be like napoleon dynamite - same type of movie, but it just doesnt work this time around.

School for Scoundrels

john heder and billy bob thorton. heder is basically a loser kind of guy, unable to talk to girls and already having 2 of his 'big brother' kids request another brother and working as a meter maid. a coworker tells him about this secret class that's supposed to help his confidence so he checks it out - thorton's the big hotshot professor. seeing the progress heder is having makes thorton decide to raise the stakes, as is rumored for him to single out the top person of each class, and he decides to go after the girl heder has been trying to build up the confidence to ask out. it was pretty funny in my opinion - a lot of slapstick comedy, but it was funny.

Open Season

it's a cute animated film about about a bear that was raised by a park ranger from birth. he's never been out in the wild before until a wild buck starts creating chaos in his life and his owner's forced to set him into the wild just days before open season begins. after having a rocky start with the rest of the forest animals, they all band together to fight off the hunters, come opening day. it's also amusing to see how everyone abuses the rabbits as nature's all purpose animal! and just picutre a beaver with a chainsaw! not as good as some animated movies, but it was cute.

Employee of the Month

dane cook, dax shephard and jessica simpson. it's a cute comedy where the slacker underdog tries to beat the champ in hopes of coming out on top and winning the girl. very typical and very predictable. it was pretty good for a light-hearted comedy tho. even zudo said it was better than he expected it to be.

The Grudge 2

if you liked the first one, you'll probably like this one too. if you thought the original sucked, you still might like this one. from what i have heard everyone say, this sequal is better than the original and even if you havent seen the first one, you're basically given a brief summary in the first few minutes.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning

It's supposed to be the prequel to the original, giving us an indepth look at how leatherface came to be the killer that he is. You see him abandoned as a baby right after he was born and shows him develop into the figure we all know him to be. it also shows you more about the deranged family too. lots of blood, lots of gore, cannibalism, roaring chainsaws (no really, they're super loud!) and more are in this film. i watched about a min of the goriest part of the movie and was completely grossed out. we had one girl, opening weekend, come running out of the theater screaming, crying, and dragging her boyfriend out of the building with her. view at your own risk.

Benchwarmers

Napoleon Dynamite, Rob Schneider, and David Spade. Throw in some Jon Lovitz and ya got a pretty entertaining movie.

Out of the 3 nerds, Rob's the only one that has talent when it comes to baseball - the Spade and Napoleon can't even catch let alone hit the ball. They see some nerd kids getting picked on by the local little team and challenge for the field. they win and nerds old and young take notice at them sticking up for them against the bullies and jocks - lovitz is a now rich nerd who decides to hold a tournement for all the area little league teams to challenge the 3 adult nerds and the winner gets a brand new stadium.

it was entertaining - we all laughed lots.

V for Vendetta

It was very very good yet very political.

V (Hugo Weaving) is a terrorist in future england who runs around in black cape and robert fausk mask. On Nov the 5th he rescues Evey (Natalie Portman) right before he demolishes a well known british monument and the next day takes over the BNT (british network television) and declares for everyone to join him outside parliment on the next Nov 5th, to see parliment fall. The next year follows his relationship with Evey as well as the governments attempts to capture them and a detective trying to figure out who V is and why he is doing this.

There's a lot of Big Brother, WWII, and Count of Monte Cristo references and parallels as well. A lot of it foreshadows the possible results of the war on terror going on know as well.

It was also directed by the Wachowski Brothers, who did the Matrix Trilogy. If you like action, drama, or things getting blown up it's definately worth seeing.

Eight Below

Paul Walker is the owner of a sleddog team in Anartica and guides those who come down to visit the south pole. During the last hike of the season a major storm appears and him and the visiting geologist barely make it back to the control center alive. Being told they'd come right back for his dogs, they rush em out to the main base, however the storm has picked up and there's no way for them to get back until next season.

Apparently it's based on a true story that actually happened 13 years ago, in which the 8 dogs were on their own for over 200 days before their owner could make it back down to them.

It reminded me of Homeward Bound, but with out the animal voiceovers with a mix of Cool Runnings or any other Disney movie that's based on a true story. It was sad too in some parts. Take the kids, you'll enjoy it somewhat.