LOCKOUT (Apr 13, 2012)

Starring:  Guy Pearce, Maggie Grace, and Peter Stormare

Directors:  James Mather, and Stephen St. Leger

Rated: PG  -  Runtime:  95 min

Genre:  Action | Thriller | Sci-Fi

This brings me up to date, thanks for sticking with me as I get all these movies in after having a great Hawaiian Cruise - ‘Mahalo’

First off, this is not a remake of the 2006 Lockout, completely different story, same name.... Hmmm, they must be running out of new names aye?  I do have to say this before going on “thank god I didn’t have to sit through another crappy movie”.  There, I got that off my chest and can move on.  As for this movie, I thought it had a ok plot, nothing that I’m gonna write mom about, but ok.  

I did however enjoy the bantering between Guy Pearce (Snow) and Maggie Grace (Emilie Warnock), they work well together in this sort of genre.  Overall it was very amusing especially with Joseph Gilgun (Hydell) this guy is either actually a “Certifiable CRAZY” or he is one hell of a good actor for his portrayal of this out of his mind crazy person who has been released into the population of this outer space prison to dish out death at his whimsical desire.  

The film managed to keep the attention of those in the theater, but as you can imagine, by now the number of viewers have dwindled.  If you haven’t seen it, and this is your kind of flick, and you can find it still playing I think you will like it.  On the other hand, if you don’t like violence and mayhem stay the heck away.

My Rating: 2 1/2 Mugs of Guinness - aka; 2 1/2 Stars for those being too young to enjoy the Irish Ale.

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CHIMPANZEE (Apr 20, 2012)

Starring/Narrated by:  Tim Allen

Directors:  Alastair Fothergill, and Mark Linfield

Rated: PG  -  Runtime:  78 min

Genre:  Documentary

Great filming, great story, but who the heck made the decision to give the narration to Tim Allen?  I was really disappointed in the overall delivery of the film and narration.  I was truly looking forward to seeing this movie, and now that I have I would say someone somewhere screwed up, in my estimation this could have been a tremendous film and story.

I am quite certain not all of you will agree with me, so instead of taking my word for it take the kids and see the movie, you will enjoy at least the baseline story behind it.  Not very often will you find in the wild any Alfa Male of any species do what is shown in this film.  For that alone it is worth seeing.  

Try as I can I just can’t understand why this wasn’t given to a good narrator.  Hey now, I’m a Tim Allen fan, but his forte is humor and onscreen delivery between humans. Ok, I’m gonna back up and say this, Allen may have been given a script to read and he did just that, it just didn’t work!   Sorry Tim!

My Rating: 1 1/2 Mugs of Guinness - aka; 1 1/2 Stars for those being too young to enjoy the Irish Ale.

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THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS (Apr 27, 2012)

Starring:  Hugh Grant, Salma Hayek, and Jeremy Piven

Directors:  Peter Lord, and Jeff Newitt

Rated: PG  -  Runtime:  88 min

Genre:  Animation | Adventure | Family

This is one that I thought was going to be just another “Claymation” animation, and...... I was right!  Yeah, I got that one right...  Nothing really exceptional about the animation, however it did have some fairly good humor laced throughout the presentation.

All you wonderful parents out there, I would say this is a So-So as to whether the kids are going to enjoy it.  Quite truthfully I found myself thinking about other things during the film.  Maybe it was due to having seen Avengers just the night before.  Hard to keep up with a movie like that but that’s another topic altogether. 

My Rating: 2 Mugs of Guinness - aka; 2 Stars for those being too young to enjoy the Irish Ale.

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AZ-Tom