Michael De Luca Productions, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation,

Jonah Hill, Max Records, Ari Graynor, J.B. Smoove, Sam Rockwell, Landry Bender, Kevin Hernandez, Kylie Bunbury, Method Man, D.W. Moffett, Dreama Walker, Jessica Hecht, Alex Wolff

Noah Griffith (Jonah Hill) is a bit of a screw-up. He’s been kicked out of college and is sitting around home. Mom finally has had it and insists he takes a babysitting job for the 3 neighbor kids. Noah is not in the mood, but finally agrees, only to get a booty call from a girl he has been trying to score with for some time. There is a problem though. He has to make a stop first to pick up a “package” for her, and has to leave for the party right now. So Noah naturally decides to take the kids along for the ride when things quickly spin out of control when dangerous drug lords are out to kill him, and end up chasing the kids and him all over town.

A lot of this film is really silly, just as you would expect it to be. But at the same time it has a lot of jokes that I haven’t quite seen before, and it is pretty funny. Jonah has this character down now, but he has a lot of help in this film. One of the kids is Rodrigo (Kevin Hernandez) who was adopted by this lily white family, and has a really bad attitude and loves explosives! He’s a riot sometimes. The bad guys are funny too with J.B.Smoove playing Julio, the first mate of the drug lord who is a riot sometimes. He does a great job in a role that could have been custom built for Arsenio Hall! The story moves along at breakneck speed with a good many laughs and lots of gross outs. This is just what you would expect from a film in this genre. It’s not for everyone, so beware of the crude humor, but if you like this kind of film, you could do much worse in the crack up department. I had fun with this.

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Rickshaw Productions, Walt Disney Pictures

Aimee Teegarden, Thomas McDonell, DeVaughn Nixon, Danielle Campbell, Yin Chang, Jared Kusnitz, Nolan Sotillo, Cameron Monaghan, Kylie Bunbury, Joe Adler

Prom and high school graduation are approaching for a group of seniors, but when the prom decorations are destroyed in an act of school vandalism, the class president Nova (Aimee Teegarden) is left in a lurch. Everyone else is pre-occupied with finding dates and dresses, SAT tests and preparing for college, so Nova is left to rely on the principal forcing the school bad-bod to help her out. But when he’s there for her when she needs it, she starts looking at him in differently.

Prom is a teen movie, but Disney has done a great job with this one. It’s a really cute movie, especially for those waiting to go to prom, or to reminisce for those who have already been. When I was a kid (before electricity) prom was not such a big deal. Asking a girl to prom was like….”Would you like to go to prom with me?”. Now it seems to be some kind of competitive ritual with everyone trying to outdo everyone else. I remember in the 60’s when a perfect date to impress a girl for the L.A. kids was to take your date for dinner, in San Francisco. Tickets were like $25.00 round trip, and the flights from LA to SFO departed about every 20 minutes. Well, now invitations to the prom are much bigger than proposals. Kids are renting airplane banners, paying for announcements on the Laker scoreboard, paining signs on the outside of the school, Taking out ads on TV, baking cakes with prom invites, and on and on. It seems like how you ask is much more important that how you ask. No idea when this started or how, but it seems to be a big deal these days. Well this film is all about the run-up to prom and graduation and the struggles everyone goes through to get a date. It’s got a lot of humor, nice teen music, good looking kids, and a lot of heart. The major message is not to judge people by the outside, but it’s all wrapped up in lots of fun. I’m sure that the young crowd will enjoy this film, and if you missed it in the theater, be sure to catch it on DVD now that it’s out. Disney has a winner here, and I recommend it for those young at heart. Now, let’s go to Prom.

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