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** A Holiday Heist (2011)

Posted on Dec 10, 2011 under 2 Star Rating, Christmas, Comedy | 3 Comments

Stardust Pictures

Lacey Chabert, Rick Malambri, Vivica A Fox, Jermain Williams, Dov Tiefenbach, Preston Lacy, Robert Maschio, Anand Desai-Barochia, Fallon Goodson, Kaylen Davidson, Chris Kattan

For Christmas vacation, most kids have somewhere to go to spend the holidays. But this group of kids with very little in common have to end up staying at school over the holidays working at a special exhibit in the college fine arts gallery. But when they decide at the last minute to have an impromptu Christmas party at the gallery, they stumble into a trio of bumbling thieves trying to rob the exhibit. Under the guidance of the nasty Dean Erma (Vivica A Fox) they hold the kids hostage. During the hours that they’re being held, they found out that they do have more in common than they thought. As they bond, the gain the Christmas spirit and gain the courage to work together to fight back to the bandits. This night will be a Christmas Eve these kids will never forget.

This is another new holiday film in 2011. It’s not the greatest of them. It’s quite silly. Vivica A Fox is a great actress, but her evil bad lady in this film is mostly silly. The three robbers are inept boobs, trying to be the three stooges. In the past we have had a number of bumbling crooks. I have gained an appreciation for Don Knotts and Tim Conway as “The Apple Dumpling Gang” after watching these guys. They’re just plain annoying and silly. The students are ok, but “The Breakfast Club” they’re not. All in all, we’re left with a mildly humorous holiday tale with little substance. I didn’t hate it, but I didn’t really care much at the end. Some laughs, but not much else.

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Movie Review – Step Up 3D (2010) {PG-13}

Posted on Jan 26, 2011 under 1 Star Rating, Music & Performing Arts | 1 Comment

Summit Entertainment, Touchstone Pictures, Offspring Entertainment

Rick Malambri, Adam G Sevani, Sharni Vinson, Alyson Stoner, Keith Stallworth, Kendra Andrews, Stephen Boss, Martin Lombard, Facundo Lombard, Oren Michaeli, Joe Slaughter

The new gangs I guess are street dancers. The Pirates including Luke (Malambri) and Natalie (Vinson) team up with a kid the see dancing on the street named Moose (Sevani) and try to take on the number one champion hip hop dancers in New York in contest. They need the money, and they need the respect. The showdown of the century “The First Annual World Dance Jam” is destined to change their lives forever.

Yeah, right! I hated this film. I don’t get the modern street dancing anyway. I’m much too old to enjoy seeing people flip-flopping around on the floor like a fish out of water or a chicken with his head cut off. Then the dialog in this film is enough to make me choke! “One move, can make you believe there’s something more. One move, can set a whole generation free.” Gak.

I did not see this in 3D. I understand the 3D process added a lot to dance fans and I watched it on DVD. But I was bored to death. Practice-battle-fight-battle-practice-battle-battle-battle-done. There was no story at all, just a bunch of kids who live and practice in a big building and do dance battles at every time they meet somebody. There was just nothing going on here at all. I was horribly bored with the whole thing, and the climax was about as boring as the rest of the film. The Pirates got their butts kicked 900 ways to Sunday and then the judges without any question just name the Pirates the winners. Like there wasn’t really any real contest to begin with. And the commentary by the announcer was really lame! On and on with stunning insight like “Did you see that?” “Ooh, that’s old school” “Say what?”
This was a waste of my time!

Note: My better half is a big fan of “So You Think You Can Dance”. At least one of the stars of this movie is from that show. She was thrilled to recognize someone from the show, then promptly fell asleep. The next day we tried to watch it again, but she was as bored with it as I was.

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