THE DARKEST HOUR
1 out of 5 stars

i’m sorry… but I still think the best alien invasion movie OF ALL TIME is independence day. where’s the smart-ass black guy? where’s the know-it-all scientist type? a bunch of 20 somethings aren’t gonna know jack-shit when it comes to survival… let alone a bunch of american 20 something tourists in obliterated moscow. COMEON! :P

so, the movie starts with sean (emile hirsch) and ben (max minghella- son of director anthony minghella), who are on their way to moscow for a business meeting to woo russian investors for their social media app called globetrot. (sort of like gowalla?) they get to moscow, but then their swedish friend skyler screws them over by cutting the dudes out of the deal. (something to do with a non-disclosure ageement) the boys drown their sorrows at a local nightclub/hotspot, where they hook up with these two american girls. (well, one’s british but you get the drift…) while they’re chit-chatting, the power suddenly goes out, and THE ALIENS ARRIVETH. ppl start vaporizing, and it’s all about survival at that point… :P

this one had potential to be good and creepy esp. with what they did with the lights and the fact that these were light-based alien lifeforms, but there was a lot of whining going on… NO, WE GET IT. YOU’RE STRANDED IN A CITY WHERE YOU DON’T KNOW THE LANGUAGE. ALIENS ARE TRYING TO KILL YOU. GET OVER IT. FLIGHT OR FIGHT, BITCHES. :P (but seriously- awful plot, awful acting, awful lack of character development did it for me…)

MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE
2 out of 5 stars

add this one to the “peter travers, you mislead me AGAIN!” list because although i thought elizabeth olsen (lil’ sister of MK and ashley) did a great job, i didn’t think the movie was all that great... basically, some bitch decides she doesn’t want the cult life for her anymore and flees. she thinks she can just de-program herself by living with her estranged sister and husband, but adjustment doesn’t come easy... :O (:O = a sarcastic surprise-y face)

“marcy may” is the name given to martha when she decides to live on a farm with the head cult guy patrick. we never find out HOW she gets to the cult farm or how she even knows patrick, but after 2 years living in the catskills, she decides to run away. she cuts through the woods, finally sits down to eat at a diner, but one of the guys follows her... he tries to convince her to come back, but she turns him down and phones her sister lucy (an excellent sarah paulson) to come pick her up. lucy lives at her lake house with her husband ted (hugh dancy), and they let her stay with them for the time being. there’s a lot of flashbacks to martha’s cult life i.e. swimming nekked at a nearby waterfall, the “cleansing” (ugh...disgusting), and her involvement in B&E crimes of neighboring wealthy homes... martha can’t seem to get a grip on who she is, what “normal” is, or what’s happened to her, so of course, she starts wigging out... REALLY BADLY. and lucy and ted have no idea what to do with her... :/

although this film has received many accolades and such, i wasn’t too impressed by this one. it started out OK, was progressing fine, but the end killed it for me. open-ended?! really?! plus, i feel like if she’s really wigging out and losing it, shouldn’t it have been more like black swan and the lines between reality and her cult life becomes blurrier and blurrier? however, acting wise, i have a feeling elizabeth olsen is starting to become indie film princess soon? (EXCELLENT job in this one)  following in the career footsteps of naomi watts, i see... ;) 

A DANGEROUS METHOD
5 out of 5 stars

“do you think they know we’re on our way, bringing them the plague?” – sigmund freud to carl jung (on a ship to NYC)

DAVID CRONENBERG (director of eastern promises, a history of violence) does it AGAIN!!! EXCELLENT movie about the founding fathers of analytical psychology! a wonderful cast and wonderful acting! if you’re interested in psychology, this is the movie for you. ;)

this one starts with a batshit crazy russian jewish woman named sabina speilrein (a WONDERFUL keira knightley) arriving via horse carriage to the burghölzli, a psychiatric hospital in zurich, switzerland with a typical case of hysteria. (AKA unmanageable emotional excesses accord. to wikipedia) she’s completely gone off the deep end, and carl jung (michael fassbender, how i love u!) decides to treat her using the “talking cure”, which is dream interpretation and word association. this is part of his approach to sigmund freud (viggo mortensen)’s radical new science, psychoanalysis. they start meeting and discussing sabina’s childhood and such, and jung finds out that sabina’s condition is triggered by humiliation and sexual arrousal from when her dad used to spank her nekked as a young child. (she’s a cronic masturbator, and even jung hitting her coat sets her off...LOL) 2 years pass, and jung decides to finally meet with the almighty freud and discuss his work with him. by then, sabina is all better, and wants to become a psychologist herself. problems start to form when sabina and jung enter into an affair (jung is married BTW), and freud wants jung to take the helm of the psychoanalysis movement. (although jung disagrees with many freudian theories) my favorite line is when jung states,”why must freud revolve everything around sexuality?” gawd, what a perv... :P

this was a very interesting look at how one woman influenced the radical principles of two founding fathers of analytical psychology, and how these two men (freud and jung) influenced each other, even though they disagreed with one another... this script was very well written and i actually would suggest watching with subtitles, so you don’t miss the meat of their discussions. fassbender EXCELS in the role of conflicted carl jung, viggo EXCELS in the role of freud...even down to smoking his danish grandfather’s cigars as part of his “method”, and keira EXCELS as sabina...down to the russian accent, the hysteria, the sex, everything. talk about a movie that gets into your mind and stays there... ;)

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE
GHOST PROTOCOL
5 out of 5 stars

benji: “now, remember... blue is glue.”
ethan: “and red?”
benji: “dead.”

OK, they needed to retitle this “ghost technical difficulties clusterfuck” b/c none of the gadgets they featured in this MI movie WORKED... thus, turning each mission into some sort of clusterfuck. :P but with all that said and technical difficulties aside, ethan hunt is baaaaaaaack and he’s kicking major russian ass to...save the world from a nuclear apocalypse. ;)

i’m not going to summarize this one because it doesn’t need to be... let’s cut to the chase!

best scenes: ALL the missions i.e. the kremlin mission feat. the invisible shield/hologram projection thingy, the signature dubai burj khalifa building climb, the mumbai mission feat. agent brandt’s server jump (imitating ethan hunt’s signature descent into langley during the first movie), and the beginning scene i.e. the russian prison break! if there’s one guy who can break out of a russian prison, it’s ethan hunt. (but this time, he’s got help in the form of agent jane carter i.e. paula patton and benji dunn i.e. simon pegg AKA the tech guy from MI3!)

as ethan says...”light the fuse.”

until the next one... ;) (should be fun since brad bird who directed this one will direct again. YAY!)

TOWER HEIST
3 out of 5 stars

ohhhhh, ben stiller... how is it that a comedian happens to get less funnier in the movies he stars in? eddie murphy saves this one with his ghetto-thug-fast-tawkin’-wannabe thief character slide. i’m glad he’s stopped doning in drag/putting on a fat suit to pass off as comedy these days... :P

tower heist is all about a bunch of working stiffs in a super-luxe hotel-like apartment complex in NYC called the tower, who lose their pensions to a bernie madoff-like billionaire arthur shaw. (a very slimy alan alda AKA hawkeye pierce from M*A*S*H!) josh kovaks (ben stiller) is the assistant building manager (i think- still not clear what his exact title was), and he’s got this shit down... he knows all his tennants’ schedules, their preferences for meals, their birthdays, their vacay schedules...the works. he even knows all about his underlings AKA the bellhops, the elevator men, the maids, security personnel, repair men’s quirks and life issues (i.e. one russian chick is studying for the bar exam and odessa AKA precious is on a jamaican maid on a work visa so she’s looking for a green card husband. LOL!) his BFF is lester the doorman, and he learns that lester is planning to retire soon... the following day or so, josh finds it weird when armed men in black suits approach the tower. they go under code black (“what the hell is that?”), and josh sees poor arthur getting kidnapped via a white laundry cleaning service van! he chases after it, but then they’re surrounded by FBI agents, head by lead agent claire denham. (tea leoni) he’s all WTF, but as it turns out arthur shaw is arrested by the FBI for several SEC violations and accused of running a ponzi scheme. josh is devestated because he realizes that ALL their $ is gone. (his and everyone who works at the tower) he doesn’t know exactly how to get it back, but one drunken night, he and agent denham are having drinks after he gets fired for beating up mr. shaw’s prized 1963 ferrari 250 GT lusso (the steve mcqueen car!), and gets the idea to steal it back by breaking into shaw’s safe. so, he enlists the help of his useless bro-in-law charlie (casey affleck), this bellhop guy named enrique who used to work at the “BK” (michael pena), odessa (gabourey sidibe), mr. fitzhugh who got kicked out of the tower due to foreclosure (matthew broderick), and last but not least...slide. :P (a hilarious eddie murphy)

probably one of the best scenes in the whole movie is when slide is trying to teach the dudes how to be theives. (i.e. first lesson at the mall – “you may have stolen $50 in merchandise but i just stole $256. never trust a thief with your wallet, bitches” and when they’re on the roof of slide’s apt building- “here’s your punkass bobby pin. figure out how to unlock this door. i’m gonna go have sex with rita now” :P) everything else just leads up to the actual heist... hollywood had originally planned to make this the “black version of ocean’s 11”, and i sort of wish they stuck by that! this was entertaining enough, but i think it would have been awesome to see eddie as george and chris tucker as rusty. the two of them would have made me ROTFLMAO... :P

MONEYBALL
5 out of 5 stars

“how can you not get romantic about baseball?” – billy beane

talk about a movie that’ll make you root for the underdog! BRAVO, brad pitt! BRAVO, philip seymour hoffman! aaaaand...i can’t believe i’m saying this...BRAVO, jonah hill! :)

moneyball is based on a true story about how a general manager named billy beane and his protege decide to change the system on how to build one’s team and gain wins using player statistics, not gut instinct. it’s always going to be gamble when it comes to player performance, but sometimes you have to go with what’s concrete and tangible, not instinct... billy beane decides to test out the sabermetric theories of statistician bill james, and the results work. after a devestating loss to the yankees back in 2001, oakland athletics GM (general manager) billy beane (a terrific brad pitt) goes to his owner for more $ to recruit star players, but the owner won’t increase his player salaries budget. so, billy is basically working with pennies here, and he’s having trouble replacing 3 star players, who are now free agents. (i.e. johnny damon, jason giambi, and jason isringhausen) his scouts give him tons of suggestions and potential stars, but while on a business trip in cleveland (at the GM’s office for the cleveland indians), he runs into a young yale graduate named peter brand (jonah hill), who seems to have the ear of the GM, mark shapiro. peter and billy talk in the parking lot, and peter suggests that billy use the sabermetric approach towards building his team again, and billy ponders on it... billy then hires peter as an assistant GM, who starts doing player analysis, building a computer program and such, and they start recruiting! they end up recruiting a “submarine” pitcher named chad bradford (looked over b/c he throws “funny”), former catcher scott hatteberg (looked over for his elbow injury), and former outfielder david justice. (looked over for his age) now, how are they going to convince the head coach to use these guys? i know...trade away the star potentials to force head coach artie howe’s hand! :P

it’s a great movie about a guy who sticks by his values, and decides to take on the system that screwed him over when he was just a fresh HS recruit. EXCELLENT acting and banter between brad pitt and jonah hill!!! both were great, and they really played off of each other wonderfully. you get a good story out of this, but also a glimpse of billy’s past as well. the movie’s central character is obviously billy and how he got to the point of GM and such, but it also gives a good look at the oakland A’s history too. this one really touches the heart of baseball fans. EXCELLENT JOB!!! :)

YOUNG ADULT
3 out of 5 stars

this was a really DARK and depressing movie about a batshit crazy middle aged woman, who randomly decides to wreck her ex-BF/high school sweetheart’s marriage and win his heart back. too bad for her...almost 20 years have past and he probably doesn’t feel the same way he felt when he was 17 and in “love”? :P

so, this batshit crazy woman happens to be mercury, MN native now young adult fiction writer mavis gary. (charlize theron does bitchy VERY well- it’s scary even!) mavis is 37 years old, drinks diet coke religiously, watches the kardashians religiously, and can’t seem to let go of her high school years. she lives in a small apartment in downtown minneapolis or the “mini apple”, writes chapters via her white mac book for her waverly prep series (which she’s only just a ghost writer), and goes on OKcupid dates with randoms. then, one day while she’s trying to write chapter 1, she checks her e-mail and comes across a e-announcement announcing the birth of buddy slade’s daughter. buddy slade (mr. america AKA patrick wilson) happened to be mavis’s HS sweetheart back in the day, and somehow in that alcoholic brain of hers, she decides it’s time to win his heart back! why, you ask? who the hell knows... blame it on the maker’s mark? :P so, mavis drives back home to mercury, MN in her red mini cooper, along with doggie dolce in the back seat, checks her ass into the hampton inn, and begins “operation win buddy slade back”. but...not before she finds a bar first... she ends up in a place called woody’s, where she meets matt freehauf (patton oswalt- GREAT job!), whom she remembers as the “hate crime” guy. as it turns out, matt was gay-bashed in HS by a bunch of asshole jocks who thought he was gay, but he wasn’t... somehow, the prom queen and the gay-bashed theater geek bond over some scotch 20 some years later. life is twisted, is it not? anywayz...matt tries to convince mavis that her plan to win back buddy is stupid/CRAZY, but does she listen to sane matt? hahahaha, mavis only cares about mavis... :P

this one came from the minds of screenwriter diablo cody, who wrote juno and jennifer’s body, and director, jason reitman, who directed both juno and up in the air. the movie is well edited with lots of quirks, dark humor, and good writing, but... this one fell short because mavis could have been more developed (matt too), and you never get the sense that she decides to grow from this experience/humiliation. (unlike juno) one can’t help but hate on bitchy mavis, but at the same time, you feel sorry for her because she is clinically depressed. the bitch tries SO HARD to pretend her life is better than those living in boring mercury, but fact of the matter is...buddy and his wife are legitimately happy. (and mavis can’t STAND that!) this one should have been funnier, but wasn’t... bah, i want a movie like juno back! :/

ANONYMOUS
4 out of 5 stars

this one was interesting... it explored a good “what if”, but just wasn’t as memorable as milos forman’s amadeus. (another movie that explored a “what if” because salieri and mozart were never rivals) yes, edward de vere, the 17th earl of oxford did exist, but he didn’t write shakespeare’s plays. although check out this link, as many think he did: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxfordian_theory_of_Shakespeare_authorship

so, who was edward de vere the 17th earl of oxford? and why do many believe that he was the voice behind shakespeare? well...the movie starts with a theatrical prologue delivered by shakespeare pro/expert derk jacobi (who has probably been in every production in his lifetime), and robert cecil, earl of salisbury, is on a deep search for the remaining shakespeare manuscripts. ben jonson, a medicore playwright at the time, hides in the globe theatre, placing the precious manuscripts inside a locked trunk while cecil’s men start a fire in the theatre to smoke out poor ben... ben is then arrested and questioned by robert cecil, and the movie dives deep into edward de vere’s life AKA his childhood (when he first performed a midsummer night’s dream for the queen), when he lived under the puritan home of the cecils, and when he fell in love with the queen. we also learn that edward de vere (played by rhys ifans as the adult edward; by jamie campbell bower as a teen) had an incredible writing talent, but had to conceal it from his peers due to the fact that members of royal blood aren’t suppose to be playwrights. (leave that to the peasants, man!) so, what is edward to do? edward contacts ben jonson to publish his works under ben’s name, but... the plan backfires when a young actor named william shakespeare steps unto the stage claiming authorship after the audience demands to know who wrote henry V. thus, shakespeare takes the credit and both jonson and edward are motified since shakespeare is just some actor and a complete fame whore! but pretty soon, things get heated esp. when the cecils want james, son of mary, queen of scots to be crowned king after elizabeth’s passing, but that’s threatened by the earl of essex who claims he’s elizabeth’s son... if only they had DNA testing back in those days, right? :P

a VERY interesting story, indeed... and the story isn’t linear, which i liked. however, i felt like it focused too much on edward’s life, rather than showing us why they thought shakespeare wouldn’t have been the true author? anyway, like i said, it’s not as good as amaedus, which explored mozart’s music, his relationships with salieri and his father and wife really well, and i think that has to do with the fact that shakespeare in love really uped the ante on the sole subject of shakespeare. purists AKA real shakespeare enthusiasts would probably hate this... focuses too much on edward de vere; not enough on will. ;)

THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN
4 out of 5 stars

tintin: “how’s your thirst for adventure, captain?”
capt. haddock: “unquenchable, tintin.”

not bad... spielberg tackles the animation genre, and brings the old belgium cartoon tintin unto the big screen! it definitely has the look and feel of a spielberg movie esp. certain scenes echoing his indiana jones films, but i think for a mystery, the plot was a bit too predictable and shallow. regardless, still loved it! esp. snowy... reminds me of my lil’ woofy... ;)

if you aren’t familiar with the old belgium comic strip tintin, you’re young. :P (hahahahaha, j/k...) it was a comic strip back in the 1920s – 1950s, and steven spielberg decides to educate us young folk by making it into a movie. besides who reads comic strips these days??? anyway, redhead tintin (voiced by jamie bell) finds an old ship in a bottle while browsing in an euro outdoor market with his doggie snowy, and immediately someone who looks and smells like a g-man approaches him, asking to buy it from him and such. a guy named sakharine (voiced by daniel craig) also tries to buy it from him, but tintin holds his ground and takes it home. snowy gets into a fight/chase with the neighbor’s cat, and breaks the darn thing...BUT reveals a small scroll that’ll lead tintin to an even bigger mystery! he’s then kidnapped by sakharine’s men, and imprisoned on a ship called the SS karaboujan. on board, tintin manages to escape using his mcguyver type skills, and meets up with the infamous capt. haddock (voiced by andy serkis AKA gollum!), who’s also been imprisoned/kept drunk this whole time while his crew mutinied and took over under the influence of sakharine. as it turns out, there are 3 ships that look exactly the same as the one tintin bought in the market, and sir francis haddock AKA capt. haddock’s ancestor during the days of swash-bucklin’ pirates decided to sink the treasure his ship was carrying, rather than allow it in the hands of evil pirate red rackham. so, where’s the treasure now? good question...and tintin and snowy get on the case! ;)

the production quality of this one was really well done, and you have to give extra credit points to the folks at dreamworks and team spielberg for pulling this one off. i’m not really a big fan of the quasi-real life faces in this movie because i felt like because tintin was already animated, why not just 3D-ify the characters? regardless, the action sequences in this one make up for that! the mystery, itself, was predictable even for a kid’s movie, and i guess that’s where pixar excels at. (i.e. good storytelling) still...not bad if you like good animation and cute dogs. :)

THE DESCENDANTS
5 out of 5 stars

“don’t be fooled by appearances. in hawaii, some of the most powerful people look like bums and stuntmen.” – matt king

“you give your children enough money to do something, but not enough to do nothing.” – matt king

fox searchlight pictures does it yet again! and alexander payne, director of sideways, does it yet again with another realistic/poignant/tear-jerker with humorous undertones! george clooney was nominated yet again for an oscar for his role of matt king, and he plays this clueless father of two out-of-control daughters and the results...EXCELLENT! :)

this movie starts with a beautiful middle-aged lady named elizabeth king having a blast motoboatin’ in the beautiful waters of hawaii. as it turns out, she is the wife of matthew king (george clooney), successful lawyer and land baron of thousands of acres on the island of kaua’i. elizabeth was in a motorboat accident, and is lying in a coma in queen’s hospital. matt king then learns that she’ll never wake up, and he has NO IDEA how to tell his two daughters, scottie and alex. (one is around 10? and the other is 16) in fact, he has NO IDEA how to be a parent to his daughters, since that was his wife’s job and he even calls himself the “backup parent”. he pays an impromptu visit to his daughter’s boarding school, and finds out that she is abusing alcohol and possibly drugs, and learns that alex fought constantly with elizabeth. alex finally spills the beans, and tells her clueless/workaholic father that elizabeth was cheating on him with a younger man. matt investigates by asking his friends about this mystery man, and it turns out to be...a guy named brian speer. (matthew lillard ALL GROWN UP from scooby doo!) all this is happening, yet there’s another wrench in the storyline... matt king is the descendant of a hawaiian princess who had married a caucausian banker baaaaack in the day, and he is the sole trustee of a family trust that controls 25,000 acres. the trust will expire in 7 years because of the rule against perpetuities, so the king family has decided to sell the land to a land developer named don holitzer. well, ultimately the decision is all his, so... it doesn’t help his decision when he learns that brian speer is don holitzer’s brother-in-law, and he stands to make mucho $$$$$ from commissions when the land is sold. ;)

like i said, alexander payne does it yet AGAIN! words to describe this movie: heartbreaking, bittersweet, sarcastic, realistic! if you’ve ever had to pull the plug on a loved one, this movie does it right. the relationship dynamic between matt and his daughters is quite realistic, which makes the movie more enjoyable. add the wonderful hawaiian music soundtrack... VERY GOOD. A MUST-WATCH for those who like the realistic comedy/dramedy genre. ;)

TITANIC (3D) 
5 out of 5 stars

“I’M THE KING OF THE WORLD!!!” – jack dawson

it’s the one hundredth anniversary of the sinking of the titanic, and hollywood decides to re-release james cameron’s epic movie in 3D! i couldn’t miss out on this since titanic is one of my all-time faves. i mean...who didn’t have a major crush on leo dicaprio back in 1997/1998? ;)

do i really need to summarize this one for ya? OK, will do...just because i like summarizing movies i actually enjoyed watching. the movie starts with brock lovett (bill paxton), a deep sea scavenger leading his crew on an excavation of the sunken titanic in the middle of the north atlantic ocean. they send their little camera robot called snoopy into what was once the various first class suites of the titanic, and find an old safe. brock thinks the heart of the ocean AKA a beautiful blue diamond necklace in the shape of heart that was once one of the crown jewels of louis XVI is in this safe, but when they crack that baby open...NADA. no diamond, but they find a charcoal rendering of a beautiful young naked woman wearing the necklace. brock is then interviewed by TV reporters for this excavation and the discovery of the drawing, and it gets the attention of an old memaw named rose calvert. (gloria stuart...aww, R.I.P.) memaw comes aboard brock’s ship, and begins to tell the tale of how she was engaged to cruel/pretentious cal hockley (billy zane- god, what happened to his career?), how she had to deal with her even more pretentious/overbearing mother ruth (frances fisher), and how she fell in love with a guy/artist named jack dawson. (leonardo dicaprio- god, such a baby face as opposed to bloated now! :P) young rose (kate winslet- i think liked her when she was fat) decides to end her life one night, but jack saves her... he gets invited to dine in first class as a thanku, and of course, it all goes downhill from there when the ship starts sinking after hitting a large iceberg... to quote fall out boy...”sugar, we’re going down swinging!” :P

like i said, this movie is one of my all-time faves just because i fell in love with it in 7th grade, and i was really excited to hear that they were re-releasing it in 3D. EVEN better than the original because of the 3D elements! (i.e. the water gushing during the sinking, leo and kate’s faces popping out from the screen, the titanic in 3D herself) still love the art direction, the acting, the beautiful james horner soundtrack, the special effects, the storyline, and of course, the relationship between jack and rose. still cried during the sinking and beyond... ESPECIALLY the scene when rose and jack are in the frozen waters of the atlantic, waiting to be rescued... one of my favorite dialogue scenes:

jack: “winnning that ticket, rose, was the best thing that ever happened to me... it brought me to you. and i’m thankful for that, rose. i’m thankful. you must do me this honor. promise me you’ll survive. that you won’t give up, no matter what happens, no matter how hopeless. promise me now, rose, and never let go of that promise.”
rose: “i promise.”
jack: “never let go.”
rose: “i’ll never let go, jack. i’ll never let go.”

:’)

HOP
3 out of 5 stars

this was more of a 2 star movie, but in the spirit of easter...i gave it a 3. i recommend eating mini cadbury creme eggs with this one. the sugar from the choc eggs will alleviate you from the cheesiness oozing from this one... ;)

this one is one of those half live-action half animation movies... these types bother me to the max, but i’ll summarize this one for ya: e.b. (voiced by russell brand) is the teenage son of the easter bunny (voiced by hugh laurie), who doesn’t want to take over the role of easter bunny, and just want to be a drummer instead. he runs away from easter island (his home), and uses the rabbit hole transporter to travel to “where dreams come true” AKA hollywood! there...he tries to stay with hugh hefner at the playboy bunny mansion (LOL), and while he’s crossing the street, he gets hit by a guy named fred o’hare. (james marsden- seriously? is this what you do in between x-men movies? :P) fred is a 20 something slacker-type, whose been living with his parents for a year, and can’t seem to land a job... after a family intervention during dinner, his loving sister sam asks fred to house-sit for her boss’s home in beverly hills since fred has no place to live. after hitting poor e.b. on the street, fred takes in the “crippled” bunny, and e.b. starts trashing the master bedroom, leaving carrots everywhere, and even leaving the jacuzzi on! (which results to bubbles EVERYWHERE!!!) all e.b. wants in life is to become a famous drummer, and he makes a deal with fred that he’ll get out of fred’s life forever if he just drives him to the hoff knows talent audition. (that’s right- david hasselhoff is sole judge in this world. HAH!) however, back on easter island... the chicks led by #2 chick carlos (voiced by hank azaria) decide to take over the easter candy factory. UH OH. :P

just because it’s a kid’s movie doesn’t mean it has to be cheesy... also, i really hate half live-action and half animation. the mix of the two really bothers me because i feel like if it’s going to be animation...IT SHOULD BE ANIMATION ALL THE WAY. also, this storyline is really shallow and the human storyline i.e. fred’s story of how he became the first human easter bunny was...stupid. it would have been a stronger movie if they just focused on e.b.’s life, and cut fred out. (sorry, fred...) oh well... at least i had some delicious cadbury creme eggs to savor while watching this one. ohhhhh cadbury, how i love you. :)