Reviews for November, 2006

The Ringer

Filed under R - DVD Movie Club

This comedy starring Johnny Knoxville of ‘Jackass’ fame is about a guy named Steve who decides to pretend he’s retarded and enter the Special Olympics. He needs money bad because one of his friends cuts his fingers off accidentally and Steve promises to pay for the operation to put them back on. I thought this movie would be more about making fun of retards, but it ended up being more about how retards say a bunch of funny stuff because they’re not that smart and they don’t know whats going on. It turned out to be more cute-funny than mean-funny, but it was still okay and I enjoyed it. Even though the acting was bad. But the retarded kids were much better actors than most of the cast including Johnny Knoxville, so it was alright in the end. I gave it a three out of five flames mainly because a retarded kid launches a water balloon at Johnny Knoxville’s crotch and that was almost exactly like Jackass where he gets squirted with a firehose in the crotch – not too original, but still pretty funny!

Mission Impossible 3

Filed under M - DVD Movie Club

After the crappiness of MI: 2 I was sure this movie was going to be a disaster. As usual, I was utterly mistaken. The creators of the third installment in the MI film series did exactly what they should’ve: they went back to the basics of what made Mission Impossible great to begin with. Awesome missions, hi-tech gadgets, a star-studded cast, and plenty of betrayals and plot twists keep this movie entertaining and take it far away from the over-produced, overly unrealistic (even for Mission Impossible) second film. Tom Cruise is just as nutty as ever, and he does a great job crying in the first scene. Wuss. A man as old as Cruise should appear ancient and decrepit, barely clinging to life, but somehow he manages to look even younger than I do. Not to mention ten times more physically fit. A very, very decent movie. Three and a half.