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Hank Is Evil: The Movie (2014)
A Hodge Podge of Evil and Hilarity!
(From Tom @ BBR Productions)
With a strong run time of 76 minutes, Hank is Evil: The Movie begins with Hank E. Valdooer (Adam Gennari) comfortably maintaining his reign as Peoria's number one super villain. In a time where a mysterious foe, working behind shadows, plots to take down Hank's rule. Evil, and slightly more evil, battling it out in the criminal underground of Peoria; Hank vs Mayor McDigley (Les Degen). BEGIN!
A seemingly well crafted group brought life to this film with excellent performances. The majority is held together by both villain leads; Adam Gennari and Les Degan. Together they shine best working off of one another. Alone they help keep scenes moving smoothly forward. There is never a feeling that a moment was filler or a throwaway. Each cast member added value in their own way.
There are an array of old characters returning as well as a few new guys. If you blink, you might miss some wonderful cameos. Or in some cases Joe Pontillo himself portraying multiple characters. One thing that truly stood out is how much fun you can tell they were having. A huge group of friends, mostly all New York comedians, hanging out and filming an epic battle of good... uh, evil vs evil.
An intensely funny ride, which began as a Web-series; aptly titled "Hank is Evil", are expanded upon. We follow the tutorial main character's villainous struggles to be truly good at being evil. Battling to take sides, there is corruption within The Evil Society of Villains ranks. Some will live, most will die and so will the audience watching. Die with laughter that is.
Hank is Evil: The Movie, takes a sitcom approach and gives us a one two three laugh-a-thon. Audiences are treated to well exercised joke colleague within each playful scene. Writer/Director Joe Pontillo pokes fun at silliness being villainous. Hank, a mustache twirling top-hat wearing kingpin is his own worst enemy. Seemingly always one step behind himself, you still find yourself cheering Hank on.
A fun and easy movie to watch. A good beginning sets both environment and tone. Walking new audiences into a weirdly enjoyable world. While allowing familiar fans to brace themselves for an interesting ride. A good chunk of the movie pays attention to relationships being reintroduced, or established for the first time. It really leads audiences into a comical good middle.
What could only be identified as a serious conclusion, audiences are treated to an exciting finale. A battle to the death, swords, guns, henchmen, a guy in Mickey Mouse gloves, and a slue of action are thrown at the camera. Who is following who? Which villain is good enough to lead The Evil Society of Villains to reign as absolute super villains!? WHO!? Who will win!? Evil or slightly more evil!?
Batman Begins (2005)
This movie was the greatest comic book movie ever, etc, etc.
This is my first time posting on IMDb.com. I've been reading all post both positive and negative, though positive outweighs the negative I must say. This is my review and recommendation.
I am a life long Batman fan, I like the original 2, Burtons works, but a lot of things always bugged me about those movies, too many changes to characters, stories, and in all honesty those films to me, were NOT BATMAN. Then came Schumaker and well I wont get into those.
With this film, before I knew what was going on a lot of things I cringed at, like the way the Batmobile looked, having Ras Al Guhl played by an Asian actor. As time went on though and I saw the trailers everything began to sit better with me. Then I saw the film, I had high expectations for this film and then thought maybe I shouldn't, but then it not only met my expectations, it blew me away. From the second it opens with the music and the bats and the children, to every kick *** fight scene. Yes I will admit some of them are filmed a bit too close but I know there is a reason for that. You see what you need to see. I am the biggest purist when it comes to Batman, and this movie did it all for me and gets me so unbelievably giddy for a sequel I can't imagine being able to hold still for two or three years.
My rating this film is a 10, A+, whatever, my recommendation go see this film, whether your a Batman/Comic Book fan or not, its filled with such a great story and so much action, and is so bad***, that you will get your moneys worth and will like it very much. A friend of mine who has never read a comic in his life from what I know of him, said this film was Amazing.
Go see it, now, please OK thank you./