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Friends with Kids (2011)
This movie is just not very good
I'm amazed that anyone would find this film to be anything but dull. There are only a few lines and situations funny enough to elicit a chuckle, and the two leads are so unappealing- as are their characters- that I could not wait for it to end.
A side note: it's been widely reported that Jennifer Westfeldt has undergone some Restalyn/botox- some kind of facial treatment. Her face is nearly immobile in this movie. Her upper lip does not move at all. That's distracting and a little repulsive.
Her character has no attributes other than wanting a baby and a man- that's it! No personality other than those two things. I don't know what she does for a living, although we see her at her desk, at work, SHOPPING.
The man in her life- the baby's father- is one of those jerks you see in lesser comedies who constantly appraises the women in his vicinity. At one point, this weaselly creep is asked to look at her naked, post baby body to judge whether or not she is ready to date again, to which he responds by telling her she has weeks of working out to get into datable shape again. What. The. Hell.
I don't want to go on here, other than to say that the Bridesmaids cast reassembled to play the background friends are wasted in this grating, unpleasant movie.
Re-Animated (2006)
utter crap
This is a real dark day for the old Cartoon Network. Not only do they begin to make non-animated fare for their sinking ship of a network, but it's terrible animated fare aimed at the lowest common denominator audience of shut ins and agoraphobic, obese pre-teens. Everything in this movie is so "turned up to 11" that nothing makes an impression.
One thing that did stand out was the terrible soundtrack. The music that accompanies scene changes is exactly like the music that follows the kids around on every Disney and Nick show. It's obvious that the CN is trying to catch up to them and make their own terrible garbage packages for kids.
They're the new Fox network. They cancel anything with a hope of being successful, and they greenlight stuff like this. Alternately, the Adult Swim line up apparently greenlights anything that blows in the door. It's obvious that they don't know what works in the post Aqua Teen tastescape, and they're content to flail around looking for it for as long as they need.