Justin at the Movies

This Week on DVD

// August 10th, 2009 // Reviews

I Love You, Man

‘I Love You, Man’ simply takes the new fad of bro-mances and makes it funny. When people talk about their bro-mances in real life, it scares me, and makes me think they are a little pathetic….and lonely. However, this movie makes it funny and rather appealing. The movie is paced quite well and the laughs run consistently throughout. Once again though, Paul Rudd is not the funny one (in my opinion.) His character is actually quite obnoxious to me and seems a little bit forced. He also gets the credit for ‘Role Models,’ when I also thought that he was the least funny out of everybody. Don’t get me wrong, I like Paul Rudd and I DO think he is funny, but the star of I Love You, Man is definitely Jason Segel. This guy proves once again that he is one of the funniest young actors in Hollywood. Every line this guy delivers is comedy gold. He makes everything funnier by his impeccable comedic timing and line delivery. If you want to watch an absolutely hilarious movie, then pick this one up. However, if you are wanting to watch the funniest movie of the year, then you need to wait for ‘The Hangover’ to come out on DVD. I Love You, Man is very funny, but doesn’t touch the hilarity of ‘The Hangover.’

17 Again

Zac Efron……enough said.

Entre Les Murs (The Class)

The Class is the Academy Award nominated french film that tells a story about a teacher and his students in an inner city school. I know what you are thinking, “Gee, that’s never been done before.” Well, true, there have been movies made like this before, but none of them even come close to the emotion or impace of the class. This isn’t like any of “those” movies that you have seen before. The director managed to capture the realism so effectively, it actually feels like a documentary. This movie perfectly captures the struggle of being a teacher and a student. With it’s PG-13 rating I highly recommend this movie to everybody. Trust me, you haven’t seen this movie before.

Gigantic

Not even the three terrific actors in this movie (Zooey Deschanel, Paul Dano, John Goodman) can save this movie from itself. Nothing to be seen here. I promise.