When I go to the theatre to see a movie about warring robots I expect tonnes of explosions and little plot. Michael Bay delivers with Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen.
The best part about seeing it at the movies is that the Transformers’ twisty changey sound effects are really loud!

Like the first Transformers movie the graphics are amazing. The biggest downfall is the running time of two and a half hours which was about half an hour too long.

Bumblebee is as cute as ever!

3/5

Bought to you by the girl who loved the first Transformers, all of the Oceans movies, 300, War of the Worlds, Australia, and all of the Quentin Tarantino movies she’s seen.

The Illuminati return to seek revenge on the Catholics.
If you’ve read the book you might be slightly disappointed, otherwise it should be fun.
The explosion is awesome.

2.5/5

Two old guys on opposite ends of society’s scale meet on their deathbeds and make a list of things to do before they “kick the bucket”.
Sappy. Makes you think.

2.5/5

Carl (Jim Carrey) says no to everything, until he decides to say yes; it changes his life.
He learns Korean, guitar, and meets o so cute and crazy Allison (Zooey).

3.5/5

A bunch of Germans in World War Two that don’t speak German or have German accents try to kill Hitler and fail.
They get executed, but Hitler kills himself later.

3/5

I cannot believe I waited so long to see this movie. I knew I wanted to see it, the trailers looked funny. And Colin Farrell actually uses his Irish accent.

So when some friends decided to go along to see it at one of the smaller boutique theatres in town we decided to finally see it too.

The review:

Two hit men are sent to Bruges (it’s in Belgium) to hide after a hit gone wrong.
Dark, so fucking hilarious, politically incorrect.
Amazing dialogue, amazing setting.
Plus a “midget”.

5/5

This is the section where I do a quick intro and then review stuff in 30 words or less…

A major Oscar winning movie must be great right? Well yea. It was great. The youngest kids are amazing actors, so natural. Usually when kids are in movies the acting can seem a bit forced, it may be that they don’t know any better, or it may be that they are all geniuses. I don’t think it really matters.

The review:

Skin’s Anwar on game show “Millionaire”. Must have cheated to get to the end?
Kids from the slums have a hard life!
Love story.
Awesome Bollywood dance scene.

4/5

Now that I’ve finally seen the Sex And The City movie I can open my eyes and ears to comments and reviews once more. I feel the need to chuck my two cents in though about how I feel about the movie.

I came out of the movie sated. I laughed, I cried and I enjoyed the clothes and shoes…

The introduction

I started watching Sex and the City as a young teenager, I think at the time it was more of a way to be naughty and watch sex on TV though. I hated the clothes when I was younger. I though they were crazy, unrealistic. No one would wear something like that in real life I thought. Well, how wrong was I!
I’m a little older now and I read fashion blogs constantly. While I am unlikely to spend $600 on a pair of heels I’ll never wear and because I’m living in New Zealand I would feel uncomfortable wearing something extravagant through fears of being over dressed; I still lust over all the pretty, shiny things in the world.

The pretty stuff

I hadn’t watched Sex and the City for a long time. Not since the series finished on TV. I’d consider myself a fan, but I never made the time to re-watch any of the episodes, so going into this movie I didn’t expect much, just lots of expensive crazy clothes and sex.
I wasn’t disappointed. I adored the clothes, they were unbelievable. I lusted over almost everything, the highlight had to be the cupcake purse that Charlotte’s daughter Lily used at the wedding! I find it a bit strange though that anyone would entrust a small child with a purse worth over $4000 though. No matter how rich you are.
The wardrobe was also beautiful and made me completely jealous!

The scene where Carrie walks down the street in a white dress with a huge flower on her shoulder made me giggle. As she’s walking down the street a group of four younger women walk past and one of them turns around and says it’s a great dress. It reminded me of a post Gala had done a few days earlier, her Daily Outfit post for 19 June 2008. Gala talks about the compliments she got…so many compliments! I was thinking how alien that situation is in New Zealand and how it must have been a freaky not often done situation anywhere in the world. People never (well hardly ever) give you compliments in the street here. And I’m not just talking about compliments aimed towards me, I never see anyone else getting them either. I guess New Zealanders are too reserved.
So that scene made me giggle because it showed how different it is in other cities. Gala stuck in my head a lot through the movie, I guess with her current New York jaunt it fits really well.

In conclusion

So, I came out of the movie feeling pretty good about the experience. It wasn’t until later on when I read the comments on Gala’s Sex & The City: The Movie post that I began to doubt it. That made me a bit sad because Gala is usually such a positive person. One of the main issues that was raised in the comments was the massive amount of product placement. Honestly, I don’t have a problem with this when it comes to Sex and the City and I didn’t even notice it in the movie. Isn’t that what most of this show is about? Labels, labels and more labels? How could you not give a Louis Vuitton bag as a gift and leave a pair of blue Manolo Blahnik pumps in the wardrobe in a Sex and the City movie?