Movies!

It's been a while since I've talked about movies, so here goes!

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs: Very entertaining with a wacky-minded professor science type, a comedic-sinister politician, a spunky cute reporter who lets out her inner nerd for the hero, who Likes Her Just As She Is (when she's a nerd, and not a beautiful weather reporter)...it's cute over all, and was more entertaining than I thought it would be.

Up: Ah, okay. I understand NOW in a way I didn't when I saw it in the theatre, that the old man never looked in his wife Ellie's adventure book after she had added some stuff to it in the hospital, just before she died. Still, I'm not thrilled with the "women don't get adventures like the men do" vibe, and the almost complete lack of human female characters aside from Ellie, who we really only meet in the beginning when she's a little girl. Still, I adore Dug, who is totally our dog Goldy (really)!

Kung Fu Hustle: [title corrected! thank you!] This is the funniest, most violent, over-the-top, amazing action movie I've ever seen and I LOVE it. It involves the Axe Gang going after a small neighborhood, which turns out to be defended by three ordinary seeming men-a coolie, a tailor (gay tailor), and a noodle shop owner. Each of them turns out to be a Master in their martial art. They end up dead, however, but then it turns out that the horrible landlords of the building are even tougher Masters of the martial arts. And they find a young guy who turns out to be a one in a million Ultra Master of the martial arts.  The film clearly gets a lot of its inspiration from old Warner Brothers cartoons. Everything is exaggurated to the point where you can't take it seriously at all, even when characters are killed, maimed, or simply disappear part of the way into the movie.  I'll have to find Shaolin Soccer next. The same guy made that as made this movie. Highly recced.

There are some other movies I've seen. I just have to dig them up. But these are the ones that stand out.

Psych!

New Psych episode!

Which was, however, treading on uncomfortably embarassing ground with the full-on jealousy between Shawn and Juliet's older super-soldier brother. It also felt like it was shot differently from other episodes (new director? a director trying out new moves, or established older ones?).

I'm not even sure if this was the first episode of the new season! Overall, I liked it. It was nice to see that someone actually appreciated Shawn's detective work who wasn't in the police department--I guess Juliet's brother knows a good clue-hound when he sees one, and that was a pleasant surprise.

It would have been nice to have known before hand that Juliet *had* a brother, so one of the final scenes would have had more emotional freight.

And, that's about all.