A perfectly reasonable reaction to a viewing of MY BEST FRIEND’S GIRL is to plaintively inquire of an unfeeling universe what the heck was that? Aside from being a complete waste of everybody’s time, it is a tired retread of an earlier, equally time-wasting Dane Cook flick, GOOD LUCK CHUCK. There is a different lady… Read More »
PLANES
The annoying thing about Disneys PLANES is that it takes a full hour before it, ahem, revs up. For all the imagination involved in breathing animated life into the anthropomorphized eponymous flying machines, and their truck and forklift pals, the story is painfully rote, taking the cliché underdog, or in this case, underplane, and putting… Read More »
GOOD LUCK CHUCK
It’s not like one goes into a film like GOOD LUCK CHUCK with great expectations. And so it is all the more remarkable, dispiriting rather, when even a low bar, a very lowered bar, isn’t met. This flick isn’t just bad, it falls into that rare category of works that are actual harbingers of the… Read More »
DAN IN REAL LIFE
DAN IN REAL LIFE is suffused with a lovely sweetness. Not cloying, not sappy, but instead, unaffectedly joyful about what life has to offer, including the madness inherent in how very messy life tends to be. Dan (Steve Carell) has been avoiding the joyful part of life. He’s spent four years as a widower, mourning his… Read More »