Tuesday, 27 January 2015

Some Like It Hot

Hello, it's me again and I am ready for another review. I recently reviewed the movie Bringing Up Baby and I am reviewing another movie like it, just without the leopard, or Cary Grant, or-actually forget it, it's nothing like Bringing Up Baby. So let's get this review started as I review Some Like It Hot.










The movie starts in 1929 where two musicians named Joe (Tony Cutis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) are working at the club of a gangster named Spats Columbo (George Raft) but the police show up and arrest everyone. Jerry and Joe escape. They need to find a new job now but the only jobs available are in an all girls' band and a one night job all the way across town. They decide to do the one night job but when they are getting their car filled up they witness Spats and his henchmen ax off another gangster named Toothpick Charlie (George E Stone). So Jerry and Joe are on the run from Spats and they come up with the plan to disguise themselves as women and join that all girls' band. Joe says his name is Joesephine and Jerry says his name is Daphnie. They get on a train to Florida where they meet a member of the band they joined named Sugar (Marilyn Monroe).



They make it to Florida where they are staying at a hotel. At the hotel, Joe steals someone's suitcase and disguises himself as a Millionaire and pretends to be the president of Shell Oil in order to be able to date Sugar. Meanwhile, a man named Osgood Fielding (Joe E. Brown) asks Jerry to a night out on his Yacht. But Joe tells Jerry to tell Osgood that he would get seasick so that he and Sugar can go out on the yacht. They both have a good night out but it turns out that Spats and his goons (as well as a bunch of other gangsters) are staying in the hotel for some sort of gangsters meeting. Joe and Jerry realize that they need to escape the hotel. But this means leaving Sugar behind.



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Joe does his millionare voice and informs Sugar that he is leaving. They climb out the window but the gangsters spot them, so they hide in the gansgter's dining hall where the gangsters give Spats a cake to congratulate him. But it turns out that a man with a gun was inside the cake and they ax off Spats. Joe and Jerry leave the room before that happens to them. Sugar catches on to what's going on and they all escape on Osgood's boat. The End.



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I like this movie. It's very funny and the actors do a really good job in their parts. The movie wouldn't be as good if other actors played the rolls. So this is a very good comedy that I recommend. See you next time.

Tuesday, 20 January 2015

Sick

Hi everyone I am a bit sick right now and may not be able to get any reviews done this week. But don't worry I will get back to reviews.

Saturday, 17 January 2015

Master of Disguise

Wow, I officially have 100 reviews. That's almost 101. In honor of this occasion I have decided to review a spectacularly bad movie. A movie by the name of Master of Disguise. So I guess there is no time for delay, this is Master of Disguise.










The movie starts with an explanation that there is a family called the Disguiseys (no I'm not making that up) who have mastered the art of disguise. But the family has retired from that and opened a restaurant, but the father Fabbrizio Disguisey (James Brolin) has never told his son Pistachio (Dana Carvey) of his family's past. Pistachio meets a kid named Barney Baker (Austin Wolff) who seems to like Pistachio's dog. Pistachio doesn't seem to do a good job as a waiter because he constantly wants to mimic the customers. Now here is the first major problem with the movied outside of doing impressions and making faces: Pistachio doesn't have much of a personality. Pistachio comes home one night to find that the his parents are kidnapped. Pistachio passes out. It turns out that the man who kidnapped Pistachio's parents is an old enemy of Fabbrizio by the name of Devlin Bowman (Brent Spiner). Bowman forces Fabbrizio to steal valuable items or else he will kill his wife. Meanwhile, Pistachio's Grandfather (Harold Gould) comes to help Pistachio. Grandfather shows him the Ancient Book of Disguisey which says that the Grandfather can't help. But help doesn't count as teaching Pistachio about absolutely everything he knows about the art of disguise.



But before he can do anything he needs an assistant. So they hold interviews and the applicant they finally choose is the mother of the kid from before, and her name is Jennifer Baker (Jennifer Eposito). Now that everything is ready, this investigation can get underway. Their first clue is a cigar which says it belongs to The Turtle Club. So they need to get into the club, so Pistachio disguises himself as a turtle. Now before I tell you about the following scene, I would like to tell you this was the scene used the most for marketing. But all that really happens in this scene is this: Pistachio repeats the word "Turtle" over and over again. That's basically it. He just says "Turtle", however they do manage to find out the name of the man who kidnapped Pistachio's family. They go to an antique road show where they meet Devlin who invites them to a party he is hosting. Pistachio disguises himself as I don't know….this weird hairy guy….he gets spotted and runs away where he disguises himself as a fisherman. But he gets spotted again and disguises himself as this weird European guy. Meanwhile Jennifer finds out more about Devlin's plan. They both escape and Pistachio drops Jennifer off at home but Jennifer is kidnapped by Devlin's goons.




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Pistachio asks his Grandfather (who can't help him) for help and Pistachio's Grandafther and Barney come up with a plan. Devlin plans to auction off all the items he stole on Evil E-Bay. Pistachio disguises himself as a cherry pie. Devlin sends some ninjas after him but he scares them all away (this is starting to sound like a mad libs). Devlin runs away but it turns out that he dressed Febrizzio as him and Febrizzio thinks he is Devlin, so he attacks Pistachio. Pistachio snaps him out of it and they all go to find Devlin. Devlin is hiding out in Costa Rica and they all anticlimactically defeat him.  The End…..not really because during the credits they play a bunch of deleted scenes, alternate takes, and I don't even know what. But the movie is finally over now. The End.



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Wow, that was a bad movie. Pistachio isn't a very interesting character and nither are his multiple personalities. The jokes are over-used and unfunny and the soundtrack is made up of pop songs and music from better movies. The only good thing I have to say is that the costumes he wears do look pretty good. But all I have to say is avoid this movie. This has been my 100th review and I hope to do many more. See you next time.

Monday, 12 January 2015

Bringing Up Baby

I feel like reviewing something funny. What to watch, what to watch? I know, Leopards are funny. Let's watch Bringing Up Baby. So keep an eye out for any Leopards as I review Bringing Up Baby.











We start with a scientist named David (Cary Grant) who is assembling a brontosaurus skeleton. David is engaged to a woman named Alice (Virginia Walker) and they are getting married the next day. David goes to play golf with a man named Mr. Peabody (George Irving) who is the lawyer for a woman who might be donating $1,000,000 to the museum that he works at. But a woman named Susan (Katharine Hepburn) keeps destracting him by sitting in his car and she starts driving away with it, so David chases after it and tells Mr. Peabody that he will be with him in a minute. David goes to see Mr. Peabody for lunch. But Susan accidentlly gets him to steal a purse and he leaves the restaraunt before he can see Mr. Peabody. Susan drives David to Mr. Peabody's house but when trying to get his attention by throwing rocks at his house they accidently knock him out. The next day David gets a call from Susan saying that she has a Leopard named Baby (Nissa) that her brother Mark caught and gave to her. She asks if David would like to help her take it over to her house in Connecticut. Initialy he says no but she tricks him into it. They make it to the house and David wants to leave but Susan is intent on making him stay.



As it so happens, David brought a package that he got in the mail which is the last bone of the dinosaur he is assembling, and Susan's dog George (Astra) steals it and buries it. So David and Susan follow around George trying to find the bone. Meanwhile Susan's Aunt Elizabeth (May Robinson) shows up and starts asking questions about David. Susan tells her that his name is Bone and that he is a big game hunter who is recovering from a nervous break down. Also as it happens, Elizabeth is the woman who was going to donate the money to the muesam. That night a real big game hunter named Major Applegate (Charles Ruggles) comes over for dinner and asks David a lot of questions but doesn't pay attention to him and David continues to follow George. Baby escapes and the gardner, Mr. Gogarty (Barry Fitzgerald), sees Baby and tells everybody but they think he is drunk. David goes to call the zoo to take Baby away. But it turns out that Baby was a gift for Elizabeth, so Susan and David have to go out to catch them before the zoo workers do. Meanwhile at a local circus an actual dangerous leopard is being taken away. But Susan and David spot it, thinking it is Baby, and break it out of the cage, but it runs off. So now two Leopards are on the loose.



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Meanwhile Major Applegate and Gogarty are trying to shoot Baby but David and Susan tell them that Baby is harmless, so they put their gun away. But then the dangerous Leopard scares them. They track down the Leopard to the roof of a house but the man in the house thinks they are crazy and they end up getting arrested. Susan tells the Constable (Walter Cattlett) who she is but when the constable calls Elizabeth she thinks Susan is in bed. As soon as Elizabeth hangs up Major Applegate tells Elizabeth what happened, so they head over to the police station. But the police don't believe them because they were just on the phone. When the Constable calls home the maid says that everyone is in bed. So Elizabeth, Applegate, and Gogarty are arrested. Susan pretends to be a gangster and tricks the police into letting her go. But the circus men come in and inform everyone about the escaped Leopard. Just then Baby comes in but David tells them it's a different Leopard. Then Alice and Mr. Peabody come in and tell the Constable about the whole thing. But then Susan comes in with the dangerous Leopard and it breaks loose. Fortunetly David locks it in a jail cell. A week or two later, Alice decides against marrying David bur Susan tells David that they found the dinosaur bone and Elizabeth is donating the million dollars to the mueseam. The End.




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Bringing Up Baby is a great movie. Most of the points in this movie go to the Comedy which is amazingly written and timed and probably has one of the funniest endings ever. The fact that they managed to train a Leopard is pretty cool and Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn give great performances. So if you want a screwball comedy that will have you laughing, pick up Bringing Up Baby. See you next time.

Friday, 9 January 2015

Batman: The Movie (1966)

Happy new year everyone. I am back in 2015 and ready for another review. I am reviewing the very first movie about Batman. This movie is based on the 1960's TV show more than the comic books. Let's get to the Batmobile so I can review Batman: The Movie.











We start with Batman (Adam West) and Robin (Burt Ward) receiving a distress signal from a yacht out at sea. So they get the Batcoptor and fly out to sea. Batman steps out on the Batladder (on a side note does every thing he owns have to have the word bat before it?) But the yacht disapears and a shark grabs on to his leg. Apparently, this shark is a land skark because it keeps biting Batman even when he is out of the water. Luckily Robin gives Batman the Bat Shark Repellant in time. Oh, and the shark explodes when it hits the water. The Press questions batman on what happened but he gives little comment. Batman tells Commissioner Gordon (Neil Hamilton) that he thinks that someone is behind this. Through some of the most contrived logic possible they suspect that The Joker (Cesar Romero) The Penguin (Burgess Meredith) The Riddler (Frank Gorshin) and Catwoman (Lee Meriwether) are behind the whole thing. Meanwhile it turns out that they are right and that they kidnapped the owner of that yacht Commodore Schmidlapp (Reginald Denny) and tricked him into thinking that he is in control of the ship still. Just one problem, when he is served tea The Joker is the one to do it and for some reason the Commodore doesn't freak out when a clown serves him tea. Is he usually served by clowns?




Batman and Robin figure out that the yacht that disapeared was a hologram being projected by an illegal buoy. They take the Bat Boat out to check it out but Penguin sees them and activates a magnet on the buoy that sticks them to the buoy becuase of the metal items in their utility belts. Penguin plans to shoot them down using torpedoes. But Batman manages to use a signal jamming device to blow the torpedoes up before they reach them. But on the last torpedo the the signal jammer stops working up a random porpoise swims in front of the torpedo and Batman and Robin escape. The villains try and come up with a better plan to stop Batman for good. So they plan to kidnap Bruce Wayne (Batman's secret identity for those of you who don't know) which will lure Batman to their secret hideout then Batman will step on Joker's spring loaded Jack-in-the-Box which will launch him out the window over the ocean and into the arms of The Pneguin's trained exploding octopus. Catwoman disguises herself as a Russian reporter named Kitka and finds Bruce Wayne. She gives Bruce some riddles she "found" and leaves. Bruce goes to the Bat Cave and deciphers the riddles. His conclusion: a Russian person will slip on a banana peel and break their neck......logic? So Batman decides to go to diner with Kitka to keep an eye on her. Joker Riddler and Penguin Kidnap Bruce and take them to their evil lair. Fortunately, he escapes and goes back to the Bat Cave so he and Robin can decide what to do next.




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The villains master plan of using a dehydration gun to dehydrate  the leaders of the world. But first Penguin tricks Batman into taking him to the Bat Cave and then he tries to attack them but it fails and Penguin escapes and steals the Batmobile. Batman and Robin get in the Batcoptor and chase after him. Riddler launches a missile and shoots down the Batcoptor but fortunately they land in a giant pile of foam rubber at the local foam rubber convention (no comment). They decide that they should run to catch the villains because you know running is the fastest mode of transportation. By the time Batman and Robin get there the wold leaders are already dehydrated and taken away. They find Penguin's submarine and partake in the climax and yes during the fight they have sound effect bubbles when someone gets hit just like in the comics. So the heroes win but the Commodore accidentally smashes all the test tubes containing the world leaders. Batman and Robin finally put them back together and attempt to re-hydrate them. But somethig goes wrong the world leaders minds are put in the wrong bodies. So Batman heroically climbs out the back window leaving Commissioner Gordon to sort things out. So the moral of the story is if you mess up run. The End.




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This is a very silly movie. Not bad just silly. I mean the acting is over the top and hammy the villains evil plans to kill Batman are super silly (seriously an exploding shark?). The set design for the bat cave and stuff like the Batcoptor and Bat Boat is nice. But it is so over the top it becomes a parody of itself. So yes I recomend this movie if you a looking for a delicious ham and cheese sandwich that will keep you entertained. See you next time and I can't wait to see the rest of 2015.