Teeth

Venue: At home again
Food: Some crackers this time with no-pulp orange juice

Okay, here's another fairly unknown movie which u guys have probably not heard about. I saw the trailer a couple of months ago and it seemed pretty interesting. I was like, whoaa i've never heard of a movie like this before! Teeth? No, not that set of teeth - this is about teeth 'down under'! :D Caught your attention now?

This movie was released last year and apparently it was a hit with the Sundance (festival) viewers. Hmmm I wonder whyy. It's a sort of dark comedy / indie movie about Dawn, a high school girl who's a bit geeky; she gives talks about 'chastinence' and 'purity' at her local chastity group while not surprisingly, still being a virgin. She tries reeeeaaal hard to suppress her sexual feelings towards this guy she likes and when they finally get on some action.. TRAGEDY strikes! haha i bet u can roughly imagine what's gonna happen. :P

My first impression of this movie was alright, i mean, i have to say its quite original - with the theme of the movie exploring about the vagina dentata myth (in english it means TOOTHED VAGINA). This movie has that whole "indie" feel to it, while its such a trend now i guess its only a matter of time before they release an indie horror movie.

"say, that's a nice set of teeth you have there"

The whole show is pretty dark, but some scenes are laughable - i'm not sure whether its intentional or not, maybe it is, but the scene (spoiler ahead!) when the gynaecologist checks out her nether regions and discovering she has teeth down there and screams out VAGINA DENTATAAA!! was quite funny. haha anyways this movie also addresses the dangers of rape and some other sexual offences quite graphically. Careful guys, u just might get your dick cut off!

So i guess this is a so-so sorta movie with a practically unknown cast, although i have to say the lead actress is quite pretty :) Give this one a try if u wanna see something totally different from the norm. If not, just wait for Iron Man, Indy Jones or The Dark Knight which is coming out sooner than you can imagine! It's May and the summer blockbuster season has officially started! Wooot!

Stars: Stuck between 2.5-3/5

Amount of times u see the leading girl nekkid: 2

Food not to eat while watching this movie: Sausages & Hot Dogs

El Orfanato (The Orphanage)

Venue: At home (DVD)
Food: Bite-size Twix and Ribena

If you're sick with crappy horror movies and lousy asian horror remakes but still want to watch a decent horror movie with good storyline, well this one might be for you. The Orphanage is a spanish movie, yes, so expect to read subtitles - unless of course you can understand Spanish like DKD hehe. This movie is executively produced by Guillermo Del Toro, if you don't know him he is the dude that did the marvellous Pan's Labyrinth late last year.

So basically, this show is about a haunted orphanage right? Yes! Are there any long haired female ghosts in the movie? Fortunately, no.

This show tells the story of Laura, who was in the orphanage when she was a child. Later on in her life, she returns to the orphanage to change it into a home for disabled children with his husband Carlos and their son, Simon. (pronounced as See-mon like timun ahaha) During her stay there in the orphanage, her son starts to play with "new friends" and Laura suspects something is not right.

To tell you more about this show would actually spoil it. Although the plot might sound cliched, it actually is very intriguing. When the story unfolds, secrets about the orphanage begin to unravel and more mysteries appear. An "incident" happens in the movie and the horror starts from there...

However, this movie is not frighteningly scary. There are some shock jolt moments, and some disturbing scenes.. but its not very "boo!" horror unlike the typical Hollywood movies. It works best as an engaging thriller. That being said, the story and drama in this show is its strongest point - and towards the end, everything fits in like a well made puzzle.

I'd definitely recommend this movie for horror junkies who's in need of a change from all the typecast horror movies out there. This is something different, it's a good movie with horror elements in it.

Stars : 3.5/5

Watch this if you liked : The Others, Dark Water, Pan's Labyrinth

The Forbidden Kingdom

My first post!. EVER!. (Thanks to King Shen and Aprilsky)

Ok let's see, honestly, me and a few friends decided to watch a late showing of a movie, and it was either this or Pucong 3! Haha... Don't even ask me what that's about! I was a bit skeptical, seeing as i don't really consider myself a fan of "Chinese Epics", cos honestly, i see "JET LI" and i immediately think, kung-fu, subtitles, period costumes, but maybe i should've paid more attention to "JACKIE CHAN". Apart from the two Js, it also starred the kid from Sky High, Michael Angarano, and cos i've been watching Will & Grace on DVDs, i know that he also played Jack's son in the show. Haha. One of the definite highlights of the movie were the 2 female leads, Sparrow played by Yifei Liu, is awesome, i was literally saying "she's so hot" everytime she appeared on screen, and for those who like their girls a bit "dirtier", the witch played by Bingbing Li, was also quite nice to look at.

Yifei Liu, "Hot"

Bingbing Li, "Dirty"

Movie starts off with the Monkey King fighting, and then Michael Angarano's character wakes up, and goes n visits his local chinese pawn shop/dvd supplier, and somehow, he ends up in this different world, i suppose you could probably classify this movie as a fantasy flick, cos of the shift from earth to the "Forbidden Kingdom". Basically, Michael Angarano's character is on a mission to return this "magic staff" to free the Monkey King who was turned into stone by the Jade Warlord played by Colin Chou, who also played Seraph in The Matrix (shout out to Aprlisky! Haha). On this mission he bumps into Jet Li and Jackie Chan's characters and ends up being trained and changes from a loser to a loser who now knows kung-fu. Hahaha...

I was quite surprised with this movie, i suppose going in thinking it was an epic had something to do with that. But i like the whole Monkey King story, i liked that it was actually in english, because if i had to read substitles at midnight after a long day, i would probably have fallen asleep, i liked that it really was quite a funny movie, Jackie Chan and Michael Angarano played off each other quite well, I really thought that the fighting scenes especially the ones at the beginning of the movie of the Monkey King fighting above the clouds were pretty cool. I did think that Michael Angarano was a bit weedy to pull of kung-fu moves but he surprised me, and i did end up giving the guy credit for being able to pull of some decent moves. For those of you, who know more about Jackie Chan's Drunken Master, personally i don't know that much about those movies, (my first exposure to Drunken Master was Lei in Tekken!), i don't know how the Drunken Master character in this movie fits in with the other Drunken Master movies, but in any case, seeing Jet Li and Jackie Chan sparring is always gonna be good fun.

However, i did doze off during one scene which had too much talking and no action, but thankfully it was just one scene, apart from that, i still had to strain my ears and really listen everytime Jet Li spoke, cos i still have difficulty understanding the dude! Overall, i'd say go and watch the movie if you love any of the stars, or if you're looking for something fun to watch, maybe with the family.

Stars: 2.5-3/5 (mind you Aprilsky will say that i'm too generous with my stars and that i'm easily pleased, but what can i say?... i do like to switch off and just enjoy what's on the big screen)

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

wow, my first movie review. sorry king shen for not writing up any reviews coz there's really no new movies to watch. and also the fact that goin to the movies will cost me $16Aud doesnt really help either (that's RM45 back home, jeez)

so anyways, i went down to watch 'forgetting sarah marshall' today at the local cinema - i had to say i was waiting for this one. you could say its coz of two leading ladies in the film - kristen bell (the girl from veronica mars) and mila kunis (err the girl from that 70's show). they're really hot in this movieee woo i really can't choose between them! and oh this is another movie from the makers of knocked up and the uber-funny superbad which i thought was awesome. so i had quite high expectations for this one.

so yeah, the movie starts off with this dude Peter who just got dumped by his (hot/cuteee!) girlfriend Sarah Marshall. This Peter dude is practically ur typical American guy, only thing is - her girlfriend is a TV star. When he got dumped, he decides to go to Hawaii to take his mind off things, and thats where the fun starts. This movie is rated R in the States, and the chances of it showing in Malaysian cinemas without being censored is very unlikely. There's a couple of funny scenes that involves 'nudity' so i suggest u guys go and buy the DVD when its out.

"that 70's show was waaaay better than veronica mars, honey"

well i dont wanna spoil the movie too much. if you liked superbad or knocked up, you're definitely gonna like this. while its still early in 2008, this could easily be the best comedy ive seen so far this year.


Stars: 3.5/5 (can't beat superbad but better than knocked up)

Be Kind Rewind

Venue - GSC Pavilion
Food - Some bread, pizza and assorted chips

Ahh its that time of the year again boys and girls, another Jack Black movie! Just when you thought it was safe to start taking Jack seriously he goes off and does another 100% Jack Black approved movie for your viewing pleasure.

Movie starts off by introducing our 2 heroes of the movie Jack and Mos Def. The latter is taking care of a video store while the owner is off on a short break. Things start to get a bit tricky when Jack's character accidentally erases most (if not all) of the tapes in the video store much to the dismay of Mos Def. They then start re-shooting most of the movies in a desperate attempt to fool some of their customers into thinking that the original was shot the exact same way.

Step 1 Hire Jack Black, Step 2 Dont give him pants

If you're into an evening of overdose Jack Black jokes, then this movie is for you. If not please by all means avoid it. You will get a headache. On the positive side, Jack's and Mos Def's remake of the movies (they call em sweded) are hugely entertaining and is the saving grace of this film. If you have the time, do check out their sweded movies which are placed online.

Stars -2.8/5

Is Nothing like - Lethal Weapon movies despite having Danny Glover in it.