Iron Man 3- PG13

Well, I'm back! Yeah, it's been over a year, but lets see if we can get back into this. I think I'm going to structure things differently. Well, anyway, here we go!
Anyone who knows me well knows that I am a great fan of The Avengers. LOVE that stuff! Therefore, I was pretty excited to see Iron Man 3. Everyone loves Iron Man! He's hilarious and awesome! Here's what it was about.

Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) is struggling to adjust to life after his adventure with The Avengers. He is having some serious PTSD, and can't sleep. He also has crippling panic attacks, which can strike at any time. Despite this, a new threat arises. A terrorist called, The Mandarin (Ben Kingsley), who knows no bounds. Stark finds his personal life destroyed by this new villain and vows revenge. He finds himself, and his friends, being attacked by mysterious people who glow red, can burn you, and occasionally explode. Stark is pushed to the edge, and must rely on his own ingenuity and resourcefulness in order to protect what he cares about most.
Well, as usual, Robert Downey Jr. did not fail us. He had some great snappy one-liners and was a very sympathetic character during his struggles. Ben Kingsley also does a great job. This movie, unlike the previous Iron Man installments, has a lot of Gwyneth Paltrow, who plays Tony's girlfriend, Pepper. She kind of steps it up in this movie, making more of a name for herself. She does some pretty intense stuff! Througout the movie there were several references to The Avengers, which I really liked. This movie was just really fun! There were a lot of people who loved this movie, including critics. However, I didn't love it. I thought it was a typical superhero movie with a lot of explosions. I felt it didn't do much to separate itself from other movies in the genre. I mean, it wasn't bad, it was just average. There were a few plot twists at the end that I really didn't know how to feel about. And judging by the response in the theater, I wasn't alone. A lot of people really didn't like the twist, others felt it was a good resolution. There were also a lot of plot holes, and I actually found myself getting tired of the movie and just waiting it for the end.
Okay, this doesn't sound like a good review. Really, though, it was okay. Just not spectacular. I also have a hard time with how women in the Iron Man franchise are portrayed. Things like that can ruin a whole movie for me, but that's just my pet peeve.
This movie is rated PG-13 for intense action violence throughout. A lot of people get killed in ways that are quite violent. Also, for some suggestive content, which you will find in any one of the Iron Man movies. However, I found that there was a bit more in this one.
Now the tough part! How old should kids be to see it? This is hard, because lots of parents like to take their kids to superhero movies, even if they are PG13. I'm going to be liberal today and say 10. BUT only if you think they can handle it. There are things in this movie that would scare the younger me a lot!
I will never dissuade anyone from seeing an Avengers movie. I think you should go see it. Just don't set your expectations too high and you'll like it a lot. Keep in mind that this is the third installment, and for that, they did a decent job.
Oh, and by the way, are The Avengers the most useless superhero friends ever? Okay, I know they couldn't come in or it would've just been Avengers 2, but seriously, folks.

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows: PG-13

Back again. I wish I could do this more, but my life won't allow it.

This Sherlock Holmes sequel picks up where the first one left off. Sherlock is searching for Professor Moriarty, Watson gets married, you know. If you haven't seen the first one, go watch it because it rocks. Anyway, after Holmes discovers that a fortune-teller's brother is somehow involved with Moriarty, who leaves no loose ends, Holmes sets out to find him, hoping he could help to incriminate Moriarty. However, Moriarty is playing a dangerous 'game' with Holmes, threatening to destroy everyone he loves. This may be the first time someone has matched his brilliance.

First of all, I have been looking forward to this movie for months. I love Sherlock Holmes! This movie was not as good as the first (everyone should watch the first one), but I still really liked it. It had great fight scenes, good action, and an interesting storyline that was hard to follow (in a good way, but maybe it was just the late showing), but nicely summed up at the end. And during the summary everyone goes "WOAH!". It's cool. I also thought it was ended cleverly. If any of you have read the book, you would know it ends in a way that the movie audience wouldn't like. So, the filmmakers made an ending that would satisfy both the book lovers and the theater audience. I loved the last 20ish minutes! Very clever in my not-so-humble opinion. Now, the downside. I felt like they tried too hard to make it funny. Sometimes It seemed like Sherlock was turning into Jack Sparrow with all of his quirkiness. Sherlock Holmes is supposed to be quirky, but not in the same way as Jack Sparrow. A lot of the humor was badly written and just not funny. I got pretty sick of it after a while. Luckily, the cast is really great, so that sort of helped. The intellectual parts were way better than the parts that were supposed to make me laugh.

This movie is rated PG-13 for intense sequences of action violence, a scene of torture, and a scene with very implied nudity. I couldn't quite call it implied nudity because I felt like it was more than implied with the camera sometimes going dangerously low on Sherlock's nude brother. Luckily, this scene is pretty short. I wish they hadn't put it in, or had been kinder with their camera angles, but you still don't see anything but the top of someone's backside. Because of this scene, I think someone should be a mature 15 year old to see this movie.

I very much enjoyed this movie. I am a huge Sherlock Holmes fan! This movie is worth seeing, and I actually have tickets to see it again today. It's not the best and it is clearly a sequel that will never live up to the original. If you want a sequel that lives up to the original, go see Kung Fu Panda 2.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part 2): PG-13

Hey! I'm back, I've seen lots of movies lately, I just haven't reviewed them. But here's a review!

Well, this movie picks up where part one left off, with Harry and his friends in Bill and Fleur's shell cottage. Harry and his friends must track down the remaining Horcruxes (bits of Voldemort's soul tying him to the earth). However, Voldemort finds out about their quest and is determined to stop them, resulting in the biggest battle Hogwarts has ever seen!

Obviously, the book is better, as always! But I found this movie overall very good. It was very action packed, but also very emotion packed. The girl 2 seats away from me was bawling for a good amount of the movie. They did a very good job of making you really feel for the characters, and still having good action in it. And for those of you book fans, they did a pretty good job of sticking to it. Of course there were some things unnecessarily changed or added. There were also some things that were supposed to be dramatic, but I felt like just ended up cheesy. But, once again, I was overall satisfied with the movie.

This movie is rated PG-13 for violence and peril. A lot of people died, which you should know if you read the book, and there were also quite a few scary scenes in the battle at Hogwarts. I would like to draw your attention to the rating once again, PG-13, as in I think you should be 13 to see it. Maybe an older 12 or 11 year old could maybe handle it, but they give movies ratings for a reason, so leave your little kids at home, even though its Harry Potter.

I definitely think that this is worth seeing!

Sorry!

Hey anyone following me!

I'm sorry, but due to a change of employment I will no longer be able to see as many movies as before. I will still be posting reviews of the movies I see, but they will be much fewer. Sorry that this was so short-lived. But I will keep trying!

Hanna: PG-13

Hanna is a 16-year old girl being raised in the forest by her father to be the perfect assassin. He teaches her to fight, to speak pretty much every language, and to always be aware. She is then dispatched across europe on a mission, however she doesn't really know how to interact with the world, being from the forest. She meets a family who (not knowing who she really is) agrees to help her across Europe. The whole time, Hanna is being viciously persued by an intelligence agent who hates Hanna's father, and a bunch of her cronies.

Well, this movie was...odd. I kinda feel the same about this movie as I do about Sucker Punch, but I like this movie better. It was a good action movie, but the story was kind of lacking. As in, I am not exactly sure what her mission was, just that she was on one. Hanna was really awesome at fighting and I really enjoyed watching the fight scenes! But I am a big fan of fight scenes, what can I say? But, once again it had some weirdness in it. Actually it had a lot of weirdness in it. This movie would've been way better if they had taken a minute to write a well thought out story.

This movie is rated PG13 for violent peril ( almost everyone dies!), language, and breif sexual content (one of the cronies).

I say that if you want to see this movie... maybe a mature 13 year old to about 15.

This movie is worth seeing if you want to see some action, but if you want a good story don't bother.

The King's Speech: PG-13

Bertie, Duke of York has a serious speech problem! It seems he can't stop stuttering, which is a issue as duke. Every time he has to make a speech to his people he stresses out majorly which only makes his stuttering worse. He doesn't know what to do. He's tried almost every speech therapist in the land and just feels like giving up. However, his wife refuses to give up. She finds Lionel Logue, who has received great reviews and results from his patients through unconventional means. She convinces Bertie to go see him and at first he resists everything the therapist tries. Soon afterward the King dies, and Bertie's older brother is unfit to rule leaving him the next in line for the throne. Terrified because of all the speeches is is sure to have to give, he goes back to Lionel to help him become worthy of the throne.

This movie was originally rated R for saying the F-bomb 17 times. I'm glad they decided to release a PG13 version, because this was a great movie! I thought it would be kind of boring, but it was actually really entertaining. It had it's funny moments as well as it's serious ones. This is based on a true story, so it was interesting to see how King George VI overcame his difficulty. Lionel, his therapist, was really funny and really good at what he did. I thought it was very well cast! The only casting problem I had was who they cast for Winston Churchill.

This is rated PG13 because it still has one scene with a lot of language. It's a scene where his speech therapist finds out that he doesn't stutter when he curses, then he just lets it all fly! It used to be the F-word, but now they replaced it with a different swear word. I think they might've left one F-bomb in there. This scene is the only reason it is rated pg13.

I think someone should be around 14 or 15 to see this movie. It does have lots of language, but I'm mainly saying this because I don't think younger kids would be interested in it.

This movie is very much worth seeing! Go take advantage of the re-release!

Sucker Punch: PG-13

A young girl is sent to a mental institution by her evil stepfather after her mother dies and leaves the estate to her daughters. The mental institution turns out to actually be a place for prostitution, where the girls will dance to get 'clients'. The main girl, who is nicknamed Baby Doll, is scheduled to get a lobotomy in 5 days. The other girls are desperate to escape too, and Baby Doll comes up with a plan. Every time she dances she retreats to an alternate reality, where she and her friends are able to retrieve all the items necessary for their escape before it's too late.

This movie was, well.... odd. It had a good soundtrack, and decent special effects. It was a very actiony movie, because every time she goes to her alternate reality she and her friends become some elite fighting group. The fight scenes were really cool, except they were all dressed really slutty, and I thought if I had to see one more slow motion scene I would die. I felt like the subject matter was really awkward, but the focus wasn't on the whole prostitution thing and more on the fight scenes. So it didn't show anything awkward, but the implication was there. However, it had more depth than I was expecting. It was cool how they made the alternate reality tie in with actual reality. It also had a really big twist at the end that I was NOT expecting. It was very artsy and had lots of cool cinematography. I liked the feel of how it was filmed regarding the picture, but it was very different. This is probably the hardest review I have written so far, because I can't decide if it's worth seeing or not. I think I will say that I kinda liked it, but I don't think I would recommend it to other people. It's not for everyone.

It was rated PG13 because of subject matter and violence. Lots and lots of violence and peril. And the subject matter of them all being hookers.

I think the age for this would be an iffy 15-17. I don't think I would take my 14 year old little brother to this one.

Again, I'm not sure what I think about this one. It was difficult, but I don't think it's worth rushing out to see. Maybe dollar theater, since it is a larger format movie and wouldn't be as cool on a regular home TV. So, it is worth seeing (eventually) for the art and action, but not for the subject matter. HOWEVER this movie is NOT for everyone.