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.

Limitless: PG-13

Limitless is about a broke writer with writers block who comes across an amazing pill, thanks to his ex-brother in law. If one takes said pill daily it will make them 'limitless', helping them to remember everything they ever learned, saw, or did. Pretty much all the information in the world is now available to the pill's user. Eddie (the writer) begins taking this pill and is suddenly able to do everything. However, of course there's a catch. First of all, the pill is highly addictive causing the user to go through massive withdrawals and eventually die if they stop taking it. Eddie learns this when he stops taking the pill because his mind is skipping time, making it so he can't account for the last 18 hours of his life. Also, there are a lot of people who want to kill him for this pill, obviously making life very difficult for him. So, is it worth it?

Well, I really wanted to like this movie, unfortunately that was not the case. It seemed to drag on forever, like it was limitless! And they never seemed to complete their thoughts, storyline-wise. Something interesting would start to happen, then they wouldn't expound upon it, and just move on to the next thing so it was no longer interesting. I felt like the same things kept happening, over and over again, leaving me wondering when the movie was ever going to end. Then when it did end, it did just that. Ended. Period. It ended so abruptly that I said out loud "Are you kidding me?" And the girl next to me yelled, "WHAT???" Then the guy on the other side of her said, "Maybe we missed something..." But alas, we didn't miss anything. It looked to me like they were going for more of an Inception type ending, where you're not sure what happened and you go home and think about it, but Limitless failed in their delivery of that idea.

It is rated PG13 for language (including the F-bomb), sexual content, and a scene of graphic violence. The graphic violence scene was just gross and had everyone in the theater going "eeew!!" And I agreed with them!

If you still feel that you must see this movie, I'd say you should be at least 15.

Once again, I really wanted to like this movie, but they didn't give me much to go off of. This wasn't just me either, everyone I saw it with was on the same page of opinions with this one. Save your money, this movie is not worth seeing.

Red Riding Hood; PG-13

Valerie (red riding hood) is a young women living in a small village plagued by a wolf. The village sacrifices their best livestock every full moon to the wolf so it will leave their village alone, however the wolf finally kills Valerie's sister, breaking the peace. On a side note, Valerie is promised to a young blacksmith named Henry, but is not in love with him. She is instead in love with a local woodcutter, who she has been friends with for years. Back to the wolf, the village priest invites a man who is said to be an expert on wolves, to come help the village before the wolf kills again. The man who comes then reveals to the village that they are not just dealing with any wolf, but a werewolf! Not only that, but the wolf is someone living in the village with them! Who could it be?

I didn't have high hopes for this movie to begin with, seeing as how it's by the director of Twilight. However, it wasn't as bad as I thought, granted it still wasn't great. It was full of cheesy dialogue, and had a few really lame romance scenes. In other words, there were points in time when I felt like I was watching Twilight. But there were some decent parts. The wolf was cool looking and there were some interesting parts. I got sick of them trying to make us think the wolf was a certain person just so they felt as though they had the element of surprise when they revealed who the wolf was. They didn't really get into the actual red riding hood story until about the last 30 minutes. The rest just seemed like The Village. But, it was far from the worst movie I've ever seen.

It's rated PG13 for sexual content and violent, scary images. There were a lot of pretty scary deaths by wolf and other things. There were also a lot of 'jump out at you' moments, which made the people in front of me scream. I thought those moments were way overdone though, they would have that 'jump out at you' music, then end with somebody opening a box or something anti-climactic. I would say you should be 14, almost 15 to see this movie.

I wouldn't really recommend this movie. It wasn't the best, but it wasn't horrible. No need to rush out to see it.

The Adjustment Bureau: PG-13

The Adjustment Bureau is about Politician, David Norris, who meets a rebellious contemporary dancer named Elise. They instantly fall in love, but don't really ever see each other because they don't know how to find each other. However, soon he meets her again by chance and finds he is still in love with her. There are then mysterious circumstances keeping them apart. A group of people freeze time and take Norris away, revealing to him that he was not living life 'according to plan', and it was their job to adjust that. They tell him he can't see her anymore and that if he ever reveals them they will 'reset' him, but he refuses to give up. However, the Adjustment Bureau makes it nearly impossible for him to ever see her again.

I feel like the way I just explained that doesn't give it justice. It was a really good movie! Not my favorite, since I'm not a fan of the whole, "we just met, but we're in love!" type of thing in a story. However, I really enjoyed the originality of the idea and how they were able to keep it interesting. I've heard a few people say that it's just like Inception, but I didn't see the similarities. I'm not quite sure how to explain this movie. I guess it's one of those, "you have to see it" kind of movies.

It's rated PG13 for some sexual content and language (including the F-bomb). I would say you should be at least 14 to see this movie. Not necessarily because of inappropriate things, but because it seems like you need to be a little older to appreciate this movie.

Yes, it is worth seeing. Go see it!

Will update soon!

Hi!

I'm hoping to update this soon with The Eagle, Unknown, Gnomeo and Juliet, and I am Number Four. I've got midterms this week, so movie's have kinda taken a back seat. I will update this as soon as I possibly can!

Thanks for your patience!

P.S.

I will also hopefully be reviewing Drive Angry before it comes out tomorrow night, but no promises. It doesn't look that interesting.

The Way Back: PG-13

Based on the book A Long Walk and actual events, a small group of convicts escape from a Siberian gulag during WWII. They then are forced to trek across 5 countries, over 4000 to India to finally gain freedom.

Wow! What an amazing story! I really liked this movie, although it was a little long for my taste, running about 2 1/2 hours. You have to have a long attention span to watch this movie, as you are basically watching these people walk the whole time. However, it is fascinating! All the things they had to go through, it is truly amazing.

I don't have much to say about this movie, its one of those you just have to see.

This movie is rated PG-13 because it has the 'F' word twice in subtitles. It also has some vulgar drawings by one of the escapee's.

I'd say that the age to see this would maybe be a mature 15 year-old. Mostly because it takes a little more of in interested mind to watch this movie.

This movie is worth seeing if you are mature and want to hear a fascinating story of survival.

The Green Hornet: PG-13

A rich, spoiled, playboy, Britt, who is also heir to a huge newspaper company finds himself in charge of the company after the sudden death of his father. After deciding he hated his father, he and his former servant, now friend, Kato, decide to vandalize a statue of his father and end up saving a couple being mugged. They decide to become crime fighters under the facade of being criminals themselves. Britt is known as The Green Hornet, and sets out to stop corruption not really knowing what he's doing.

This movie had good moments, but was really a crappy movie in my opinion. Yeah, it was funny, but also had a lot of really random and unnecessary language and vulgarity. I swear they just put it in there because they felt like it! It obviously didn't fit into the script or story. When movie companies do that I think it shows weak writing and creativity. Come on!

Much of the filming was also very comic-book-like. Which makes sense, since this is based off of a comic book. For me it was interesting at first, but then got old. I just don't like that kind of filming. Maybe you do, I don't know.

This movie was rated PG-13 for the excessive unnecessary vulgarity and language. Lame! It had potential, but they killed it.

I wouldn't really recommend this movie to anyone of any age... Maybe if you're a 17 year-old boy. I still wouldn't recommend it. It is not worth seeing.

True Grit: PG-13

A headstrong 14 year-old girl sets off to avenge her father's blood with the company of a U.S Marshall, said to have 'true grit', and a Texas Ranger.

All together, this was a fantastic movie! It was historically accurate, had an amazing cast, and was generally a really good movie. I don't often see movies and think they're fantastic, so this is a pretty big deal. It had comedy, action, adventure, and didn't have any suggestive scenes, which is rare these days.

Reasons why it got the PG-13 rating is because of it's excessive peril, including a guy getting his fingers chopped off, another guy getting shot in the face, and more. Its very realistic, so don't take your little kids to this one! I'd say follow the MPAA on this one and don't go unless you are 13 or older.

I'm not usually in to the westerns, and wasn't really expecting to like this one, but it is definitely worth seeing.