Category: Reviews

By now you will have already read every other review available for this movie. In all honesty, it’s taken me over a week to construct this. The film isn’t bad per-say, it’s just very disappointing. 

Fantastic Four filmed from May-August last year, but Fox ordered re-shoots in January after they were dissatisfied with the film. This leads to a combination of continuity errors and atrocious ADR (additional dialogue replacement). Sue Storm’s hair changes colour and length between shots and, mouths that say “Von Doom” are in fact mouthing “Domnichev”. 

You may remember last year that Toby Kebbel revealed he was playing a computer hacker named Victor Domnichev, the Internet exploded which has resulted in him being very badly re-dubbed Victor Von Doom. It’s also abundantly clear that his computer hacker subplot has been hastily cut out. 

The movie starts out promisingly enough, albeit slow. We meet Reed Richards and Ben Grimm as kids, we them jump to ‘7 years later’ meet the rest of the team, watch them build a machine, go to planet Zero before jumping to ‘One year later’. 
This is where things go a wry we get a quick altercation with Doom and the team find themselves with their own headquarters. 

Fox allowed Josh Trank to make an unconventional superhero movie with a property they needed to be a hit, they got cold feet and re-cut to try to make it conventional. This results in the story feeling half, rather than whole. 

What do you get if you put Trading Places, 48hrs, Tower Heist and some prison rape jokes in a blender? The answer is something like Get Hard, which stars Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart.

Ferrell plays millionaire, James King who is wrongfully convicted on 76 counts of fraud and embezzlement.

James assumes most black men have spent time in jail, so when the judge gives him 30 days to get his affairs in order, he turns to the only black guy he knows, Darnell (Hart) and offers him money to get him ready for prison.

In fact Darnell is a loving family man and small business-owner, who only accepts the job because he wants to expand his business and buy a better house for his wife and daughter.

After getting a few tips from his criminal cousin, Darrnell then takes on the role of a bullying sergeant major and starts initiating James with the ways of prison.

Get Hard misses more than it hits, it isn’t entirely unfunny and would have done really well in the 1980’s. Will you laugh? Probably. Could this have been a better film? Definitely.

Criticisms of the film aside, Ferrell and Hart have excellent chemistry and I would love to see them work together on another project.

In the film, “Sex Tape,” Jason Segal and Cameron Diaz play a married couple with kids who are struggling to find time for intimacy. Segal’s character is inexplicably given a stack of iPads, which he hands out to people he knows after syncing them to his email address. This plot point stretches believability, as it’s unlikely someone would activate an iPad with their own details and then hand it over to someone else.

To make matters worse, the couple discovers that they accidentally recorded themselves acting out the Kama Sutra on one of the iPads. After receiving a text from an unknown number, they embark on a wild night in LA’s suburbs to retrieve all of the iPads they gave away.

Unfortunately, the film feels like a stretched-out, rejected episode of “How I Met Your Mother.” The only source of genuine laughs comes from Rob Lowe, who shamelessly pokes fun at his own sex tape past.

Despite the lackluster plot and character development, the iPad itself seems to be the most fleshed-out and believable character in the film.

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