| January: The Greatest Month for Movies! |
1/30/2004 |
by Tommer
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The Kutch ponders some facial hair possibilities
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The Butterfly Effect - Finally a film explores what we all wish we could do: travel back in time to try out different types of facial hair! Ashton Kutcher, star of “The Jamie Kennedy Experiment” (You’ve been X’ed!!), plays Jack Butterfly, a man struggling to find the right facial hair to make people take him seriously as a human being. After a shaving accident involving Gillette Mach 3 Gel and plutonium, the Kutch discovers he can travel to various facial hair parallel universes. In one, he’s got a well trimmed goatee. In another, he has a Michael Gross-esque beard. And in my favorite, the Kutch has a Hulk Hogan style handle bar mustache!
You Got Served - My prayers have been answered with this heartwarming break dancing movie. It’s no Breakin’ or Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo, for that matter, but does indeed have some sort of dancing, at least that’s what I can gleam from the poster.
The Perfect Score - Remember that movie The Matrix? Well, this movie is the first to parody that film’s gravity defying fight sequences. I know, it’s an obscure reference, but I’m sure that the seven people out there that get it, will enjoy it heartily.
The Big Bounce - After the rousing success of Dreamcatcher, Morgan Freeman is on a roll with this madcap comedy romp! Based on a true story, Freeman plays Joe Bounce, the first black man to break professional surfing’s color barrier. This is a great educational film, but I had one problem with it: Owen Wilson is horribly miscast as Freeman’s father/coach. Why did the film maker hire Wilson, an actor so noticeably younger than Freeman, to play someone that is supposed to be so much older? And if it weren’t for Wilson’s undeniable quirky charm, his black-face make-up would have been deeply offensive.
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