Easy A: A Quick Review and a Rant

Last night my sister and I went to see Easy A starring Emma Stone with Amanda Bynes, Aly Michalka and Lisa Kudrow. Totally cute movie, I enjoyed it. The movie kind of goes hand in hand with The Scarlet Letter. Emma's character Olive gets caught up in a lie that keep growing. She told her best friend (played by Aly) that she had lost her virginity when in actuality she did not. She just didn't want to go on a camping trip with Aly's characters parents (Aly character is Rhi). Apparently Rhi's parents are nudists and quite weird.

Well, once she tells the lie it gets out of control (as spread by Amanda Bynes Character, who is a Christian and kinda nuts). Ultimately Olive doesn't help matters she kind of makes it worse by taking on a lot of lost causes, she finds herself friendless, ostracized and alone. It was a very funny movie and I do love anything that kind of spits in the face of society, and this movie definitely does that. I love Olive's parents, I find them hysterical as well as her favorite teacher played by Thomas Haden Church. The funniest part of the movie is when she is pretending to sleep with a gay guy.

So yes, I liked the movie! Totally a chick flick of course but it does get some laughter. It's a big step away from Emma's The House Bunny.

Now for my rant. What the hell are these people doing driving around town with little metal balls hanging from the backs of the trucks/cars/pimp mobiles? Why do you have that. It is indecent AND I find it disgusting. If I want to see a pair of balls I will go find me a man and say drop'em. It's tasteless and frankly makes you look desperate. Overcompensation much? I just don't get it. Would you want your 4-year old daughter seeing that? Not that I have a 4 year old daughter but if I did I'd be even more pissed off. Just a note to the tasteless: Grow your own set of balls and stop buying them off the Internet for God's sake.

Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.

Despicable Me (Spoiler Alert!)

Last night I had two advanced movie tickets to see the movie Despicable Me, which I must say was really good. The animated movie starred the voices of Steve Carrell, Miranda Cosgrove, and Russell Brand but was quite great in the way it spoke to both children and adults.

The theater was packed with children, and strangely enough it looks like it was Father's night to take the kids out, as I didn't see many mothers. The theater was packed of course, there were security guards standing at the back to make anyone leave who dared to touch their cell phone. I wound spending over $10 for two icees and a bag of popcorn. But hey, the movie was free!

The movie starts out with a child falling on a pyramid and then bounces off. A super villain called Vector stole the pyramid and then replaced it with an inflatable one. Then we have three children from a local orphanage who are selling cookies, they encounter an evil villain, Gru, who seems to have no compassion or love for anyone. He also has these little minions that are really cute but you can't understand anything they say. Well, Gru concocts a way to steal the moon, however when he tried to get a loan from the Evil Bank he was denied due to the fact that he did no have the shrink ray gun he would need in order to do so.

Well, I really don't want to go into too much detail after that, however let's just say that the way Gru goes about getting the shrink ray also show him he DOES have a heart when he falls in love with those three orphaned girls. It really was a heartwarming story and well worth taking your kid to see (or if you have a guilty pleasure for the animated cartoons like I do, then go see it yourself!)

The movie premieres July 9th and check your local theaters because some of them will have it in 3D. I was lucky enough to see it in 3D and it was quite fun!