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Prime (2005)
Laugh out loud and Touching too!
Merryl Streep is, of course, amazingly believable. Everyone does well here and the story is top notch and laugh-out-loud funny. Funnier than most movies that avoid drama for comedy only.
I was impressed and you'll enjoy it more in the theater, because the laughter is infectious.
Yes, the wrong (or right) characters keep bumping into each other, almost unbelievably so, but this is, of course, to make the movie pace well.
It sure does, you are never bored, waiting for something to happen. I can't recommend this movie enough. Go have a good time at the theater with a guaranteed surefire winner.
Bringing Down the House (2003)
Let go of your fears. Sit back and enjoy.
Negative viewers of this movie seem to be as uptight as Steve Martin's character was at the beginnng.
It's pretty simple...maybe your all looking into it too much....
His Neigbors are racist, especially the Betty White Character, and he is a pus*y, in the nicest sense of the word. A really nice guy, but a wimp who backs down to his neigbors so as not to ruffle any feathers.
This movie was f ing hilarious. Let go of your defense mechanisms and your critiquing for once. This movie had continuous build-up of laughs until the uproarious/hilarious club sequence in the end. This movie was great. I loved Old School too, and Made, Swingers, and other comedies that gets you with great wit. But sometimes you just need to let go of everything and enjoy a fun comedy that doesn't care to worry about how some Politically Correct Roger Ebert mini-mees' think. So it has stereotypes and cliches to the plot. So what. When Steve Martin pretends to be street in the club while learning on the job and actually wins respect by letting himself flow, it is a sweet moment in Cinema. That dance beat/Hip Hop tune pulses and he gets better and better, until he's the shiznit and growing testicals for the first time in his life.
And Queen Latifah and Eugene Levy were HILARIOUS. And that bitch sister in law good too. You really have to be a negative person to not like this pic. Seriously.
He grows his balls by the end of the movie and surely wouldn't let Betty White character talk that way again.
Queen Latifah character knew all along that he is a nice guy, just a wimp and that's why she made sure to keep pestering him.
Wake up...a lot of people in this country aren't really racist and don't believe in specific religions for example, but will pretend to or fools themselves so as to keep belonging to the groups of people they are comfortable with. It's sad and wimpy and brainless, but it happens everyday. That's what Steve Martin's character was. Free your mind of anti-racist psychobabble and art house utopian notions of what quality is.
I bet Chris Rock loved this flick.
PCU (1994)
Hilarious. Great Characters.
A shame this little gem didn't get the broad appeal of other movies that simply copy it or wimp out on the jokes. This is a movie that I can watch every year and always fully enjoy it.
The George Clinton song at the end truly rocks and may be the first true foray into GC's funk that most suburban under 21's see and hear.
I recommend this movie highly.
Mother (1996)
A Hilarious movie- I've seen it 3x since it came out. Just as funny everytime.
Albert Brooks is so understatedly funny. You laugh with him and you laugh at him, so you never know exactly how its going to happen, you just know you're going to laugh. Debbie Reynolds is very funny as Mom and Rob Morrow plays a great supporting role which had me cracking up. These characters are absolutely realistic and that reality base is why this Albert Brooks film, like Defending your Life, is timeless. All three actors are funny in their own unique way. All three characters are three dimensional and the dialogue between them is classic.
This movie re-enforces the notion that you CAN always start over, even when all signs tell you it's too late. Your family is also the best catalyst in making that change.