Ryan Reynolds (a promiscuous stoner douchebag-with-a-heart-of-gold) and his BFF since grade school, a much older-looking Jason Bateman (a family man with an insatiable appetite for success) star in David Dobkin’s (Wedding Crashers) latest bro-mantic comedy. The premise is as simple as it is stupid: the dudes get drunk, piss in a fountain and voila, switch […]
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Green Lantern provides comic relief
It’s hard to take this shade of green seriously. Martin Campbell’s (Casino Royale) adaptation of the DC comic establishes the universal battle between the yellow power of “fear” and the green power of “will.” Unfortunately, this “info-dump” happens twice: first for the audience, then again for pilot turned superhero Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds). We get […]
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The Proposal gets turned-down
Playing the stereotype of a cold, power-tripping female boss seems beneath Sandra Bullock’s interests. Her appeal has always been that she’s unpretentious and unassuming. Of course The Proposal has to be about her regaining that warm charisma. To avoid losing her job as a Manhattan publishing executive and being deported to her home country of […]