Day 30: Charlie and The Chocolate Factory

Charlie and The Chocolate Factory

Whose Movie: Steph's

Rating: Chocolatey Delicious :)

Matt and I watched this last night while eating chocolate bars.  The movie is still very enjoyable. I like that it followed Roald Dahl's book slightly better than the 1970s Gene Wilder version. And of course, the movie is a Tim Burton movie, and that is always awesome.  Johnny Depp does a good job being eccentric, and I love Freddie Highmore as Charlie.

Day 29: Caddyshack and Carousel

Caddyshack

 Whose Movie: Matt's

Rating: Really funny
 
This was one of those $5 Wal-Mart buys that Matt couldn't pass up.  He had never seen the whole thing, I had never seen any of it.  All we knew was that it had something to do with Bill Murry and a gopher.  It was so much more than that.  It was super funny, it had a lot of great comedians, and the plot was great.  It was very enjoyable, and the gopher was so cute! I just wanted to hug it.

Carousel

Whose Movie: Steph's

Rating: Timeless

No matter how many times I see this movie, I cry.  I know what's going to happen and when, but whenever the first notes of "When You Walk Through a Storm" begin to play, the tears begin to fall.  I'm in love with Gordan MacRay, and listening to him sing just makes me swoon.  I can listen to "Soliloquy" over and over and over again, and never get tired of it.  Shirley Jones is great in this as well.  Of course, Matt hated this movie, and he is glad that the musicals are spread out.

Next Up: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Chicago and Clash of the Titans.

Day 28: Boondock Saints and Borat

Boondock Saints

Whose Movie: Matt's

Rating: I didn't hate it

Okay, so I remember several years ago, I watched half this movie and quit.  I didn't like it, I wasn't going to finish it.  Matt enjoyed it, so he bought it.  Now fast forward to now.  I dreaded watching this movie. I didn't want to watch it at all.  But when we watched it last night, I actually enjoyed it.  I liked the plot, I liked the characters, and I became invested in it.  I didn't LOVE the movie, but I enjoyed it.  I shouldn't have procrastinated watching it.  

Borat

Whose Movie: Matt's

Rating: It's funny, even though I regret enjoying it

This is one of those movies that makes me wonder "why?" This movie is so stupid, I don't particularly like it, but for some inexplicable reason, I enjoy watching it.  It makes me laugh.  And when it's over, I wonder "Why am I laughing? This movie is stupid!"  Last night was the second time I watched the movie.  I saw a couple things that I missed the first time, and still laughed at everything I laughed at the first time.  I'm glad this movie starts with B, because it will be a long time before I have to watch it again.

Next up: We begin our "C" movies.  It's our smallest letter, with only 7 movies, starting with Caddyshack.

Day 27: Blind Side and Blues Brothers

The Blind Side

Whose Movie: Steph's

Rating: Still good the second time around.

This was one of our Black Friday finds this year, we got it for $5.   Matt was really reluctant to watch this movie at first, but he got pretty into it, but then it turned into a football movie, and he quickly lost interest.  I really enjoyed it the second time, I even cried still  :)  I think this movie is heartwarming, and I love how it's a "happy-ending" movie.

Blues Brothers

Whose Movie: Steph's

Rating: Totally Awesome!

Okay, how did SNL movies evolve from this to MacGruber?  Seriously?  My favorite thing about this movie, is the music.  The music rocks!  I always want to get up and dance whenever Ray Charles comes on and sings "Shake Your Tail Feather." My second favorite thing about this movie is the comedy.  Dan Akroyd and John Belushi were so great together.  The comedy is very subtle, not in your face like Will Farrell or Mike Myers or anyone else in recent years.  Their comedy is in a facial expression, in a movement, in a tone of voice.  This is classic comedy at it's best.  It's what made SNL great back in the 70s, and what SNL lacks now.

Two more B movies: Boondock Saints and Borat.

Day 26: Blazing Saddles

Blazing Saddles

Whose Movie: Mutual Buy

Rating: Funny, duh

We bought this movie last year on Black Friday from Wal-Mart for a dollar.  Totally worth the money.  We are both Mel Brooks fans, so we own most of Mel Brook's movies.  This is the first one to pop up in the alphabet.  Even though we've each seen this movie a few times, we were still able to watch last night and laugh.

Three B movies left: Blues Brothers, Boondock Saints and Borat.

Day 25: Blacula

Blacula

Whose Movie: Matt's

Rating: *SIGH* 

This movie is awful. Terrible.  It sucked.  It said so many things about race and homosexuality that I wanted to hang my head in shame for watching it.  The only redeeming quality was that it was easy to make fun of it.  I can't even begin to describe the movie.  I've posted the trailer below.  Watch it.  If you are at all interested in the movie, we'll let you borrow it.

Day 23 & 24: Big Fish, Big Trouble in Little China and the Bill and Ted Movies

Big Fish

Whose Movie: Mutual Buy

Rating: Awesome

This movie is one that we both love.  First of all, it's a Tim Burton movie, so that automatically makes it one that I like, and then add to it the amazing story, and it can't go wrong.  We still laughed at the jokes.  We caught a continuity issue and laughed about that.  Then when it ended, we were both is tears.  It's a touching story, that is enjoyable to watch.

Big Trouble in Little China

Whose Movie: Matt's

Rating: Awesomely Cheesy

When Big Fish ended Matt said "Now for a movie that's a little less sad, and a lot more awesome." This movie is bad, in a super cheesy way.  The dialogue is awful. And the plot seems incredibly rushed.  But the awesome part is the fight scenes and Kurt Russell.  Nothing beats a bad Kurt Russell movie, and we still have two left in our collection.

 

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

Whose Movie: Mutual Buy

 

Rating: It was okay

If I remember correctly, the Bill and Ted movies were a nostalgia buy. It had been such a long time since I had watched this movie, that I had forgotten that the whole point was that Bill and Ted were like God's in the future, and they needed to be kept together for the future to happen.  I enjoyed the historical aspect of it, and I enjoyed the historical figures running amok in the mall.  Other than that, this movie was bad, but not as bad as it's sequel.

Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey

 

 

Whose Movie: Mutual Buy

 

Rating: Just awful

 

Okay, so this movie sucked. Majorly.  It seemed completely unnecessary, and the plot was very contrived.  The end though, took the cake for the worst part of the movie.  Seriously.  Watch it, and then tell me if you think this was awesome.  I think the only reason we have this one is because it came in a combo pack with the first movie.

Next up in our collection: Blacula, Blazing Saddles and The Blues Brothers.

Day 22: Big

Big

Whose Movie: Steph's

Rating: Timeless

When we were driving home from getting dinner last night, Matt was trying to remember why he loved Big so much when he was younger.  I began naming off reasons why I loved the movie: Tom Hanks, It was funny, the piano scene, it always makes me cry in the end.  None of those reasons were why Matt loved it.  When we finished watching it last night, Matt finally remembered why he loved it so much growing up, and I agreed with him: It made you think you could grow up and work for a toy company as a job.  That's the reason why kids love this movie.  Tom Hanks gets to make money by playing with toys and then he takes the money he earns and he can blow it on stuff like giant trampolines, crazy clothes and his very own pop machine in his apartment.  The movie is all fun, but it still has conflicts, like when Tom Hanks changes after getting a girlfriend and forgets about being a kid.  And no matter how many times I watch this movie, I still tear up in the end.

Next up: Big Fish, Big Trouble in Little China and The Bill and Ted movies :) 

Day 21: Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour, Beetlejuice & Better Off Dead

Magical Mystery Tour

Whose Movie: Steph's

Rating: Not the best Beatles movie, but still fun.

So Matt's biggest issue with this movie was that it didn't have a plot, and I'll give him that.  The movie was 50 minutes of random stuff shoved together with some great Beatles songs like "I Am the Walrus," "Blue Jay Way," and "Fool on the Hill."  Other than the songs, the rest of the movie doesn't make much sense whatsoever.  Out of the Beatles movies, it's my least favorite because of it's lack of plot, but I still enjoy it because it has some of my favorite songs in it, especially "I Am the Walrus."

Beetlejuice

Whose Movie: Steph's

Rating: Awesome

If I had to pick a favorite director, I would pick Tim Burton.  I love his movies, and I love Danny Elfman's score for all his movies.  I especially love Beetlejuice.  After watching, I turned to Matt and told him that no matter how many times I see this movie, I still find it awesome.  We watched it and Matt finally was able to enjoy a movie in our collection again.  He sat their quoting lines right along with Bettlejuice. The movie will never get old.

Better off Dead

Whose Movie: Matt's

Rating: Super funny

This movie is HILARIOUS. I've seen it a couple times, but it had been a while since we last watched it, so I had forgotten most of the movie.  But, I was laughing through most of it.  Beginning with Lane's (John Cusack) obsession with his girlfriend Beth, to his mom's cooking, to "I want my two dollars!" to "Sorry your mom blew up Ricky." The movie made me laugh, even though at times it could be very random.

Next up in our collection: Big, Big Fish and Big Trouble in Little China

Day 20: Beatles: Help!

Help!

Whose Movie: Steph's

Rating: Fab

This is my favorite of the Beatles movies.  I like it because it's hilarious, and it's the boys at their best.  The plot is simple: A fan from the East has mailed Ringo the sacrificial ring and he's wearing it, so the guys from the temple are trying to kill Ringo throughout the movie.  Hilarious antics follow.  They filmed in England (duh), Switzerland and The Bahamas.  Matt liked this movie better than Hard Day's Night, because there was an actual plot to the movie.  This movie has great songs in addition to the plot.  One of the songs is embeded below.

I recommend anyone who hasn't seen this movie to watch it. I've seen it A LOT and I was still laughing out loud at their antics. Especially at the attempts made on Ringo's life when the people from the temple were trying to get the ring.  Another favorite scene is "Paul's Adventure on the Floor."

Next up in our collection: Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour, Beetlejuice and Big.

Day 19: Beatles: A Hard Day's Night

A Hard Day's Night

Whose Movie: Steph's (isn't it obvious?)

Rating: Fab, gear and all those other teenage hyperboles (quoted from the movie :) )

I love this movie.  It's the Beatles at the most Beatley :)  It's not my favorite of the Beatles movies, but I love it just the same.  It's an exaggerated version of the day in the life of the Beatles.  It has all of my favorite lines in in that I used to say all the time in high school.   It has great songs, and I could listen to the boys' Liverpudlian accents all day.  Now that I've watched this movie, I want to rewatch all 8 hours of The Beatles Anthology :)  Matt thought the movie was "eh" because he couldn't understand what the boys' were saying half the time.  Now I'm going to share a couple of my favorite lines :)

John: Eh, who's that little old man?

Paul: What little old man?

John: That little old man.

Paul:  Oh, that's me grandfather.

George: That's not your grandfather.

Paul: How do you figure that one out?

George: I've seen your grandfather, he lives in your house.

Paul: That's my other grandfather, this is my other one.

Paul's Grandfather: I thought I was supposed to be getting a change in scenery? So far I've been in a train and a room, a car and a room and a room and a room.

George: Those are dead grotty.

Next movies in our collection are the last 2 Beatles movies, and then Beetlejuice.

Day 18: Be kind Rewind

Be Kind Rewind

Whose Movie: Mutual Buy

Rating: Gets better as the plot evolves

The last time we saw this movie was in the theaters, in California, with our wedding party, a couple days before the wedding.  So this movie has a bit of nostalgic value to it, which is probably why when we saw it in the $5 movie bin in Wal-Mart, we couldn't pass it up. Last night we unwrapped it from it's cellophane, and watched it for a second time, and it was still a decent movie.  It still had a few funny moments (Hello, it IS Jack Black after all) and it still made me tear up in the end.  We had forgotten that the end doesn't really wrap up the movie though, and that was still disappointing.

Next: All 3 Beatles movies, followed by Beetlejuice

Day 17: The Dark Knight

The Dark Knight

Whose Movie: Mutual Buy

Rating: Best of the Batman movies in our collection

Okay, we know this should technically be in the 'D' section, but we organize our movies not only in Alphabetical order, but we also keep series movies together and in order. So, we watched The Dark Knight again. We each saw it twice in theaters when it came out, and at Free Friday Flicks when they showed it. This is also the newest movie (by release date) that we've watched in our collection so far.  This movie is really good.  It doesn't lose anything in multiple viewings, except maybe we didn't laugh so hard at The Joker's magic trick.  The effects are amazing, the story is amazing and the acting is amazing.  I think they do a great job at setting up the next movie.

Next: Be Kind Rewind, followed by 3 Beatles movies (Hard Days Night, Help, and Magical Mystery Tour)

Day 16: Batman Returns and Batman Begins

Batman Returns

Whose Movie: Mutual Buy

Rating: Great

Another Tim Burton Movie :) We learned that Tim Burton's Batman isn't so great at keeping his true identity a secret.  In the first movie, he totally told Vicky Vail, and in this movie, not only did he tell Catwoman, he totally ripped his mask off and revealed his identity to Shrek. But whatever.  What's great about the Tim Burton Batman movies is that you get a backstory on the villains. You get to find out how they became who they are.  This movie was just as great as the first one, and Danny Elfman's score just makes the movie fifty times better (can you tell I'm a Danny Elfman fan?)

Batman Begins

Whose Movie: Mutual Buy

Rating: Awesome

And then we have the reboot of the series.  I think that Tim Burton and Christopher Nolan's Batmans are awesome in their own way.  What Matt and I like about this one is that Wayne Enterprises is actually mentioned, and it's explained that the company is how Batman can actually be Batman.  Matt thought the backstory ran too long, but I thought it was necessary in order to set up the movie and the next one.  A superhero is nothing without his backstory :) Christian Bale makes a great Batman, and Liam Neeson as always if flipping awesome (which makes one wonder why he's in Battleship). 

Next up: "The Dark Knight," "Be Kind Rewind," and "Beatles: A Hard Day's Night."

Day15: Batman: The Movie and Batman

Batman: The Movie

Whose Movie: Mutual Buy

Rating: Terribly Corny

Okay,so this was a nostalgia buy. We both loved watching this Batman series when we were kids, and bought it on a whim.  The last time we watched it was before we went and saw "The Dark Knight" for the first time.  It's horribly corny, and there are so many problems with the plot that I could write pages on it.  The thing that bothered me the most though was that every time it when to the "super criminals" hideout, the shot was crooked. Like SUPER crooked. Seriously, it annoyed the heck out of me.  Parts that made us laugh the most (we laughed and mocked the ENTIRE movie) was every time Batman and Robin had to solve one of the Riddler's riddles. "A Sparrow with a machine gun." "Of course, that is the only answer obviously."

Batman

Whose Movie: Mutual Buy

Rating: Awesome

If Matt had to choose a favorite movie, he said last night he would have a hard time choosing between this and "Back to the Future."  After watching the disaster of the other Batman movie, we decided to watch this one as well.  This one, besides the 80s fashion, has aged really well. And plus it's a Tim Burton movie :) Jack Nicholson was awesome as The Joker.  And Danny Elfman's score is awesome as well.  Prince wrote a bunch of songs for the movie as well, and they played only when the Joker was making mischief. Matt said "This leads me to believe that Prince is a terrorist, what with his sponsering of The Joker's activities and all." This is the first of several Tim Burton movies in our collection, as he's my all time favorite director.

Three more Batman movies left in our collection. Then after Batman we have Be Kind Rewind. 

Day 14: Back to the Future III

Back to the Future

Whose Movie: Matt's

Rating: Great. A perfect Trilogy

This movie was just as good as the first, but it prompted Matt to comment at the beginning "How the hell did they get approved to make the same movie 3 times?"  What we love about this trilogy is the continuity.  We also commented how Michael J. Fox and the guy who played Biff had the most "identities" in the movies, with Michael J. Fox playing the most "characters." 

This was the first of our trilogies, or movie series'. Next trilogy or series up in our collection is Gidget and then Indiana Jones, so it'll be a while.

Next up in our collection is our first franchise: Batman. We have 5 Batman movies to watch, in chronological order, starting with the 1960s Batman movie, and ending with The Dark Knight.

Day 13: Back to the Future II

Back to the Future II

Whose Movie: Matt's

Rating: Just as awesome as the first one

This has always been my favorite in the trilogy, and I think it's because so much goes on, and Doc and Marty have to try and accomplish so much.  These movie are super well made, and the continuity between them and within them is amazing. Every time you watch, you catch something new.  These movies are timeless, and that's what I love most about them.

Day 12: Back to the Future

Back to the Future

Whose Movie: Matt's

Rating: Super cool, and totally quotable

So we watched this movie. We quoted this movie. We loved this movie.  Do I need to say anymore?

Day 11: Austin Powers

Austin Powers

Whose Movie: Mutual Buy

Rating: Funny, best out of all the Austin Powers movies 

It had been a while since we had seen this movie in it's entirety, and after watching it, we remembered why it's the only Austin Powers that we own.  It's the best in the series, and it's still funny. The movie still holds up, even when we realized it's now thirteen years old.  Mike Myers does a great job at being both Austin and Dr. Evil, and this movie has a lot less ridiculous situations than the sequels. 

That's the end of the A's in our collection.  Next we start the B's, which also have a lot of movies.  First up we have the Back to the Future Trilogy, followed by all the Batman movies :)

Day 10: Anchors Aweigh

Anchors Aweigh

Whose Movie: Steph's

Rating: Steph = Awesome, Matt = Sucked

I LOVE this movie.  Matt thought this movie was torture.  It was 2hr and 20 min long and Matt counted down until the end.  I had to explain that movies like this were made to showcase Gene Kelly's dancing, and oh what dancing he did.  This is the movie with his famous  Dance with Jerry Mouse.  I find Gene Kelly incredibly sexy, and love him in anything that he does.  In addition to Gene's amazing dancing, we also had Frank Sinatra!  Frank. Sinatra. Nuff said.  And the female lead was Kathryn Grayson, who has (or had, not sure if she's still alive) the most amazing operatic singing voice.  The plot isn't the strongest, but it's an MGM musical of the 1940s.  It has everything you need, singing, dancing and a happy ending :)

Day 9: American Beauty and Anchorman

American Beauty

Whose Movie: Mutual Buy

Rating: Still good the second time around.

Matt and I borrowed this movie from the library about two years ago and watched it for the first time.  Then we liked it so much that when we found it in the $5 movie bin at Wal-Mart, we didn't hesitate to buy it.  This movie is very well made.  It makes you ponder on your life and your relationships.  Matt and I laughed out loud at parts.  Matt also wants to be just like Kevin Spacey's character, while I hope I never turn into Annette Benning's character.  If you haven't seen it, I recommend that you see it at least once.  It deserves all the academy awards it won.

Anchorman

 

Whose Movie: Matt's (I think) maybe mutual buy, can't remember

Rating: Still hilarious after the hundredth viewing.

Matt and I decided that we will never be able to watch this movie with someone who has never seen it, because we start laughing before the joke even happens.  There is only one scene that I can't watch, it's the flute scene, because Will Farrell isn't playing it right, and it bugs me.  I know, I shouldn't let it bug me, but it does.  I don't know why.  Anyways, I still laughed hard at everything, even though we've seen this movie A LOT.  I'm glad that it still holds up.

Day 8: Almost Famous

Almost Famous

Whose Movie: Steph's

Rating: Super Awesome.

This is a movie that I will always love.  It's the music.  Cameron Crowe picked the best music for this movie.  Bowie, Skynrd, Elton, you name it, it was in the movie.  The story is great too.  I loved this movie since I first saw it in high school.  I wanted to be Penny Lane.  I wanted to dress like her.  I wanted to be William Miller, being able to tour the country with a band and write about it.  Everything about this movie is awesome.  Nothing beats the scene in the bus when the band and the band-aids all sing Tiny Dancer.  Amazing.  

Tomorrow: American Beauty.

Day 7: Alexander Revisited

Alexander Revisited

Whose Movie: Matt's

Rating: Better than we expected

So this is a movie that we bought with neither of us ever watching it. We found it in the $5 movie bin at Wal-Mart and Matt was all "As a classicist, this is a movie I need to own." So we bought it, and Matt watched the first part, and then never finished it.  We procrastinated getting to watch this.  We procrastinated almost a week.  But we finally sat down and watched all 3.5 hours of it.  I found it very interesting.  I felt that the movie was well made, and Matt and I commented that it was almost like the History Channel got a large budget, hired A-List actors and made a movie.  We also found it funny that Angelina Jolie was the only person attempting to sound Greek.  I had to break my "no Angelina Jolie" rule to watch this movie, and it was painful.  She was in it WAY too much for my liking.  I felt that Colin Farrell did a wonderful job as Alexander, and I cried when his lover died right along with him.  I could have gone my entire life without seeing a man smashed by an elephant though.

Next up we continue the A's and return to shorter movies.  Next on the list: Almost Famous.

Days 5 and 6: Addams Family Values and Airplane

Addams Family Values

Whose Movie: Matt's

Rating: A worthy sequel

Okay, so this movie also held up really well.  I had to laugh at all of the antics that went on in summer camp with the Addams kids.  Matt and I also questioned the fact that the baby turned back to normal so quickly after Fester returned.  We also pondered a continuity question: The lady who married cousin It had a "regular" child in the first movie, but he was missing in the second one.  Anyways, this movie was funny, and it was fun to notice things in the background that I hadn't noticed before.

Airplane

 

Whose Movie: Matt's

Rating: Hilarious Comedy

Okay, so I don't know on what planet this movie is rated PG, but I'll just go with it.  I had never seen this movie before, but I had seen bits and pieces of it.  I thought it was hilarious, although I didn't get some of the sight gags.  Yes, the jokes were corny, but it was funny, and the movie was enjoyable.

Six more movies left in the letter "A"

Day 4: The Addams Family

The Addams Family

Whose Movie:  Matt's

Rating: Awesome

This is a movie that we can watch over and over again, and it won't get old.  It's held up through the years, and with each new watching, we discover something new.  This time, we noticed that Pugsly's room was full of stop signs from when he takes them down to hear cars crash.  When Morticia takes Fester to the graveyard and read the Latin inscription on a tomb that is the Addams family motto, Matt pipes up that it's not what it says.  The inscription really reads: "They that fake noun, fake verb, fake adjective, now."  We had fun watching it, we still laughed at all the jokes, and we can't wait to watch the next one.

Next up: Addams Family Values, Airplane and Alexander Revisited.

Day 3: Across the Universe

Across the Universe

Whose Movie: Steph's

Rating: Awesome, though Matt mocked.

If I had to rank all 270 of our movies in order, I would rank Across the Universe as #2.  How can you go wrong with Beatles songs, covered well, and lots of subtle and not so subtle Beatles references.  My favorite scenes match up with some of my favorite Beatles songs.  Strawberry Fields Forever and Across the Universe.  The movie is well acted and visually stunning.  It was refreshing after weeks of watching Evan Rachel Wood on True Blood to be reminded that she is actually a very good actress when given quality material to work with.  I can watch this movie a hundred times and not get tired of it.

Next movies up are Addams Family and Addams Family Values.

Day 2: Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

Today we only had time to complete one movie.

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

 Whose Movie: Mutual Buy

Rating: Lamer than the first movie, unnecessary sequel.

Okay, so watching this movie made the first Ace Ventura movie look genius.  At least the first movie had a coherent plot line that goes from A to B without much straying.  In the sequel, it's just Jim Carey being stupid.  That's it.  Yeah, they have to find the stupid bat, but that doesn't even flesh out very much.  The first movie had Ace being a detective, and actually looking really smart in the end.  This one he just looked like a dumb ass.

Moving on tomorrow.  Next up, Across the Universe...

Day 1: About A Boy and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

Anyone who knows me, knows that Matt and I LOVE movies.  All you have to do is come to our apartment and view our extremely large movie collection to know that.  We have almost two hundred movies.  We can't pass up good deals to buy movies.  And we don't stop there, we go to the theater at least twice a month to see movies, and we go to the video store and library and rent movies.  Yesterday, Matt had an idea of how we can entertain ourselves, and save money in the meantime.  He suggested that we start watching all of our movies, in alphabetical order.  I agreed.  It'll be easy, since we've already got the movies organized in alphabetical order, so we just start at the beginning.  I decided to start a blog to talk about our adventure, since it will take a year or more to accomplish this goal.  Tonight we started off by watching two movies.

About A Boy

Whose movie: Steph's

Rating: Not lame, enjoyed by both parties.

Okay, so the first movie on our shelf is "About A Boy."  I love this movie, and Matt hates Hugh Grant.  We put the movie in, and I loved it.  First time I watched it and didn't cry at the big climax scene near the end.  Matt had a good laugh, and didn't mock the movie at all, considering we agreed to being able to mock the movies we watch.  He even made a few appropriate comments along the way.  A great way to start off our movie marathon.

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

 Whose movie: Mutal Buy

Rating: Lame-ish.  Was mocked by both parties.


Okay, so we bought the Ace Ventura collection for nostalgia sake.  We loved the movies as kids, and come on, it's Jim Carey.  However, this movie did not age well at all.  First of all, this movie is totally not kid friendly.  How we both watched it as kids is beyond me.  I would definitely not show it to the kids I babysit.  There were a few genuinely funny parts that we laughed a loud to.  We loved seeing Jim Carey being Jim Carey, and we laughed about how when we were kids we used to go around saying "Alrighy Then."  However, mockable instances were things like, two people would not be able to carry a dolphin by themselves, or wouldn't Ace be able to see in the water and know it wasn't Snowflake in there?  All in all it was a fun experience, but the movie doesn't hold up very well.

Stay tuned, we have many more movies that begin with A left.  Next up, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls...