Andrew Nicholson

In the film you see that the band members have normal day jobs, go on a unsuccessful tour in Europe and cannot get a break with any record company for recording their next album forcing them to seek financial backing elsewhere.

It is a great feel good movie which focuses not so much on the band’s music but more on what happens to them in their daily lives, making it quite accessible for a large audience to enjoy. There are tears and laughter on the way which makes for a good movie.

It is interesting that since the movie’s release Anvil have actually gained a fair bit of popularity and are currently supporting ACDC on their North American tour.

Good stuff, even if a little on the short side at 90 minutes.

8/10

Indeed there are many funny scenes in this film and many scenes are completely outrageous, contain lots of nudity (even some real sex) and are often downright offensive actually. However this movie seems to lack a story line and the pacing is a bit off at times and it is even obvious that many bits are properly setup rather than improvised which Cohen wants you to believe (ie the bystanders are often in on it). It all doesn’t detract too much from the humour though.

Memorable scenes for me were the tv-show test audience, the invisible blow job, the hunting scene and the gay conversion process (rather hard to explain but hilarious in places!).

Certainly worth a look if you like Cohen’s style of humour and if you did like the Brüno bits in his tv shows. However if you are easily offended I certainly wouldn’t recommend seeing it! Adults only for this one I would have thought!

6/10

The acting of the girl in this film (Isabelle Fuhrman) is absolutely phenomenal I thought and quite compelling to watch. It might even be oscar worthy I would have thought, not that this type of film usually gets nominations I would guess.

Some of the scenes are perhaps quite disturbing without getting too gruesome. Morever the suspense and slight horror feel are both maintained thoughout the film. A good film with a satisfying story line, nothing amazing I would say but definitely worth the watch.

7/10

In any case GI Joe gives you what you expect I guess, a mediocre action packed movie and two girls who look good in leather. However the scale of things is far too ridiculous to be believable. The size of the under water base looks larger than ALL bad guy James Bond bases put together, it’s unnecessarily enormous and also the technology used by the bad guys feels like this movie should be set in a much more distant future.

There is also a desparate attempt at the very end of the film to give the bad guys a little human background, ala Spiderman/Batman. Just in case you are wondering why the bad guys are bad I guess…but it comes all too late and can’t save the 2 hours of ridiculously complicated story line you have just had to sit through. The plot sets things up for a GI Joe sequel which I will do my best to miss… Better than Transformers 2 but then how could it possibly be worse or as bad!

4/10

I do think however they played it “safe” a bit by not trying something a bit more daring with the story lines. Some minor things could be interpreted as a bit “dumb” I am guessing, such as the fact that there are clearly still trains running in the Manhatten subway system well after the hostage situation becomes clear to authorities. I would imagine they would even try to seal off the whole of Manhatten itself if such a situation would arise. Also the getting money to the Transport office scene seems a bit over the top!

However it is a good movie which most should enjoy. A movie I would certainly recommend to the average movie/action flick goer.

Well worth the visit.

7/10

Although I thought the movie took a little while to get going (for at least 45 minutes into it you don’t really get what’s going to happen) it was quite captivating to see how things would pan out. A bit of a weird story you could conclude but certainly the type of film I like to see. The setting is someway into the future where the moon is used to “harvast” energy. The setting seems plausible I’d say.

A good movie in my opinion and certainly worth seeing if you like science fiction movies to be more intriguing rather than explosive and full of action.

Interesting that the movie is released shortly after the 40th anniversary of the first Lunar landing.

It is the best Sci-Fi movie I’ve seen at the cinema this year after Star Trek.

8/10