Tag: comedy
member name: Erika S.
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November 24, 2007 11:56 PM EST --
A musical with a moral. It's 1962 Baltimore. Tracy Turnblad (Nikki Blonsky) is an unpopular, overweight high school student with a dream: to be one of the teen dancers on the Corny Collins (James . . .
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August 13, 2008 09:49 AM EDT --
Ah, New Jersey. The pollution. The Mob. Stephanie Plum.
I've been hearing raves about Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum novels, so I had to try at least one. I started at the beginning, with . . .
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February 10, 2008 04:01 PM EST --
A fun and funny mix of two oil-and-water genres: Westerns and Zombie movies. Elmer is a Union deserter on the run, and Luke is a cowboy with a broken heart. Elmer is a slick con-man type. Luke is...not . . .
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November 05, 2007 09:06 AM EST --
It begins well, with an introduction by Robert Osbourne, declaring this one of his favorite movies, and giving a history of Jules Verne in film. The perky, playful theme music leads you not to take this . . .
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November 30, 2007 11:47 PM EST --
Chaucer's medieval epic poem about love unrequited and what happens when you get what you want. In five staves, but I only got through the first and part of the second. It's not the language - . . .
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November 11, 2007 01:29 AM EST --
The sequel to Bruce Almighty picks up with Evan (Steve Carell), the man who got the anchor job Bruce had coveted, being elected to Congress and moving his family to a Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. . . .
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November 11, 2007 01:09 AM EST --
I expected this to be an offensive movie, but instead it's a sweet story about loving and trusting God, and making the difference in the world yourself.
Bruce (Jim Carey) is having a bad day. His . . .
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November 01, 2007 09:45 PM EDT --
A bright romantic comedy set in Chicago during Christmas Week. Lonely Lucy (Sandra Bullock) works at the train station, and has long been admiring Peter (Peter Gallagher), a regular commuter, although . . .
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November 01, 2007 09:48 PM EDT --
A delightful, fractured fairy tale about a young girl, Ella (Anne Hathaway), "gifted" with obedience by her fairy godmother. The gift forces her to obey every order, regardless of how she feels . . .
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November 05, 2007 08:55 AM EST --
A charming, frenetic comedy with two of my favorite actors, Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn.
Grant plays an absentminded paleontologist, engaged to marry a woman who informs him their marriage . . .
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November 04, 2007 10:09 PM EST --
A Marx Brothers classic, full of sharp machine-gun wit, sight gags, silly songs and nonsense. Groucho plays Rufus T. Firefly, newly-elected leader of Freedonia, whose election was strong-armed by Gloria . . .
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November 01, 2007 09:38 PM EDT --
Mildly amusing, predictable comedy wherein Robin Williams plays a pastor who requires prospective marrying couples to undergo a "training program" before he will perform their ceremony. Mandy . . .
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November 01, 2007 09:41 PM EDT --
Absolutely adorable chick-flick about mothers and daughters and pressure, finding "Mr. Right" and learning when to let go.
Mandy Moore is Millie, the youngest of three daughters of single . . .
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November 05, 2007 09:00 AM EST --
Mild comedy with James Garner and Jack Lemmon as two former presidents trying to get to the bottom of a scandal that may involve the current president.
Along the way, they travel a good part of the . . .
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November 11, 2007 01:03 AM EST --
Very cute comedy version of The Devil and Daniel Webster and its ilk. Not-so-lovable loser Elliot (Brendan Fraser) is far too clueless and eager-to-please to understand that everyone hates his dweeby . . .
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November 04, 2007 10:11 PM EST --
Satire. Now I get it. To me it seemed like a bunch of film buddies got together and decided to goof around for a couple hours with the camera rolling.
The movie is funny in spots, darkly comic, . . .
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