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One of the main reasons I wanted to see it was because Amanda Bynes (former star of The Amanda Show) was in it. But I got much more than I expected from it. It was just as good as people told me it was which is good because typically people make too much type around a movie and I'm disappointed.

I love the plot and I love the comedy and I could watch this movie 5, no probably 50, more times. I've already seen it at least 4 times so far and I still get urges to watch it yet again.

I give it: 10/10

The Hangover II

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I normally hate these types of movies. The Hangover 2 is no exception to that rule. I dislike disgusting humor which is why I don't like them. I may have laughed once or twice but that's about it. Watching the movie felt like a complete waste of time. I'm only giving this a 2 instead of a 1 because of the few laughs I had.

I give it: 2/10

Hero Tales: The Complete Series

Oh Hiromu Arawakawa how you make your readers/watchers cry. Just like in Fullmetal Alchemist, Hero Tales has a few moments where it's hard to believe the writer would kill off a character.

The storyline of Hero Tales isn't really anything special. A used-to-be nobody kid named Taitou finds out that he's actually the incarnation of a star. When he gets too angry he gets out of control and only his sister can stop him from destroying himself. I don't really want to explain it here I'm too lazy but I'll just say it disappointed me coming from Hiromu.

Taitou gets really obnoxious around the middle of the series and is so whiny it makes you want to stop watching. The final fight is pretty lame and ends in the stereotypical anime fashion if you know what I mean. I almost did but I had to keep watching to see if it got better. It did for a little bit but then went back downhill. I most certainly won't be watching this series again but it's okay to watch through once.

I give it: 6/10

Bridesmaids

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This movie was easily the funniest movies I've seen in a while. Ever since I saw it I've wanted to watch it again. Practically every scene had me laughing and the humor never stopped.

With Maya Rudolf and Kristen Wiig the movie is practically all set to become hilarious. My favorite character in the movie is Megan (played by Melissa McCarthy). There are so many quotable lines from Bridesmaids and if you haven't seen it yet you really really need to. There's also a quite attractive Irish man (Chris O'Dowd) mostly attractive because of his accent but hey. Only thing I don't recommend is watching this with younger children or with your parents. Awkward.

"I've seen better tennis playing in a tampon commercial."

I give it: 10/10

Scream 4

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I feel the need to say that I watched this movie at 9pm in a smallish movie theater at college. Playing this movie to a room full of college students was actually really hilarious. While half of me was scared because a random masked figure was popping out and stabbing people to death, half of me was cracking up because of all the people who would scream when that happened. The funniest thing was when the movie leads you to think Scream is going to pop out and kill someone but it's just something stupid like it'll just be a random character. People pretty much screamed whenever the music got louder.

As for storyline goes, as in most horror movies there isn't really one, which is the main reason why I typically don't like them. The point is just to get people killed. But there's a certain attraction to the movie because of the fun part of trying to figure out who Scream actually is. I won't say who, but I'll say it's pretty unexpected. That simple fact is almost the whole reason I'm giving this such a high rating. The other reason is the cast: Lucy Hale, Anna Paquin, Courteney Cox (whose first name I didn't know was spelled like that until recently), Kristen Bell, Hayden Panettiere, and David Arquette being among the long list of the well-known actors/actresses in the cast. Having all of them in Scream 4 just makes it that much better because it doesn't seem as cheesy as it may have been if they had used unknowns.

I give it: 8/10

The Forgotten

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Okay so I may have fallen asleep the first time I tried to watch this movie, but that's because it was late and I was tired. A few days later I remembered I was watching it and decided to finish it to get it off the Instant Queue on Netflix. I almost fell asleep again.

First of all, The Forgotten is confusing in the not-so-fun way. Nothing makes sense at all and the ending doesn't even explain the whole point of anything either unless I was too out of it to understand what was going on. The plot itself was pretty dry and since nothing gets explained it's not worth watching.

The main character named Telly (a stupid name) was played by Julianne Moore. I am not a fan of Moore because of her small role on 30 Rock in which she had to pretend to have a Brooklyn accent. Her version of said accent was the worst I have ever heard. Now it bothers me pretty much every time I even see the woman.

I give it: 4/10

Uptown Girls

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Oh em gee Jesse Spencer. Yeah he's in this movie and as a singer. One of the hottest singers ever if I may say so myself. Anyways, Uptown Girls had it's ups and downs; it made me laugh and made me cry. Favorite line? "Act your age not your shoe size"

Dakota Fanning is so little in this movie and it's actually a really funny role for her. At least it is to me. She plays a girl who acts much older than she actually is, while her babysitter (Brittney Murphy) acts much younger than her actual age. This leads to a sort of paradox where the characters' ages don't match how they act.

The "Sheets of Egyptian Cotton" song that they play in the movie got stuck in my head which was obnoxious. Actually it is quite nice because that means I have Jesse Spencer's voice in my head which I shouldn't complain about. I like it there. Overall it was a good movie and has possible rewatch value, but it wasn't one I'm crazy about.

I give it: 9/10

Mr. Perfect by Linda Howard

Wow another book! This book literally took me about a month to read; not because I didn't like it but because I always seemed to have something better to do such as look at the multitude of cat videos on the Internet. The whole premise of this book is pretty interesting: one day a group of four women are eating together when the topic of what a perfect man would be comes up. It starts out normal with the top things being loyalty and good looks but then turns into being about certain physical aspects of men. One of the women writes down this "List" and after that everything goes downhill for the group.

Their "List" ends up getting published and becomes a highly talked about bit for the newspaper and TV shows. It leads to a lot of men (and women) being resentful for the items on the "List", but one person takes action and murders one of the four which leads to a highly suspenseful tone for the remainder of the book.

The main reason it was such a good book is because Linda Howard was able to acheive a good balance of suspense, humor, and romance in the novel. The ending completely suprised me which I like because I hate predictable books.

I give it: 8/10

Heathers

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I'd heard about this movie a lot, but only really because I know of Shannon Doherty from her role on Charmed and saw that she was in Heathers. I'm inclined to make the comparison of this movie to a way more mature version of Mean Girls mixed with Cruel Intentions, because that's the best way I think I can describe it. Basically there is a group of three popular people at high school all named Heather who use the main character, Veronica, to do their bidding. Veronica craves to be popular like they are so she pretty much just does whatever they want her to. That all changes when she meets J.D. who is the school's crazy guy. He's been kicked out of a lot of high schools, and this is just his newest temporary place.

Veronica secretly hates the Heathers so with J.D. she begins to plot their deaths. It starts out just as imagining their deaths, but ends up being much more. Part of why Heathers is so good is because it's entire concern is about society and the ways it influences teens in high school. For a movie done in 1989 it's really dark, and they had to even use an alternate ending than was originally planned because the first ending was deemed to be much too dark for a movie. Overall, I really liked the dark undertones of the movie along with the interjected humor.

I give it: 9/10

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

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I just cannot believe it's over. Harry Potter has been part of my life pretty much ever since it came out; I've seen every single movie in theaters and it's weird to think that there won't be any more new ones. The story of Harry Potter is pretty much a universal language. Everyone knows about Harry Potter whether they like it or not. The story of JK Rowling is just as amazing as the world she created. She was poor but once the story of "The Boy Who Lived" started becoming known around the world, she quickly became rich; so rich that she's rumored to have more money than the Queen of England. But anyways, Harry Potter has a huge fanbase of people of all ages and it's understandable. It has aspects of it for everyone.

I was lucky because I saw the movie on the Monday of the week it came out; 4 days before everyone else in America could see it, and I even got to see it for free. The IMAX 3D was pretty cool, but not too much of it was actually 3D looking. If you've seen the newest Pirates in 3D it was about the same as that.

Moving on, the last of the Harry Potter movies did not disappoint. Although the whole scene with Harry and Voldemort jumping off the bridge thing together was completely irrelevant and never even happened in the book, other than that it followed pretty close to the book. The only way I was disappointed was how (SPOILER ALERT) they rushed by the death scene for the major characters of Fred, Tonks, and Lupin. Those were major characters and they only really devoted one scene to them. Regardless, I still wanted to see the movie again right after it was over. Not basing the movie off of the books, it was awesome, and basing it off the books it was still well done.

I give it: 10/10

These Girls

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Well yes this is another movie with David Boreanaz in it that I watched right after the previous one I reviewed Mr. Fix It. You may wonder how much of him someone can handle in one day and I'll just say I'm watching Bones now so I still want more of him.

The first five minutes or so really deterred me from wanting to keep watching, but I somehow got through it. I did like the one scene where all David was 'wearing' was a picture. The characters in this movie are all portrayed as complete jerks which also makes you want to stop watching. The guys are all seen as ignorant  and exaggerated versions of the teenage boys we girls are warned about and the girls are all stupid and spend their time trying to be rebellious and act cool.

I'd say the acting is really the only plus in These Girls. Even though they had to portray obnoxious characters, the actors did a good job at it.

I give it: 5/10

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie

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Oh my gosh this movie is so 90s. Full of cheesy lines, cheesy special effects, and even cheesier clothes, this movie is actually pretty funny. I used to watch Power Rangers once in a while when I was little, but I don't think I ever saw this movie until now. It's got the same story line of every single other Power Rangers movie/show: a group of a few teenagers have to save the world from some threat to the world. Each is assigned a color and then they use their powers to save the world. I mean, I don't really have much to say here except that the movie has so many cheesy lines that if I ever watch it again I'm planning on having some nachos.

I give it: 6/10

Mr. Fix It

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I watched this movie because David Boreanaz is in it. Reason enough for me even though I've never heard of it. It was defintely weird to see him as a blonde and even though that kind of freaked me out a little I did get used to it pretty quickly.

So the girl's accent in this movie got really annoying. I don't know why but whenever a main character has some sort of foreign accent that's not British or Australian, it annoys me. Anyways, I did like the story/plot of it because it's interesting, but the best part of it was the humor. Well, scratch that, the best part of it was the half a minute or so of David Boreanaz dancing shirtless. Humor comes after that.

I definitely did not see the plot twist at the end coming whatsoever which does make me like it a whole lot more. Other than that plot twist, the rest of the movie was pretty predictable and you could tell the direction it was going in pretty quickly. Overall though it's a pretty good movie that did keep my attention. I'm guessing it wasn't released in theatres because I'd think I would have at least heard of it before.

I give it: 7/10

Green Lantern

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Yeah so I saw this the day it came out in movie theaters. I'd wanted to see it for a pretty long time so I was excited when it finally came out. Watch the trailer to know what it's about I don't want to explain. I liked the abs in this movie, but other than that it was disappointing. I expected more fighting and less really creepy looking baddies. And when I say creepy I mean extremely creepy. Normally the bad guys are cooler than the good guys but in this case I would never ever in any life want to be either of the bad guys in this movie. Sure, they have cool powers, but I would never want to look like them. So yeah I guess I just expected too much from this movie, but it's not like it was bad. I wouldn't have paid to see it in the movie theater and I could have waited for it to come out on Netflix, but it might be worth it to some people.

I give it: 7/10

Veronica Mars

Okay I've always wanted to see this show. All I had seen were clips on Youtube occasionally and they made me want to see it. I didn't really know much about it but I know it was grouped with Buffy in some things I saw; at least humor-wise. So that meant I had to give it a try.

Basically the show is about the main character who shares her name with the title (aka Veronica Mars). Her dad runs a private investigator business and she takes part in it because it's a family thing. The idea is pretty good with some really unexpected twists and some very expected twists. I went through the first few episodes really fast and kept wanting to watch more, but then the excitement sort of died off halway through Season 2. I didn't watch any episodes for a few months and didn't really want to. It seemed like a lot of the same was going on, Veronica throws out witty comments while figuring out the newest mystery that always somehow affects her.

I do like the humor, and the relationship between Veronica and her dad made me laugh a lot. The humor would keep me watching, but the seemingly repetitive use of arcs such as Duncan disappearing got annoying. The levels of drama sometimes reached somewhere way too high for me and that also made me not so willing to continue. But I did get through seasons 1 and 2 although I wasn't able to get through season 3. I just didn't want to waste my time on it. I figured there was no way it would get better so I just stopped. Plus the show was cancelled and they may have left off season 3 on a cliffhanger which would just bother me to no end because I'd never know the end.

I give it: 6/10

X-Men: First Class

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Okay so I'm not some X-Men geek/nerd/dork and I'm not even well-versed in the whole idea of it either. I've seen most of the movies but that's pretty much it. The idea of this installment is to show how the X-Men began and what led up to it.

I'm pretty sure about half the movie is in subtitles so try not to be like the couple in the movie theater who brought their little kid to a PG-13 movie. I'm sure their kid had less of a clue than usual as to what was going on. At one point in the movie they're in Argentina and then they're in Germany, Poland, Russia, and I'm sure I'm missing somewhere. Crazy. It takes place during the Cold War, although the beginning scene happens during World War II. Speaking of the opening, it was really confusing. I was like whoah. But then I got less confused as the movie went on. Explosions, emotions, and the Banshee are all high in the movie. If you see it you'll know what I mean by the Banshee looking high, or maybe just stoned.

The storyline didn't really have anything special to it and didn't really stand out to me, but the movie did flow pretty well once I got used to the constant changes in the story from character to character. There were a few funny lines, but not much. The one time Wolverine showed up for about 10 seconds was probably the funniest scene in the movie. I did like knowing the history behind what was going on because at the high point of the movie they are in a situation during the Cuban Missile Crisis which actually did happen.

I give it: 8/10

Ghostbusters

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Who you gonna call? Well, it's either Ghostbusters or Maroone I'm about to start talking about but I'm pretty sure you can figure out which one it is. This movie is old, so any of the graphic effects were really funny because technology back then was pretty lame compared to what we have now. Even funnier is to think that this movie was scary when it was released and now it's been turned into a joke because it's so unrealistic. There still were some creepy parts to the movie though.

Everyone knows what Ghostbusters is about so I'm not going to waste my time explaining the plot. Bill Murray was his usual funny self and Rick Moranis (the guy who was in the movies like Honey, I Shrunk the Kids) was still extremely short. There were some funny lines that I liked in Ghostbusters too.

I give it: 8/10

Vesper by Jeff Sampson

Whoah. A book. That's right, I now have time to read books so I'll be reviewing them too. So this one I just saw at work and thought it looked cool; that's right, I judged a book by its cover. Don't worry I did actually read it.

The story goes like this: a girl named Emily Webb is a geek. Another girl named Emily Cook gets killed and then Em Webb begins to act strange at night. She turns into someone completely different aka not a geek and goes to parties. Emily has no idea why it happens but she can't stop it. In her other personality she gets in trouble that her normal personality has to deal with. Oh and just warning you werewolves do become involved in the story at one point. Which was weird and unexpected.

It was pretty good in keeping you involved in the story and making you want to keep reading, but it wasn't one that you had to constantly be reading until you finish it. I did like that it's a different idea than typical teen books, although not completely unique. It was also nice that Buffy was referenced a few times. Plus, the entire book wasn't about romance which is definitely a nice break from normal books.

I give it: 7/10

Mari-Kari

Mari-Kari is an animated series on FEARnet which is supposedly anime and in it, Shannen Doherty voices both Mari and Kari.

Here's how FEARnet describes the whole idea of Mari-Kari:
"Mari and Kari are identical twins. They're best friends and never apart. Mari is the liveliest girl you'll ever meet. Kari is too. Her problem: she's dead. From there it just gets weird.

Mari-Kari centers around a grade school girl and her super-spooky, revenge minded wraith-of-a sister. Calamity and hilarity are hard-wired in. Set in the ordinary world of Mari, viewers see how her supernatural sisterly bond affects her life at home, at school, on the bus, at the mall - and how her life and her sister's lack of one makes them a very scary pair. Theirs is a relationship that has dire affects for anyone who tries to get in the middle of it. A cast of unforgettable characters round out the Mari/Kari duel, from Shari - the Perez Hilton of Gilles de Rais Elementary to Larry - a lovable dead kid who lives in the shed behind Mari and Kari's house.

Mari-Kari begins with Mari as she returns to school after the recent and unexplained death of her sister, Kari. The annual Sadie Hawkins dance is quickly approaching, and in a loose nod to Steven King's Carrie, we will see Mari get picked on and ostracized - not because she's a freak - but because she's just too darn sweet. A hilarious mix of karma and carnage ensues as Kari unleashes her wrath on the shallow, narcissistic and unsuspecting students who torment sweet Mari."

It's interesting how Shannen can get such a good range because Mari and Kari are two very different characters. The introduction of Larry (who is also dead) in episode 4 is interesting because it's obvious that Kari has a crush on him. When Kari says "You're a boy right?" Larry answers, "Actually, I'm an unholy demon, banished to this dimension, to gather and devour souls for my master Beelzebub, but I used to be a boy." Humor added to gore (a lot of gore) makes for a pretty entertaining show.

The episodes are short and sweet and are free online. If you want to watch it you can go to the main page for Mari-Kari on FEARnet here.

I give it: 9/10

Bolt Ϟ

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Talk about the cutest start to a movie ever. Right away I was like "oh em gee cutest dog ever". I mean really, who could resist the cuteness of a puppy playing with a squeaky carrot and chasing its tail? The beginning of Bolt was slightly confusing because of how they completely mislead you. I had no idea what the movie was about though so I'm sure if you watch the trailer you'll know what's going on whereas I was suprised.

Being a Disney film, I had pretty high expectations for Bolt and I can say that I wasn't let down. It had the typical qualities of being extremely cute and funny. The hamster named Rhino is also hilarious. Pretty much the only thingsI didn't like about the movie was it's predictableness and at some parts it was sad. It was so sad when Bolt (spoiler alert) finds out that everything he thought was real actually is all just part of a television show. He pretty much has to start his life all over again because he had been deceived so much. A cat has to teach Bolt how to act like an actual dog that's how bad it is. Anyway, overall it's definitely worth watching.

I give it: 8/10

Gintama

This seems like what would be produced by someone on crack and acid at the same time. Okay maybe not that crazy, but I'd say pretty close to it. At the same time, this manga is so loveable. The three main characteres, Gintoki, Shinpachi, and Kagura, are just so funny. And it's nice because it can be so weird yet still usually have some sort of storyline to it. Although there are some chapters that are just completely out of the rest of the story, thely're still really funny.

The next section is from Wikipedia because the story of Gintama is much to scattered and crazy for me to even want to attempt to explain it. So without further ado...

"The story of Gin Tama takes place in Edo (known today as Tokyo because of its name change in 1868), Japan, which was conquered by aliens called Amanto in the late Edo period. The samurai of Japan fought the aliens, but after their defeat the Amanto placed a ban on carrying swords in public. The plot is focused on an eccentric samurai, Gintoki Sakata who helps a teenager named Shinpachi Shimura save his sister Tae from a group of aliens who want to make her part of a brothel. Impressed with Gintoki, Shinpachi becomes his apprentice and works with him as a freelancer in order to pay the monthly rent where Gintoki lives, as well as to know more about him. The two of them rescue a teenage alien girl named Kagura from a group of Yakuza who wanted to use her superhuman strength to kill people. Kagura joins Shinpachi and Gintoki to work as freelancers and the three become known as "Yorozuya"."

Yep so there you go, that's the summary. Well, not really, but it's just how it starts out. I admit I haven't read all the volumes yet, but I have read most of them, and the ones I have read I've read them several times. So yes I do like this manga quite a lot just haven't gotten around to finishing it yet.

I give it: 9/10

Iron Man 2

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I have no remembrance of the first Iron Man at all, so don't expect any comparisons between them. The thing I liked most about the sequel is the dynamic between the guy who is Iron Man and his wife. Their conversations cracked me up several times during the movie and were pretty much the reason I kept watching. The beginning was rough to get through because Tony Stark (Iron Man) was completely egotistical.

The action scenes were pretty cool too, and the random girl who killed pretty much everybody was cool. But the ending was generally predictable and that whole shindig. So, without the witty banter between characters Iron Man 2 would have been pretty much a wreck, at least to me. But overall I liked it.

I give it: 7/10

Inception

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I don't think I need to go into details about this movie because I'm pretty sure unless you've been living under a rock so big that you wouldn't hear the Big Bang from under it, you know what it is..

The idea of the movie is interesting, it's just that, after hearing so much hype about it being the best movie ever, my expectations were set way too high for it. And that always results in ending up believing that the movie is not as good as people said it was. Maybe I just don't like mainstream things, not because they're mainstream exactly, but because anything that gets talked about so much gets a built up idea of how great it should be.

Oh and that ending? Hate. Stupid cliffhangers.

I give it: 7/10

Claymore

I am completely sure that I've written a review about this anime before but I think I had it saved on my old computer. Therefore it has been lost to the depths of computer hell. Anyways, that means I have to write a new one, but I kinda don't want to. So I'm going to be pretty brief here.

Plot: giant monsters try to kill people. Insert girls that have to fight said monsters with huge swords that are actually called claymores and have them fight. End. That's basically the whole thing. Oh and add lots of gore. There that's your anime. The good thing is that it's a short one at I think 24 episodes so it doesn't have enough time to get extremely repetitive; just a little bit.

I give it: 6/10

Baby Mama

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That's right, another Tina Fey movie. But sadly this one isn't very good even with her in it. Amy Poehler was very good in this movie though, but she always is good at acting insane. I'm not sure why it wasn't too good, but I still did get through it just to see what happened. The plot was detailed and there were some scenes that were shocking and not expected which is nice because that doesn't happen very often. Even so, I didn't like it as much as other things with Tina Fey in them. Maybe it's just because I'm basing this movie on Tina Fey's other movies which are all awesome; I guess not judging on typical Tina Fey standards this movie might be better. It is the typical Tina Fey character of social awkwardness, or actuall just awkwardness in general, but maybe it just doesn't fit well with the story. I'm not sure.

I give it: 7/10

Sleepless in Seatle

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Okay, so I do know that movies aren't supposed to be realistic, but the whole "love at first sight" stuff really annoys me. Oh and this definitely is not the type of movie I normally watch either, and I will admit that I was more "watching" it as in I had it on but I wasn't really paying complete attention to it mostly because I couldn't devote my full attention to it.

There were some pretty good parts to Sleepless that did make me laugh, but I mostly liked the little kid, Jonah, because he was so cute. As for complete plot predictability, yes it's completely obvious how it'll end (just like in Leap Year actually). But the difference is that this movie makes it actually somewhat worth watching the movie between the beginning and the end. I do like Tom Hanks too.

The fact that I'm giving a movie like this over a rating of 5 means it's good because I normally can't even make it through this type of movie.

I give it: 6/10

Leap Year

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Okay I don't have much to say for this movie except that I didn't really like it. At all. It's a movie where you know the ending right from the start and nothing in between makes it worth getting to that way too predictable ending. Even though it was supposed to be a romantic comedy, the romance was bad and the comedy was also bad. I don't think the movie made me laugh even once.

I give it: 4/10

Kick-Ass

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I read the comic book before the movie just to get a feel of it even though I did want to see Kick-Ass in theatres, that didn't happen so I never got around to watching it until now. Let me say that this movie started out really weird and immediately made me not want to watch it. Oh and the comic book didn't start like the movie at all.

At the point in the movie where Hit-Girl (the girl with the purple hair) shows up, pretty much the entire movie changes. The scene she's first in she kills multiple people with multiple weapons and she's only 11 years old. She slices off a guy's foot, and stabs another few people. Also, Nick Cage looks ridiculous with his mustache. Just saying. And he doesn't fit the roll of an anti-crime-dude anyways; he should stick to National Treasure or movies like them.

I think the movie should have just been named Hit-Girl because she's way more awesome than Kick-Ass; she's an 11 year old girl who kills at least 20 people in the movie while Kick-Ass is a teenaged boy who kills maybe 5 people. I do like the plot though because it's not the typical "I'm an awesome super-powered person fighting crime" but 'normal' people trying to be superheroes.

I give it: 6/10

Blood: The Last Vampire

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First let me clarify that I'm speaking about the live action movie that came out somewhat recently and not about the anime or anything like that. Oh and the trailer totally makes this movie seem way more awesome than it actually is. Honestly, I don't really have much to say about this movie because it's not really review-worthy. I got pretty much no entertainment value at all from it and had to try to watch it several times before finally being able to finish it. A typical revenge storyline accompanied by saving a "damsel" character is pretty much the movie. Although the fight scenes were pretty awesome and bloody, pun intended, they had no chance of being able to compensate for lack of anything else cool.

I give it: 3/10

PotC: On Stranger Tides

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Aye, strange tides were sailed. No Orlando Bloom or Keira Knightley aka two thirds of the original main cast that made up a very large part of the fan base. Okay so first I must say that yes I can review this movie before it came out in theatres because I went to an advance showing. Anyways, overall I was pretty disappointed in the movie.

It had those overall bits of the original Pirates movies that everyone loves; classic Jack Sparrow correcting people to call him Captain and his overall demeanor as a whole was still intact. But the situations around him and most of the characters were just wrong. Penelope Cruz's accent admittedly got annoying as the film went on. Disney, you know, those people who made the Little Mermaid, also managed to destroy any respect I ever had for mermaids by making them extremely evil and almost vampiric. Actually not "almost"... "very" is a much better word. They hissed. Hissing mermaids. Hissing killer mermaids as a matter of fact.

As a huge fan of the first movie; I literally watched it three times straight after I saw it the first time; it's definitely something for me to be saying it wasn't very good. There were some lines that I'm sure will be quoted, but not nearly as many as were in the first three movies. This fourth installment has a predictable plot too. Unlike the previous movies, the plot is pretty simple and nothing extremely dramatic happens. Or maybe it's just that plots have gotten so generic that it's easy to tell where movies are going with the story. Either way, me timbers were not shiverin' at this here movie.

I give it: 6/10

Evangelion 1.11: You Are (Not) Alone

Evangelion is based off of an anime/manga of the same name; well it's technically called Neon Genesis Evangelion, but there are so many spin-offs of it that it's ridiculous. It's one of those classics that pretty much everyone has heard of but maybe not seen. I normally hate mecha (especially reading it) because it's so hard to tell which giant machine is which. In the drawing medium they all seem to look the same and get me confused. But this movie is pretty much one version of the manga adapted into movie style. So I had high expectations for it because I loved the manga.

The entire time I sat through the movie, I waited for something to happen. I just kept on waiting for it to suddenly become awesome as the manga had. And honestly it never really did. The only plot I could somewhat make out was "oh no there's an Angel let's fight it". Oh and the subplot parts that make it like a soap opera. It was the ending of the movie that got me. Well not the literal ending, but the part after the huge overly-dramatic fight scene where Shinji goes and gets Rei out of the Eva. And it only "got me" in the way that it's so sad but yet happy at the same time. Anyways I'd probably only recommend this to crazy Evangelion fans so that's probably not you.

I give it: 5/10

Paper Heart

Okay so this is definitely a weird movie for me to pick to watch, but I did. Pretty much just for Michael Cera who I loved in Scott Pilgrim vs the World. His cute charm was also in this movie, but the movie in general was lacking. The premise is this: the main character, Charlyne, doesn't believe in love, so she sets out making a documentary about what love is. On the journey she meets someone and a relationship between them beings to form.

Overall, Paper Heart was kinda boring to be blunt about it. There were a few parts that made me smile, mostly the parts where they had the little sections where cardboard people were used. Plus the part where Charlyne interviews a bunch of kids in a park about what they think love is.Those kids were just so darn cute. The ending was also pretty funny, but honestly not worth watching the whole rest of the movie to get to.

I give it: 4/10

Scott Pilgrim vs the World

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Don't let the awesomeness of this movie not impact your life. I don't really know if that line made sense but in layman's terms (because everyone is a layman), this movie is awesome. I think the first sign that I really wanted to see it in the first place is that I actually went to the movie theater to see it. That's right; I went to a movie. And I wasn't disappointed, in fact, I wanted to go right back in and watch it again once it ended.

I'm thinking that the main reason why I love this movie so much is because of how they made it seem like a true comic book (Scott Pilgrim is originally a comic book series which is also worth reading). I knew I was going to like the movie before it even started due to the really awesome decision by some genius to make the sound of Universal into an 8-bit track for the opening. During action scenes, there is a visible "POW" upon the impact of typically a fist on a face, and during once scene, which is among one of my many favorites, one character's face turns into a literal "o.o" face. That made me laugh so hard I almost cried. The plot isn't really that great, it does get kind of dull as Scott continually has to fight the seven exes, but each of them bring their own side plots which adds to the depth. The protagonist is as much of a jerk as he needs to be which makes it extremely easy to hate him.

I don't want to say too much about the movie, but if you're a nerd/geek about comic books and/or video games, like I admittedly am, this movie is definitely for you. Even if you're not one of those people, watch this movie. Now.

I give it: 10/10

How to Train Your Dragon

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The most obvious thing I can say that shows how much I love this movie is that if I didn't have homework to do right now I would be watching How to Train Your Dragon for the third time this week. The dragon in this movie, Toothless, is the most adorable thing I've ever seen. I am a pretty big fan of animated movies and of DreamWorks and this movie does not disappoint. At first I was wary of it because of all the hype I'd heard about it and usually when I hear that a movie was really good I don't think it's actually that great. This is definitely an exception to that.

The first funny thing about this movie is that the protagonist's name is Hiccup which they say in the movie is so that the trolls stay away or something like that. Hiccup is different from the other vikings in the village where he lives because he is incapable of killing dragons even though he is expected to. When he finds Toothless, he tries to tame him and Toothless' little quirks are hilarious. At one point Toothless draws a line in the sand with a tree branch and gets mad when Hiccup steps on where he drew.

I don't think it matters what kind of movies you like unless you only like horror films and don't like cute movies; you'll like this movie. It's got a little bit of everything in it really.

I give it 10/10

True Blood

Well, since this blog is pretty much my way of keeping track of what I've watched, I put this show on here even though I only watched three full episodes. Either way, I'm not giving it a rating because it's not fair to judge it based on the small amount of it that I did watch. I know I've watched the first few episodes of True Blood before, but seeing how I always get sucked into like eight different shows at once. I didn't get sucked into True Blood though.(pun intended), I only manage to keep up with a few of them. So I started to rewatch True Blood and try to remember if I liked it or not.

Starting on the first episode, I did remember bits and pieces of it. This show is yet another of the plethora (I like that word) of shows that are about vampires and love and supernatural stufff like that. Except this time, the vampires have southern drawls which at first is funny but then gets annoying. The way Bill says "Sookie" which is the main character's name really started to get me annoyed. But the main reason I stopped watching is because everything was about sex and every other scene seemed to have some kind of sex going on. Either weird vampire/human sex or human/human sex was happening. But either way, it got repetitive. Maybe I would have continued watching if I could really see a plot line developing at all, but I couldn't really, and so it seemed that the whole show was just about the relationship between Bill and Sookie. And I don't like my vampires tame; I like them murdering, not falling in love (unless it's with me). So unless you're looking for a much less tame version of Twilight or The Vampire Diaries or whatever other vampire shows/movies you can think of with all the supernatural romance stuff, here's True Blood.

Date Night

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 I loved this movie. It's not that the plot was really anything special, but the diologue was hilarious and so were the situations the protagonists Claire Foster (Tina Fey) and Phil Foster (Steve Carell) were put in. A lot of pretty well-known actors and actresses had cameos in this film such as Leighton Meester, Mark Wahlberg (who is shirtless in every scene he's in which I've so kindly put a picture below for you), James Franco, Mila Kunis, and Olivia Munn just to mention a few of them.

I first must say that I'm pretty biased towards this movie just because it has Tina Fey in it. Who can blame me since she created one of the best shows on television (30 Rock). I'm going more and more towards her being my favorite actress and this movie made me like her even more. Her character in Date Night is pretty similar to her character in 30 Rock in that she says some really awkward things at times. This is one of the few movies that has actually made me literally laugh at loud because of the comedy. Tina and Steve had good chemistry on-screen which made the movie even more enjoyable.

The bloopers and outtakes on the DVD were just as fun to watch as the actual movie. I laughed at how many times they had to tape the scene where Tina and Steve run into clear glass doors because they needed to time it exactly right. In the extras there are PSAs that feature Tina and Steve promoting a date night. Overall, even though the plot wasn't great, it's easily overlooked because of the humor throughout the movie.

I give it: 9/10

My Girlfriend's Boyfriend

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This movie was one of the better ones I've seen. It wasn't released in movie theaters but I have no idea why. This is supposedly a romantic comedy, but it wasn't very comedic although I did smile a few times but mostly at the minor character of the gum guy (Tom Lenk). I watched the movie because I saw that actress Alyssa Milano who was on the TV show Charmed was the main character and she hadn't been doing much acting as far as I was aware of. She did a pretty good job acting in the movie so I wasn't disappointed.

I loved the twist of the movie which is evident by the ending. It is a little bit confusing to understand at first, but once you get it it's an "ohhh" moment. Another good thing about the movie is that it's only PG so it's not a romance movie that's all about sex and things like that. They only mention sex maybe once and it's a pretty obscure reference at that. It's nice to see a movie that doesn't rely on the physical aspects of a relationship. Overall it's a cute movie that I recommend mostly because it's different than the other movies of it's type.

I give it: 8/10

Daniel Tosh: Completely Serious

So I watched this because I wanted to see if Daniel Tosh could possibly be funny without the use of internet clips to make comments about. Let's just say that although he isn't that great, he's not completely horrible either. I think I only laughed maybe three or four times throughout the whole 60 minute show, which is pretty sad. Maybe I didn't laugh too much because all his jokes were stupid and perverted in some way which gets really annoying.

He spends half the show saying things that make you ask yourself if he really just said that on tv. At one point he said something about wanting New Orleans to get hit by another hurricane like Katrina which made me almost stop watching. I guess it's supposed to be funny but there are some things that you shouldn't really joke about. And just like on his TV show (Tosh.O) he relies on racist jokes for most of the things he says. Everything relates back to racism in some way for him.

I give it: 6/10

Æon Flux

This movie is based off of an animated series of the same name that was made quite a few years ago. The movie was done in 2005 and it's an adaptation of the series.

The plot is generic: A virus kills 99% of the population and all of them live in one city. They're all under the control of the government called Goodchild. The civilization is kind of like Nazi Germany I guess because people disappear all the time and nobody dares say anything about it. Civilians also turn other people in for being in a rebel group and the people who are in the group are called Monicans. The title character Aeon is part of this rebel group and the movie is about her role in trying to undermine Goodchild.

Highlight of the film? Girl with hands as feet. There's also some pretty nifty technology they use seeing as the movie is set in 2415. The fight scenes are pretty much all to look forward to because they are pretty cool. The story isn't very good though.

Clearly people didn't like the movie much. It cost more to make the movie than they earned back from it. Plus it has pretty bad reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. I'm much too nice with these reviews.

I give it: 5/10

Better Off Ted

This is one of my favorite comedy shows but sadly it got canceled. I really hate when that happens. Like most comedy shows, there isn't really a clear plot to it, it's just funny. Better Off Ted does have a new plot for certain episodes but the episodes don't connect to each other at all which is nice because you can just pick any random episode and watch it without having to see the other ones to know what's going on.

BoT revolves around the character Ted who is a businessman in a company called Veridian Dynamics. In the show the company is portrayed as an institution that doesn't care at all about it's employees. Veronica is my favorite character on the show. She's Ted's boss and is crazy and acts like a sociopath. She says really awkward things that often don't make much sense ("What is it with everyone and their questions this morning? "Where'd you learn to drive?", "Will you marry me?", "Why would you say that to my baby?"") and confuses fawns and monsters. She never shows any emotions at all and is really good at using one-word answers for things.

Lady: "Can you describe your job?"
Veronica: "Yes"
Lady: "How would you describe your job?"
Veronica: "Cleverly"

One of the best parts of the show are the commercials that are in almost every episode for Veridian Dynamics. They aren't product advertisements, they're more like the company's philosophy. I remember looking forward to the commercial every time there was a new episode on. Here's an example of one of the better ones; or at least one that isn't made a lot funnier by the pictures they show as they say the lines because a lot of times the pictures accompanying the words are what makes it hilarious.

Commercial: "Veridian Dynamics. We're a family, just like yours. But we don't waste our time throwing leaves around. We put our family to work. We mean real work. Not just eating mush. Our Veridian Dynamic family works for every member of your family. Even the dead ones. And we're working to bring them back and copy them, in case you lose them again. We love our family, which is why we work nights, weekends, and major holidays, because that's when families should be together. Veridian Dynamics. Families. Yay."

Most of the charm and appeal of the show is hard to explain, so you should probably go watch it to see what I'm talking about. There is nothing at all I can complain about here except that the show got canceled unfairly. It only ended up with 2 seasons and there should have been many more. The only possible improvement would be adding guest stars occasionally because that would spice up the show. But even without any guest stars I would watch this show over and over again.

I give it: 10/10

Jeff Dunham: Spark of Insanity

This guy is hilarious. Jeff Dunham is a ventriloquist and a pretty good one at that. Not only is he good at making puppets talk, he's good at making them say funny things. The lineup of his puppets (from left to right on the picture) are Peanut the crazy purple-monkey looking thing, Walter the cranky old guy, Melvin the superhero, Achmed the dead terrorist, and Jose the Jalapeno on a stick, .

Whenever Peanut is on stage, I can't stop watching his hair flip around. It looks like it's made of yarn. And everytime his head moves, his hair moves and it makes me laugh even though it's not really that funny. Peanut is really racist towards Jose the Jalapeno and always says what's on his mind.

Walter is one of my favorite puppets because he's so cranky. And all the time.

Jeff Dunham: Did you like Ft. Lauderdale, Florida?
Walter: No.
Jeff Dunham: Why not?
Walter: Everyone in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, looks exactly like me!
Jeff Dunham: Well, I heard that Ft. Lauderdale is where they shot those "Girls Gone Wild" videos.
Walter: That's only during spring break. The rest of the year, it's "Girls Gone Saggy." Then it's "Girls Gone Senile." Then it's just "Girls Gone."

Melvin the superhero isn't really that great to me, but he still does have his funny moments.

 Jeff Dunham: So, Melvin, whenever there is trouble, how are you summoned?
Melvin the Superhero Guy: Oh, I'm making a deal with the commissioner to get a spotlight with a silhouette of my symbol.
Jeff Dunham: Your symbol?
Melvin the Superhero Guy: Yes. A big nose in the sky. Only problem is that it doesn't always look like a nose. It's not a cupcake either

My favorite puppet is definitely Achmed. His repeated line of "Silence! I kill you!" cracks me up every time.

Jeff Dunham: So do you like being in D.C.?
Achmed: I think some idiots must live here.
Jeff Dunham: Why?
Achmed: For example, The Washington Monument.
Jeff Dunham: Yes?
Achmed: It looks nothing like the guy. It looks more like a tribute to Bill Clinton.

Achmed: God damn it... Oh! I mean, uh... "Allah" damn it. 

 He's even caught up on pop culture:

Jeff Dunham: So, Achmed, where did you come from?
Achmed: From your freakin' suitcase! Hahahahahahahahaha! I told another joke!
Jeff Dunham: So if you've been in my suitcase all this time, how have you been getting past security?
Achmed: Oh, that's easy. They just open the case and I go, "Hel-looooooooo. I am Lindsay Lohan!"

Jose Jalapeno doesn't get very much screen time and he's not really that funny himself. The funny that he brings to the show is just that the other puppets can easily make fun of him for being Mexican.

Jeff Dunham: You enjoy being in this country?
Jose Jalapeno: Sometimes I'm afraid for my life
Jeff Dunham: Why?
Peanut: Taco Bell 

I definitely recommend watching this show. I plan on watching it again some time in the future because I liked it that much.

I give it: 9/10

(Just because they keep referring to the Prius car the entire show and it gets kind of annoying)

Gyo

Holy crap this is the weirdest manga I have ever read. I'm kind of glad it's only two volumes just to save the world from contamination of such weirdness. That may be a little bit harsh, but honestly if you read it I'm sure you'd agree.

Freaky fish run rampant in this manga and not in a cool "yay fish" way. The fish get creepy and even beyond creepy. Junji Ito (the mangaka) must have been on something when he did this.

The plot is... wait there was a plot? Hard to notice. I guess that makes sense because this is a horror manga but still. There were more panels about the freakishly grotesque fish-things than actual talking about what the heck was going on in the book.

This manga turned me off to wanting to read any other horror manga because of how bad it was. I know it's unfair of me to do that but that's just how bad this manga is. Maybe I'll try to find one that actually has a plot and doesn't involve mutating fish.

I give it: 2/10

Zombie Powder

This was one of the first published manga works of Tite Kubo; the creator the phenomenon that is now Bleach. The story revolves mainly around the characters of Elwood Shepherd and Gamma Akutabi who are trying to collect the 12 Rings of the Dead. When all 12 are collected, supposedly you gain immortality. Not too original of a storyline, but Kubo develops the idea pretty well and the actual story does have a few twists. There's a lot of action and fighting which I typically like, but it could be said that there are too many fighting scenes. So many that the plot seems like it hardly exists and that this is just a fight-fight-fight manga.

Sadly, the manga remains unfinished and there are only 4 volumes so there is no closure on what happens and if the protagonists do get the rings. But I'm guessing they would have because main characters (almost) always win.

I give it: 6/10

Alice In Wonderland

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If you don't know the premise of Alice In Wonderland, you must have missed out on a childhood. I'm pretty sure everyone knows the story. A girl falls into a hole that leads to a new world (Wonderland or in the movie's case: Underland). In the movie, Alice has to figure out how to defeat the Red Queen with some help from her insane friends like Johnny Depp. Not actually him of course, but he plays the insane or "Mad" Hatter.

Anne Hathaway looks bad/creepy in this movie. Either she looks horrible with white hair or it's just that anyone looks terrible when they have white hair and black eyebrows. I'm pretty sure hair and eyebrows should be the same color. And what was with the caterpillar who must have thought he was at a hookah bar? Although he had a monocle, he creeped me out.

Overall though, the story was okay but nothing special. The movie is pretty straightforward and you always know what's going on, but what's going on is sometimes boring. I don't remember how the original Alice In Wonderland was, but I do know that the Cheshire Cat is supposed to be purple and he wasn't purple in this movie. Some people must be either colorblind or ignorant. Tim Burton directed the movie, so it can't be horrible, but it's not one of his better works.

I give it: 6/10

30 Rock

If watching the entire first season in one day doesn't show how quickly I got addicted to this 30 Rock, I don't know what does. After hearing a lot about it, I decided to start watching it one weekend. And it didn't take much time after that for me to catch up to the new episodes. 30 Rock has a mix of crazy people, awkward people, and people who are just plain insane. 30 Rock is based on a show originally called The Girlie Show, but after an adjustment in management, the character of Jack comes in and changes everything.

One of the highlights of the show is Liz Lemon played by Tina Fey. And every time I see Tina Fey I can't help but see Sarah Palin. Liz is a really awkward character who frequently talks about cheese and her awkward life stories. I love the flashbacks to little Liz because they're hilarious. Liz's awkwardness is about half the show (at least to me): "If I have learned anything from my Sims family: When a child doesn't see his father enough he starts to jump up and down, then his mood level will drop until he pees himself." Her obsession with food is also one of the best parts of the show: "I'm gonna go talk to some food about this".

Jack (Alec Baldwin), the head boss of the show, tells things like they are. He's not afraid to say what he wants to say:  "Women your age are more likely to get mauled at a zoo than to get married". He always tries to help Liz with her problems (and she has a lot of them).

Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan) is the insane character. "I don't want to disappoint my Japanese public. Especially Godzilla. Hahaha I'm just kidding. I know he doesn't care what humans do". He believes in strange things and makes up things that are just weird. Along with him is the other star of the former Girlie Show, Jenna Maroney (Jane Krakowski) who is also insane. The other characters on 30 Rock have to cater to Jenna and Tracy because they are the stars and there is no show without them. So even when the two act like small children, they have to find some way to get them on stage.

The character of Kenneth (Jack McBrayer) cannot be forgotten. Kenneth is a page at the show so he has to do everyone else's dirty work. He's another awkwardly funny character: "I want to see a show where women get their hair cut while listening to salsa music". He also takes everything literally and doesn't understand simple things very well.

My favorite thing about 30 Rock is it's quotability. It's almost like every line from the show is funnier and funnier. It also has all different types of humor which I love. I also relate it to being creepy and stalking my life, although it might have been more that my life was 30 Rock for a period of time. Kenneth offering to serve paninis right before I actually go eat one for dinner was a little bit creepy. And there's no such thing as a post about 30 Rock that doesn't include the Muffin Top Song.

I give it (I wish I could go over 10): 10/10

I Know What You Did Last Summer

This is an older movie (1997) and it's a horror. I don't get too scared at these types of movies, I only don't like when they all of a sudden get loud when something pops out at the characters. There are so many movies like this one that it's pretty ridiculous. But this was one of the first that started the type of scary movies we have today. I wanted to watch it because it's a 90's movie. Reason enough for me.

I think I'll start just putting the trailers on here for the plot synopsis unless I actually want to take the effort to do a little summary because I'm not very good at summarizing things.

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Generic plot right? The usual horror film. Except this one has almost no twists at all and the few it does have are lame things that hardly even affect the plot. If you want to make the audience surprised make it something interesting. Lots of screaming and death which I guess is the point of these types of movies, but I enjoy a good plot. There are a lot of well-known actors/actresses in the movie like Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jr, and Ryan Phillippe. No complaints about the acting, but the script didn't impress me at all.

I give it: 5/10

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (The Movie)

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Let's just be perfectly clear that I'm only talking about the movie here. Not the TV show. I could go on and on about the TV show. This movie, released in 1992, is a sort of precursor to the TV show. Luke Perry is probably the only thing that saved the movie at all.

It starts out as a complete chick flick which made me automatically wary of it. That is, until a creepy guy with horrible (or no) fashion sense shows up. After a few comments about his horrible attire and some more cheesy chick flick scenes, the first vampire appears. He needs a new wardrobe too. And bam, first death of the movie; though it is completely offscreen. The movie gets kind of confusing at points because it switches between current time and some time way in the past.

Overall it's kind of like a movie contradiction. It seems like a chick flick but at the same time there are deaths and vampires. And the style of the TV show is almost completely different than that of the movie. The TV show has much more comedy, although it's difficult to compare them because they were made almost 10 years apart. The comedy of back then is different than the comedy we have now. Because the movie was made almost 20 years ago, it's hard to rate it based on the ideas I have of movies now. I could point out the lame special effects, but maybe those were advanced effects back then. Sadly I'm not a 90's movies expert. The plot kind of drags on with seemingly no point, but once it gets rolling it's pretty good.

Judging the movie against the series is unfair because nothing can compare to the show. As a stand alone movie, it is pretty good, just kinda cheesy. The acting isn't too great either but it's clear the movie wasn't high budget.

I give it: 6/10

Tosh.O

This is yet another "here watch an internet video so I can try to make funny comments about it" show. It's not that it isn't funny, but how hard can it really be to base everything off of videos you show? Just like RayWilliamJohnson on YouTube, but he doesn't get paid for it and isn't on an actual network. The "here's a clip -insert 'funny' comment here-" shows just annoy me. Maybe it's just me who thinks it doesn't take any kind of talent at all to stand there and comment on videos.

Whatever parts of Tosh.O you do remember are the videos that you go to look up after the show. His comments aren't nearly as funny as the clips he shows. One segment of the show is "Web Redemption" in which he gets someone who made a fool of themselves and put the video on the internet and he brings them there to make fun of them. This is just annoying. As if they haven't had enough people making fun of them because of something that got caught on video, now national television gets to see them even more humiliated. Then there's how he uses half the show to make fun of certain races and/or genders for stupid stereotypes that are way overused in the first place. I know there was some other show exactly like this on Comedy Central before (at least I think it was Comedy Central) and I don't know what happened to it. Maybe it horribly failed just like I expect Tosh.O to in the pretty near future. Personally I'd rather watch RayWilliamJohnson because it's easier to find the videos after you watch his video. Even though both Tosh and Johnson annoy me, I would only watch them to find funny videos.

I give it: 5/10