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“Rough Night” Review

It’s a bachelorette party gone totally wrong as four friends reunite ten years later.

Rough Night stars Scarlett Johansson as Jess, a careful politician running for state senate, while trying to balance her social life with her friends and her fiancee, Peter (Paul W. Downs).   Her long time college friend, Alice (Jillian Bell) attempts to give Jess a perfect Bachelorette Party, to try to rekindle their friendship, but there’s a bit of jealousy when Jess’ other best friend from Australia, Pippa (Kate McKinnon) joins the party in Miami.

Through a twist of events with a male stripper, the girls find themselves in too deep as they fear the worst after accidentally killing the man after the strip tease.  What they think is a bad accident, turns into a comedy of errors as they uncover a far worse fate in which it puts their lives at risk.

Overall, Rough Night is a hilarious comedy for a more mature audience.  It’s the perfect girl’s night movie for anyone who ever thought about the perfect bachelorette scene and single women alike.  It’ll have you laughing from the first minute on and make sure to stay for the credits as there is a crucial scene afterwards.

Rough Night came out Friday June 16 and is currently playing in theaters everywhere.

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“Passengers” Review

Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence star in an epic romantic adventure where something goes horribly wrong on their way to another distant planet to begin life again.  The problem is they wake up 90 years to soon when the ship, set on autopilot, is struck by an unidentified object that causes a series of malfunctions to go off in the ship, jeopardizing the life of all 500 passengers aboard.

Now it’s up to Pratt and Lawrence to figure out how to set things right and ultimately figure out life aboard the ship.

At just about 2 hour run time, Passengers will have audiences sitting on the edge of their seats as it is a race against time to figure out how to save everyone and make a life for themselves at the same time.  Overall the special effects are phenomenal as it really feels like they are in outer space at all times.

The Sony Film came out Christmas day and has thus earned over 68 million domestically at the box office.

It is currently playing at a theater near you.

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Drac is Back and Claiming Number 1

Sony’s Hotel Transylvania 2 has taken the number one spot at the box office its opening weekend bringing in over 43 million in revenues, making the film the top grossing film in September for its opening week and thus, dropping Fox’s Scorch Trials down to number three.

The animated sequel picks up where the original left off with Dracula, (voiced by Adam Sandler) saying goodbye to his daughter Mavis (voiced by Selena Gomez) as she marries her zing, Jonathan, (voiced by Andy Sandberg) but its not the end of the story for the couple has a son, which creates all knew adventures as Dracula, embraces the role of Vampa to Dennis (voiced by Asher Blinkoff).  The animated film also features the voice talents of Kevin James, David Spade, Steve Buscemi, Fran Drescher and Mel Gibson, as the monsters who live in Hotel Transylvania and ultimately work together to ensure Mavis doesn’t leave when she realizes that the Hotel may not be the safest place for her “human” son.  It is their mission to help Dennis become a monster.

At an hour and a half runtime, the film is filled with adventure and laughs for the whole family including one of the kind parody songs written by Adam Sandler. Hotel Transylvania 2 is a must see for all who love a good ol’ fashion monster comedy story.

Hotel Translyvania 2 opened in theaters Sept. 18, 2015 and is currently playing at one near you.

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Classic Video Games Come to Life

Columbia Pictures has movie goers reliving their childhood memories of arcades in the summer blockbuster, Pixels, starring Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Josh Gad, Peter Dinklage and Michelle Monaghan as the Arcaders.  The movie follows the life of these comedians after a 1982 Arcade Competition that was video taped and sent up in a time capsule to outer space.  Now thirty years later, Earth is being attacked by aliens who mistook the tape as a  declaration of war and is now using the popular video game heroes to destroy and conquer.

Pixels is surprisingly a hilarious, well thought out movie.  You see elements of all the classic video games including Space Invaders, Centipede, Pacman and Donkey Kong and it is clear that the writer/ director did their homework.  It is all down pat to the original video game.

Overall, Pixels is a movie that is ultimately good for those who grew up with the classic video games.  That generation won’t be disappointed.  As for the younger generation, I’m not saying they won’t like it, but perhaps it will introduce them to the games that made video gaming a reality.

Pixels opened in theaters July 24 worldwide with over 9 million in revenue.  It is currently playing in a theater near you.  See it, you shouldn’t be disappointed.