Funny movies for election day

I know everyone is ready for the election to be over. Here's a few movie choices that will make you laugh at the process.

1. The Campaign-2012

Will Ferrell Vs Zach Galifianakis in political absurdity about what people would do to win. I love this movie and it works on so many different levels. The link for my full review is up above if you click on the title.

2. Bulworth
Warren Beatty plays a senator that has put a contract out on his own life. During the time waiting for his life to end, he starts speaking the truth to whomever will listen. This movie delivers the "what if politicians spoke the truth" and "what if politicians listened to the people" angles pretty well throughout. Speaking of listening to the people....

3. Idiocracy

Luke Wilson plays Joe, a person with fairly average intelligent, who signs up for a government hibernation project. When the project goes awry, Joe comes out of hibernation in the year 2505 being the smartest person in the world(due to the effects of many years of reality TV). It comes from the creative mind Mike Judge, who directed Office Space, which is another movie I love.

Check these movie out if you get a chance.

Review-The Boss

The Boss, the newest film from Melissa McCarthy, focuses on a riches to rag story. Michelle Darnell (McCarthy) is wealthy entrepreneur that would rather be at the top of the business world than let anybody emotional get close to her. When she is arrested and jailed for insider trading, she's left with no money and no friends. She is left to live with her former assistant Claire (Kristen Bell) while she gets back on her feet. Michelle comes up with a way to make it back to the top, which invovles Claire and her daughter Rachel (Ella Anderson). Will she avoid the same mistakes she made before or be doomed to repeat it? This is the question that the movie puts out there for the audience.  The Boss is a movie that goes all the way with in your face laughs but not with character development.  The main character has a backstory (as you see in the first five minutes of the movie) but it never gives more so you could root for her. The only character that is fully developed is Claire. The movie isn't consistently funny and, while there were big laughs, the jokes are hit and miss. The movie could have been a better movie if there was more development for Michelle's character or told the story from Claire's point of view. The movie also stars Kathy Bates and Peter Dinklage.

Rating: 7.5 out of 10

Movie Revisited-Tank Girl

I am kicking off a new part of the review blog called Movie Revisited. This will spotlight a movie that I haven't seen in five years or more to see if it still holds up. The movie that I am starting with is the movie Tank Girl, which came out in 1995. It's been over ten years since I last watched the film. It stars Lori Petty (A League of Their Own) as Rebecca (aka Tank Girl). She is a wise cracking, no nonsense anti heroine in a future apocalyptic world. The world is in a severe drought (it hasn't rained in over thirteen years) and there's a power struggle on who get to use the remaining water supply. The land's water is being controlled by a mega corporation, lead by Kesslee (played by Malcolm McDowell), who wants to control people with it. Tank Girl is helped out on her crusade against this corporation by Jet Girl, played by Naomi Watts (yes, Oscar nominated Naomi Watts), and a group of kangaroos freedom fighters lead by T-Saint (Ice-T).I liked the movie when it first came out and , after watching it again, still like it now. There are references that seem dated but the movie holds up. The movie is based on a comic book from the UK and the movie is filled with awesome reminders of that. I would say if you can watch, give it a try. The character Tank Girl works on a simpler level as Deadpool (comparing the characters,  not the movies they're in). There's not much a plot but it works if you like the main character.
Revisited verdict: Still holds up and would watch it again

Review-Zoolander 2

The original Zoolander movie came out in  2001 and became pretty popular on  DVD. It was silly fun comedy that poked fun at the fashion industry while the fashion industry was in on the joke. Fifteen years later, Zoolander 2 arrives with the same ingredients but not on the same level as the first. The movie centers around "beautiful people" all around the world being killed off with no rhyme or reason. Special Agent Valentina Valencia (Penelope Cruz) figures out the key to solving this mystery lies in the head of former model Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller). As the audience finds out in a hilarious "where are they now" segment, Zoolander and his model friend/rival Hansel (Owen Wilson) haven't been seen in years. Due to the quest to find Zoolander's son and Valentina's investigation,  Zoolander and Hansel are lured out of hiding. The movie plays like a Mission Impossible movie with a little bit of The Da Vinci Code mixed in throughout. I say because of that aspect (juggling two types of movie genres in one script) and pacing is a key reason why the movie isn't as funny as the first one. The jokes were spot on most of the time while other times they fell flat. There are, just like in the first movie, tons of cameos that pay off very well. I would recommend the movie if you really liked the first movie and want to give this one a try.
 Rating: 8.0 out of 10

Review-Deadpool

Deadpool is the long awaited movie based on a popular character from the Marvel X-Men universe. Wade Wilson(Ryan Reynolds) is a former Special Forces operative turned mercenary who doesn't consider himself a good guy (despite helping good people in his work). When Wade meets Vanessa (Morena Baccarin), who is as warped and twisted as he is, life seems to working out for them both. When things go south after Wade is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he makes a choice to join an experimental research to cure it. The experiment left him cured with healing factor.It also left him disfigured and his level of warped and twisted cranked up, on a scale from 1-10, to 13. Wade, as Deadpool, wants to exact revenge on the people conducting the experiment and get his life back. The movie is told in Deadpool's point of view, which doesn't go in chronological order (if you need that stability in your movies, this is the wrong movie for you). Deadpool is a super Meta(think Abed from Community with violent tendencies) action  packed movie.  The opening scene of the movie is evidence of  its "wink and a nod" approach with the audience. There is so many references and jokes in the movie that you might need to see it two or three times to catch them all. Ryan Reynolds is amazing in the role and the cast is pretty good. Deadpool works because it lets the people in the audience have fun with that voice in their head when they are watching  movies anyway. There is a line in the movie that gets repeated more than  it should but that's a slight annoyance. You don't have to watch X-Men Origins: Wolverine because it doesn't have anything to do with this movie(that movie was a crappy alternate universe). If you did, the movie is self aware of what people thought about that movie. I definitely recommend people to see this movie and stay after the credits when you do.

Rating: 9.0 out of 10.

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