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Movie Review: Then Hangover

Sunday, July 26th, 2009
The main plot follows four friends who travel to Las Vegas for a bachelor party, only to wake up the next morning not remembering a thing and missing the groom, whose wedding is scheduled to occur the next day.

The plot follows four friends who travel to Las Vegas for a bachelor party, only to wake up the next morning not remembering a thing and missing the groom, whose wedding is scheduled to occur the next day.

Basically the same plot as “Dude, Where’s My Car?” except with the added stress of the missing groom.  Although, there’s no aliens in this movie, and the characters are mostly way less dumb.  I enjoyed the movie (parts of it were hilarious), but I couldn’t help feeling at the end that most of it was superfluous, given where they eventually find the groom.

Movie Review: Miss March

Sunday, July 26th, 2009
The movie centers around a road trip to the Playboy Mansion. Eugene Bell (Zach Cregger) wakes from a four year coma to find that his high school sweetheart has gone on to become a Playboy Playmate. He and his friend Tucker Cleigh (Trevor Moore) embark on a series of escapades that lead them to the mansion, befriending a famous rapper (Craig Robinson) and the girl of Eugenes dreams.

The movie centers around a road trip to the Playboy Mansion. Eugene Bell (Zach Cregger) wakes from a four year coma to find that his high school sweetheart has gone on to become a Playboy Playmate. He and his friend Tucker Cleigh (Trevor Moore) embark on a series of escapades that lead them to the mansion, befriending a famous rapper (Craig Robinson) and the girl of Eugene's dreams.

This movie was much more along the lines of what I thought Bart Got A Room was going to be.  One might call it “zany”.  Others would probably call it “gross” or “ridiculous”.  I call it funny.

Movie Review: Bart Got A Room

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

So I randomly downloaded this movie the other day based on the poster and Wikipedia synopsis:

“]The film chronicles nerdy high school senior Danny Stein (Kaplan) and his unsuccessful attempts to secure a prom date while his divorced father and mother (played by Macy and Hines respectively) are on their own unsuccessful quests to find love. The films name comes from the fact that the schools biggest dweeb, Bart Beeber (Williams) not only secured a date for the prom, but got a hotel room after as well. This is a source of tremendous great anxiety for both Danny and his family. [1]

The film chronicles nerdy high school senior Danny Stein (Kaplan) and his unsuccessful attempts to secure a prom date while his divorced father and mother (played by Macy and Hines respectively) are on their own unsuccessful quests to find love. The film's name comes from the fact that the school's biggest dweeb, Bart Beeber (Williams) not only secured a date for the prom, but got a hotel room after as well. This is a source of tremendous great anxiety for both Danny and his family.

That synopsis is astoundingly accurate.  I sort of expected the movie to be somewhat similiar to American Pie, but as it turns out, it’s much much more tame.  Which isn’t to say it’s a bad movie… it’s actually pretty good.   Although, the main point of the movie seems to be about being a good Jew.  At the end, the kid decides to go to a barmitzvah with his parents rather than go to the prom.