Comedy > 15 years and over Comedy > Golden globe

You are my Sunshine!

Advantages: Good roles played by the characters
Disadvantages: Shoddy editing and camerawork

For a movie generated from the Amerindie algorithm of family dysfunction, road-trip catharsis and studied quirk, this dark-edged ensemble comedy often borders on the loveable – as if a long-division problem had somehow become self-aware and started pining for a heart, a brain and some nerve. The yellow brick freeway in ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ leads to a girls’ beauty contest for Olive (Abigail Breslin), a cutie pie who’s nonetheless not quite pageant ...
...no other reason, Olive’s entire family must pile into a wheezing van to deliver her to the competition for the titular crown: Uncle Frank (Steve Carell) recently survived a suicide attempt, mum (Toni Collette) is loving but overextended, dad (Greg Kinnear) is an aspiring self-help guru and therefore a nightmare, brother Dwayne (Paul Dano) is a teenager and therefore mute and sulking, and grandpa (Alan Arkin) is a grandpa and therefore crusty and ...

lukeblackburn 06.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Little Miss Sunshine (DVD)

Very Nice

Advantages: Very Funny
Disadvantages: None

...southern family these people take borat into there lives and how he terrorizes them and what the do back to him.The way these people.Borat travels across the country to try to bring information back to his country of Kazakhstan.I highly recommend this movie to anyone who wants to laugh as much as they possibly can.Some of the things that he does cannot be explained here but trust me are hilarious. ...

DilMasterflex 27.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Borat - Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan (DVD)

amazing comedy

Advantages: funny
Disadvantages: none

as the next series arrives of extras, andy millian (ricky gervais), still a desperate man, may not have an acting career, however he now has a script for a new comedy and loads of ambition. however his useless agent (stephen merchant) is still holding him back from his dreams and only getting him extra work. this second series of the award winning comedt, is just as funny as the first and featuring guest appearences form stars like, Orlando Bloom, ...
...Lindsay, Robert De Niro and of course Barry from Eastenders. it is definatly a really find. Double Disc set - Special Features 6 x Epiosde Featurettes Taping Nigel 2 The Art Of Corpsing Outtakes Widescreen 1.85:1 Anamorphic Dolby Digital Stereo Languages - English Subtitles - English SDH Region 2 / PAL / Colour Running Time 171 Minutes if you loved series one you'll love this, infact proably more as it offers more laughs and tears. but unfortunatly ...

punker123 03.11.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Extras - Series 2 - Complete (DVD)

The Laughs Aren't Filtered Out

Advantages: Remains refreshing after multiple views; a nice alternative to the slurry of poor recent comedy films
Disadvantages: Perhaps not to everyone's taste

...tongue firmly in cheek, deliciously abstract and a claim that is testament to the dark humour layered throughout the story. Thank You For Smoking has a wit which is unquestionably infectious - one of 2006's best comedies, and safe to say a "must-buy" on DVD. ...

craig200uk 09.05.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Thank You For Smoking (DVD)

Night at the Museum 2. Or is it No.1 wearing a different hat?

Advantages: Special effects, strong cast
Disadvantages: Derivative, Hank Azaria's pharaoh, boring

I quite liked the the original movie. I thought it had a nice balance of humour and invention with a reasonable story line to carry it along. In spite of the presence of Ben Stiller, who I regard as possibly the most over-rated “star” over recent years, he wasn’t out of place in this. A strong supporting cast (Steve Coogan, Owen Wilson, Robin Williams, Dick van Dyke, et al) all have decent cameos; there are good special effects, a decent script, ...
...watch. Then along comes no. 2, and we just get the same thing all over again. Amy Adams does indeed make a welcome addition, but Hank Azaria has surely hit a low point with his camp New York Pharaoh. The supporting cameos mentioned above are all there again, but they don’t offer anything new and in some cases, it’s a question of blink and miss it. If there hadn’t been the original this might have been alright. As it is, there’s a real sense of déja ...

quelconque 08.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Night At The Museum 2 - Escape From The Smithsonian