Reviews by Jessica

Overall, this is a very strong and disturbing thriller. The opening scene draws you in, making you want to know just what the heck happened at that party. When you learn the truth, and see more and more horrible things happen, you can't stop watching. I didn't see the twist at the end coming, it was fairly well written, although, toward the end of the movie, things kind of fell apart a bit and got a bit too ridiculous.

But, that's just the very end of the film, and everything leading up to that point is very strong and well done. The boys are very good in their roles, and effectively creepy in a quiet way.

Despite the combination of some talented actors, "How Do You Know", while definitely watchable, cute, and containing all the necessary elements for a romantic comedy, is kind of forgettable once you're done and have walked away from it.

It's funny, engaging, decent enough overall, includes Paul Rudd and Reese Witherspoon, who have been in more than a few romantic comedies, and comedies, that have been good and memorable...and Kathryn Hahn does a good job with her role as well, but in the end, it's just...forgettable. I had to look the movie up, read the description, just to remember that yes, I have seen it, and own it even!

This movie is terrible. I started to watch it over a year ago, and got maybe 15-20 minutes into before I was fed up. Today, I started again, about 20 minutes in and have suffered through another 11 minutes. The story is awful, weak, and badly written. It also is trying to (it seems) copy some of "Saw"'s initial story, stranger trapped in a room forced to do terrible things to survive.

While "Saw" was brilliant, well written, acted, cast, and brought something new to the genre, this does not. The actors are all terrible. The blonde is hard to look at, yet they keep giving close-ups of her. None of the actors are believable, the "bad guy" just sits in a room while we are told each character's story, and given flashes of pictures and headlines on a wall. Not one thing in this is well done, and it's completely unwatchable.

I really enjoyed "Hatchet". I have seen it twice now, and it still holds up. Yes, I don't like Joel David Moore, I don't understand how someone so terrible made it into the acting world, but I definitely enjoy the film despite him. Mercedes McNabb, Richard Riehle and Patrika Darbo all do good jobs of acting badly.

I love the inclusion of Tony Todd and Robert Englund, and Kane Hodder in his dual roles, is great stuff. Yes, the movie isn't overly well written, yes the movie is very gory, but it's done well enough and the special effects aren't cheesy or terrible. I re-watched this because I want to watch the sequel, and only hope the second one is as good as the first!

This movie is complete fluff, and while I love Seth Green, Breckin Meyer, and Donald Faison as members of "Du Jour", Tara Reid's portrayal of Melody is just too idiotic to stomach, Rachael Leigh Cook is not what I would have pictured in terms of Josie, after spending years reading the comic, and Paulo Costanzo isn't what I would have imagined for Alexander Cabot. They wrote him all wrong, casted the movie all wrong. Alan M. is supposed to be hot, the hottest guy in Riverdale, and yet, the guy they chose falls FAR short of that mark!

It's a shame too, because Deborah Kaplan is behind one of my favourite teen flicks ("Can't Hardly Wait"), but she sure didn't even come close to doing this story justice. It would have been better left in comic/cartoon form than having this tragedy made. The music, however, is more tolerable, most of the time, than every other element of this movie.

From the second this movie opened I knew it was going to be pure, awful, terrible, unwatchable, garbage. It is just awful. A bunch of untalented, unknown actors plodding through some awful writing.

Where "Zombie Strippers" was B-movie awful and fun/awesome, this is just terrible, hard to watch, and shouldn't be watched - ever. I shut it off after only five minutes, because I couldn't stand any more of it!

I was kind of dreading this fourth installment in the Scream series. I loved the first one, enjoyed the second one, but the third one was definitely sub-par compared to the first two. The third one, while completely predictable (to me, anyway, I figured it out from the start), was definitely well worth watching. Scream 4 has all the same elements that made the first movie great, despite the younger actors who are not great at all. Courteney Cox still plays the queen of all bitches as Gale Weathers, and the surviving trio of characters from all the previous movies are still as engaging as ever. You just hope they all make it to the end...but do they? :)

Wes Craven has a strong series of movies here, and while I hope this was the last one, I also secretly hope for one more, just because I love watching these movies over and over again, and always want more to watch from Wes Craven and this bunch!

Sadly, this fourth movie in the Scary Movie franchise deteriorates in quality over numbers 2 and 3. Still watchable, some big names, but the overall quality has fallen back to that of the original, which was not very good at all. It's watchable, somewhat decent, but the spoofs aren't as good/funny compared to numbers 2 and 3, and were really, really overdone. Could have done without the extended "Tom Ryan" and Oprah scene at the very end of the movie. No one needs to see any parody of Tom Cruise of that moment. The original is enough.

As with the second movie in this franchise, this third installment is also better than the first. Bigger names, better writing, but as always, the gags are taken too far to remain witty or funny. There are some great parodies of other well-known movies, but it definitely helps the film, having the big name stars in it, including even Leslie Nielsen. Simon Rex, who was also in "Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th" gets a role as Anna Faris' love interest. Pamela Anderson and Jenny McCarthy get to open the movie, which was a great scene.

This is a case where the sequel is - marginally - better than the first movie. Why? First of all, the presence of Tim Curry. I love Tim Curry! The writing seemed a bit stronger, but still, they took the gags too far. For instance, I was initially laughing at the pea soup/vomit scene, but then it just kept going past where it should have, and it quickly became not funny. James Woods was amusing, too, in his brief role. The inclusion of a few more well known faces/names, including both Tori Spelling and Kathleen Robertson (who were once upon a time both part of "Beverly Hills 90210"), Tim Curry, Richard Moll, James Woods, Natasha Lyonne and Christopher Masterson, on top of the characters from the initial movie, combined to make a somewhat stronger second movie than the first.