"You may kiss the Bridesmaids"

The most recent comedy that I can recall watching is the new hit comedy Bridesmaids which was released in 2011. This movie is based upon the life of Annie Walker(Kristen Wiig) and how her life begins to unravel throughout the course of her best friend Lillian's(Maya Rudolph) engagement and activities prior to he wedding. Annie finds herself in a midlife crisis where it seems that not anything can go right in her life, she literally seems to find herself on a downward spiral. Once Lillian starts getting all of the bridesmaids together and ready for the wedding Annie begins to notice that one fellow bridesmaid, Helen (Rose Bryne) seems to be almost stealing Lillian as a best friend and she starts to become jealous, so jealous that she beings to do really dumb things. These dumb things lead her to her downward spiral. 

This movie was directed by Paul Feig. Paul makes a brief appearance in this movie as well. This is known as a cameo and was created by the "Master of Suspense", Alfred Hitchcock. Paul Feig also directed quite a few episodes of The Office, a few episodes of Weeds, and an episode of Parks and Recreation. The two ladies that are given writing credits for this movie include Kristen Wiig, who also is the protagonist for this film, and Annie Mumolo, who also made an appearance in the film as a nervous woman on the plane.

This film is chalk full of scenes that some may find funny, however I did not find it to be a movie that is extremely comedic. I also found the plot very predictable and unrealistic. Almost all of my friends comment towards this movie as one of their favorites and "the funniest movie that they've ever seen", however when i seen it i was extremely unimpressed. Everyone built it up to be something that it definitely was not. I'm not saying that this is a terrible movie and that I would never want to watch it again, I am saying though that it isn't as funny as it was made up to be. I believe that there are many things that could have been done differently to make it more funny. I would give it a 2.5 out of 5 stars because I would watch it again and be entertained. However, from a comedic perspective  which is what i'm grading on it did not live up to my expectations. 

Kids

Throughout my Spring Break i watched a number of movies, all of which were movies that I enjoy. However there was one movie in particular that stuck in my mind and made me want to share it with others, because of it's extreme irony. This movie was Kids that was released in 1995. This movie had been suggested to me by a number of friends that I knew had good taste in movies. This film is a brief story of an HIV-positive young skateboarder teen named Telly that is out to have sex with as many virgins as he possibly can. While he is out doing that one of the girls that he had sex with goes to check herself out at the clinic for STD's and she comes up HIV-positive and knows that it from Telly. After she figured this out she quickly attempts to try and stop Telly's next victim from having the same fate as her, unfortunately she is too late.

This movie was directed by Larry Clark, who also directed Ken Park in 2002, Bully in 2001, and Wassup Rockers in 2005. Although Lary Clark is most famous for the movie Kids.This film featured Leo Fitzgerald as Telly, the main character and antagonist and Chloe Sevigny as Jenny, the protagonist.

I very much so enjoyed the movie; however, the filming was very mediocre and the story line somewhat unrealistic. This movie possesed very good acting from the protagonist Jenny, throughout the movie I felt myself empathizing with her for her current situation. The music was nothing specatcular, and I enjoyed the cinematography. Over all I would give this movie a 3.5 Stars out of 5 Stars. I would reccomend this movie because it very well describes the reprocussions of unsafe sexual activity.

Dearest Zachary

A story of revenge, vengeance, love and loss, Dear Zachary: A letter to a son about his father beautifully designed in all of these characteristics and left you empathizing the whole way through.  A night last week I was scrolling through Netflix trying to find a good movie that caught my attention; I scrolled through new releases, drama, comedy, even Top picks.  I quickly came across documentaries and remembered that we were focusing on this genre in my film class.  I scrolled through the many different subsections of documentaries when one in particular caught my gaze. It read Dear Zachary: A letter to a son about his father.  I read the quick synopsis and began the ride through this beautifully put together film.  I started this film halfheartedly and it quickly took my heart.  It was a story about a murder of a man, Andrew Bagby by his girlfriend Shirley. After the murder she tries to convince everyone that the incident had anything to do with he; although, all traces point back to Miss Shirley. She quickly fled to Canada and four months later calls up the parents of Andrew and states that she is pregnant with his baby. Once the parents find out this fact so does everyone else that Andrew impacted while he was living. They all step up and support the parents in every way that is possible and Andrew's best friend starts making this documentary for the child that Andrew and Shirley have conceived.  He does everything he can to make it so that this child has at least a little slice of his father and has an idea of what a great man he was.  The people of this film were real people that new Andrew Bagby; the director was Kirk Kuenne.  Kirk also narrated the film, we got to visually view him as well.  I believe that this added to the film because seeing him noted that we was really there and a real person.  You could also see the hurt in his eyes and face.  You could also tell how much he loved Andrew Bagby.

This documentary was beautiful; it made you feel great while also bringing you to tears, feeling empathy for the poor parents of Andrew Bagby.  If I were to rate it i would have to give it 4.5 out of 5 stars.  It was beautiful for being made by the best friend of Andrew; although, it is not the best documentary I have ever seen.