Two Days in Paris - Very good... The kind of film Woody Allen should be making now. Very much in the style of Before Sunrise/Sunset, but with a comic edge. The story is the old relationship in difficulties shape chestnut, but done with some style and depth. I guess the extra dimension is the subject of "cross-cultural" relationships, rather than just the specific relationship in the movie. It does start a little on the twee side, but develops into something much more genuine. Looking forward to some more Julie Delpy films in the future.
Superbad - The trailers don't do justice to the hilarity of this film. For me the majority of the laughter came from the brilliant delivery of the dialogue given to the three lead characters. The premise is basically nothing more involved than American Pie, but the execution is far funnier. There's not a serious scene in the whole movie and if anything I laughed too much - to the point I was finding stuff funny and not able to actually laugh any more.
Knocked Up - Another effort from the same stable as Superbad (do these guys have a name yet? They're like a younger extension of the Frat Pack). The target audience is obviously larger and the film not quite so relentlessly joke-laden, still had me laughing though. Read an interesting/annoying
article in the Guardian about these new slacker-rom-coms:
I think Joe Queenan has grabbed the totally wrong end of the stick here, but I'll save that for another thread another day.
Run, Fat Boy, Run - Terrible terrible movie. Cliche story set in a horrific Richard Curtis style London. Dylan Moran is the only redeeming feature in a movie that even managed to make Thandie Newton unattractive. Then again, it is directed by a Friends actor... eurgh. Avoid!
