Up/The Hangover

So me and the boys did a double movie showing and saw 2 movies this afternoon. We'll start with the first one.

Up
This is a great family film. Pixar does it again and proves how this studio can get away with making one movie a year. A very touching story featuring a widower and a young boy and moving on. Its very easy to tear up at many of the emotional moments in the movie. The movie moves well and there is hardly a wasted frame. The first 10 minutes, which lays out the emotional back story, is sure to pull you in as a viewer. Ed Asner does a fantastic job voicing the lead to this movie, Carl Fredricksen. It is sure to rake up big numbers in the box office and we will no doubt be hearing from this movie later as it is sure to be yet another movie nominated for best animated picture.

The Hangover
Quite a different movie than "Up" this movie was curtailed to my age demographic and hit the nail on the head. There is little doubt as to why this movie destroyed Land of the Lost in the box office. The ensamble cast of Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, and Zach Galifianakis pulls the movie together. Galifianakis ttakes away many of the laughs with his slapstick style and one liners. Cooper maintains his type-cast role as kind of a d-bag; yet this is one of the first roles where he is able to play a protagonist and its nice to be able to root for him. Ed Helms does a fantastic job being neurotic. Each actor feeds off each other, and make the movie work. Any frat boy can relate to this movie as they try to piece together the night and figure out why they are joined by a tiger, a chicken, and a baby and are down a groom. The jokes in the movie keep coming which is a tribute to the writing. The laughs come to the very end as a picture slideshow caps off the movie. For a some good belly laughs you will want to check out this surprise success