Due Date Review

Due Date is a comedy that was released in 2011. It is rated R and lasts about 95 minutes. Robert Downey Jr. stars as Peter Highman in this movie. He meets a man at the airport, Zach Galifianakis, who ends up gets them put on a no fly zone. Zach's character, Ethan, is on a mission to go to Hollywood to act. After they get kicked off the plane, Ethan offers a ride to Peter. Along the way Peter and Ethan get in a lot of trouble regarding Ethan's marijuana use and glaucoma. They get arrested by the Mexican border police and Ethan steals a police truck and begins to race across the highway. Along the way, Ethan and Peter get into a lot more trouble.

I was not a huge fan of this movie. It too many parts that were pointless to the storyline. There was a part where a wheelchair bound Iraq veteran beat up Peter. There were very little humorous parts in this movie, and when there was a funny segment, you would already know it because they showed it in the commercials. I wouldn't recommend it to a lot of people, but I have heard that some people thought it was hilarious.

Despicable Me Review

Despicable Me is a great animated comedy with brilliant voice stars. It lasts about 95 minutes, is rated PG, and was released in 2010. Steve Carell voices Gru in this comedy. The plot line is fairly straight forward and basic. Gru is a super villain that is starting to age. After countless low income evil deeds and failed plans, the Bank of Evil decides to cut him and enlist a younger, more promising villain. Gru then adopts three small orphan sisters and secretly has them deliver cookie robots to steal a shrink way from the new villain. As the story progresses, Gru begins to love the three children and he wants to become a father figure.

I think is a really good movie. There are minions that Gru has working for him that are hilarious. They do a ton of wacky and crazy activities. One time while they are in a store, one of them shakes up a pop bottle and opens the lid. The minion starts to fly around the store because of the fizzy pop rocket. I would recommend this movie to just about anyone.

We Were Soldiers Review

We Were Soldiers is one of my all-time favorite movies. It is rated R, runs 138 minutes, and was released in 2002. It stars Mel Gibson as Lt. Col. Hal Moore, an Air Calvary officer in the United States Army. He leads an Air Calvary unit that uses helicopters to hop in and out of battle during the Vietnam War. His unit gets pinned down by intense Vietcong units led by a fantastic Vietcong officer. The movie plays out to be an intense game of chess that is juiced out of its mind on steroids.

I love this movie because it has a lot of war images and techniques. I love watching any movie that has battle scenes and AK-47's, and this movie is no exception for my thoughts of a great war movie. It has fantastic images of grit when bullets, grenades, and bombs explode and send all types of shrapnel in the air. It also shows the struggles of the wives whose husbands are at war. It shows how they band together and help each other through horrible events. One of the most touching moments is when Hal Moore's wife takes a package of letters from a cab driver and begins to notify the wives of their husbands deaths. I would recommend this movie to anyone I knew if they could handle blood, gore, death, intense language, and graphic war images. If one could handle these images, then this is one of the greatest films ever created.