Genre: Comedy
Running Time: 112 min
Plot: The classic story of an overly skinny young adult male who overcomes obstacles to try and win the love of a rebellious young woman..... except that the obstacles are seven evil-superhuman ex-boyfriends and not something lame like a lack of self-esteem.
Review: Wait.... Michael Cera is starring as geeky young boy who tries to score with a relatively good looking alternative girl.... How can the same movie still be entertaining to watch? Easy, you inject this redundant story into a world of comic books that has a three-way with steroids, ecstasy, and Coke Zero. The tagline says it perfectly: "An Epic of Epic Epicness."
I can't describe how happy I was while watching Scott's adventures scene-by-scene. Maybe it was the company that was with me during the movie that made me so giddy, but I'm pretty sure it was the pure 100% portrait of what every geek at heart imagines.
This movie embodies everything a cinematic adventure strives for.... entertainment value. Yes, the movie according to a snobby stuck-up critic, would be classified as a brainless movie that has no value, but they can go (fill in the blank).
Quote you might say after watching this: "Thank you for making a movie about one of my dreams that I had when I was sleep deprived!"
Bottled Youth Movie Review Rating: 9.5/10 bottles
Genre: Drama
Running Time: 103 min
Plot: The life of love and betrayal of a group of perfectly awkward (so we think) British boarding school students. These so-called students go through their pre-designed lives with the knowledge that their sole purpose for existence is organ donation.
Review: I was fantastically surprised with this (seemed to be) drama about the two most common feelings in life: love and betrayal. It started out just like other life-drama movies with a group of people who create friendships and betray each other for their own jealous reasons and blah blah blah. Everything seemed normal except for the bracelets that the children had to wear to get in and out of the boarding school.
It turns out that these children are in many ways human versions of "Free-range Chickens." The movie gets interesting and sucks you in when the new teacher reveals the secret of what the boarding school actually is: A business of raising humans for, what I call "the supermarket of Organs." This is where the movie gets really strange, because these children seem to accept that they will not have a life of their own and will be harvested for their "Original."
Some things were not exactly clear about if these children were clones, test-tube babies, or only orphans, but I actually love how the movie left this ambiguous because the focus should be on how a society could even think about having a business that harvests human parts that can save the lives of others.... kill people to save people.
Overall, the movie is slow-paced but it is full of emotion and above average acting. The movie will tug at your heart strings especially towards the end when you realize that there is no hope and the power of love doesn't mean anything in a pre-determined life.
Quote you might say after watching this: "I'm glad I'm not British because they're all sorts of crazy."
Bottled Youth Movie Review Rating: 7.5/10 bottles
Genre: Comedy
