Movies releasing in SA today: Setting 3D Piranhas on Life as We Know It
Well it's another pretty dud week at the movies - although things will improve dramatically from next week with a bumper crop of acclaimed new movies releasing. Anyway, your choices today are pretty much as follows:
For romantic comedy lovers there's Life As We Know It, starring Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel as a neatness freak (her) and slob (him) whose single shared love is their best friends' baby daughter - their goddaughter in fact. When their best friends are killed in a car accident, this odd couple have to work together to raise the child... and maybe find love in the process, despite their differences. Blah, blah, blah.
I can't say that Life As We Know It appeals to me at all. It sounds so damn generic, saccharine and predictable on every single level. Unsurprisingly, the film is 30% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, where critics have praised Heigel and Duhamel as a charming on-screen couple who are otherwise mired in paint-by-numbers mediocrity.
That then leaves Piranha 3D as my new release pick of the week. I've blogged before about this deliberately B-grade horror flick (and blatant Jaws rip-off) that sees a vicious prehistoric species of piranha terrorising Lake Victoria, Arizona - the caldera of an ancient volcano - during Spring Break, when thousands of drunk, horny college students head to the water. It's up to Sheriff Julie Forester (Elisabeth Shue) and a disparate group of strangers (played by a surprisingly good cast that includes Ving Rhames, Jerry O'Connell, and Christopher Lloyd) to save the teens, and overcome disbelief from the profit-hungry authorities.
Of course, the big drawcard here is that the schlock carnage is depicted in 3D - and for the record, Piranha 3D was specifically shot in the format. It is not a conversion! So expect lots of fanged fish leaping at the camera and bouncing bare titties in multiple dimensions. Given how much cheesy fun Resident Evil: Afterlife was, I'm totally up for this one. Piranha 3D is a very solid 75% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. As expected, the movie has been described as a completely gratuitous, gleefully gory popcorn flick. You'll have to be in the undemanding mood for it, but Piranha 3D looks like a total blast.
For romantic comedy lovers there's Life As We Know It, starring Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel as a neatness freak (her) and slob (him) whose single shared love is their best friends' baby daughter - their goddaughter in fact. When their best friends are killed in a car accident, this odd couple have to work together to raise the child... and maybe find love in the process, despite their differences. Blah, blah, blah.
I can't say that Life As We Know It appeals to me at all. It sounds so damn generic, saccharine and predictable on every single level. Unsurprisingly, the film is 30% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, where critics have praised Heigel and Duhamel as a charming on-screen couple who are otherwise mired in paint-by-numbers mediocrity.
That then leaves Piranha 3D as my new release pick of the week. I've blogged before about this deliberately B-grade horror flick (and blatant Jaws rip-off) that sees a vicious prehistoric species of piranha terrorising Lake Victoria, Arizona - the caldera of an ancient volcano - during Spring Break, when thousands of drunk, horny college students head to the water. It's up to Sheriff Julie Forester (Elisabeth Shue) and a disparate group of strangers (played by a surprisingly good cast that includes Ving Rhames, Jerry O'Connell, and Christopher Lloyd) to save the teens, and overcome disbelief from the profit-hungry authorities.
Of course, the big drawcard here is that the schlock carnage is depicted in 3D - and for the record, Piranha 3D was specifically shot in the format. It is not a conversion! So expect lots of fanged fish leaping at the camera and bouncing bare titties in multiple dimensions. Given how much cheesy fun Resident Evil: Afterlife was, I'm totally up for this one. Piranha 3D is a very solid 75% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. As expected, the movie has been described as a completely gratuitous, gleefully gory popcorn flick. You'll have to be in the undemanding mood for it, but Piranha 3D looks like a total blast.
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