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About Eugene

I'm currently trying to get back to my original weight of 7 Pounds and 6 ounces. yeah it's an uphill battle... I am a purveyor of many genres and mediums, from comics and anime, to movies and television shows. I'll get anything a shot and if it's good I'll praise it, and if it's bad... I'll be brutally honest. And I love frozen yogurt, I will always seek some out after a meal.

Review: The Lego Movie – Everything is Awesome

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The Lego Movie is about your favorite building toy. We’re in a world on interconnecting colored bricks. Our protagonist is Emmet, a lonely mini figure construction worker in a Lego City. Emmet then has the prophecy of the “special” thrusted upon him, he meets a collection of characters on his way to thwart our antagonist, President Business. Can they defeat the bad guy and build a bigger, better, brighter future?

The good; the animation is great. While being entirely computer generated, the animators found a great mid-ground between the stop motion quality of fan-made Lego movies, and totally fluid cg. The limitations in the articulation of mini figs was used amazingly well for comedic effect, while the action scenes could rival that of any live action movie today. It was nice to transition from the rigidness to the completely fluid, great choice!

The writing is amazing. The writers did a bang up job in capturing how I imagine the Lego world would be. This utopia of timeless yellow smiley faces atop perfectly placed bricks mirroring our own world, a “what if” type of reality frozen in time.
Then we get to explore other worlds/realms in the Lego land, granted we didn’t get all the world but we got enough. We get to visit these worlds; western, castle, pirate and a crazy colorful Cloud Cuckoo Land.
The humor is jammed packed in to this movie, I couldn’t believe how many funny lines there were in the first ten minutes, and it kept going till the end.

We also get one of my personal favorite theme lines from Lego, Classic Space. An unnamed Blue Astronaut that just wants to build space ships represents that era.
There’s also bits from other inherently Lego brands; Octan, Blacktron, Forestmen… it’s nice to see these childhood staples of mine being utilized in a movie made for this generation.

The bad; if I have to put anything here… it’d be the nature of film itself. There’s a lot going on in this movie, it felt like a feast for my eyeballs, I wanted to take it all in, but the nature of film and camera movement doesn’t all of that at times. This is especially true for the action scenes, so many moving pieces, and not in the bad way like king crap Michael Bay’s craptacular Transformers movies, that I missed out on the details.

Overall, a lot of fun. At first I thought… this movie is ten years too late (if not more), but after watching it I am glad to admit that my initial thoughts were wrong, this is one for the ages. Especially anyone who’s played with Legos and built imaginary worlds of adventure.

 

Review: The Raid 2: Berandal – no lack of action here

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The Raid 2 is the sequel to The Raid: Redemption. We pick up almost right after the events of the first movie, Rama’s just gotten back from surviving that apartment complex, he then meets up with this other older cop who’s trying to find other dirty cops. So they send Rama on this deep undercover mission to infiltrate a criminal organization. Sounds simple enough right? Like the first one?

The good; as always, the (Indonesian) martial arts is top notch. Iko Uwais is great, his level of skill is fabulously displayed in this film. And they add more artists to battle him, unlike the previous movie where we basically just had Iko fighting everyone, only to lead up to a “boss,” played superbly by Yayan Ruhian. Yayan appears in this movie too, but he’s playing a different character. Still, good to see him here.

The color palate of the film is great. The colors are very muted, not just with the color correction of the film, but with the set design and the costume design. There are a lot of black suits worn in this film, along with dark colored clothing, like in the prison where everyone is wearing a grey jumpsuit or a black police uniform. Another thing to note about the prison are the grey walls, especially in the bathroom fight scene. Then there’s Rama’s apartment, even the walls are grey, not the typical white, but grey. Most of the vehicles used in the movie are also black sedans or black SUVs.
I just love the absence of color, makes the blood pop more, and emphasizes the grey area that Rama’s got himself into.

There are wide shots, lovely lovely wide shots! thank you for including these. This is a shot choice that goes underutilized today.

The bad; this movie is way too long. It clocks in at 2.5 hours… wow. It totally did not need to be this long. I get it though, you want to show case the exceptional martial arts and artists, but you have so many to service here. I hate to say it, but Yayan’s character in the film was sort of unnecessary. The “boss” fight with the bat boy and the hammer lady was cool, but the stuff in-between with them could’ve been shortened.

The story is way too complicated for a film to showcase action. The whole undercover thing is a true macguffin in the sense that it served to move the story along to get to other parts of the movie… namely the action.

This film really needed to be shorter, I haven’t fidgeted this much in movie in a while…

Overall, if you like martial arts, you’ll enjoy this movie. If you like action, you’ll enjoy this movie. They cover the action very well, much better than most America movies. The last action scene comes to mind, well the beginning of the last action scene. Rama shows up at the bad guy’s headquarters, a restaurant, and enters guns blazing. Think The Matrix‘s lobby shoot out scene, but with out firearms, Rama goes in with his “guns” and just beats the crap out of everyone that tries to stop him. It’s a real sight to behold.
So we have good action and great coverage, but the story and the film length need to compliment them. It really feels like a missed opportunity at a great movie.

 

 

Review: Silicon Valley – the birthplace of the dot.com

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Silicon Valley premiered on HBO this weekend past. It’s about 6 programmers who live in, you guessed it, Silicon Valley. For those of you who don’t know, that’s located in the south portion of the San Francisco Bay area. Those 6 programmers try to make it big in the wake of start up companies that are now staples of modern culture; Facebook, Google, Yahoo, eBay, Netflix and Apple Inc.

Thomas Middleditch plays Richard, who comes up with a compression algorithm that the big wigs want. When Richard’s faced with the decision of; to sell to a big corporation, or to go with a tech guru? He’s got to step out of his comfort zone and be the center of attention. And suprise, surprise… Richard’s an introvert.
Silicon Valley deals with the high tech bubble of the tech world, where people who are qualified for the most success, can’t deal with it.

This show is brought to us by Mike Judge, we’ve all been looking forward for his next project, and this one does not disappoint. It points out and makes fun of the “innovative” things that corporations do to stand out, and make them appear to be un-corporations…

Having experience in the industry before, we can see Mike Judge is still in tune with much of the obnoxious behavior still prevalent in the tech world. As with his other works (think Idiocracy), Judge plants these details in our peripheral vision as gifts for us to laugh at with him. Such bits include questionable practices like meetings on bikes, cafeterias offering excessive free food, CEOs with narrow eco-friendly cars, spiritual advisor-consulting executives wearing finger shoes, and brogramers… despicable brogramers.

Richard’s journey is what I’m looking forward to the most, this quiet like-able guy has to make some tough decisions, I’ll be watching to see how he emerges out of season 1.

There are only 8 episodes this season, I can’t wait to see where we’re going.

Review: Captain America: The Winter Soldier – how ‘ice to have met you

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Captain America: The Winter Soldier is the sequel to Captain America: The First Avenger. Much like Thor: The Dark World, this film directly follows events that took place in The Avengers, more fondly referred to as the “Battle of New York.” Cap is still getting used to the modern world and how he fits in it. We throw in S.H.I.E.L.D., some covert plotting, and sprinkle in some action, that’s what we have here.

The good; we get the same cast back. That’s always a pleasure because it’s the same world, it’s consistent with what we’ve seen, makes it more believable.

The action is great in this movie. We really get to see Cap move and fight in ways that we’ve only really seen in the comics and the animated tv shows. They perfected Cap’s movements from The Avengers, he leaps, jumps and throws his shield more and more like he does in the comic books.

Speaking more to the action, they utilized a lot of practical stunts, I really appreciate that. The combination of CG and practicals worked really well in this film. I know the shield is computer generated at times, but how else would they have done it? Very good job with how the shield behaves. There’s also a car chase scene with Nick Fury that was previewed on tv, but the entirety of the scene is great. His vehicle is a SHIELD vehicle and has all the gadgets and gizmos that would make James Bond jealous.

And this film is a direct sequel to the first movie, without ignoring The Avengers, I wasn’t expecting it to be as much of a sequel as it was, bravo for that.

Oh and this is definitely the comic book fan boy in me, but we get to see Cap’s ears with his mask. That’s just how it’s been in the comics, with the first movie they were covered and I couldn’t put my finger on what bugged me, but it was the ears. We see his EARS! Hahaha. In line with the comics, the way they dealt with The Falcon was great. I was worried when they first announced that he would be in this film, but they updated him to fit the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

The bad; this is just me being nitpicky, but it feels too soon to see Steve Rogers in the Commander Rogers outfit. But at the same time, I’m glad that we got to see him in the original costume too, but his ears are covered… hahaha

The action, I know I mentioned this above, but it was too hand held at times. Why have all these practical stunts and not see everything? They worked hard and I want to see the stunts.

The reveal of The Winter Soldier was… well, revealed earlier on in some tv content. It kinda took away from the reveal in the film, it seems like the whole audience already knew who he was, nary was a gasp to be heard.*POSSIBLE SPOILER* and to title this film The Winter Soldier is a bit misleading… it’s not the Winter Soldier story at all, the end of this movie does set it up so that the next sequel will be the Winter Soldier’s story. I really found that odd. *END POSSIBLE SPOILER*

Oh, and people… people really make it hard to enjoy a movie in the theatres these days. With the assigned seating and higher price point you’d think it would eliminate some of the riff raff… but that time period has gone, back in full force is the lack of common courtesy.

Overall I enjoyed it. So did everyone else, it made $96.2 million this weekend.
We get a very solid action movie with an evil plot to take over the world thrown in there. The way the Captain America movies have been are great, it reminds me of Superman. How Cap is a product of his time but yet relevant in the present, DC Comics should take a page (pun intended) from how Marvel has treated Captain America in their films. You can take a character has “old world” values and still make him interesting.
Captain America is one of my favorite Marvel superheroes, it’s probably all that patriotism drilled in to me as a kid, and I’m glad that we’re getting these movies.

 

The Mayans had it wrong… 2014 is the real 2012

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The new trailer for our latest iteration of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is out… I won’t link you to the video itself, because it would just drive up the number of views. But Michael Bay has managed to do it again, take something from my childhood and completely ruin it for the new generation, and me as well.

2014 has two Michael Bay “films” in it. I think the Mayans were wrong and 2014 is the end of the world as we know it.
We’re getting a new live action Ninja Turtles movie and the Dinobots are going to be introduced to Marky Mark and the Funkie Bunch, and by the Funkie Bunch I mean the Autobots. While Mikey Mike has already ruined the Transformers for a whole new generation, why must he continue his rampage?

The Ninja Turtles have gone through many different versions over the years, some better than others, but they’ve survived. The same will happen with this version, we just have to wait it out.

Knowing that… why am I ragging on this new film? Cause “haters be hatin’,” and “I’m a professional cynic, but my heart’s not in it,” and other cliches. Don’t get me wrong, I want to be wrong, I hope I’m wrong… but the evidence points to being horrid.

Previously it was rumored that the Turtles would be aliens, now they’re not? but they have nostrils… all of these things I’m ok with, even the new look of what they’re wearing. But with Bay behind the helm, we’re going to get something with no substance and no soul, which is probably why he cast Megan Fox as news reporter April O’Neil, it’s all going to be just flash and explosions.

The trailer proves all of this, it’s got Michael Bay written all over it, just like he put his stank on the Transformers. Take a look for yourselves, can you tell what goes to Turtles and what goes to Transformers?

Not even this moron knows, and he’s in one of the movies!

 

http://news.yahoo.com/dont-even-bother-getting-worked-ninja-turtles-trailer-182551472.html;_ylt=AwrSbmdQFDtTnUkAlv9XNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTE0amthNGVmBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMTAEY29sbwNncTEEdnRpZANWSVAwNTFfMQ–

Why are we entrusting the legacy to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the Transformers to this guy? Someone who goes mental because a teleprompter breaks down?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4rMy1iA268

I want to be wrong, I hope I’m wrong, but the stern looks from the real Ninja Turtles says it’s doubtful. SMH

Review: Muppets Most Wanted – Wocka Wocka

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Muppets Most Wanted is the sequel to 2011 The Muppets. It’s about… you guessed it, the Muppets. This time they go on a world tour, but little do they know that there’s more to it than that. Friends become enemies, enemies become friends, friends become lovers, all that and a lot more songs with a lot more guest appearances, and you get Muppets Most Wanted.

The good; the film takes place immediately where the last film left off, amazing! And right away there’s a musical number about how this movie is a sequel, love it. The music in this film is just great, Bret McKenzie‘s back and boy does he deliver with the music. McKenzie’s lyrical sensibility gels well with the Muppets, it’s uncanny how this union never took place earlier. Along with McKenzie, we have Christophe Beck back again, who comes hot off the tails of Frozen. Music and Muppets just belong together.

We get a lot of guest stars in this movie, one in particular is the build up to the man in the box.

The story is typical of a Muppet movie, we have to travel and sing our way through things, but in this film we get a little more with how this group is a family. There’s more separation in this one, but it allows us to explore the relationships among these characters. One moment I found particularly wonderful was when Fozzy, Animal and Walter come to aide Kermit in the gulag. It felt right that Fozzy would come to his best friend’s aid, that might just be me being sentimental, but it’s hard not to be that way about characters I grew up with.

The bad; it seems like everyone is doing an accent in this movie, but I guess that goes with the international feel of the film.

This goes more with the movie going experience… but kids in a theatre are very distracting, especially when they’re pointing out everything that’s going on in the movie. Parents, I implore you to not rely on tv or the movies as your babysitter, please teach them common courtesy.

Overall this sequel was very entertaining. I love that they amped up the number of songs. We even get to see Robin, remember Robin? If you grew up with the Muppets, you’ll love this sequel.

Review: The Grand Budapest Hotel – What a Nice Surprise, Bring Your Alibis

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The Grand Budapest Hotel is Wes Anderson‘s latest cinematic endeavor. You guessed it, it’s about a hotel, a hotel in a fictional European mountainous area and the people that inhabit the hotel and it’s surrounding areas. The story takes place in the present, the sixties, and the war ravaged thirties… throw in wonderful music, awkward moments, intense short amounts of violence and colorful sets and that’s it.

The good; it’s a Wes Anderson movie, you either know what you’re going to get or you don’t. But here’s something new, in a similar fashion to good Tarantino movies, we’re taken through this story in “parts” and different time periods, what works here is that Anderson’s able to make it fresh. How does he do this? He uses different aspect ratios to represent the different time periods. It’s subtle.

This movie is a love letter to old style architecture and more importantly, grand lavish hotels. Much like The Darjeeling Limited was his love letter to India, we get The Grand Budapest Hotel. It makes me want to visit old hotels, and how things used to be, everything that the sixties rejected and covered up.

There’s a chase scene in the snow… it’s ultra staged (fake), yet I found it increasingly enjoyable as the thrill of the pursuit continued. I don’t know why I liked this sequence so much.

Tony Revolori, as young Zero, does a great job. Bravo in finding this young talent. And there’s a lot of familiar actors in this film, simply stunning.

The bad; if I have to put anything here… I’d put there’s more swearing in this film than in previous Anderson films.
There’s also a lack of marketing, might be because this movie is in limited release at the moment.

Overall I had a lot of fun. It was a ride for sure, and through all the emotions I was invested from start to finish. The symmetry wasn’t as overt as Moonrise Kingdom, yet it was still a feast for the visual arts in a different way. The Grand Budapest Hotel is neck and neck with Moonrise Kingdom for my favorite of Anderson’s body of work.

Review: Non-Stop – all the way to thrills

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Non-Stop is a French-American thriller, it’s about Air Marshall Liam Neeson who gets threatening texts from someone inside the house, hummmph, I mean plane.
This is the first film by Silver Pictures to be distributed by Universal.

The good; I went in to this film with nothing, I only knew of the trailer, but when the production logos appear at the head of the film I was pleasantly surprised to see the Silver Pictures logo, wooohooo! The stage had been set. If you don’t know what I’m referring too, then you didn’t grow up in the 80s

So Liam Neeson is playing Air Marshall Bill Marks, he’s got a checkered past, but he’s still in the air to protect and to serve – classic. Neeson is what really carries this movie. You watch him throughout, while you let logic fall by the wayside.

The bad; this doesn’t feel right being released today, it’s almost like it was ten years too late. But I’m still glad it’s here.
People probably won’t see this in the theatres, let’s hope it gets a good life on the DVD home market.

The bad guy’s motivation wasn’t very clear, why were they doing what they were doing? I was left wanting more in this portion of the film.

It feels like an 80s movie, it smells like an 80s movie, it even tastes like an 80s movie… but what makes it not an 80s movie? The airplane is CG… not that it’s bad CG, but I wonder what it would’ve been like if it was a practical airplane model doing the moves that they were doing?

Overall not a bad time, it’s a great throwback to what films used to be, and a lot of the ones I grew up loving were produced by Joel Silver. So pop that popcorn, bring your tray tables to the full and upright position, and enjoy the ride that is Non-Stop.

 

Review: 300: Rise of an Empire – aka Three Hundred and One

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A little late on this one, a week to be exact. 300: Rise of an Empire is the sequel to 300. This time we follow the blue capes of Themistocles, played by Sullivan Stapleton, of Strike Back fame. This is quite the sequel, as it takes place before the aforementioned 300, during and after. Same gory violence, same stylized action, same bat chann… you get the idea.

The good; this sequel fits right in to the original two thousand seven movie. I was impressed, Noam Murro does a good job putting this film in to the slow mo action sequences, six pack abs, color de-saturation and hyper historical reality that we got to know in the first movie. I think what I’m more impressed by is the story… to have this sequel (to a movie I didn’t feel needed one) not only before the events of the first movie, but during and after was very nice.

Usually when films in a franchise have a different director(s) we get a different tone and take on the story that’s being told, but here we have a team that’s flowing well in this very specific world.

Eva Green‘s in this film, haha

I have to mention the action sequences, they’re greeeeeatttt! I know most of it was shot on green screen but they were very well done. The hand held quality didn’t go overboard, and there were wide shots… glorious wide shots. I could tell what was going on and where it was going on. This is how action scenes should be shot, and this is how green screened scenes should be done.

The bad; at the beginning of the third act we could’ve ended, but we have whole other action sequence to be had. And in that we have to set it up, and, build it up. This break in the non-stop action felt odd in its placement.

The action scenes, I know I put this above, but there are a lot of action scenes. Early on we get too many that end in victory, a little struggle to win might’ve been better.

Then there’s the historical accuracy, cause we all come to see this film for it’s historical accuracy. But some of the liberties taken with this film were very… well, liberal. At least it wasn’t as bad as Troy, sheesh. I kind of wish that they explained why Themistocles looked like a Spartan, when he was actually from Athens, usually the Athenians wear robes, just a little thing that could’ve been explained with a line or two, whatever.

Overall I was impressed with where this film fits in with this new franchise. And now knowing and seeing that… we’re going to get a third film. You have to go in to this movie knowing what it is – entertainment. And it delivers, check your brain and history knowledge at the door and eat that popcorn. Oh and the action scenes, did I mention the action scenes?? I feel like I didn’t mention the action scenes (stop saying ‘action scenes’).

Review: Robocop (2014) – dead or alive, he’s made it to the big screen

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Just saw the new Robocop film. After much hesitation I decided to check it out, it’s about a cop in Detroit who’s injured beyond saving, so they have to make him in to a cyborg to save his life, at the same time he’s still on the force, part man, part machine… all cop. It’s a remake of one of my favorite movies from the eighties.

The good; it’s a new take and not a simple remake. The action sequences and the sound design are amazing. I can hear the foot steps of Robocop and his gun shots. Joel Kinnaman does a pretty good job as Murphy, both in and out of the Robocop suit. The first version of this Robocop is a great nod to the original design before they move on to the all black suit.

I like the update to today, where Omnicorp is actually utilizing their products on foreign soil, that part was only hinted at in the Media Break sequences of the original film. So seeing the corporation’s international reach was a nice touch, even Robocop himself was “built” overseas.

There’s a scene where they show you what’s left of Murphy’s body, pretty shocking stuff. They really amped up the action in this one, feels like this movie would’ve done better with a summer release. And we get to hear the original theme by Basil Poledouris in this movie, bravo for using it.

Gary Oldman does a great job as Dr. Dennett Norton, it’s just funny to see Michael Keaton and Gary Oldman in the same scene, it’s Batman and Commissioner Gordon from two different Batman worlds. Gary Oldman just embodied this scientist role whole-heartedly.

The bad; the original Robocop (1987) movie is one of my favorites, so I’m a little biased. But here we go…

Get a tripod Jose Padilha (director) not every scene in this movie needs to be hand held, we were on the border of being a Michael Bay Transformers movie, and we don’t need a fourth one… oh wait. There’s some great special effects in this movie but with all the shakey-cam stuff we miss seeing the wonderful renderings that people slaved over.

I’m not sure what was gained by having the Lewis and Reed characters having their genders reversed.

The Robocop suit looked too much like an Iron Man suit, even when it breaks apart, was that really needed?  It’s also never explained why they decided to keep his right hand human.

Detroit as a character is absent, it’s just another Canadian city masking as America, it’s not the blue collar motor city, they could’ve set this movie in any other city, nothing said Detroit to me.

Gary Oldman, I know I put him above as one of the things I liked, but to me he’s the real main character of this new film. His character has the biggest arc, and his moral struggle is fair more relate-able, I mean Robocop/Murphy does have an arc, but it’s not really one of character, I’ll give too much away if I say any more.

Gone is the political and social satire.

Overall, I’ll gladly take the original any day, but this is one of the better remakes out there, despite my gripes. I was against the motorcycle, but they made it work.

Let me leave you with a quote from Dick Jones, he’s number two guy at OCP, “I had a guaranteed military sale with ED209! Renovation program! Spare parts for 25 years! Who cares if it worked or not!”

Review: Her – or how i learned to stop worrying and love my phone

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Got to see Her tonight, it’s about a man who develops a relationship with the operating system on his smart phone that has a female voice.  This film is brought to you by Spike Jonze, who previously gave us Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, and Where The Wild Things Are, but you may know him better from the music videos he’s directed.  This time Jonze ventures out on his solo screenwriting debut.

The good; the performances are great.  Joaquin Phoenix really delivers, for most of the film he’s by himself, talking on the phone… yet he manages to make us feel; isolated, excited, happy, sad.
Amy Adams is normal looking in this movie, she’s not super glamorous, works for me.

The world that Jonze has built is stunning, it’s a natural progression (or regression) of what Los Angeles will become.  The social commentary of a man developing a relationship with his phone is very well done.

The visuals are stunning, every shot is filled, or not filled with color.  The city-scapes are amazing, and it’s really the small touches that I appreciated.  Like downtown LA’s library building has additions to it, and there’s a very present layer of smog every time we’re outside during the day.  Oh and the fashion, love the prediction of how fashion will be in the near future, bravo.

The bad; the film meanders a bit.  This could be because we’re peering in to the life of one man, but it could’ve used some tightening.  The end felt a bit dragged out, the formula for American cinema is very well established, so by the third act we’re just waiting for the inevitable to happen.  Here we get a slow drawn out third act that could’ve been more effective if it were a bit shorter.

Overall, good job Mr. Jonze, your solo screenwriting debut is something you should be proud of.  In the world we live in today Her is an omen of things to come and a projection of how things can be as we evolve and change along with the exponential growth of technology.
This film definitely has a chord to strike with its audience, not everyone will get this movie, in this case it really is a generational thing.

Review: Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues – to deliver the absurd

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I finally got to see Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues.  If you’ve seen the first movie, you’ve basically seen this movie, Ron Burgundy and his news team deliver the news and get in to hijinks, it’s Will Ferrell doing what Will Ferrell does.

The good; they’re back!  They’re all here.  We get the news team re-assembled, it feels like no time has past.  The music is great, really takes me back.

The jokes and humor are there, and we actually get a bit of social commentary this time, say whaaaat?  Yeah that’s right.

Not to spoil it, but we do actually top something from the first movie.

The bad; there’s something missing, I can’t quite put my finger on it, but all the ingredients are there… it’s something I should love through and through.  Yet at the end I felt unsatisfied.  It could be that it was too much like the first film that I’m left with wanting more.

It’s always difficult when your starting point involves a protagonist (who’s basically mentally challenged) with similar friends who do and say anything they want, this includes time and space.  They ended the first movie on top, it was very difficult to build from that.

Overall, it’s worth a rental.  If you like Will Ferrell, then by all means see it.  But there’s something missing from the recipe that left me wanting a mid-night snack.  Don’t get me wrong, the bits are funny, I was laughing throughout the movie, I guess I just wanted more.