Monday, February 21, 2011

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Quick Cuts: Mega Gator vs. Python, Mean Girls 2, Red: Werewolf Hunter

Mega Python Vs Gator

always say I do not like watching movies study The Asylum but how I can resist the title of Mega Python Vs Gator? I'm human! I can not ignore the promise of snakes and giant lizards. And I can not resist the cast led by Debbie (sorry, "Deborah") Gibson and Tiffany, two young singers from the eighties equally famous for its soft pop hymns, and the alleged rivalry that divided an entire generation (maybe I'm exaggerating). Clear that both divas have experience in similar caliber films, do not forget that Gibson was the best of Mega Shark Giant Octopus Vs , while Tiffany previously faced giant piranhas Piranha Mega . Needless to say, Mega Python Vs Gator is another mega-disappointment of tamaƱoide similar.

Argument is a magical symphony of stupidity: the stubborn activist Nikki Riley (Deborah Gibson) releases some reptiles that were caged in a mysterious laboratory, and within days the Sheriff Terry O'Hara (Tiffany) began receiving reports of large snakes attacking local wetland wildlife, particularly crocodiles. Irony! For wanting to protect snakes, Nikki accidentally caused an ecological disaster. But no matter, because the solution is obvious: injecting steroids and growth hormone in chickens and give them to the crocodiles, to grow and to fend off aggressive snakes. But nature is unpredictable, and when the snakes consume contaminated meat begin to grow, so Terry and Nikki will have to cooperate and resolve their differences to avoid the huge creatures consume the spectacularly stupid people in the region ... and perhaps the world.

All in all, I like The Asylum return to the mood of their productions old, which tacitly admit their incompetence and invited us to be complicit in the joke . I also appreciate that the plot has some semblance of structure, instead of looking like a sequence of improvised scenes together arbitrarily by a editor blind (did I mention that the director of the film is Mary Lambert, best known for Pet Sematary and The In Crowd ?). And above all, I enjoyed the humor of the inevitable actresses screaming at the empty space that would later be inhabited by very poor digital creatures. So I will not say Mega Python Vs Gator is "so bad it's good", but it certainly seemed ridiculous enough to be entertaining and hilarious. I assure you that I've had worse experiences in the cinema with films "serious", so I can not deny a grudging recommendation this gathering of monsters. And snakes and crocodiles.
Rating: 5


Mean Girls 2

Among my youth comedies favorite is Mean Girls (2004), written by Tina Fey as a modern version of Heathers , perhaps no murders or suicides, but similar black humor and sardonic view of tides policies on a "high school" American, dominated with an iron fist by a group of girls that are just perfect hated and adored by his "subjects." And Mean Girls had considerable economic success (I suspect not only for their intrinsic merit, but because of the alarming shortage of good films in that genre), became the perfect candidate to receive a direct to DVD sequel, we now have a chance to enjoy. Or, rather, "enjoy."

far as I can see, the only actor in Mean Girls 2 returning from the original is Tim Meadows as the school director wins North Shore (which does not say much for his career post- Saturday Night Live), which reaches the young Jo Mitchell (Meaghan Martin), whose father is a mechanic race car. The perfect girl, nicknamed "the plastics", recognize the potential of the new girl and offer to enter the exclusive group but Jo rejects, as the constantly changing city have taught him not to make friends for no disappointments when you have to leave school. Of course the plastics are not used to rejection, and proceed to make life miserable for Jo, who is forced to retaliate with the same weapons, and with the help Abby (Jennifer Stone), the shy girl who does not know the hidden secret that Jo ...

I have a theory about the origin of Mean Girls 2. It strikes me that started as an honest expression of "girl power" combined with an examination (not very original) of the pseudo-feminist themes used in the first movie, but a committee of executives felt that there was not enough romance, and decided to insert to force a generic hunk who ruined the tape, as it not only interferes with the main plot but that sabotaging the message of self-sufficiency female seems to fly the argument. And if we add the clumsy direction and poor editing, we have a shaky movie with uncertain pace, irregular structure, and without enough laughs to justify its existence as a brilliant comedy sequel. But for this letter is not part of "burn book" , conclude by saying that I liked the performance of Meaghan Martin in the lead role, and Jennifer Stone as his innocent friend. By the way ... it was my twisted imagination, and I noticed some romantic tension between them? One moment ... maybe that's why they put the gallant men! To avoid accusations "guardians of morality" can not tolerate ideas contrary to their own ideology!. What am I talking about? It's just Mean Girls 2, another mediocre direct to DVD sequel is far below its predecessor. Only an idiot would put both over-analyze.
Rating: 5


Network: Werewolf Hunter

As a fan of The Guild and Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog , was one of many "geeks" that we receive with pleasure the recent news that Felicia Day is working on a new web series based on the video game Dragon Age . There are still months before the debut of this project (and even more for the fifth season of The Guild ), but the news finally gave me the courage to see Network: Werewolf Hunter , a cheap tape direct to DVD (or TV, it is co-funded by the channel SyFy ) that reinterprets the story of Little Red Riding Hood like a movie horror-adventure in which a woman named Virginia bold "Red" Sullivan (Felicia Day) belongs to a family which for centuries hunting werewolves. But things get complicated when Nathan (Kavan Smith), her fiance, learns the secret and become easy targets for lupine monsters. Red Can (nicknamed so for his red hair) to save his fiance, keep the family tradition and avoid being eaten, as happened to your grandmother?

is not a very original idea. The able director Neil Jordan did something similar last twenty-five years The Company of Wolves , and director Catherine Hardwicke is about to release Red Riding Hood with Amanda Seyfried in a similar role. But Network: Werewolf Hunter has cast in its favor a "geek-friendly" which includes, in addition to Day, to Kavan Smith ( Stargate: Atlantis , Eureka ), Stephen McHattie ( Watchmen , Pontypool ) and Carlyn Burchell (no science fiction, but attractive to any nerd). Unfortunately the illustrious performers feel wasted, for there is much to recommend in this slow and confused movie who spends much of his time in repetitive dialogue, "tight" tours of the decrepit houses an abandoned village, and (could not miss) walks without direction or purpose whatsoever (except to inflate the length of the movie) by well-known forest Canada where they have filmed enough messes like this. I think I'm recognizing specific trees have often seen behind zombies, slashers aliens and other creatures.

But the low budget and general locations are not the only problems facing Network: Werewolf Hunter . The plot lacks cohesion, and sometimes it seems constructed from two different movies. In a family drama we have Virginia, her siblings and her fiance, on the other we see the manhunt game play like the wolves. Not until the end when the director Sheldon Wilson reminds them together, just in time to reach the "epic" final more or less works, at least by the standards of this niche film. Anyway ... as far as I can point to positive action by Felicia Day, sincere and energetic, and Stephen McHattie, whose experience as eternal cynic given a little spark to their talkative villain. The effects I also particularly relevant unexpectedly appeared, well, the creatures are horrendous, but the transformations are well designed and executed. In fact, I think I liked more than those of Twilight: (or was New Moon ? Whatever.) The point is that I do not regret having seen Network: Werewolf Hunter , but I can not recommend it (except to fans of Felicia Day), as its attributes seem little consolation prize and not components of a good movie. After all what I expected, so I can not complain (more). But he wished that it was a pleasant surprise rather than a routine dose of mediocrity. Hopefully Dragon Age: Redemption more successful.
Rating: 5

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