All Entries Tagged With: "movie reviews"
The Kidd Vs. The Muppets
I love THE MUPPETS. That’s about as clear as I can be about Disney’s resurrection of the Muppet brand, returning the likes of Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Gonzo, Fozzie, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, Beaker, Scooter, Skeeter, Animal, Rowlf, Sweetums and the rest of the gang to the big screen for the first time in 12 years. The [...]
The Kidd Vs. Hugo
It’s difficult to make an entire movie based on subtext. People want what they see on the screen to mean something. You can add all the underlying themes and messages you want, but, if, on the surface, your movie isn’t really about anything, it’s not going to connect with the audience. That’s where Martin Scorsese’s [...]
The Kidd Vs. Arthur Christmas
Every year, right around the holidays, we usually end up with a couple of holiday movies being stuffed in our stockings, which wouldn’t be such a bad thing if we hadn’t already been inundated with the same sentimental schlock every November/December. There are some gems that have come along which succeed in making us feel [...]
The Kidd Vs. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1
I’m not a TWILIGHT hater. I will admit to being one of those geeks who hated the phenomena at its outset, railing against anything and everything TWILIGHT whenever I could before I had ever even seen it. Then I thought it’d only be fair to watch the first film all the way through, to see [...]
The Kidd Vs. Like Crazy
As part of my job, quite often, I have to sit through movies I’m really not all that interested in seeing. I always try to go into a movie with an open mind (Kevin James’ flicks usually point that idea to the test), but, because of all the material we cover here at InfamousKidd.com, we’re [...]
The Kidd Vs. The Human Centipede Part 2 (Full Sequence)
I wasn’t that crazy about the first HUMAN CENTIPEDE, as all the allure of the film came from actually seeing the human centipede fully constructed. Once that was gone, all that remained was an average horror film lacking in quality scares. The premise of the film became more of a burden than anything as THE [...]
The Kidd Vs. The Skin I Live In
THE SKIN I LIVE IN is one of the more bizarre films I’ve ever encountered. After all, how many films do you know that can seamlessly incorporate “vaginoplasty” into the dialogue so matter-of-factly without you thinking twice about the direction the story is taking? That’s what you get in Pedro Almodóvar’s new film about a [...]
The Kidd Vs. A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas
It takes a lot more than just pot humor for me to appreciate a stoner comedy. For one, I’m not a stoner, so the drug jokes only go so far. I need a little more than people acting irresponsibly and stupidly ti make it through. That’s where HAROLD & KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE really [...]
The Kidd Vs. Take Shelter
As a big fan of THE TWILIGHT ZONE, there’s a lot of interest on my end about Matt Reeves directing a film adaptation somehow connected to Rod Serling’s original TV series for Warner Bros. I’m just not so sure how he could possibly do it better than TAKE SHELTER, which may as well just be [...]
The Kidd Vs. Anonymous
I’ve never been much of a Shakespeare fan. I am fully aware of the skills that the famed poet and playwright brought to the table in composing 38 plays and 154 sonnets. However, there’s probably no better way to contribute to the unappreciation of William Shakespeare than by forcing him upon high school kids who [...]
The Kidd Vs. Puss In Boots
It’s been all downhill ever since we first stumbled into that swamp on the outskirts of Duloc, where we met the ogre Shrek. Such a biting satire on the Disney way of doing fairy tales, we should have known it wouldn’t be able to last. The sequel was a small step backwards, still managing to [...]
The Kidd Vs. Paranormal Activity 3
Going into PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3, it’s easy to state that your feelings on the previous two movies will ultimately decide whether or not you’re going to enjoy another installment of this series. If you didn’t like the first two movies, then you really have no business even going to check out round three. It’s the [...]
The Kidd Vs. Footloose
I’ve had a love/hate relationship with the remake of FOOTLOOSE ever since it was given the green light by Paramount. I was absolutely dreading the all-musical version that was planned by Kenny Ortega with Zac Efron in the lead… and when he dropped out and was replaced by Chace Crawford, I was still fearing the [...]
The Kidd Vs. The Thing
Universal’s new version of THE THING is everything I hate about Hollywood right now. I didn’t think it was possible for a remake and a prequel to be combined, but somehow director Matthijs van Heijningen managed to do it, and the result is not pretty. Imagine creating the events that lead up to the start of [...]
The Kidd Vs. The Ides Of March
CAUTION: SPOILERS AHEAD It’s perfect for THE IDES OF MARCH to be titled as such, with the reference to Julius Caesar’s warning from the soothsayer about the very day he’d be stabbed by a group of conspirators. In the current political climate, a certain amount of backstabbing is not only required, it’s expected in a [...]
The Kidd Vs. Real Steel
There have been some crazy ideas in the history of ideas inventors and various creative individuals have come up with, Some have worked marvelously, like the automobile, the TV, the George Foreman Grill, whereas others have been huge, monumental failures (I’m looking at you, Easy Feet).I don’t know who gave birth to the bright idea [...]
The Kidd Vs. 50/50
Cancer is always the touchy subject. Right up there with 9/11, it’s not exactly something you poke fun at, because there’s nothing all that humorous about it. It gets found. It eats away at the person from the inside. There’s no cure for it, and all you can do is hope for the best that [...]
The Kidd Vs. Moneyball
MONEYBALL is quite the funny movie. No, it’s not a comedy by any means, yet for such an unconventional story to be told by conventional means makes the film a walking contradiction in and of itself. Being a HUGE baseball fan (Go Yankees!!), I’m more than aware of the concept of Moneyball adopted by the [...]
The Kidd Vs. Drive
CAUTION: SPOILERS AHEAD I could see where some people might come away from DRIVE underwhelmed and unsatisfied. Maybe they can’t take long stretches of movie where the dialogue is few and far between, where the silence is deafening, because it’s just too uncomfortable for them to sit and think about what’s going on, unable to [...]
The Kidd Vs. Higher Ground
It’s difficult to depict organized religion in film without coming across as condescending towards the views of a particular congregation. Often a particular sect is viewed as extreme because of their teachings, which don’t necessarily speak to the more traditional views of a specific religion. As someone not very spiritual at all (for the record, [...]
The Kidd Vs. Contagion
CAUTION: SPOILERS AHEAD My wife is a nurse, and what comes with living with that on a daily basis is a revised awareness of germs and the constant threat of germs that surround me on a regular basis. There isn’t a place we go as a family where we aren’t toting along mass quantities of [...]
The Kidd Vs. Warrior
CAUTION: SPOILERS AHEAD Just because WARRIOR deals with the immensely popular world of MMA (mixed martial arts to those of you who have no idea what UFC means either) doesn’t mean that it covers any new ground. It doesn’t. WARRIOR is so much like every other heartwarming, inspirational, rise-up, against-all-odds, underdog sports story we’ve every [...]
The Kidd Vs. Red State
I’m completely aware of how fashionable it is to hate on Kevin Smith as of late. After being embraced by the masses who fill their own friendly conversations with spurt of the moment STAR WARS debates and way too many dick and fart jokes to count, Smith seemed to turn on anyone who didn’t enjoy [...]
The Kidd Vs. Shark Night 3D
If only SHARK NIGHT 3D would have just given me a nod… maybe a nod and a wink… some type of sign for me to know that it acknowledges how bad it is, but gives me the okay that it was done that way on purpose. Had we been on the same page, with the [...]
The Kidd Vs. A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
A GOOD OLD FASHIONED ORGY is the type of movie you’d never miss if you didn’t see it. It’s not all that memorable. The characters are pretty bland and inconsequential. The story doesn’t make a lot of sense and is all over the place. There is plenty of horrendous dialogue and lame attempts of humor. [...]
