The Kidd Vs. The Tree Of Life
THE TREE OF LIFE might be one of the most ambitious films I’ve ever seen a director attempt to make. But at nearly two-and-a-half hours, it somehow manages to be one of the most rambling, most incomplete, most frustrating films I’ve ever seen a director actually make, too. After stewing over the film for two [...]
The Kidd Vs. The Hangover Part II
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. That’s the approach that director Todd Phillips and the Wolfpack – Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis – must have taken in concocting THE HANGOVER PART II, the sequel to the successful bachelor party gone out of control hit that landed in theatres just a couple summers [...]
The Kidd Vs. Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
The fourth installment of the PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN series is aptly subtitled ON STRANGER TIDES, because, for the first time in the franchise, one of the films finds itself in completely uncharted waters. The first film (THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL) was fun and entertaining, and made for a pretty good film. It [...]
The Kidd Vs. Everything Must Go
I’ve grown a bit tired of Will Ferrell over the years. Regardless of how funny I found him years and years ago on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE (the last time SNL was decently watchable, as opposed to its current state of abhorrent), Ferrell’s film career has hardly been anything worthwhile. With the exception of STEP BROTHERS [...]
The Kidd Vs. The Beaver
There is a fraction of the movie-going population that just won’t see another Mel Gibson film for as long as they live. They don’t care who else is in it. They don’t care what it’s about. They just know that, based on his past personal issues and the public airing of it all, they have [...]
The Kidd Vs. Bridesmaids
Somewhere contained within BRIDESMAIDS, I believe there exists a version of the film that is ridiculously funny and overly raunchy. It allows for poop jokes, fart jokes, dick jokes, pussy jokes and even some vomit, but goes for the jugular with each as opposed to safely incorporating them in short bursts. I believe there is [...]
The Kidd Vs. Thor
I’d be lying if I said I went into THOR with high expectations of any kind. I didn’t even have slightly positive expectations. After never really getting my excitement for the next film in the Marvel Movie Universe above lukewarm, I was really just hoping it wouldn’t serve as another feature film length commercial for [...]
The Kidd Vs. Fast Five
I’ve never cared for the FAST/FURIOUS series. In all honesty, I haven’t seen them all either, but, as far as I’m concerned, you’ve seen one street racing movie, you’ve seen them all… which really only goes back to this franchise, because no other set of films has attempted to overhype suped-up Honda Civics quite like [...]
The Kidd Vs. Water For Elephants
I’m not a Robert Pattinson fan by any stretch of the imagination. And how could I possibly be? It’s hard to say I really enjoyed him in the HARRY POTTER series, because it was only in it for about seven minutes. For as much as I’ve grown to accept and even enjoy the last couple [...]
The Kidd Vs. Hobo With A Shotgun
HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN makes no excuses about what it is, and, based on the title alone, you should get some indication as to whether or not you’ll enjoy seeing it. HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN is about as honest a title as you’ll ever see, because that’s precisely what this grindhouse-style exploitation movie is about [...]
The Kidd Vs. Scream 4
Heading into SCREAM 4, I had no idea what to expect. When the idea was first hatched and another chapter of the series was announced, I was truly excited that we’d be seeing the return of Ghostface once again… mainly because of my love for the first SCREAM, which I remember seeing on opening night [...]
The Kidd Vs. I Saw The Devil
Violence isn’t something that typically drives me away from a film. I’ve seen it in all shapes and sizes throughout my life watching movies, and it’s never been anything more than an element aiming for a particular response in various films. Whether it’s been necessary or gratuitous, I’ve never found the inclusion of violence to [...]
The Kidd Vs. Rubber
It’s not every day you get to watch a movie about a killer tire named Robert, who has telekinetic powers that enable him with some violent shaking and cicada-like sounds to explode anything he wants – beer bottles, bunny rabbits, human heads. In fact, just re-reading that last sentence should cause you to pause and [...]
The Kidd Vs. Win Win
WIN WIN could have easily fallen into the realm of made-for-TV movies. A wrestling coach/attorney takes on guardianship of a old man in order to get the $1500 monthly commission that comes from his estate and pull his law practice out of financial trouble and relieve the stress of providing for his family through difficult [...]
The Kidd Vs. Your Highness
I’m hardly growing more conservative as I get older, but I’m pretty sure my more responsible side is making stoner comedies far less enjoyable for me at this point in my life. What can I say? I’ve got shit to do all the time. I have a wife and son that need my attention. I [...]
The Kidd Vs. Hanna
CAUTION: SPOILERS AHEAD From the first moments when a teenage girl is out lurking in the woods, killing a deer for food, you get a sense of the lethality of this young woman from the film’s title, played by Saoirse Ronan. Plunging her arrow in the deer’s body, she makes sure to point out to [...]
The Kidd Vs. Source Code
Jake Gyllenhaal and I have a love-hate relationship. He would love for me to come out and see all of his movies and enjoy them… I end up hating just about all of them. ZODIAC… that’s the only one thus far that I’ve managed to really get into, and that’s probably more Fincher than anyone [...]
The Kidd Vs. Insidious
CAUTION: SPOILERS AHEAD If a POLTERGEIST remake is indeed in the cards knowing Hollywood’s trends of remaking just about everything these days, I want it to be something similar to INSIDIOUS… or at least ⅔ of INSIDIOUS, which is a valiant attempt at subtle horror from the team that created SAW that works really well [...]
The Kidd Vs. Sucker Punch
SUCKER PUNCH is one hot mess of a movie, with the hot referring to the five beautiful women/mental patients (Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone, Vanessa Hudgens and Jamie Chung) who kick ass in next to nothing and the mess referring to everything else. Zack Snyder has once again created a visually amazing motion picture, [...]
The Kidd Vs. The Lincoln Lawyer
CAUTION: SPOILERS AHEAD I really wasn’t looking forward to seeing THE LINCOLN LAWYER at all. I didn’t find anything appealing about the film from any of the early clips I had seen, and Matthew McConaughey starring in it wasn’t doing it any favors either. Outside of his tiny role in TROPIC THUNDER, it’s been 11 [...]
The Kidd Vs. Limitless
LIMITLESS is the perfect example of a movie built around an interesting and fairly original concept that then has no idea how to really flush it out or explore it, so it resorts to conventions we’ve seen before and becomes a movie that feels like so many others. LIMITLESS is what happens when you make [...]
The Kidd Vs. Paul
SHAUN OF THE DEAD easily ranks up there in the upper echelon of films that The Kidd would consider among his favorites of all-time. I can’t even begin to tell you how many times I’ve watched it since being exposed to it. I certainly can’t turn it off anytime I’m flipping through the channels and [...]
The Kidd Vs. Battle: Los Angeles
Hollywood studios that insist on trying to make film adaptations of video games need to sit down and watch BATTLE: LOS ANGELES to see how it’s done. BATTLE: LOS ANGELES, the newest alien invasion blockbuster, may not have any roots as far as video game source material goes, but it plays as if it was [...]
The Kidd Vs. Red Riding Hood
For those of you anticipating another TWILIGHT knock-off with RED RIDING HOOD, expecting to see yet another tale about a young girl unable to make up her mind torn between two potential lovers, The Kidd has some good news and bad news for you. Let’s start with the good – this is not TWILIGHT. It’s [...]
The Kidd Vs. Cedar Rapids
CAUTION: SPOILERS AHEAD Leave it to Sigourney Weaver, in a brief appearance as Marcy, a recently divorced grade school teacher, to perfectly sum up CEDAR RAPIDS with the simple line “Thanks for a good time.” But she nails CEDAR RAPIDS exactly. It’s a movie that you might not remember much of minutes after you walk [...]
