Something Borrowed

Walking into Something Borrowed, I had extremely high hopes. It had a cast which included Ginnifer Goodwin, Kate Hudson, Colin Egglesfield, and John Krasinski to name a few that made me hopeful this would be an unbelievable romantic comedy. The film kept that hope until it was shattered at almost the end of the movie. Dex, played by Colin Egglesfield who is a rather new face to the silver screen, is this amazingly good looking man who we learn right off the bat is engaged to Darcy played by Kate Hudson. Darcy is a wacky character who is beautiful and knows it, if she is not the center of attention than she is not happy. Darcy and Rachel played by Ginnifer Goodwin have been best friends since childhood, they are practically sisters. Rachel would and has given everything for Darcy's happiness including Dex. The movie follows Rachel and Dex secret affair behind Darcy's back. And though the audience is mostly cheering them on towards the end Dex is given plenty of chances to break off his engagement and be honest but he doesn't. Rachel and Dex lie throughout the movie which I think gives the audience who were a majority of young teenage girls a bad impression of what's acceptable. And poor John Krasinski's character Ethan is nothing but honest and loyal throughout the movie, ideal characteristics in a person is left in the cold when admitting he has feelings for Rachel. I think this movie had tremendous potential to be something great but instead was anything but. I think it gives the audience a bad view of society saying that liars and cheaters will eventually have their happy endings while people that are honest and loyal are left out in the cold.

Fast Five

Going into this movie I was not expecting much. After four movies, two of which had almost none of the original cast I had little hope. I was shortly proved wrong in my skeptical view. The movie takes off exactly where Fast and Furious left off, breaking Vin Diesel's character Dominic Toretto out of a bus headed to jail. The movie was full of surprises and of course action. The visuals were unbelievable and had most of the people around me hanging on the end of their seat. To my surprise they brought back Matt Schulze's character Vince from the first one which was very pleasing to those around me including myself. They also had an ensemble of characters throughout all four movies. The ending felt almost satisfying. Almost satisfying because there felt like something was missing. Fortunately, my friends and I stayed based the credits (the only people who did) and to our surprise there was an almost sneak peek for a possible sixth movie. Here is a hint someone we thought was long gone is actually anything but that.

Hop Leaps to the Top

Hop starring James Marsden and Russell Brand was a surprisingly enjoyable movie. Going into it I did not know what to expect but found myself laughing the entire movie. Marsden plays a character named Fred O'Hare whose family is pressuring him to finally move out and grow up. While Brand's character the fictional E.B. is also being pressured from his father to take over the family business of being the Easter Bunny. E.B. has no desire to be the Easter Bunny and instead escapes and runs away from home to explore his dreams in Hollywood. Eventually Fred and E.B. run into each other and though Fred is reluctant to give in to E.B. who seems to constantly keep messing things up for Fred they wind up bonding. Together they work to solve each others problems and in the end both achieve solutions. I would recommend this movie for all ages, it had the seven years old next to me laughing as well as my college friends.