Movie ~ Me, Myself & Irene

Well, this is an old movie. In this age where there are literally hundreds of new movies released per year, a 16-year old movie is definitely considered "old".

When this was a new release, I did not watch it because I ain't no fan of Jim Carrey. Isn't it obvious I only watch leng chai movies? By the way, Ji Sung is still da best!

Me, Myself & Irene movie poster

So, I watched this upon the recommendation of a friend. He asked me to look out for the dildo scene. This is the same friend who told me to watch There's Something About Mary. Are we seeing a trend here? These two movies are productions of the Farrelly Brothers. I think they are quite sick and the jokes they make at the expense of the physically-challenged are not funny.

Anyway, this movie is about a motorcycle cop in Rhode Island (Jim Carrey as Charlie), who has been a doormat all his life. Soon after marriage, his wife ran off with the limousine driver who is actually a professor doing a research.

The wife left him with three children who were fathered by the limo-driver. Beats me why she did not take the three children along since she's hooking up with the father, anyway. Doesn't make sense.

Hank the mental one

So after that episode, Charllie developed another personality who is named Hank. Now this one, no one can walk over him as he's the total opposite of Charlie.

Throughout the movie Jim Carrey had to switch from being Charlie and Hank. Hank comes on without warning though I find his put-on accent rather irritating.

Sleeping after a good wank with Irene's photo

Charlie was certified a schizophrenic and the force wanted him out. They sent him on an assignment to escort Irene (played by Renee 'Bridget Jones' Zellweger) to New York where Irene is hunted down by the Mob. So Charlie or Hank has to come to her rescue.

Well, I must say that this movie has its senseless funny moments. Unfortunately, I did not find the lowbrow jokes funny. I've watched better of course. If you are a adolescent, you may find the sexually-implied jokes funny.

Movie ~ There's Something About Mary

*There's Something About Mary* movie poster

There's Something About Mary is a 1998 comedy. It's quite old but I just watched it last week because my friend told me to watch out for the semen as hair gel scene. I read about it previously and yet still passed the movie.

Ouch Factor No. 1

In There's Something About Mary, Cameron Diaz as Mary, is this special girl that everyone likes. In her last year of high school, Ted (Ben Stiller) was supposed to be her date in the prom, but Ted was caught in a very unfortunate incident. The date ended in disaster.

The "date" was a disaster

Mary's family moved away to another city and the two of them lost contact. Ted had hang ups about the whole thing that he had to see a psychiatrist. So at the advise of his old time friend, he hired Pat Healy, a private detective, to locate Mary.

Mary and her brother Warren

The private detective (Matt Dillon) found her and promptly fell in love with her too. He resigned from his job and moved to Mary's city, pretending to be someone he is not.

Anyway, in this movie, whoever who knows Mary will sure fall in love with her. This is the only part that is rather "fake". The rest will find you chuckle along the way.

Matt Dillon as Pat Healy

I especially like the scene where Pat Healy nearly killed the doggie. The doggie played a rather major role throughout the movie. In one scene, after he fell out the window, he had to be plastered all over.

The doggie in full body plaster

The other funny scene was when Ted (Ben Stiller) tried to masturbate to Bra Sale advertisement in the newspaper. This is the scene before he got semen stuck to his ear and used as hair gel by Mary. I am grossed out just typing this out.

Mary with her special hair gel

Watch this movie if you haven't. It is funny, but I find Ben Stiller was funnier in Dodgeball. At least he looked different there.

Movie ~ Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties

*Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties* movie poster

Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006), a sequel to the 2004 movie, Garfield, has a very simple plot, in fact, it borrowed the storyline from "The Prince and the Pauper", while the title is borrowed from Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities".

Garfield

Garfield and Odie sneak to London to follow their master John Arbuckle (Breckin Meyer), who went to London to propose to his girlfriend, Dr. Liz Wilson (Jennifer Love Hewitt).

Breckin Meyer as Jon Arbuckle & Jennifer Love Hewitt as Liz

Out in the country, a deceased Lady Eleanore granted her entire estate to a Garfield-lookalike cat called Prince XII; bypassing Lord Dargis (Billy Connolly), a nephew of Lady Eleanore, who is now next in line to the estate after Prince XII.

Billy Connolly as Lord Dargis

However, Lord Dargis wants Prince dead as he has grand plans to develop the estate and so he plots the death of Prince.

Meanwhile in London, Garfield and Prince got mixed up and Garfield was brought back to the castle in the country and treated like a prince, with personal butler and all.

Prince XII trying lasagna for the first time

Although all the animals in the estate know that Garfield is not the real Prince, they still have to treat him as one, or the estate will be inherited by Lord Dargis, who in the process of developing the estate, will do away with the barnyard and the animals will be served to the guests and visitors.

Garfield in the Castle

On a personal note, this movie has some humour but I don't really like Garfield. I watched the first Garfield movie two years ago, and I must say there is a slight improvement in the character, but still not good enough.

Prince or Garfield?

I think Odie, although just a non-speaking character, even stole the limelight in some scenes. Overall, it's just an OK movie. Thankfully, it's not longer than the 1hr 25minutes. That's more than enough for it.

Korean Movie ~ The Art of Seduction

*The Art of Seduction* movie poster

For a movie with such an interesting title as "The Art of Seduction", sad to say, it was a major yawn for me. This Korean movie is a 2005 romantic comedy which stars Ye-jin Son as Han Ji-wan, a private banker, and Il-guk Song as Seo Min-jun, an architect.

The movie starts rather slow for the first forty minutes. This movie is about 100 minutes, so there was actual entertainment only in the last hour.

Han Ji-wan gets a red hot lacy thong

Actually, the movie did not only start slow, it was jumpy with no actual plot except that it shows the two leads being "playas" in the dating game and dumping their partners when they became bored.

It shows their conquest with the opposite sex and how irresistible they are.

Han Ji-wan and Seo Min-jun in Cheju Island

Each has a tested and proven game plan that was always well-executed, until they met each other. From then onwards, Han Ji-wan and Seo Min-jun pit their skills in seduction against each other. Somehow, their trusted technique cannot work anymore.

Han Ji-wan participating in a dance competition

There were some funny moments but their love techniques became rather lame after awhile as they do they same things repeatedly.

Seo Min-jun being auctioned off as a slave

So there can only be ONE master in the art of seduction, who will be the one?

Han Ji-wan and Seo Min-jun in bed. This always happens!

One thing I have to mention is that I dislike Ye-jin Son's portrayal of Han Ji-wan. Some people think Ye-jin is cute here, some adore her and some even fall in love with her. But me, I really can't stand her pretensions.

Also, although Ye-jin Son and Il-guk Song look good together, there was no chemistry. I do not recommend this movie even if you are so bored with no movie to watch.

Movie ~ Dodgeball

I have kept Dodgeball for months but I finally watched it last night. This is a 2004 comedy staring Vince Vaughn as Peter La Fleur and Ben Stiller as White Goodman.

Dodgeball poster

I recently watched Vince Vaughn in The Break Up where he partnered with Jennifer Aniston. It is such a coincidence that I also watched Ben Stiller + Jennifer Aniston in Along Came Polly. And is it another coincidence that both Vince and Ben were in Zoolander and Starsky & Hutch?

Vince Vaughn in Dodgeball cannot be differentiated from Vince Vaughn in The Break Up. In both movies, he was the same; a talking, walking tree trunk.

I thought that Ben Stiller has the kind of looks that will always be the same no matter what movie he acts in. I came to this conclusion after watching Meet the Parents, Meet the Fockers and Along Came Polly where Ben Stiller was exactly the same in all three movies.

I have to admit, Ben surprised me in Dodgeball. There was no trace of the Ben I watched in so many movies before. However, I spotted traces of Austin Powers in Ben's White Goodman, and boy was I right when White Goodman was made into a copy of Fat Bastard from one of the Austin Powers movies.

I wonder if the producers or directors are the same people. I never bother to find out these things.

This scene is very funny

Anyway, back to Dodgeball, it is a comedy that brings the message of the good winning over the evil. Peter La Fleur is the good guy while White Goodman is the baddie (despite his name).

Peter La Fleur is he owner of a rundown, debt-ridden gymnasium in the city called Average Joe's while White Goodman is the owner of Globo Gym America Corporation.

White Goodman wants to take over Average Joe's to build a parking garage for his exclusive club members, unless Peter can come up with the USD50,000 mortgage that he owes the bank.

Team Average Joe's Gymnasium

To raise that amount of money within a month, Peter was persuaded to form a dodgeball team with his oddball gym members.

The movie continues with members of The Average Joe's Gymnasium training hard to be good dodgeball players. Meanwhile, White Goodman also wants to be part of the action and forms his own team, called the Purple Cobras.

Team Purple Cobras

This is, after all a movie, and so the finals of the American Dodgeball Association of America (ADAA) International Dodgeball Competition in Las Vegas sees Team Average Joe's Gymnasium facing Team Purple Cobras.

Can the misfits (they had to wear S&M outfits in their first game) that make up Team Average Joe's Gymnasium beat the formidable Team Purple Cobra and win the USD50,000 prize money to save the gymnasium? The answer is in the tag line of the movie: "Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story".

If you want some entertainment without using any brain juice, this is the movie to watch. You will be guaranteed some laughs here and there. Pay close attention to the dialogue as some of the jokes are in the script.

Watch out for cameos by David Hasselhoff, Chuck Norris, William Shatner and Lance Armstrong. I believe this is not an unforgettable movie but it's good while it lasts.