Moose, eh?

My wife and eldest went to see Brother Bear. They weren't too impressed, except with Bob and Doug McEnzey as Moose. When told the storyline I just about puked. Disney is the perpetuator of minority religions. (Well, who knows about that Chinese movie...but I am surprised they didn't slip in an "we were seeded by aliens!" in the Hawaiin one. >:-( )

Anyway...as Strange Brew is my #7 movie of all time, I really wanted to see this, so grudgingly (post-purchase New Release surprise!) rented the Sing-Along video plastered with Brother Bear but Narrated by THE MOOSE! :-)

Tam said I was seeing the best part of the movie. They were fun. But there is something missing when they're not talking about Beer, Donuts and Hockey. *sigh* It was mostly "I can too dance, eh!" and "You're not not dumb!" stuff I wasn't sure I was happy to impress my boys with. I'd rather they see Strange Brew. Intoxins, hard hockey checks and all.

Why not to rent this movie: THEY PLAY IT IN TRIPLICATE!!! It's worse than teletubbies!! The first round is words on the bottom, second round is super-imposed dancing kids (having all I can do not to run to the toilet vomitting!) but the LAST version (after credits, *whew*!--turn off excuse) is just the music track and sing along words. Did I mention I didn't like Phil Collins music and he's paying off his multi-million dollar mortgate waxing out cheesey feel good (because that's all that matters) Disney crap?

Kill Bill Vol. 2

Ok, for those who really know me, they know that I love this movie more than anything else in the world. Ok, maybe not everything else, but I've loved this movie more than any other movie for the last few months and I don't think it'll be dropping in my charts anytime soon. This will be another short review only because you shouldn't be reading a review of a movie you should be watching right now because if you have so much free time to be reading crap like this...
Anyway...

If you like Tarantino dialogue, then this is the movie for you. Not since Pulp Fiction has somebody (imagine that, same writer/director) created a movie that you can watch talking heads and not be bored off your ass. Not to say that Vol. 2 has tons of talking heads, but when it does, it's never boring. What's great about this film? 1) dialogue. 2) Uma. 3) Ending. 4) Uma.
What's not great about this film. If you don't like Tarantino dialogue and only like the first volume because of the un-Tarantino like action, you will be very disappointed. Very.
For the rest of us, slap these two movies together just like the big 4 disc DVD set that will be coming out sometime this winter, and you'll be watching the very best of America cinema. Well, actually, the best of every kind of cinema.

In closing...Uma kicks ass, Tarantino dialogue kicks ass, I want a Hattori Hanzo sword (or Uma is she's free), and go watch this film. Actually go watch both volumes back to back like they should be watched.

And now wait patiently until Tarantino finally gets around to doing volume 3.

I give it an 8 out of 5 dwarf stars. If put together with the first volume, it gets 10 out of 5 dwarf stars.