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Sausage Party (2016)
written by high schoolers, for high schoolers
I searched for several minutes to find my IMDb login for the sole purpose of bashing this movie.
While I do like me some adult comedies and certainly have no problem with swearing, gore or the likes, there needs to be some payoff in the form of humor. This is simply not the case here; as others have mentioned, there is NOT A SINGLE joke in this movie. Instead of humor we have a gazillion crude allusions to sex (haha wieners in a bun haha). And this topic doesn't even bother me, I'm sure there are plenty of fine wiener-bun jokes to be had, but this is just done too stupidly! Every attempt at humor is outright explained and stuffed in your face. Remember good ole subliminal - liminal - superliminal? This movie is nothing but superliminal. Our friend who chose this abomination is not allowed to decide on evening entertainment anymore...
Cars (2006)
why is everyone so amazed?
I honestly don't get, why there are so many positive comments on this movie. As you can expect from a "pixar" movie, the animation quality is really awesome. But in my opinion, that's about it. The story is really boring and the comical scenes are just mediocre as well. Has anyone noticed that, besides the fact that the story doesn't surprise the viewer even once, it's pretty much the same as in "surf's up"? A young talented guy enters a challenge, meets his old hero (who has stopped doing what he was once the best at, for a tragic reason), doesn't recognize him at first, then gets him to give some advice, and finally is the winner of the hearts, although not actually winning the challenge. And while doing all that, he wins a girl over, that didn't like him before, and gets his hero to appear before the public again.
Since that plot wasn't even new when used in "Surf's up" I won't call it "theft", but rather ripping off the standards. Therefore I can only recommend this movie for children who aren't fed up with this stuff.
Yasmin (2004)
film to think about
The movie "Yasmin" deals with the story of a young Muslim woman balancing two worlds. On the one hand, she tries to fulfill her rather conservative father's expectations to act like a good Muslim wife, but on the other hand, she wants to get closer to John, an English-man, who works with her. This works well until September the 11th 2001 when she is confronted with the increasing tension between the western and the Islamic culture: she is insulted at work for being a Muslim, while having problems at home for acting too westernized. The main conflict at home is that Yasmin rejects her husband Faysal, she married on her father's wish, to enable Faysal to get the English citizenship. Faysal himself is completely unable to handle the new environment since he has never lived in a city before. Yasmins brother Nasir, is caught by an organisation preaching hatred to fight for Islam. While Yasmin has to handle Faysal and Nasir, she tries to deal with the growing distance between her and John and her colleagues offending her at work. John is a very friendly and open-minded young man who tries to help Yasmin out of trouble, but, without any success since she doesn't tell him about her private situation,. The film's message is as well its biggest strength. "Yasmin" shows on how many levels a single event can impact on people's lives and how different actions cause certain happenings. Although e.g. the viewer is probably not able to identify with Nasir, one sees in which situation he has been to decide like he does and that things cannot be judged as easily as the media often suggest. The only weakness of "Yasmin" is the predictability of the storyline but since this film is not meant to stun the audience with unexpected turns, that is not a problem. I recommend this movie to everyone who is ready to see how banal and brutal at the same time a nice little life can fall apart.