jamie_strong Reviews

Secret Bridesmaids' Business (2019)

Four hours too long

[2/10 · 28 December 2019]

Readers of romance novels frequently use the acronym TSTL. It means too stupid to live and you use it to refer to heroines who lack any sort of common sense and just keep doing stupid things over and over. The three main female characters in this series fit this description to a T. By the 4th episode I started fast forwarding looking for key plot points just so I could finish - and really I didn't have to stop to watch that often because mostly this just dragged. Think the worst lifetime movie but 6 hours.

The two stars I gave the series are for the actors. Everyone involved did the best they could with the material and even elevated it through their talent. One other item of note is that the series is very beautiful: cinematography was exceptional; very attractive people & locations; incredible fashion.

The Happytime Murders (2018)

Fully planned to enjoy raunchy puppets but...

[3/10 · 5 December 2018]

Years ago I dragged my siblings to a play about a possessed by evil hand puppet that takes over a young outcasts life at vacation bible study. My brother in law may never forgive me. So when I saw the Henson brand for adults I was ready to jump in. It's your basic detectives on the outs procedural with puppets as 2nd class citizens and Melissa McCarthy playing the Melissa McCarthy role of slapstick, bumbling, crude, fool. That was the sticking point for me. I'm so tired of Mcarthy playing the same stereotype, and playing it poorly. This could have been a great "bad" movie instead it was just a well made bad movie.