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Fast Track (2006)
Slightly Disappointing If You Go In With Overly High Hopes
When I first walked into the theater to watch "The Ex" I was hoping on an hour and a half of non-stop gut laughter, I didn't get that, so I was slightly disappointed.
Looking back on it now I can see I was expecting too much. There isn't a possible way that an hour and a half long movie could keep the laughs-per-minute value as something like AD or Scrubs. What it does though, in my opinion, is keep the momentum of those two shows.
When I watched this movie a second time, I was not disappointed at all, because truthfully, "The Ex" is a fun little comedy that makes you chuckle and makes fast use of ninety minutes (as opposed to being drawn out and slow).
What makes this movie good is the actors. They're all superb, Zach Braff is hilarious, and you love to hate Jason Batemen's character. Charles Grodin's character was also particularly funny.
If there were halves, I'd give this movie a 7.5, but there isn't, but let me tell you why: I always start my movie grading at 9, and then add on an extra point if the movie is just jaw droppingly awesome. So for this movie I took of one point for the sole fact, that while the actors were fine, the script did not use them to their full potential. And then I also took off half a point because it seems like there was a lot more to the movie, that was cut out.
So there you go, and a word to the wise, get the Rated version, the Unrated version is not nearly as good as the original. Even if you have to get Full Screen, the rated, PG-13 version is much better.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
Excellent.
I read the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy last December and was extremely impressed with the book, and soon after (actually during) reading the book, I saw that they were doing a movie about it. I had high hopes since them, and I was not disappointed.
Hitchhiker's portrays the book well, not extremely well, but well. It follows the major plot points and a few of the minor ones, except for that cheesy love triangle. That's enough bickering on what is the same, now on to what was good.
It was extremely funny, with moments like the opening musical number with dolphins and ones where everyone is turned into yarn characters. Also moments like: "We're going to die..." "Ya-wait, what is this? This is... this is... nothing. Yah, we're going to die." The plot stayed mostly coherent but what would you expect from a Hitchhiker's movie? The visuals were mostly good (some of the Zaphod stuff was shaky), and the songs were extremely well done (So long and thinks for all the fish). It was well cast also, I could see all the characters in everyone.
Now the bad. Some of the moments that were trying to be funny, just weren't. Some of Zaphod's visuals were shaky (also what was with his second head being under the first one?). And the love triangle thing was not necessary.
The ugly. The Vogons.
Overall, people with a high-and-mighty sense of humor won't think it's funny, but if you have that kind of humor, lighten up. And fans should like it, unless your the kind of person who goes all crazy if one line of dialog from the book wasn't in the movie. Then you'll probably hate it.
Basically, go and see it.