"Tropic Thunder" trailer!

I really think the sight of Robert Downey Jr. playing a black man is reason enough for me to want to see this. Hope its awesome. Tell me what you think:

http://www.tropicthunder.com/

This is a really badass 'Iron Man' poster...

*nerd squirt*



very sexy.

The ridiculously long "Horton Hears A Who" Review.

I'm really not sure what I was expecting when walking into "Horton" on Friday night. I guess, if anything, a lot of laughs and a chance to put my brain on stand by. See, Hollywood's last few tries at Seuss weren't what you would call loyal depictions of the books. I didn't think The Grinch was total shit like some, I mean, the main twenty or so odd pages were there but they just decided to add another one hundred on top of it. I think they would've been better off taking Seuss' name off of it and just pretending that they weren't plagiarizing. It's not a terrible film as much as it was a film that took something cute and almost made it too much. Now, The Cat In The Hat we can say was just flat-out adult humored, double-entendra'd garbage that I enjoy from time to time with a nice glass of "3 Blind Moose Merlot" (Don't ask me why, but sometimes I just like shit movies cause they make me laugh). As you stand back to look, many would say that Dr. Seuss has never been successfully adapted to the big screen. Well they obviously haven't seen Horton Hears A Who.

Horton Hears A Who is a simple story with some big ideas (pun not intended). Its the story of an elephant (Jim Carrey) who stumbles upon a spec that contains a civilization of tiny people called the Who's. They live in who-ville. Who knew? Shit, didn't mean that. Anyway, Horton hears there cries, makes contact with the tiny Mayor of Whoville (Steve Carell) and makes it his civil duty to place there spec in a safe and secluded cave, up in the who mountains. The only thing stopping him is an uptight kangaroo (Carol Burnette) who believes Horton is speaking of lies and madness and its effecting the children. Its a journey through a plethora of brightly colored scenery's and stars an amazing ensemble of characters including Horton's best friend, the hyper-active, pint-sized Morton (Seth Rogen) who is amazing in it, a pudgy orange thing (Jonah Hill), and a Russian vulture named Vlad (Will Arnett) amongst others.

Under its surface, it makes you realize that Dr Seuss is no dummy. It has multiple morals but the main being that no matter the size, anyone can make a difference. Another one is "a person is a person, no matter how small" which some say closely dwells into abortion, but we wont go into that in this review. There's so much going on in this movie but it all plays on the same moral, and I really digged that. Another great thing about this film is I found it only to get funnier and funnier as the movie progressed, and all the while staying a G-rating. But the most reassuring thing is nearly everything about this movie so Dr. Seuss, its amazing. Now, unlike the Grinch, it isn't like they took the short story and added in a whole beginning and middle that no one remembers reading at all but instead expanded the story to a feature length scope and placed a lot of fillers throughout it. The result is a pretty smooth ride.

One thing I always wondered was what Dr. Seuss would think if he was still alive and saw what became of his legacy (and how pissed he would be to see The Cat In The Hat). Well, I was watching one of those premiere interview deals for 'Horton' on TV and his wife was there and did a quick interview. The reporter asked her if "Mr. Geisel" would like what's become of Horton if he saw the movie today and without hesitation she said "oh god yes. he'd love it!" It really put me at ease before seeing it and I really could figure out why throughout the movie. Its one of those films that (with exception of a couple pop culture references) really doesn't come up with something recycled; it feels very fresh considering it was based on a book written decades ago. It's thoroughly enjoying up to its heart-pounding (I shit you not), exciting, stupid-grin-on-your-face, third act where you're just awed that that small book became this, and you're totally fine with it. Well, I mean, I hope you're totally fine with it, I mean, I'm not trying to brainwash you or anything, I just hope you like it is all.

All in all this movie is sugarcoated with every cliche thing you could say about a kids movie. Heartwarming, funny, exciting, etc, etc. My only gripes were, as I said before, a few pop culture references that really didn't need to be in there as much. There's a myspace joke, and they sing Chicago, amongst other things that felt really odd in a nearly flawless movie. Also did have its fair share of generic one liners where you're wondering where to laugh, which are mostly from Will Arnett's character, sadly. Things like "right in the beak" and such. Some of these things can easily be overlooked when you step back and realize that this movie is the closest anyone has ever come to making Seuss into 90min that's its ridiculous its taken this long. I really hope to see more adaptations that are as good as this, if not better. Just don't do The Lorax, because that would seriously make everyone cry... seriously. Now go out and take your kids and/or parents and enjoy... then buy it on Blu-ray and enjoy some more.

Other than that, keep a look out for "Katie", I literally was crying well past the movie's ending after her final appearance, John Powell's score is amazing, There's this really cool sound effect in the end with this sound wave that the major's son Jo-Jo makes, it was really badass. I think that's it.

*exhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaale* (you'll get it later)

Horton gets an 8.5/10, 'cause its my blog and I said so!