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Mondo Topless, a review by Jimmy

Title: Mondo Topless (1966)

Genre: Documentary
Director: Russ Meyer
Rating: 18 (British dvd)
Length: 1h00
Video: Full Frame
Audio: English
Subtitles: None

Stars:
Babette Bardot
Darlene Grey
Pat Barrington
Diane Young
Sin Lenee

Plot:For those who think that I don't review serious films let me prove you are wrong with a very profound documentary... OK not really, seriousness isn't my cup of tea

The documentary isn't really complicated since it's a bunch of well endowed women dancing while they talk about their vision of life (surprisingly their comments are interesting and not always stupid). All of this accompany by a great musical score, so Pete this film isn't for you . As a bonus some footage from Europe in the Raw is included in this film (for those who don't know it's a film that Meyer had made in Europe shooting at French and German club). But the most important, at least for me, is the fact that this documentary had the only color footage of Lorna Maitland, she had only appeared in four black and white movies (Lorna, Mudhoney, Hot Thrills and Warm Chills & Hip Hot and 21) during her career.

Not the deepest documentary ever made, but watching those natural girls dancing topless over and over is quite hypnotic... What can I say? I'm a guy    
 
Rating :

(From The little known movie review depot on January 6th, 2010)

22 Jump Street, a review by Dragonfire

22 Jump Street

I ended up seeing 22 Jump Street a week ago.  I never really wanted to see it, but I got talked into going by a friend.  I should have stuck by my initial instincts. 

I saw 21 Jump Street on one of the Encore channels a few months ago.  I wasn't impressed.  The best part was when Johnny Depp turned up, but that quickly got ruined too.  This movie is mainly more of the same, with Jenko and Schmidt sent undercover at a local college after they screw up a drug bust.  Never mind that they are older than all the other students - they did at least acknowledge that they were too old to pass for high school students.  Jenko manages to become friends with a few football players who are in a fraternity.  Schmidt is left out of that, but he manages to hook up with a girl that is out of his league.  Jenko and Schmidt can't agree on things, and that does cause issues with their investigation. 

Some of what happens is funny, but more often than not, the jokes don't work.  Things are way overdone.  I lost count of the number of times jokes are made about movie sequels or some kind of gay joke is done. The first few times, those things are funny, but they don't know when to stop.  Those jokes keep being used over and over and over, until long after the humor is gone.  Most of the humor is crude in some way, and that also gets old.  Too much of the movie just isn't funny.  The characters are flat and not that interesting.  I don't really like Jonah Hill.  He didn't annoy me as much in this movie, but nothing about his performance in it changed my opinion of him.

I know that 22 Jump Street made a lot of money and got a ton of good reviews.  I don't see it.  For me, the movie was a huge, unfunny mess.  Since the movie was successful, I won't be surprised if they go and make another one.

2 out of 5 stars

I did post a longer review on my movie blog.

22 Jump Street


(From 22 Jump Street on August 3rd, 2014)

The One Where It All Began: The Pilot Marathon, a review by DJ Doena

What's the show about?
Charles "Chuck" Bartowski is a man who works is an electronic market in the "Nerd Herd". But he's also a spy - sort of. He carries all of the government's secrets in his head without having direct access to them. But from time to time he "flashes" on something and then he and he and his handlers Sarah and Casey go on a mission to save the country. But Chuck's main goal is it to get the Intersect data out of his head again.

"Pilot"
After 9/11 NSA and CIA have put their information together into a computer system called Intersect. It stores the data encrypted in a huge amount of images. One day the rogue CIA spy Bryce Larkin destroys the Intersect and sends this data to his former friend Chuck Bartowski who opens it and unintentionally loads all this knowledge into his brain. Both CIA (in the form of Agent Sarah Walker) and NSA (in the form of Major John Casey) try to get the data back but the computer gets destroyed and the only remaining Intersect copy is in Chuck's head. Additionally an east-european assassin wants to kill a high-ranking NATO general.

My Opinion

(From The One Where It All Began: The Pilot Marathon on September 8th, 2009)