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Junior, a review by DJ Doena

Junior



Arnold Schwarzenegger ... Dr. Alex Hesse
Danny DeVito ... Dr. Larry Arbogast
Emma Thompson ... Dr. Diana Reddin
Frank Langella ... Noah Banes
Pamela Reed ... Angela

Dr. Hesse and Dr. Arbogast have developed a medicine that helps on difficult pregnancies. Pregnancies of women who had previous miscarriages. They tried in on monkeys but the FDA denies them the possibility to test it on woman. To escape this dilemma they induce a Expectane-based pregnancy in Dr. Hesse.

My opinion:
Aside from the fact that it wouldn't work in a man with or without Expectane (in lack of an uterus and an umbilical cord) it was amusing to see the giant Schwarzenegger being pregnant with Skeletor right on his tail.

(From Schwarzenegger-Fun-Movies-Mini-Marathon on February 4th, 2008)

Scary Movie, a review by Tom

Scary Movie (2000/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia Highlight Communications (Germany) Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans Writing: Shawn Wayans (Writer), Marlon Wayans (Writer), Buddy Johnson (Writer), Phil Beauman (Writer), Jason Friedberg (Writer), Aaron Seltzer (Writer) Length: 85 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35 Audio: German: Dolby Digital 5.1, German: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround, English: Dolby Digital 5.1, German: DTS 5.1 Subtitles: German

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Stars:
Carmen Electra as Drew
Dave Sheridan as The Killer/Doofy
Frank B. Moore as Not Drew's Boyfriend
Giacomo Baessato as Trick or Treater #1
Kyle Graham as Trick or Treater #2

Plot:
A year after disposing the body of a man they accidently killed, a group of dumb teenagers are stalked by a bumbling serial killer.

Awards:
Won:

Blockbuster Entertainment Awards (2001)		Favorite Supporting Actress - Comedy (Cheri Oteri)
BMI Film & TV Music Awards (2001)		BMI Film Music Award (David Kitay)
MTV Movie Awards (2001)		Best Cameo (James Van Der Beek)
Teen Choice Awards (2000)		Film - Movie of the Summer

Nominated:

Blockbuster Entertainment Awards (2001)		Favorite Actor - Comedy (Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans)
MTV Movie Awards (2001)		Best Female Breakthrough Performance (Anna Faris)
MTV Movie Awards (2001)		Best Kiss (Jon Abrahams, Anna Faris)
Taurus Award (2001)		Best Work with a Vehicle (Leslie McMichael, Yves Cameron)

Extras:

• 8seitiges Booklet
• Bonus Trailers
• Deleted Scenes
• Featurettes
• Interactive Game
• Interviews
• Music Videos
• Production Notes
• Scene Access
• Trailers

Scary Movie is from a time, when such parody movies weren't overfilling the market. As a matter of fact the success of this movie started it, I think. But unlike the parody movies which were following, Scary Movie was fun. It has some good movie parodies (instead of being filled with unfunny pop culture references) and also good acting.

Rating:

(From Tom's Horror Marathon 2012 on October 5th, 2012)

Tom's Glee Marathon, a review by Tom

Glee
Season 1.04 Preggers
Writer: Ryan Murphy (Created By), Brad Falchuk (Created By), Ian Brennan (Created By), Brad Falchuk (Writer)
Director: Brad Falchuk
Cast: Dianna Agron (Quinn Fabray), Chris Colfer (Kurt Hummel), Jessalyn Gilsig (Terri Schuester), Jane Lynch (Sue Sylvester), Jayma Mays (Emma Pillsbury), Kevin McHale (Arty Abrams), Lea Michele (Rachel Berry), Cory Monteith (Finn Hudson), Matthew Morrison (Will Schuester), Amber Riley (Mercedes Jones), Mark Salling (Noah "Puck" Puckerman), Jenna Ushkowitz (Tina Cohen-Chang), Stephen Tobolowsky (Sandy Ryerson), Patrick Gallagher (Ken Tanaka), Mike O'Malley (Burt Hummel), Iqbal Theba (Principal Figgins), Jennifer Aspen (Kendra Giardi), Kurt Fuller (Mr. McClung), Naya Rivera (Santana Lopez), Heather Morris (Brittany Pierce), Harry Shum, Jr. (Mike Chang), Dijon Talton (Matt Rutherford), Earlene Davis (Andrea Carmichael), Hisonni Johnson (Nick), Bill A. Jones (Rod Remington), Frank Pacheco (Jerky Player)

This episode was a turning point for me for this series. Before this I thought it was nice, but not really great. But this episode surprised me. Especially the ending. It has shown me for the first time that Glee can have great moments, which makes it worth to watch even if it often has stupid moments.

Heather Morris, who plays Brittany, was first hired because of this episode. Her only job originally was to instruct the actors to do the Single Ladies dance, as she herself was dancing it with Beyoncé on her tour. Though then she was also hired as an actor as there was still an opening for a cheerleader character.

This episode also introduces "Sue's Corner". A segment on the local news TV program hosted by the Glee club's rival, the cheerleader coach Sue Sylvester played by Jane Lynch. The segments are hilariously politically incorrect.

In this episode Kurt's father Burt is introduced. At first he appears to be the stereotypical redneck, who would never be able to accept a gay son. When at the end Kurt started to come out to his father, the first time I watched the episode I expected a huge backlash. But then the episode surprised. The reaction of Burt was a simple "I know".
And that he still loves him. He will turn out to be one of the best characters of the entire series. How he constantly supports his son against bullying and other discriminations, even though he himself is not 100% percent comfortable yet that his son his gay.

Another character which gets some depths is Puck. Introduced as the series bad boy, he shows his good side here when he tries to be supportive when he learns that Quinn is pregnant with his baby.

Tina-Watch:
Tina has a storyline here. Which will be dropped soon after. Mr. Shue tries to get her into a more vital role in the Glee club. He seems to drop this agenda after this episode and Tina is doomed to be a background character.

Finncompetent:
He really believes Quinn story, that he got Quinn pregnant even though they never had intercourse, only because there were in a hot tub together making out, where he then ejaculated.


Notable music:
This episode hardly contains music. It includes Single Ladies from Beyoncé, but it is not sung by the cast. Only danced to by Kurt, Tina and Brittany and later the football players. There is only a few seconds of a songs sung by cast members. One of them is Rachel is singing a Celine Dion song ("Taking Chances") for a musical audition. I liked it.

Rating:

(From Tom's Glee Marathon on August 16th, 2012)