comedies

Enough of the crime thrillers, let's move on to some twenty ten comedies:

Easy A

Easy A stars Emma Stone, Penn Badgley from Gossip Girl, Amanda Bynes, and Lisa Kudrow from Friends.

This is just not any typical teenage movie but it is said to be intelligent one that involves a typical teenage girl, Olive Penderghast (Stone) who is unpopular in her school. I don't see why but I think Emma Stone is one pretty actress.

It started off with Olive lying about losing her virginity to a college guy. Her "confession" to her best friend, Rhiannon (Aly Michalka) was overheard by the school's biggest Christian nut, Marianne (Amanda Bynes) who does not see eye-to-eye with Olive.

The rumour soon spread all over the school by Marianne. As her slut reputation grows, Olive sees it as an opportunity to own fame and financial gain. She also started to wear slutty clothing with the scarlet "A" on them, which is inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel, "The Scarlet Letter". Olive then bumped into her old childhood crush, Todd (Penn Badgley) who helped her to get through when things get out of hand.

In Easy A, you can see that Olive is far more intelligent than most of the students in her school by the whip-smart dialogs. She could use the rumour and turns it to a girl power. Now how smart is that? Overall rating: A-

The Switch is about Kassie Larson (Jennifer Aniston) who desperately wants to start a family before it is too late. She found the perfect donor, Roland (Patrick Wilson) and paid him for his sperm. However, Kassie's best friend, Wally (Jeff Goldblum) was upset that she didn't ask from him. Wally has always a thing for Kassie but he ready to commit.

At Kassie's party, Wally was so drunk that he accidentally spilled Roland's sample and he replaced it with his own. But Wally promptly doesn't remember switching it after 7 years when Kassie returns with her son, Sebastian who obviously has similar personality as Wally.

If not for Jennifer Aniston, I won't be watching this film. It was totally disappointing because the storyline isn't what I expected. Not much humour for a comedy movie. Overall rating: B-

Tim (Paul Rudd) is long overdue from promoted to "the 7th floor" but his chance comes when one of his colleagues from the 7th floor is fired. To get the dream job, Tim is required to attend a dinner party with his boss.

Tim is reluctant about attending the dinner at first because it everyone brings along a fool as their guest for their entertainment. Those guests will be mocked and laughed at by the rich people. Tim's girlfriend, Julie (Jemaine Clement) forces him not to participate after learning the agenda of the party.

The following day, Tim stumbles across Barry (Steve Carell) on a car accident where Barry tries to retrieve a dead mouse on the road. Barry is an IRS employee who has a weird hobby. He turns dead mice into cute yet disturbing dioramas. Tim finds him to be the perfect guest so he invited him to the dinner.

However, it became disastrous on the very night because Barry showed up unexpectedly on Tim's apartment. Barry accidentally invited Tim's crazy stalker, Darla (Lucy Punch) over while potentially ruining Tim's relationship with Julie.

Dinner for Schmucks gave us quite a few laughs especially when the nut painter, Kieran (Jemaine Clement) explaining his "work of art". Somehow, I think Steve Carell had overdone it here. I really like what Barry did to the dead mice though, with all those clothing details and giving them second chance, it's amazingly beautiful. Overall rating: B-