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Will Ferrell does the voice for the Man in the Yellow Hat in the 2006 Curious George movie??  Really??

I thought I might have recognized his voice whilst the movie played over and over in my house and van but I had no idea it was him…

 *spoilers ahead*

I really enjoyed this movie.  I would have never imagine Will Ferrell could pull of being an IRS agent but I think he did it and did it well.  I loved that they threw in some trying-to-be-funny-like-Will-Ferrell lines.   I found myself laughing out loud to several parts of the movie. 

I just loved the scene were he brought her “flours” and told her “I want you”.  I had a little bit of a hard time with Will Ferrell and Maggie Gyllenhal being together but not anymore weirded out than I was with Jake Gyllenhal and Heath Ledger.  Will and Maggie just seem like an unlikely couple.  But somehow, Harold and Ana pulled off the spark and I was convinced they wanted each other. 

I really enjoyed the twisted plot of this.  I always seemed to be on the edge of my seat waiting to find out what happened next to Harold Crick.  I felt like all the acting was solid and I am so happy they didn’t kill Harold Crick and somehow I was ok with the fact he was plastered by a bus and I was supposed to believe it didn’t kill him. 

I loved the scene when Harold is reading the entire manuscript at the end.  It’s like he’s holding his entire life in his hands, including the end, and he makes a decision to read it.  Isn’t that a classic question?  Would you want to know how you died if you could?  And he chooses to read it and he accepts his poetic death, using his life to save someone else’s.  Man, that would have been a great end.  But I’m glad he lived and knowing what facing the end is like, he would go on to live his life to the fullest.

Uh, yeah.  Not so great of a movie.  Great to have had 90 minutes to do nothing but stare at a movie screen, not so great the movie was Evan Almighty.  A little harsh I guess.  Some general thoughts *spoilers ahead*:

• My biggest pet peeve of the movie is that there was no real reason to have all the animals on the ark.  It was a localized flood and there was just no good reasons to have polar bears come from the North Pole to be on there.  That really bugs me and they should have done a better job coming up with a plot that made that work.
• A few of the things he did was really a little, I don’t know, unbelievable or weird or something.  As if building an ark wasn’t unbelievable but the whole pony tail thing was weird and him stuffing his robe into his clothes and going into work.  I don’t know, I just didn’t like that part. 
• I do believe the original Noah’s ark thing happened and it did make my appreciate what Noah must have went through
• The building of the ark was pretty interesting actually.
• I was very glad the wife and kids came back.  It would have made me mad had they split over it.  It was stated clearly in the movie that Noah, his wife and three sons built the ark, not Noah and a bunch of animals.
• My mom didn’t want to see it because she thought Steve Carroll would be irreverant.  The movie had quite the opposite attitude toward God and the story of Noah and the Ark.
• The best scene of the whole thing is when God and his wife were talking at the restaurant and he says something to the affect of God doesn’t necessarily give you what you ask for, but the opportunity to create it.  If you ask for patience, God doesn’t make you patient automatically, He gives you opportunities to be patient.  If you ask for your family to become closer, he doesn’t give you warm and fuzzies about your family, He gives you opportunities to become closer as a family. 
• Steve Carroll is hilarious no matter what role he plays.  He did a great job.
• “Andy” from The Office was in the movie.  He was hilarious.
• Wanda Sykes was also great in the movie.  I liked her line, “Saving animals, I can roll with that….God told me to?  I’m rolling out.”
• Molly Shannon’s character was kind of awkward and much overdone.
• Sort of aggravated me that they probably killed a lot of people and ruined DC during the flood and it was never even acknowledged.

I don’t know, just overall it was one of those movies that had funny parts but didn’t connect overall in plot or in characters.  I’m sorry I spent $8 but I do feel it was more of the writing than it was the acting. 

Mmm, add me some Marky Mark to my fake boyfriend list.  I liked him when I was 12 and apparently still do at 28!  Oh, this is a movie review.  Yes, the movie was good.  Really good actually.  Mark did well playing this role.  His menacing stare and athletic build lended well to a military rebel type of role.  His words were few in the movie but the acting was still well carried out.  The plot was a little too easy to figure out. Even *I* didn’t have to ask questions about what was going on.  The clues about his friend’s girlfriend almost seemed like an afterthought just so the plot would work and they could weave in even a small romance.  And that was disappointing as well.  Not even a kiss!  I did like the meeting at the end, didn’t really go like I thought it would which is a good thing.  The rest of the movie was a little predictable.  It’s definitely a shoot ’em up movie with a hollywood star at the helm and his pretty girlfriend supporting him but I’m such a sucker, I loved it.  In fact, I plan to keep it long enough for Scott to watch it and I’m looking forward to seeing it again.

If The Good Shepherd was the most confusing movie I’ve ever watched, then Running with Scissors was the oddest movie I’ve ever seen.  That was one weird movie.  Or I should say one odd life that guy led.  I felt so bad for him and hardly wanted to watch someone have to go through all that.  I can’t really recommend it although the writing and acting were great.  It’s just too depressing.

This movie might be the most confusing movie I have ever seen.  I love Matt Damon and I enjoyed him in this.  But he didn’t speak much, which was a quality of this lead character.  He looks good without speaking so no complaints here.  Which has nothing to do with the actual movie..so moving on…This movie, I later found out, was about the start of the CIA.  Everything about this movie was about codes and secrets and information and disinformation and make you go crazy kind of thing.  Most of the movie was tied together by finding out two things…one, who around him had alerted the Russians before the Bay of Pigs and two, who or what or where was the picture that was left under his door at the beginning of the movie.  It turns out the two are tied together.  But anyway.  I ended up “getting” that part of the movie but there were several things you just knew were important and had hidden meaning but you just couldnt’ figure out the double-speak or codes.  I read some things online that explained a few things.  I’d like to watch it again to see if it’s easier to watch but it’s 3 hours so I’m not sure I want to spend another 3 hours of my life watching this ultra-detailed movie.  I’m very surprised they cast Angelina Jolie in this movie.  Ignored housewife doesn’t seem to fit her.  I’m not sure whether to recommend this movie it is so much work.  It seems worth checking out just to see if you “get it” and it does spawn some good conversation.  Much kuddos to the writers and other makers of the movie though.  Wow, couldn’t have thought of all that.