Okay well somehow after we stopped doing reviews our traffic has tripled. So it MUST be the candy bar reviews. So since I have a couple left, here’s the review of the regular version of Aero. I might just go buy some more and do some more reviews!
Pt 5 - Aero
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Some how the site had the most views ever yesterday, a week after we stopped doing TBS reviews. Here’s today’s treat – Sean Dove reviewing another British candy bar. (I tried this one and it was amazing!)
Aero Green
Delicious!
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Well ladies and gentlemen… it looks like things beyond our powers have put a definite halt to the blog as TBS has stopped their 9am morning movies. I don’t doubt that the site will be back in some fashion, but for now we really don’t fell like reviewing episodes of Home Improvement, Married With Children or Saved by the Bell.
So for now (or until I get a couple more of the British Candy Bar reviews up), farewell.
when i wake up in the morning and my alarm gives out a warning i don't think i'll ever make it on time...
Another repeat on TBS’s part means another grand review of a British Candy Bar by Sean Dove. This time he tackles a Milkybar and lives to tell the tale! I’m proud of him for going head first into something called “Milkybar”. Bravo!
Milkybar
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Not Another Teen Movie (2001)
Sam – I first saw this movie with my sister-in-law on DVD, for what reason we decided this was a good one to watch is beyond me. But I’m glad we did!! These fucking spoof movies are probably going to be humanity’s undoing… yet I found this one to be a clever romp with laughs and surprises for everyone (ages 17 and over) to enjoy. This movie was the first time I saw someone call out teen movies for the “yes it was a dare/joke/favor when I started dating you, but I didn’t even take the (fill in reward here) because I, love, you.” line that somehow always makes things better.
It also has Randy Quaid affectionately calling his daughter “pumpkin tits” or something along those lines.
Tim – Okay… so I barely remember this flick. It seems I watched it while drunk or sick… maybe stoned. I don’t know. But Chris Evans is funny, and I kind of have a man-crush on him a tad. And any movie that makes fun of the “Hollywood Ugly” trope, where an ungodly hot girl is nerdy, has my affection.
Sean Dove (Special Guest Reviewer!) – So Sam asked me to do another review for some movie called “Not Another Teen Movie”. I had never seen or ever heard of this movie (wink). It seems silly to try and write a review for this movie that I’ve never seen (Chough! Chough!). But lets say I have seen it, and I didn’t think it was bad, and I might have laughed at a lot of stuff I feel bad for laughing at.
“Not Another Teen Movie” takes it’s main plot from another teen favorite “She’s All That”, which takes its plot from another teen favorite “My Fair Lady”, which takes its plot from yet another teen favorite ‘Pygmalion”. Popular Jock makes a bet with his friends that he can take an “ugly girl” Janey Briggs and turn her in to the class prom queen. Janey Briggs is played by Chyler Leigh, I watched 2 episodes of the dreadfully bad “That ’80s Show” partly because “Not Another Teen Movie” star Chyler Leigh was in it. Hello cute!
Anyway yeah a bunch of stuff from other “teen” movies happen and somehow again I laughed a bunch.
Ok so for my review I’ll take a note from “Not Another Teen Movie” and use a bunch of reviews online for my own review:
“Not Another Teen Movie” is a big, fat, juicy spitball lobbed, with mostly dead-on aim, at the teen-smarm clichés that have accumulated like so much earwax over the last three years. It’s stupid, it’s obvious, it’s scatological and violent — but it made me laugh and I’m giving it thumbs up, God help me. It’s clever satire that’s layered like a breakfast club sandwich with sly in-jokes, sight gags, gross-out scenes, and, of course, requisite bathroom humor. But more often than not you’ll be groaning from painful recognition rather than actually laughing. The makers of “Not Another Teen Movie” should be embarrassed that, in parodying “She’s All That”, they copied most of the plot and then made a movie that bogs down in the same places as the original. “Not Another Teen Movie” Plumbs new depths of offensiveness for its stomach-churning crudities, it’s a little like watching Christina Aguilera make fun of Britney Spears.
OH also when looking up “Not Another Teen Movie” I learned in production it was called the much better title “Ten Things I Hate About Clueless Road Trips When I Can’t Hardly Wait to Be Kissed”. AWESOME!
Things said during movie (not-review):
- “Oh no! This new place has SPIDERS!!”
The Fighting Temptations (2003)
Sam – Aaaaaand we’re back! Okay, not really. But there wasn’t a repeat today so we’re posting the actual movie along with “reviews”. So The Fighting Temptations… sure. Starring Beyonce and one of the stars of IRBW’s current “Worst” movie. I’ve seen bits of this on TBS before and I’m glad that I didn’t have to again.
On a side note, I went to Atlanta this past weekend for Liz’s group OneTwoThree’s show there at a comedy festival. And while there I got to meet a bunch of really great people that are related to Rob from OneTwoThree, one of which was his brother-in-law, Bill. Interestingly enough, Bill actually works for TBS there in Atlanta and had some pretty interesting stories about the back end of the station. Now if I can only persuade him to put in a word with the 9am movie people to play my pick for “We guess what’s next“…
Tim – Dodged a bullet.
Things said during movie (not-review):
- “Where’s our TV?!”
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So again, we had a repeat for Tuesday of Blue Streak so we’re continuing with our reviews of British candy bars by Sean Dove. Today we have the wonderful candy bar; Lion. Let’s see what our choco-expert has to say about this guy.
Sean tears through this one like a...
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We’re going to do something extra special on days that we have repeats. A couple months ago I stumbled upon the British candy bar section of my local grocer and I thought it’d be good to get a video of my friend (and candy bar connoisseur) Sean giving his review of each one. So instead of a repeat review or no review of Zathura, today you get Sean Dove vs. British Candy Bars pt. 1: Yorkie (blue). Enjoy!
Pt. 1: Yorkie Blue
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Just Friends (2005)
Josh Fritz (Special Guest Reviewer!) – I can see why Scarlett Johansson married Ryan Reynolds. I was all set to hate on him in this movie, but he totally won me over.
I think the best place to start when talking about this movie is the 1976 film “Carrie,” starring Sissy Spacek. For those of you who have not seen it, here comes a spoiler. “Carrie” tells the story of a very shy, isolated teenage girl with telekinetic powers, Carrie, played by Sissy Spacek. She is ostracized at school, largely due to the effect her fanatically religious mother has had on her.
So the girls at school don’t like Carrie to begin with. They’re super mean to her at the beginning of the movie, and because of it, they all get detention. One of the girls who was mean to her feels really bad about it, so she gets her extra hunky boyfriend to take her to the prom. She genuinely wants Carrie to have a good time. But the meanest of the girls don’t feel that way. Knowing she’s going to prom with the super hunky guy, they decide to completely humiliate her in front of the entire school. They make sure she and her date are named prom king and queen, and as she’s up on the stage being crowned, they dump pig blood on her.
Carrie reacts by using telekinesis to trap everyone in the building, and then she burns it down. Following that, she goes home where her mother attempts to kill her, now that she has found out about her telekinetic powers. In self defense, Carrie kills her mother, then feels really bad about it, and brings the house down in flames on top of them both.
So, what does Carrie have to do with “Just Friends?” Well, “Just Friends” is what the sequel to Carrie should have been, if only Carrie had made a better decision after getting blood dumped on her at the prom. In “Just Friends,” the overweight Chris (Ryan Reynolds) is humiliated in front of his graduating class as a football jock reads a note confessing his love for his best friend. Chris’s response is to sheepishly leave the party, graduate high school, go to the gym, attend college, and then become an extremely successful entertainment agent in Los Angeles.
Carrie should have left the prom, gone home, made up with her crazy mom, and then embarked on the road that would have made her the hottest, most successful Carrie she could be. And just like in the end of “Just Friends,” 10 years later she would have totally bagged her high school crush, the guy from “The Greatest American Hero.” In fact, in my mind, she did, because the whole time I was watching “Just Friends” I was imagining Carrie in the role of Chris.
Overall, an utterly enjoyable film. It had Ryan Reynolds being funny, and wearing a fat suit, although it did look like he had eyeliner on a lot of the time. And the girl from “Road Trip” was cute in it too.
Courtney McCormick – What’s up Class of ‘95?!!!
Just Friends. I had not seen this before. Josh (B.) has mentioned it lots because we graduated in ‘95 and he’s a fool for reunions so I was excited to finally view this film.
So, Ryan Reynolds. He’s now super delish and this was clearly a step along his transformation to Optimum Sexy Pants. I recently watched Adventureland and noticed in both movies that he looks like a giant compared to his costars. Did a little research and he’s 6′-2″. That’s not enormous. The rest of Hollywood must be miniature.
This movie also featured the cute kid from Fanboy. I like him. I like that movie.
But what can I say about this movie… it’s a Christmas movie. That’s fun. And based in New Jersey. Everyone likes Jersey!
Question: why the internal monologue 3/4 way thru movie? Seemed out of place.
In closing, my favorite line of the movie goes to Anna Farris’s character with ”God I wanna lick your skin off.”
Big thanks to Sam for letting me sit in as guest reviewer. It’s been an honor. And now, I’d rather be working which in my case is figuring out why the boy skipped school today. Cheers!
Things said during movie (not-review):
- “I’m not going to post your review today because I don’t fucking feel like it!”
