Movie Review

This weekend was movie weekend. We watched Wolverine and Night at the Museum 2. It was a pretty decent weekend and the movies were enjoyable for the family. We had a good time at the movies and just to whet your appetite, we will be watching Angels and Demons, Terminator and Aliens vs Monsters. I may squeeze in Star Trek if my kids are interested.


1) Wolverine
I always liked Hugh Jackman and I was a bit disappointed when he had to share top billing with the other X-Men in the first 3 parts. So, this was ALL Wolverine and Hugh. There were some discrepancies as to how he got the adamantium skeleton but I don't want to spoil it for you.

Logan was forced to be Wolverine through no fault of his since he is a mutant and he can't age. He is also able to cure himself instantly from any wounds even mortal ones. He was always in the army and finally came a day when he wanted no more killing, he left and wanted to live a quiet life. As with all movie cliches, life doesn't leave him alone and hence he gets dragged into battling the villians.

It's good action and the intro of new characters also gives it a good angle to spin off money making sequel or pre-quels or just another movie. Gambit was one as well as a girl whose skin is made of diamonds or can be turned to diamonds, I forgot which. Anyway, it has a good ending and it's just great fun and I give it a 2 thumbs up and highly recommend this.


2) Night at the Museum 2

You really gotta be a history buff to appreciate this a little more. However, the novelty of museum artifacts and wax statues coming to life is worn off. There are some good and light hearted humour moments and some cameos but Hank Azaria as the bad guy was comical. Half way through the movie, it gives you a feeling that the writers were not sure where to take the story and it takes some pretty wierd and poorly written twist.

Still you get to see Amelia Earhart, Ivan the Terrible, Napolean and Abe Lincoln as well as some bobble head Einsteins. Making cameos are the Apollo program people, Kittyhawk, Wright brothers and Joseph Motorola (which is NOT the founder of Motorola). I wouldn't mind giving this a miss and watching it on DVD when its out. It wasn't fantastic and the story line is rather weak but if you like the first part, it will be hard to miss this. It won't make you wanna perform eyeball surgery on yourself to watch it, so go with your guts on this one.

Stay tuned for next week.