If you take away the height subplot there's nothing really new or different about this movie. It's your standard "awkward Girl has a crush on a popular boy who lies and she has a good male friend who has a crush on her plus the mean girl who likes the male crush is being mean for reasons and then stuff at prom happens and Girl changes and is only then finally happy with herself" teen rom-com. Bleh.
Not bad, was interesting to watch and the acting was pretty good, but the story has a number of plot holes.
Disappointing. The actors were fine, the movie was just terrible. I found myself getting bored part way through and struggled to watch it to the end.
It was a good movie, in that it was well acted and the cinematography was good. But I don't think it really hit the mark. It never really sold me on the girls being in danger, and the atmosphere didn't really feel very tense to me.
I guess they were going for remote location + drunk men = danger. But it felt like just another friday night at the pub to me. It didn't feel like the girls should be afraid of the men in the pub. And I say that as a woman, in Australia.
Also, there was nothing that really tied this story to the outback. This could have been set in the city with exactly the same story. There are plenty of suburban places in Australia where there are no daily buses, or there are other reasons to be stuck in town for a couple of days. And to be honest those girls were not really stuck there. Sure the bus wasn't coming for two days, but we saw in the overhead shot when they arrived that this was not a small town. I'm sure they could have found accomodation elsewhere or arranged for alternative transport.
I had some other issues with things in the movie.
That the only work available for them was a remote job at a pub is total BS. There are so many places in Australia that hire backpackers and people on working holiday visas. Fruit picking, farm stays etc. There's always work.
The girls are meant to be really close friends, close enough that they share a bed (platonically) at various times, but we never really see a lot of evidence that friendship outside a few key moments. The friendship felt very two dimensional.
I also felt let down by the lack of women at the pub. Even in mining towns in Australia there are women. Women work in the mining industry. Even young women. But most of the women in this movie were caricature's of that trope that you have to be backwards, old and slightly crazy to be living in rural Australia.
I also had trouble with the ending. Which I will spoiler cut:
why did they set the pub on fire? the owner might have been asshole who didn't pay his staff or suppliers but he did not cause the girls any harm. It was just a random group of men who were being creepy. The owner was not at fault for anything that happened in the movie, and setting the pub on fire was just overkill, like the people who wrote the movie didn't know how to end it.
Well. It wasn't terrible. But thats the only good thing I think I can say about it. If you read the premise above in the title card, it's not quite that. There was never really any "cat and mouse" - no one really put any effort into finding the teens, just like the teens didn't put any effort into escaping. So many opportunities, so few escape plans. I think the main issue I have with it, is there was no tension. Even when someone did make an effort to escape you weren't thinking of how dangerous it was and how they might be killed, because you never really felt like those kids were actually in any danger. It was very PG. Its worth a watch if you just want something to put on in the background thats light and not scar, where you don't have to pay attention to it.
Urgh. I wanted to like this, but it was terrible almost right from the start. Around the 1hr mark I was thinking it must be getting close to the end, only to check and find out it still had 30m to go. The whole thing comes off as a parody, like something you would see as a sketch on a comedy show. Overacted and exaggerated. And while it is supposed to be a comedy, it isn't meant to be a parody as far as I know. Even Aubry Plaza, who is usually excellent in most things, put on a very silly act for this.
I didn't think this was as terrible as other commenters said, but it wasn't amazing either. It was just your typical "someone gets lost at sea and is attacked by sharks" movie.
It had all the standard tropes these kind of movies have. Disaster strikes, trying to survive without drinkable water, dumb mistakes, blood in the water attracting sharks, multiple shark attacks, getting help only to make more dumb mistakes so the help isn't successful, fighting sharks etc. I think despsite the shark attacks, it was less of a shark attack movie and more of a survival movie imo.
I also think it tried to be something, with the early part of the story about what happened in the bathtub, but it didn't really deliver on that which was a shame.
This was a pleasant surprise, a very underrated movie. I watched it on a whim not expecting much and ended up really enjoying it.
There is very little plot outside the "Princess being forced to marry the Evil Prince" trope. But where this movies subverts the trope is that the Princess rescues herself (with a little help from her trainer, Linh.) There is no love interest or knight in shining armour waiting in the wings to ride in and save the day which was so, so refreshing.
The majority of the movie is filled with scene upon scene of well choreographed fight scenes as The Princess escapes from the tower and makes her way to save her family. And while yes, some of the fight scenes were totally unbelievable, they were still very well done and the entire movie was action packed, and it held my attention from the start to end.
Kinda terrible. I've seen all the previous versions of Cheaper by the Dozen and this was by far the worst.
Lets start with Kate, the ex-wife of the lead male character Paul. Kate always seems to be hanging around the house where Paul and Zoey live, but there is no explanation for why Paul seems to have full custody and why Kate doesn't seem to have any. She is constantly called "the sitter" as if she is just around to baby sit, which she does, poorly.
Then there is Dom, Zoey's ex-husband who ends up being a jerk threatening to take custody of his children away after the daughter sneaks out to visit a boyfriend, and the son dresses as a punk/goth for a birthday party.
Zoey herself was such a strange character who at every turn took everyone's comments to be racist, or prejudicial in other ways, and she was always accusing people of being so. Then when someone actually was racist and actually did accuse one of the kids of being a thief, Zoey is just like, ok whatever and bewilderingly that person gets away with those comments several times over the course of the movie with barely a blink from Zoey. She also kept accusing Paul of leaving her out of things involving the business, but she didn't imo put a lot of effort into talking to Paul about what was going on with that. Its 2022 (in the movie) they could have been facetiming, zooming, txting, doing virtual tours of shop spaces for the franchise etc. There is absolutely no reason she couldn't have been just as involved as Paul was.
The kids themselves were charming and fun, but aside from a few "cute" moments nothing about the plot involved them (other than being a part of the family.)
Also I think somewhere along the way the movie forgot how many kids there were supposed to be.
The entire movie there only 10 kids:
(2) Kate and Paul's daughters: Ella and Harley
(1) Haresh, who was adopted by Kate and Paul who are his godparents (his parents were killed in a car accident)
(2) Zoey and Dom's children: DJ and and Deja
(4) then Zoey married Paul and they had two sets of twins, Luca and Luna, and Bronx and Bailey.
Thats 9 so far.
(1) Then Paul and Zoey took in Paul's nephew Seth.
So that makes 10 kids.
At the end of the movie we see they named their new restaurant "Baker's Dozen". Now a Baker's Dozen is actually 13. But there are only 10 kids. Since Dom invested in the "Sauce" I suppose the Baker's dozen is the 10 kids plus the three adults. Zoey, Paul and Dom. But thats actually confusing because that leaves Kate (who is still a part of the family) out.
And the entire joke of the title is a call back to the original 1950 movie, where someone asks the father "Hey, mister! How come you got so many kids?" and the father replies "Well, they come cheaper by the dozen, you know". The joke works in the first two movies because there are 12 kids. It does not work in this version, because there are only 10 kids.
It was fine. Extremely cheesy though. Like, everyone in this movie is super passionate about finding this dog. Everyone. Even the parent who didn't want the dog because of her previous traumatic experience with her dog being taken away (which is shown in a series of dramatic flashbacks). Even people in other states want to find this dog. Everyone. Im convinced that even Cruella de Ville, if she heard about this lost dog, would don her coat made of dog fur, and be out in the woods leading the search for this dog (and not for nefarious reasons.)
Also something I couldn't understand and perhaps this comes from not being in the US but the kid had the dog at college, and I wouldn't have thought people could take their pets on campus?
Don't waste your time on this.
It starts off ok, kinda funny. But then it just can't decide what it wants to be. Is it a comedy? A thriller? a horror?
First I would like to say just how terrifying it would be for any phone to have the power it does in this movie. Like for real, this should be a horror movie.
The guy gets a phone and the phone slowly starts to take over his life. It verbally abuses and sexually harasses him. Eventually DMs his dick pics to work colleagues which gets him fired and then, it tries to kill him. And this is... funny? And at no time does the main character try to say to someone "oh my phone has gone psychotic" and try to get help. He just casually accepts that this is his new life now. And while he does try to ditch the phone, it was very half hearted. In fact in one scene he goes back for his phone because he doesn't know how to get home without it. And I mean, seriously? He doesn't know how to get home without his phone?
Add to this the stupid sex jokes that culminate in him having sex with the phone by repeatedly jamming the charger cord into it.
Then there is the really shallow problematic relationship he tries to have with someone he just met. This nice woman who doesn't seem at all surprised that this random stranger tracked her down at her work place and rang her. He eventually gets her number and within 30 seconds is declaring he is in love. He also tries to break up with her as soon as the ex-fiance is in the picture. Like, he was all, sorry, Im so insecure that you cant friends with your ex, so Im breaking up with you. She also doesn't seem to care that this guy knocks her ex-fiance out by hitting him in the neck for no reason other than he thought she was leaving with the ex-fiance (no self defence or anything). These are all RED FLAGS people. Red flags.
Mediocre and not at all original. You've probably seen this movie a dozen times before and those dozen other movies did it better. It had a great cast so this should have been a winner, but instead it was flat and boring and really would have been better as an episode in an anthology series.
This movie has been made numerous times before. Best friends have a falling out over something and then the power of friendship wins over adversity blah blah blah. The movie had a great cast and so should have been good even with a reused plot, but it was fairly average and boring. There was nothing that stood out as memorable or different. It seemed to consist mostly of slap stick moments of stupidity and women selling each other out/insulting each other along with tired sex jokes. There are much better movies to spend 90 minutes watching.
I'm usually up for a good holiday romance, but about halfway through this I looked at the timestamp and said "omg, is this only halfway through???" and then decided there were probably better movies I could be watching and watched one of those instead.
If you're going to watch this for the 80s aesthetic then you're going to be disappointed. It must have been filmed in 1979 and then released in 1980. It's very much a 70s movie. Disco music, electric lights, glitter dresses, bob haircuts. The dance floor at the prom looks like the one from Saturday Night Fever, all lit up.
Style aside, it wasn't a terrible movie but it wasn't great either. Just your typical slasher.
Did not finish.
It started off great but then devolved into paedophile jokes and dolphin penis.
Don't waste your time with this one.
It was fine. Based on a true crime case. If you're looking for a gritty mystery where everything is solved, this isn't it. This was more focused on making a point about how women are ignored, dismissed, not believed etc when they report a crime or are victims of one. It starts with the police not really invested in finding the missing woman because she was a sex worker. It continues with them dismissing the mother who wants to find her child. It's a fine retelling of the case and the acting was good, but it didn't leave me emotionally invested in any of the characters and felt a little like a midday movie at times.
