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! Warning ! There will be many spoilers ahead, skip to The Conclusion at the end to avoid, thanks and enjoy.  This review will contain spoilers, everything in this post is in my personal opinion and nothing is meant in any offence or against any persons. ! Warning !

Just as a starter this film was very surprising and funny seen as from a first look, it seems like it would be a witty and low key indie comedy with a few laughs but nothing to cry over. However this film is different or at least it was for me, there were more than a few laughs, almost constant throughout this film was providing me a good load of chuckles.

The Cast

The cast was just like the film a big surprise, Aubrey Plaza was outstanding as per however I do hope that this will not just push her further by only taking roles similar to that in Parks And Rec, the quiet, sarcastic and witty role that she does play so well made another appearance in this film however there was a slight glimmer of innocence which is suppose mixed it up a little but the character that we have all seen many times before was definitely present.

Other than her the cast was impressive and did work very well with Alia Shawkat (Arrested Development), Sarah Steele (Spanglish) playing the devout expert friends. Rachel Bilson (Hart Of Dixie) was great as the slutty sister expert, and she played it well with the typical 90's sibling drama and fighting however she did this with a bit more humour.

And with any teen comedy the two love interests Johnny Simmons (The Perks Of Being A Wallflower) and Scott Porter (Hart Of Dixie) one in love with the protagonist and one that she is in love with, a little cliche'd i know but its a necessary evil in this film.

 Bill Hader (almost every comedy film from the past 10 years, Forgetting Sarah Marshall), and one of the best parts of the film and that is the parents Connie Britton(Nashville) and the very protective father Clark Gregg (The Avengers), they provide this film with similar to what was seen in Easy A with their parents, a comedy that is so funny, true and allowed for the film to grow to be much more than just a sketchy crappy comedy film

Other than these main characters to the film is littered with comedy newcomers and legends all over the film from basic cameo's or smaller roles however some of these were pretty hilarious from Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Superbad) to Andy Samberg (Hot Rod), they fill out the loose edges of the film with some refreshing differences in comedy and for the first half of the film make you cry with that lovely laughter that you are watching this film for.

 The Comedy 

The film was absolutely filled to the brim with great comedy but there is definitely a fair share of cliched cheesy moments in the film but these are all forgiven when some of the golden moments of the film that do make you shout out with laughter, Brandy seeing her parents  while they both enjoy that great night of sex and their eyes meet mid intercourse, this moment is only predictable when you see the two vans both shaking at the same time and it hits you, oh it does hit you and make you laugh.

The moments when you think that the story will take over towards the end and that the comedy will start to fade away but you would be terribly wrong the comedy stays and it stays strong and if anything gets a little stronger, this if anything puts this comedy aside from all those cheap cop offs with one of two jokes at the end but the To-Do List gives and it gives good.

It delivers a witty and common dirty jokes that you would expect but they aren't the jokes that make you laugh the ones that you have heard and seen a thousand time before the ones that get you are the ones that are unexpected to father daughter moments the brute honesty that is the relationship within their family, the moment that Rachel Bilson and Bill Hader share some 'fun time' and they are caught is just gold, the length of time that it lasts is the core of the comedy and the line

"And get out of my daughter" just breaks you.

The Story

 The story is ..... impressive at time and then at others a little too predictable, some moments when you just know where this film is going, these are the moments that are unforgivable and that chip away at the integrity and great rating in this film, the moments that diminish the glory and Holiness of this film. But having said that all hope is not lost, the film still remains to be a great comedy and one of the best modern comedies in the past 5 years.

The film goes through the general discovery teen comedies,

• You need to do something
• Starting to do it
• An obstacle sometimes a love interest or a lost relationship happens
• Overcome the obstacle and try to continue
• realisation that you do not need to complete it anymore
• Happily ever after......Sadly

 When you realise this is where the film is headed you shed a little tear and reach for the remote, but don't, don't do that, give the film another ten  minutes so it can throw a great chunk of comedy gold into your face and shut you up. This, this is what the film does and what it does well, it keeps you gripped and wanting to watch more and goes through all the boring story arcs until you find yourself on the verge of the happy ending and it pulls up some great comedy primaries that have been set up and hinted at the whole film and throws them all together to create a meca or humour and entertainment and just end abruptly.
 
This may seem bad but for a teen comedy like this i think should be the new way, it leaves you in stitches to make you watch the credits a little longer than before when you turn of the film and tweet about it, but relax you can now tweet you have stopped laughing that tweet will be glorious.

 The Conclusion

How to sum up this film, with its strong comedy backing and great easter eggs (Parks And Rec) it keeps you attached to the title. This film is not just another failed attempt at teen growing story that will end up in the Bargain Bin this is a film that you should buy and let it sit proudly in the collection, even the top shelf dare i say it, but its great jokes and the amazing Aubrey Plaza bringing some flat comedy to the film that you don't usually get from your female comedienne actresses.

I would say this is a film for the friends and maybe a date movie but you should NOT see this with members of your family that you are not completely open with, this film has many awkward and cringe worthy moments that if your parents were they this would open to many discussions but they will laugh or get flustered which would make it all worthwhile, I will let you decide.

Go and see it, go and buy it, keep it and recommend it do not let this film fall into the reduced section of HMV.

YEY! You made it all the way to the end, thank you for reading and I hoped you enjoyed the film as much as I did, and I hope to see you next time.

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I'm Back, Kinda.

I know i haven't posted on here in a long time but there was so much going on, however i am back and by the kinda that will be due to the fact that my first review will be on Gravity which does not release for a while and the post will be on shortly after that.

In the mean time I have no plans for any reviews but will still be watching many films so you never know there might be a sneaky little post between now and then, oh and I also decided to spruce up my blog a little, it was too plain.

So i hope you will be back, whoever is out there that reads this and i hope to please you with my views, bye.

Oh and thanks for reading this as always.

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Orphan Black S01 EP04 Review

[Disclaimer] No offence is intended here everything is just speculation and opinion, i apologise if you have taken offence somewhere throughout [ Disclaimer]

This episode opens after the crazy ending of the other clone 'angel' sewing herself up and now we find out its in someone else's house and a little boy goes down stairs and sees her and it is the creepiest thing, what did she do to that child, as later the episode he is so terrified that he can barely speak. What happened?

As Sarah is trying to find out as much as she can about this new clone she is stumbling deeper and deeper to the point that the new clone (the blond one) is even impersonating her at work and is messing with her 'new' life with Paul and Art. However this all seems very background in this episode and it seems like it is much more centred around her relationship with her daughter who is being taken care of by Mrs.S (Sarah's foster mother). Mrs.S allows Sarah one  night to come visit her daughter to prove that she is changing but due to the whole murder fiasco Sarah is pre-occupied and cannot go or art will suspect something and find out the whole charade. Although I thought if that happened she could say Mrs.S is looking after her niece or anything really. Seen as though the ridiculous lies she has told so far this seems very casual and feasible in comparison, but ho hey she didn't. So what could she do in a moment like this, she "needs to be in two places at one" so here comes the clone, Alison Hendrix.

Alison takes the challenge after some really funny moments from Felix, he adds some much needed sarcasm in parts. Some how Alison can impersonate Sarah/Beth within a day of training to the point that Mrs.S cant tell that its not her, this is pretty stupid, one day that's all. And her foster mother cant tell that she is acting completely different than she did like two weeks previous, c'mon guys really. But little old Kira can tell, I don't know how she hasn't seen her mother in over a year but ya'know, she must have a sixth sense about clones. It was all very touching the meeting they had, Kira wants her mum so bad you can clearly see and a copy cat wont suffice but Mrs.S drops her ice shield and allows Sarah/Beth/Alison to walk her home from school after Alison/Sarah asks, which would she really after one visit after a year be like, oh yeah just walk her home and don't take off with her. Okay then.

Back to the intense drama action, after the 'angel' bleeds out all over the kids bathroom. The cops show up the next day with Beth alongside, but this is possibly one of the worst scenarios as the kid points at Beth implying that the 'angel' looked like her, then. No one batters an eyelid, what will it take for someone to be suspicious of Beth/Sarah. The child has a fortune paper thing and they take it and analyse it and find that there are addresses on it and go there, but this is where little blond 'Angle' waltz' in acting like Beth, even though she looks like she is on crack but no one really cares. There seems to be alack of attention in the POLICE STATION. And she goes and f****s everything in the boardroom up.

Some random raunchy Paul and Beth scenes.

And Beth goes to find that Maggie Chen and the 'angle' are connected which is such a predictable plot line, I'm sorry but I seen that coming from the minute that we saw that knife, so its like the KKK for clones I'm assuming. So Beth/Sarah arrives at Chen's flat to see the 'angel' pretty much dead and there is some seriously intense dialogue between the two of them and this is where we pretty much find out that Sarah is the original (what are the chances.) but the 'angel' was told she was and that's why she is on this crusade so Sarah pretty much made the 'anglels' life worthless in about 3 minutes. Don't get me wrong it was crazy intense but then it got tied right back up and that was a crappy move by the writers, all to prolong the massive plot climax. Uncool dudes, uncool.

But then holy s**t the 'angle' collapses in an alley and a man comes and collects her only to have a frikin ring with the same logo as the Clone Klux Klan, Hot damn guys, we are getting some context to why the clones have been made and who by. Yey all these loose ends are coming together to make a thread. I'm so exited.

In Conclusion:

The episode was action packed towards the end but was very overshadowed from the outset by the mother daughter relationship drama, this gave the episode strengths and weaknesses. It was one of the best so far and making it climb to my top watch list very fast. All in all good episode cant wait for next week, just please someone figure it out already.

Speculation Time:

Kira and Sarah relationship seems like its going to be seriously tested with the 'camera man'. But most importantly Paul may be working for the clone creators, I think that he is and Beth was with him to find everything out and she did that's why she killed herself, Paul knows that Beth knows something that's why he is always almost bipolar with her. And it almost seems like it was Alison and Sarah were talking and Sarah said "How could you do that to her" either he is referring to Kira or what I'm thinking is Alison has 'disposed' of Cosima which would be a massive loss but okay.

Thanks for reading and tune in for the next episode, bye.

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Game Of Thrones S01 EP04

[Disclaimer] I have not read the book/s so all upcoming info is speculation only, other writing is opinion, sorry if your offended [Disclaimer]

This episode was all about the Queens. All the strong omen in the show that wanted the Iron throne or one very similar, Cersei wants to be the only queen, Margaery wants Joffrey crown, Sansa whats the high garden crown and finally Daenerys wants... well everything.

And the episode was very centred around this apart from any dull scenes with bran or Theon which were frankly disappointing it cut to them for 5 minutes or so and it was totally wasted screen time, and I know what people will say that Bran's dream will come into play later but it could give us something else to go by. And for Theon's part , why. Why was that even there what did it add but more questions which I frankly didn't really care if they were answered.

But all that aside and other than the 4/5 queens Jaime and Brienne had a fantastic (all be it short) set of scenes and dialogue which showed a much more personal and real side to Jaime which we haven't seen yet, it was great and added much more depth to his character allowing people to truly root for him to get back and survive. The dialogue between him and Brienne around the fire was actually so well done, it really grounded both characters and pushes their relationship high up in the air, from him saving her and vice versa.
But that bread looked real tough.

And to the first aspiring Queen. Margaery. She had some very interesting parts this episode and that woman really has her head screwed on its unreal. The scene with her and Joffery is so powerful and shows her true strengths in manipulation she makes him feel on top of the world and even gets him to go outside to see his people, his face terrified at this point as all he hears is Margaery's name but then his name begins being chanted and they both lift arms and wave and a flush of pride and joy rushes over his face whilst she seems very pleased with her work. All while Cersei screams out for him to stop, she is loosing her crown and she knows this and cant handle it, its slipping so she goes to do what is only left. She will do everything in others power to take that crown and she will do it well, undermining Cersei.

Now for little Arya the 1/2 queen as she doesn't know it but shes gunning for it strong. Her scenes were.... well underwhelming. It seems her story is starting to die out, its flame burning low if you will. This episode takes her to a cave, a cave where the hound has been taken to be put to sentence by the men who don't follow any king, deserters. And to be frank it was pretty boring with Arya having a little line here and there, then it was over.... yes that was it.

Now an important scene between Olenna Tyrell and the 'spider' Lord Varys and this is such a huge set up for the marriage between Sansa and Lorras and the destruction of 'littlefinger's plan, which i like to see any day but anyhow, this old woman just cracks me the hell up especially when 'spider' asks for a seat and she says no and leaves him to stand. This woman is one of my favourite characters just for the humour factor alone. She as well as him is so intelligent.


The next queen sees (imagine drumroll here) Sansa. Wait. What. Yes that's right Margeary's grandmother sent her little protege gran daughter the task of planting the marriage seed in Sansa's head for her to marry Lorras Tyrell yes Renly's (R.I.P) bit on the side. obviously after hearing that she will be free from Kingslanding Sansa wells up and gets teary at the thought of being queen of the Highgarden and they "Would be like sisters" so she goes ahead and breaks down completely while Margaery has that signature smirk with those sweet blue eyes.

Cersei no the reining Queen (regent) and the only queen up there for now. This time we see her so vulnerable and threatened by Margaery with her father shooting down her intelligence and arrogance which shocks her system as she longs for her brother (for more than brotherly Love if you know what i mean). When Margaery takes Joffrey to see his people she knows its gone she has lost him so she runs right to her farther for help and help he does but we wont see till the next episode (boo). It was interesting seeing her like this and Cersei is so well played by Lena Headey, the performance is outstanding but Natalie Dormer who plays Margaery is cutting her in the acting world as well and the mystical.

Now for Dany (my favourite character) and this time she really started to get crazy which I'm sure most people guessed but after last week wanting to sell her dragon for soldiers  most were shocked to the core but this time she proved us all wrong and kicked ass by just blitzing the whole place leaving with dragons and soldiers in hand. All of this after revealing that she can in fact speaks Valyrian and everyone including the translator and her right hand man are stumped and she then rages all out attack and slaughters all she sees bad, slavers and everyone else apart from children and the slaves them self. Then she rides off into the sunset with dragons and soldiers in toe.

 


In Conclusion:

This episode was all about the strong intelligent women that seriously (apart from Sansa) kick ass in one way or another, filled with action and crazy drama that in the climactic ending left me so buzzed for the next episode. GO HOUSE TARGARYEN!

Speculation Time:

It looks like the action is seriously heating up in Westeros (among other places) and I'm really liking the look apart from some more god of light crap but I shall wait and see. Im thinking that Dany will make way on her invasion while the starks try to figure out how they might stand a chance against Tywin and the lions just sit and wait for them to enjoy the slaughter.

Thank you for reading, hope you enjoyed and see you same time next week. Bye.

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