Tron Legacy

Great movie for the whole family.  The younger generation liked the action well enough and the parents loved the nostalgia and the continuation of a long-past sci-fi fantasy.

Jeff Bridges did himself proud. The younger new hero was very watchable.  The graphics and the action was quite well done. The storyline was -- well, who really cares in a movie like this one.  The "miracle" was implausible, impossible, irrelevant.  Go and see it for the fun and the special effects. 

Well done, Legacy!

Date Night

This movie was everything that we could have hoped it would be. It was fun, clever, predictably happy-ended, and it got the psychology of our demographic (late 40s, married with kids, average in most every way) just right. Steven Carell and Tina Fey were great together. The action sequences were thrilling enough, but they were also imbued with enough humor to make the audience howl. Oh, yeah, Mark Wahlberg had a relatively small, but endearing, role to play in the absolute success of this movie.

My wife pointed out that the movie used some very adult language, at times -- not profanity, exactly, but adult. Many parents would not be comfortable with their teens watching this movie, even though it is rated PG13.

This movie was great fun and we left the theater saying to each other, why aren't there more movies like this one?

The Blind Side

RuthAnn, Steve, and Courtney saw this movie and all loved it. Everyone will love this movie. It is a feel-good movie that manages to drum up some drama without the anguish of any really painful plot line.

The movie became especially poignant after the conclusion when pictures of the actual persons were juxtaposed with those of the corresponding movie characters.

This movie will sell many dvds and everybody will like watching it.

Up In The Air

RuthAnn and Audrey saw this movie and gave it luke-warm reviews. They said it was timely and relevant, and that George Clooney did a good job. They would not buy the dvd and gave only moderate recommendations to others to see it.

Invictus

RuthAnn and Audrey loved this movie. They both commented that it was good to learn more about that time in history and some of the events and forces involved.

Steve had trouble staying awake and felt frustrated by the slow and plodding place, and the deliberate style that seems to be a characteristic of movies directed by Eastwood.

Sherlock Holmes

Steve thought this movie was good for special effects with excellent cinematography. Robert Downy was great to watch, and the relationship between Holmes and Watson was well portrayed and humorous. But the plot seemed forced, overly complicated, and difficult to follow. The writers tried to cram too many meanings into the movie and the audience was left to not care much in order to keep watching. Although they did tie up all the loose ends in the concluding act (somewhat like a House episode), by that time the audience has pretty much given up caring.

RuthAnn and Audrey both enjoyed the movie well enough and did not have the same complaints that Steve had, but did say that the movie seemed long to them.

Young Victoria

RuthAnn and Audrey both loved this Jane Austen-esque movie. They liked watching it and will probably buy the dvd to watch it again and again.

Courtney and Belle (the younger crowd) did not like the show nearly as much. In fact, they had trouble staying awake.