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The Love Guru, Pitka (Mike Meyers) is an American raised outside of his country by gurus, returns to the States in order to break into the self-help business.

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There are heroes… there are superheroes… and then there’s Hancock.

Hancock (Will Smith) is an alcoholic and sarcastic superhero who is misunderstood by the public.

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Superbad is a super funny 2008 comedy movie written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. Directed by Greg Mottola and produced by Judd Apatow, the film receives critical and commercial success due to Apatow’s previous film, Knocked Up.

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Michael Cera, Jonah Hill and Christopher Mintz-Plassein "Superbad"

Evan (Michael Cera) and Seth (Jonah Hill) are best friends since kindergarten and are in their final year of school about to leave for college. However, they will be separated in college since they will not be in the same college as the latter one is not as smart as Evan.

Jules (Emma Stone) is hosting a party and asks Seth to bring alcohol and he agrees, as their mutual friend, Fogell, (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) has recently acquired a fake ID. Meanwhile, Evan agrees to go to the party after his long time crush Becca (Martha MacIsaac) invites him to the party as well despite the initial “maybe” after Seth is spat by one of the bullies who warn Seth and Evan not to go to the party.

After school, Seth and Evan find out that Fogell is an idiot because he gets a fake ID with just one-name and it’s "McLovin". Fogell argues that he initially wants to choose "Mohamad" as it is the most common name but ends up choosing "McLovin" instead.

While buying the alcohol, Fogell is hit in the face by a hooded robber and the police arrive. The two officers, Michaels (Seth Rogen, yes, one of the writers of the film) and Slater (Bill Hader), who seem to be fooled by the fake ID, offer Fogell a lift to the party.

When Seth and Evan see the police officers talking to Fogell, they think he is busted and decide to find their own alcohol instead. Seth is accidentally hit by a car and as compensation, the driver (Joe Lo Truglio) agrees to take them to a party, where they reason they can take all alcohol they need.

When arrive at the party, Francis the driver is seen as not welcome to the party and is forced to leave. Evan bails on Seth, as Seth is left alone to smuggle the alcohol they need. As the party has started, Seth is pushed into the dance crowd and Gaby (Marcella Lentz-Pope) flirts with Seth on the dance floor without knowing Gaby is Mark’s fiancee. Seth is laughed by the others when they see blood stain of Gaby on his pants. When Mark knows about Seth’s dancing with his fiancee, he tries to start a fight but accidentally hit another party-goer instead as Seth dodges. As a fight erupts between Mark and some drug addicts, Seth and Evan escape together with laundry detergent containers that have been filled with beer.

Meanwhile, the police officers display many instances of incompetence, including drinking on the job, unnecessary use of police lights, and improper use of a gun. They quickly become friends, referring to Fogell as McLovin.

Seth and Evan get into an argument about their friendship when Fogell, officer Slater, and officer Michaels happen to hit Seth with their police car. As officer Slater prepares to bust the teens to cover up his own blunder, the boys flee into the dark. The three finally arrive at Jules’ party with the alcohol.

At the party, a drunken Becca nearly seduces Evan as they end up in bed but ends up vomiting. A drunken Seth attempts to explain his feelings for Jules, but ends up head-butting her when he passes out on her, resulting in a black eye. Fogell successfully seduces Nicola (Aviva Farber) with his fake ID and gets her into bed, only to have officers Slater and Michaels interrupt. Seth, realizing Evan is passed out on a couch, carries his friend away and back to Evan’s house. They reconcile, realizing they actually love each other. Officers Slater and Michaels reveal to Fogell that they were aware of his fake ID all along, but they wanted to show him they were normal guys too. They return him a favor for blocking his chance with Nicola by pretending to haul him off to jail in front of the entire party to boost his popularity. When the bully who spat on Seth sees Fogell, he tries spitting on him too but ends up spitting on official Slater, who in return knocks him out with his baton.

The following day, Evan and Seth run into Becca and Jules at the mall as they are shopping for Evan’s comforter for his college. Seth ends up taking Jules to get cover up for her eye, while Evan takes Becca off to look for comforters. The two guys take a long, private stare at each other before they part ways with their new girlfriends.

My ratings: 8 out of 10. Definitely not superbad, but the movie super kick ass!

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A guy in love with an engaged woman tries to win her over after she asks him to be her maid of honor.

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Son of Rambow is a comedy about friendship, faith and the weird business of growing up.

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Must not miss this movie! It’s awesome.

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Definitely, Maybe is a romantic comedy film directed by Adam Brooks starring Ryan Reynolds (of Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place’s fame), Rachel Weisz, Elizabeth Banks, Isla Fisher and Abigail Breslin (Nim’s Island).

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Ryan Reynolds and Abigail Breslin in "Definitely Maybe"

Will Hayes (Ryan Reynolds) is a 30-something father and has a 10-year-old daughter Maya (Abigail Breslin) who lives with her mother but is with him once or twice a week. Will is in a midst of a divorce when his daughter questions him about his life before marriage after her first sex-ed class. Will changes the names of the women he had relationship with in order to create a love mystery so Maya has to guess which of the three women is her mom.

Back in 1992, Will is a naively optimistic and aspiring politician who moves away from his college sweetheart, Emily (Elizabeth Banks) from Wisconsin to New York to work on the Bill Clinton campaign. She gives him a parcel and asks him to give it to her friend Summer Hartley (Rachel Weisz), a reporter. At work, Will meets April Hoffman (Isla Fisher), the copy girl for the campaign. Before bringing the parcel to Summer, Will opens it after being persuaded by his roommate only to find it is Summer’s diary. Encouraged by his roommate, he reads it, and comes across pages describing a love affair between Emily and Summer. He visits Summer to bring the diary, and meets her roommate and sometimes-lover, her college professor, a famous writer named Hampton Roth (Kevin Kline). After Will leaves and when he is moving away, Summer abruptly stops him and make-out with him.

April and Will meets outside work as both of them buy cigarettes from the same store. As both of them are smoking, April tells Will that it is her birthday and he offers to help her to celebrate. Instead, April wants Will to accompany her to go to a club as she does not feel like going there alone. When April finds out about Will’s plan to propose to Emily, she volunteers to be Emily so he can practice his proposal. April is taken aback by Will’s words, and replies, “Definitely, Maybe.” They go back to her apartment, where April has multiple copies of Jane Eyre in her collection, explaining that her father gave her a copy with an inscription in the front shortly before he died, and the book was shortly lost, therefore, every time she passes by a bookstore, she will buy a copy of Jane Eyre, hoping to find the lost copy that her father gave her. After their lengthy but empty conversation, Will and April eventually kiss, with Will leaving quickly and berating himself.

Emily visits and Will proposes in the park but he could say a word, Emily turns him down by telling him she slept with Will’s roommate, Charlie back in Wisconsin. Will becomes heartbroken. As time goes by very quickly and Bill Clinton becomes president of the United States, and Will moves up from a toilet-paper man to become speech-writer for a candidate to be Governor of New York. April travels the world, and she and Will become pen-pals and they keep in touch by writing letters to each other. Eventually, with the encouragement of Roth (who is dying), Will and Summer become romantically involved. This ends when she writes unfavorably about the politician Will works for. Will loses his jobs, his girlfriends and his best friend.

Will starts to drink heavily as he hates his job after finding out the president he has campaigned for is involved in the Monica Lewinsky scandal. In a drunken rant, he confesses romantic feelings to April, but in the process, April tells Will that he is a mess and he responds back by telling her to “go to life rehab”.

Will eventually finds the copy of Jane Eyre that April’s father gave her. He goes to give it to her, but decides against it when he finds out that April and her boyfriend, Kevin are living together.

At a cafe, Summer and Will bump into each other and she invites him to a party. Emily, Will’s old ex-girlfriend, also attends the party, as she now lives in New York. They end up reconciling their relationship. Emily turns out to be Maya’s mother and Will’s ex-wife. Will signs the divorce papers served to him without a second thought.

Maya is glad that she figured out the story, but also realizes that her father still has feelings for April, as even though Will changed the names of Emily (Sarah in real life), and Summer (Natasha in real life), he did not change April’s name.

Encouraged by Maya, who wants her father to be happy, Will goes to Brooklyn to find April together with his daughter. The movie ends with Will confessing he held on to the copy of Jane Eyre because it was the only thing he had of hers. Maya and Will go to April’s apartment to reconcile, and the movie ends with April jumping into Will’s arms to kiss him.

Overall, even though Will’s life is depicted as complicated, this is definitely a romantic comedy that you should watch — no maybe. Great film to watch.

My ratings: 8 out of 10.

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The movie is about Peter Bretter (Jason Segel) who takes a Hawaii vacation in order to deal with recent break-up with his TV star girlfriend, Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell). But, disaster happens as he meets Sarah and her new boyfriend in Hawaii.

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A a disillusioned Connecticut economics professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment. A quite interesting movie.

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Be Kind Rewind is a 2008 American movie directed by Michel Gondry and starring Jack Black, Mos Def, Danny Glover and Mia Farrow. The comedy film opened on February 22, 2008 in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Melonie Diaz, Mos Def and Jack Black in the movie "Be Kind Rewind"

Mike (Mos Def) works at a crumbling VHS rental store called Be Kind Rewind in Passaic, New Jersey. Mike’s best friend Jerry (Jack Black) is a nutty junkyard worker who lives in a trailer. Mike is fascinated by the story that Fats Waller, the legendary jazz musician, was born in the VHS rental store (at least, according to the store’s owner, Mr. Fletcher).

Fletcher (Danny Glover) is informed by Passaic town officials that his store is scheduled to be demolished and replaced with a new building complex. He is given a time frame of 60 days to raise funds to renovate his building or move to The Project. Instead of worrying, Mr. Fletcher decides to get ideas on how to increase business by spying on a successful chain of DVD rental stores in neighborhood towns. He puts Mike in charge of Be Kind Rewind while he is away on his spying mission. Mr. Fletcher tries to pass Mike a message before he leaves on a train but Mike misunderstands the meaning due to the backward writing from inside the train.

While figuring the message Mr. Fletcher tries to convey, Jerry asks Mike to join him in sabotaging the power plan, which he believes is the cause of his headaches. Mike refuses to help at last minute after figuring Mr’ Fletcher’s message of “Keep Jerry Out”, and leaves Jerry to sabotage the plant on his own. Jerry is electrocuted causing him to become magnetized. The next day, Jerry goes to Be Kind Rewind to confront Mike for leaving him by getting rid of his customers. Later on, Mike finds out that Jerry’s magnetized body somehow erases all the tapes in the store when two of his customers has returned blank tapes.

When things are not in order, the store’s most loyal customer and Mr. Fletcher’s friend, Miss Falewicz (Mia Farrow), comes to rent Ghostbusters. Fearing that she will tell Mr. Fletcher about Be Kind Rewind, Mike suddenly comes up with the idea to completely remake the movie with him and Jerry as the stars; his logic being she is too ‘cuckoo’ to realize it’s not the original one since she hasn’t seen Ghostbusters before. The two friends create the 20-minute remake using an old VHS camcorder and cheap special effects. Soon another customer requests the movie Rush Hour 2. During the filming of this movie, they manage to get the help of a local woman named Alma (Melonie Diaz). When Jerry takes the whole bottle of Aspirins thinking they are sleeping pills, Alma helps Jerry by making him drink a bucket of salty water, which leads him to urinate in the streets, causing the magnetism to be expelled from his body via the urine. Eventually, as their business flourishes, Jerry, Mike and Alma create a system where customers come to request movies “sweded” for 20 bucks instead of the usual one dollar (Jerry claims that the movies are from Sweden, the main reason for the higher prices).

When business begins to pick up as the sweded videos are in high demand and eventually the local townspeople become involved in the swedeing process, unfortunately, two court bailiffs, Ms. Lawson (Sigourney Weaver) and Mr. Rooney (Paul Dinello) arrive at the store and confiscate the movies due to copyright violation. To the dismay of the townspeople, the court bailiffs confiscate the tapes and crush them with a road roller. What’s worse is Mike discovers from Mr. Fletcher that Fats Waller was not actually born in the store.

In a final attempt to save Be Kind Rewind, Jerry with the support of the town gets Mike for ideas. A depressed Mike suggests to make a movie based on the fictional life of Fats Waller. Later, Mike, Jerry and others convince Mr. Fletcher about the idea. Though reluctant at first, Mr. Fletcher has finally agreed with the movie-making idea. The entire town, including Mr. Fletcher, creates the movie using a re-written history of the man created by the townspeople. For the premiere, Mike and Jerry break into a nearby video store in order to steal a video projector to present the movie on. Their attempt fails when they are caught by the store owner, who they discover is living inside of the store, porn room. Equally embarrassed, the store owner who knows Mike personally, agrees to let them go if they keep their mouth shut. On the day of the premiere, the demolition crew arrives to destroy the store, as Mr. Fletcher was not able to repair the store in time. The crew cannot destroy the building with people inside. As Jerry attempts to raise the small T.V. for all to see, it falls and breaks. As a blessing in disguise, the video store owner from the night before had realized the boys were attempting to steal his projector and brought it for them to use. Hence, they set up a sheet over the window for it to project on. When Mr. Fletcher is warned by the demolition leader to evacuate the store, Mr. Fletcher begs for an additional one hour so that they can finish watching the movie. The citizens proudly watch their movie with each other. Mr. Fletcher, Jerry, and Mike go outside to find that their movie could be seen from outside. A large crowd of people have already gathered outside to watch the movie. The crowd is very pleased with the film, and begins to cheer when the three men come outside. In the end, the man organizing the demolition smiles and pats Mr. Fletcher on the back, and the film fades out leaving us to guess whether the store is demolished or saved.

My ratings: 7 out of 10. Bizarre film with quirky lines and artistic trash. A touching ending.

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