I Want a Despicable Minion or 2 or 3 or a Bagillion! In 3D.

Starring the Voices of… Steve Carell, Jason Segel, and JULIE ANDREWS!!!

Despicable Me is now officially my favorite movie of 2010! Although How to Train Your Dragon was awesome, funny, and amazing, it twas the minions and the cute, funny, opinionated girls that overpowered the awesomeness of the dragons. In essence Despicable Me took the best movie trophy from DreamWorks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon and brought it home to Illumination Entertainment.

I will now display examples of the minion’s amazingness.

And now an example of the cute awesomeness of Agnes (the youngest girl).Slightly altered to sound like a testosterone injected puffball of cuteness.

In Despicable Me the combination of strangeness (the minions) and normality (the girls) blends together to create splendid comedic gold. The plot moves quickly and, although the movie is almost 1hr 45min, it does not feel long because of the constant slapstick comedy of the minions. Adding to the plot are the obvious differences between the static and dynamic characters, a quality which most modern movies lack. The main character, Gru, obviously changes throughout the movie while the protagonist, Vector, remains unchanged throughout. It is disappointing to note though that the voice acting done by Carell, Segel, Queen Andrews, and many more funny/great actors did not really add anything to the movie. What made the movie were the minions and the voice acting done by the girls.

Also, from now on all toys will be known as papoys!

Rating: $16.50 out of $17.50

Who U Gonna Call? The Giant Marshmellow? NO! Ghostbusters!!!

Starring: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Sigourney Weaver

In terms of some of the best, and most awesomest, movies ever Ghost Busters is one of the best movies ever. It is horribly embarrassing, amazingly corny, and ridiculously 80s… like mullets.

SPECTACULAR!!!

As we move on to the plot of this infamous cult movie I must say that it is 100% believable. Three men lose their job at the local university where they taught classes about the supernatural. They decide to open up a company that specializes in neutralizing ghostly unexplainable incidents.

Their first customer, Sigourney Weaver, reports odd activities going on in her kitchen as, in her case, exploding eggs are not normal. At first the Ghost Busters find nothing, but eventually they discover that Weaver’s building is magically charged. Soon things climax, and an evil demon is released atop the building where it transforms into a giant Stay Puft Marshmallow man and is then defeated by the Ghost Busters.

Throughout, slapstick and dry humor give life to the movie and the plot, although a bit stretched for a sci-fi movie, is believable because of the comic pills that accompany it.

Rating: $9 out of $12

It Can Only Be The Internet That Brings Us Together: You’ve Got Mail

Starring: Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan

Now a days even the humble tale of You’ve Got Mail seems old and out of date. As a teenager to me the computers and even the form of the chat-rooms used in the movie appear ancient… even though they were high-tech in 1998. Although, no matter how condescending I am  to the technology of late 20th century, my opinion will not stop the fact that You’ve Got Mail is one of the better chick flicks ever.

Tom Hanks in the movie is heir to the Barnes & Noble-like empire while Meg Ryan is the owner of a small local bookstore, and unknowingly they have been corresponding over the internet for months where they have fallen in love with each other. Eventually Tom Hanks runs Meg Ryan out of business and they learn that they have been talking over the internet, to their horror, for they are business rivals.

You’ve Got Mail is a wonderful movie that evokes laughter, affection, and frustration from the audience, and I found that it is one of the better chick-flicks I have ever seen.

Rating: $10.50 out of $12

Toy Story 3: Good, if not Great, Enough to Make A 22 Year Old Cry

Starring the Voices of… Tom Hanks and Tim Allen

Toy Story 3, a story about toys, follows a bunch of toys including Buzz, Woody, Jessie, and the Pizza Planet Aliens as they all deal with the knowledge that Andy (their owner) is leaving for college. As the movie progresses the toys believe that Andy does not want them anymore. They discover later that he still loves them. After their discovery the toys are led by Woody in an attempt to reunite with Andy before he leaves for college.

As a movie Toy Story 3 capitalized on many different things to bring out the movie’s full potential including emotional, comedic, and awesomeness value…

1) NOSTALGIA: Nostalgia is a powerful thing. It is a feeling that can keep people around, make people yearn for the past, and make people cry. In the case of the nostalgia that was forced upon viewers of Toy Story 3, it was my cousin who cried. I love my cousin and for someone of her advanced age, 22, I find her quite cool. HA, had to laugh there.

I understand her emotion though, and I will admit to choking up… until I saw my cousin crying because that was swiftly followed by me laughing. As a maturing homosapien I have begun to deal with the college process, breaking old bonds, and the plot of the movie definitely connected with me.

2) Inappropriate Jokes: The multitude of jokes not meant for children definitely made the movie funnier for adults, because they had no business in a children’s movie, and the fact that they were plain funny. What is better then a joke about Buzz’s Spanish mode? A question as to whether there are licking logs in the sandbox? Disgusting, yes, but funny.

3) Reemergence of The Claw: Nothing more needs to be written by me to explain the awesomeness of this movie then to tell you that the aliens use a gigantic crane-claw to save the rest of the toys. That is awesome!!!!!

Rating: $10 out of $12