Christmas Movie Review: *The Family Stone

This movie was not only predictable, it belittled those who didn't agree with the moral standards of the movie calling them assholes.  The story is pleasant, but I don' think I will ever watch it again.

Movie Reviews: **^Failure to Launch

"Failure to Launch" is Paramount Pictures, 2006.  It is about a bachelor, Tripp, who lives at home, and would consider himself a lady’s man.  He would take his girlfriends home, to be discovered by his parents, and in that way he chases his girlfriends away when they are too close.  This is the classic romantic comedy with a few twists.  It stars Mathew McConaughey, Sarah Jessica Parker, Terry Bradshaw, Kathy Bates, and Zooey Deschanel (Bones’ sister.)  The plot goes that a marriage interventionist, Paula, whose job it is to have the main character fall in love with her, and thereby get him out of the house, and then she moves on.  Of course this movie ends how we expect, everything goes awry, and then comes back together.  In the meantime Tripp’s best friends, and Paula’s best friend, find themselves together.  This movie is entertaining and good for a romantic date, but not all that earth shattering.

Movie Review: **^Did You Hear What Happenned to the Morgans?

The movie is (2009) starring Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker.  The critics did not like this movie.  It is about two socialite New Yorkers being placed in Western Wyoming in a witness protection plan.  They are placed with two rural down-to-earth types, the Wheelers, played by Sam Elliott and Mary Steenburgen.  This is the classic fish out of water type story with a marriage relationship problem on top of that.  It is being with this two people, that helps the Morgans put their own relationship back together.  I enjoyed this movie.  The characters were a bit stereotypical, but I didn't care.  It was fun all the same.