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In with the Flynns (2011)
Scarily Bad
Ever heard of the infinite monkey theorem? Leave a monkey bashing keys on a typewriter for an infinite amount of time and it will, at some time, randomly bash the keys in the right order to produce coherent sentences, including all the greatest jokes.
This appears to be the tactic employed for this show, only the monkey had just a few months and they ran with whatever marginally coherent crap it spewed out.
Then they paid some trigger-happy canned laughter guy to work his magic at the end of every damned sentence.
How many people did this have to go through to end up being aired, and who approved a second series? It worries me that these people must also make life-important decisions.
Overall, I was left feeling annoyed, disenchanted and slightly depressed; last time I checked comedy was meant to provoke entirely different emotions...
Immortals (2011)
Great Action, Truly Terrible Adventure
The Good: This is a beautiful film with epic landscapes and gorgeous fight scenes - you can really see where the budget went.
The Bad: Everything else.
The storyline is utter trite. It seems to forget itself, contradict itself and eventually just plain give up on itself. I wasn't expecting high intricacy, but I was looking for something coherent to tie the action scenes together and make me invest in the good guys a little bit. As it was, I'm not sure at what point we were supposed to sympathise with the main protagonist; plenty of other men and women had suffered the same fate as him and the character didn't develop at all for the duration of the movie. Why should I give a monkey's about his plight?
I could rant on for hours about the woeful plot, but then I would have spent more time on it than the writers themselves. The action scenes were very good, but are they worth the money and the time spent watching the rest of the film? I think not.
Summary: If you want to see a brilliant film made by the creators of 300, re-watch 300.