Movie Reviews 2011

All the MarketBOB Reviews for the year, in one handy place.

Season of the Witch Movie Review

Nicolas Cage rides drearily across the plague-ridden countryside looking for a fair trial for a little witch and some decent dialogue. Alas, he finds neither in this torchlight plod thro...

From: Craig Forgrave

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  • 01 / 08 / 2011

Green Hornet 2011 Remake Movie Review

The Green Hornet is a bit of a dick, so is his dad but Kato and the car, the Black Beauty save this superhero gag-fest from the instant clutches of Netflix streaming video (at least for a...

From: Craig Forgrave

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  • 01 / 15 / 2011

No Strings Attached Movie Review

This reverse Harry-Met-Sally plot of a couple who just have sex while denying friendship is charming and vulgar thanks to Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman. They just use each other for...

From: Craig Forgrave

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  • 01 / 23 / 2011

The Kings Speech Movie Review

Your Majesty, you speak for the nation in this time of war and you d-d-don’t want to b-b-blow it! This triumph of mind over tongue will make you root for King George VI and his peculiar...

From: Craig Forgrave

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  • 02 / 03 / 2011

Rango Movie Review

Rango wins you over by meandering around the familiar spaghetti western in quirky ways you didn’t see coming. It is by no means a perfect effort, but it grows on you like a western sunse...

From: Craig Forgrave

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  • 03 / 05 / 2011

Battle Los Angeles Movie Review

Hey, alien invaders! It’s not 2012 yet! You’re early! Check your Mayan calendars again! You’re not supposed to destroy Los Angeles until next year! Don’t you guys go to the movies at...

From: Craig Forgrave

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  • 03 / 13 / 2011

Sucker Punch One Word Review: BAD

Audience laughter drowned out the ending of this soon-to-be cult classic of the ridiculous. Sucker Punch is a movie with too many steam-Nazi, dragon-slaying, Samurai-slashing battle scen...

From: Craig Forgrave

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  • 03 / 26 / 2011

Rio 3D Bird Movie Review

Blue Macaw, smiling at me…nothing but Blue Macaw, do I see...and we know that love makes you fly, fly away, come fly, come fly with me. Okay, I’m a sucker for bluebirds singing love song...

From: Craig Forgrave

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  • 04 / 20 / 2011

Fast Five Furious 5 Movie Review

Hey, stop right now with those cables tied from your bumper to that 20-ton safe! Sure it looked cool in Fast Five when they dragged it down the street but did you stay to read the DISCLAI...

From: Craig Forgrave

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  • 05 / 01 / 2011

Thor 3D Movie Review

Thor is the god of thunder and the box office, son of Odin and Lord over the nine realms eternal! In reality, he’s just a big, big kid with an even bigger hammer trying to please an over...

From: Craig Forgrave

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  • 05 / 07 / 2011

The Hangover Part II Movie Review

The Hangover boys are back with no memory and one monkey on their back. We have a memory so we know exactly what’s going to happen. If you loved the first Hangover, then Part II is like...

From: Craig Forgrave

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  • 05 / 28 / 2011

James Bond's X-Men: First Class Movie Review

The X-Men have always been mutants living in secret, fighting bad guy mutants while we humans face another looming apocalypse. In X-Men: First Class, we find out their role behind the Cub...

From: Craig Forgrave

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  • 06 / 04 / 2011

Transformers 3 Dark of the Moon MarketBOB Movie Review

From the first shot of Rosie Huntington-Whiteley’s butt climbing the stairs to the bedroom, you know who the star of Transformers 3 will be after the big box office weekend is over. As f...

From: Craig Forgrave

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  • 07 / 02 / 2011

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 MarketBOB Movie Review

Poor Harry! Battling evil Voldemort yet too scared to kiss his girl and finally, being upstaged in the hero department by Neville? Is this how you want to end this $6 billion dollar fra...

From: Craig Forgrave

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  • 07 / 16 / 2011

Rise of the Planet of the Apes MarketBOB Movie Review

A cross between E.T. and Resident Evil, Rise of the Planet of the Apes is a cute, cuddly chimp story that morphs into The Great Ape Escape. If only the ape leader grabbed a motorcycle an...

From: Craig Forgrave

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  • 08 / 07 / 2011
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