Comedy

• Title: The Hunting Party
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Based, in part, on true events, The Hunting Party tells the tale of a small group of newsmen who do in hours what the C.I.A. can’t do in months – track down the number one war criminal is Bosnia. Filled with humor, drama, and packed with emotion, the film is about friendship, glory, revenge, and the freedom of the press.

Duck (Terrence Howard) is a camera man with the cushiest and highest paid job in the business.  Traveling to Bosnia for a report he encounters his old friend and former partner Simon (Richard Gere) down on his luck and doing whatever he can to survive.  Simon offers Duck a chance to relive the glory days and scoop the biggest story of the year by finding the number one war criminal in Bosnia – the Fox (Ljubomir Kerekes).

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• Title: The Ten
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Paul Rudd works as our narrator and guide on this series of interlocking stories (some characters reappear in multiple vignettes), while not dealing with his own problems with his wife (Famke Janssen) and his mistress (Jessica Alba) all of which will be resolved in the adultery vignette [VI.].  Rudd, in front of a pair of huge stone tablets presents each story to the audience.  Here they are (I’ve numbered which commandment goes with each story).

[I.] After being paralyzed Adam Broady is worshiped as a hero and deasl with how his new fame changes the relationship with his girlfriend (Winona Ryder).  [II.] Gretchen Mol plays a mousy librarian who travels to Mexico and has a sexual awakening with the help of Jesus Christ (Justin Theroux).  [III.] A.D. Miles skips church to hang out at home naked with all his friends.  [IV.] Kerri Kenney hires an Arnold Schwarzenegger impersonator (Oliver Platt) as a father figure for her children.  [V.] A doctor (Ken Marino) kills a patient as a “goof.”  [VII.] Wynona Ryder lusts after a ventriloquist’s puppet and steals it for sexual pleasure.  [VIII.] A cartoon Rhino learns the consequences of lying and gossip.  [IX.] A prisoner (Rob Corddry) covets the “wife” (Marino) of another inmate.  [X.] Liev Schreiber covets his neighbor’s (Joe Lo Truglio) CAT Scan machine.

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• Title: The Simpsons Movie
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If you’ve watched thw show you know the basic formula of it’s 18 years of success: Homer (Dan Castellaneta) screws-up, Bart (Nancy Cartwright) gets into trouble, Lisa (Yeardly Smith) fights for a lost cause, Marge (Julie Kavner) gets angry, and by the end of the episode everything turns out fine.  Not surprisingly the script for this movie version holds true to form.

The main story involves the obsessions of Homer with a new pig and Lisa with cleaning up Lake Springfield.  When these two storylines converge Springfield is put in danger (guess who’s to blame) and the family finds itself hated by their friends and hunted by President Arnold Schwarzenegger and the EPA.

The film is enjoyable and fans will not doubt flock to the theaters to have a chance to see their favorite characters on the big screen.  However one does have to ask why this film was made, and why was it made now while the show is still in production?  In one of the better jokes (though it rips-off Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back read the review) Homer asks the very same question.

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