Wow. this movie was absolute shit. I can’t believe people even thought it was good. I only managed to get 30 MINUTES IN and then i stopped watching. I couldn’t deal with how terrible it was. It’s not even worth seeing for free, like i did.

Mike Myers just isn’t funny in this. He was hilarious in Austin Powers and a few other movies but definitely not in this.

I give the Love Guru
/ 10

Thats right, new ranking on EW. IT FUCKING BOMBED.

A lot of you probably don’t know this, but the Get Smart movie is based on a tv show from the 60s with the same name. Going into the Get Smart movie i had already seen almost the entire first season of the show(and had enjoyed it immensely). If you are going to go see this movie i recommend that you “obtain” a copy of the first season of the show, it makes the movie so much more enjoyable.

Coming into this movie i was scared for it and had absolutely no expectations. Steve Carrell has generally been terrible in movies except for a few exceptions(and The Office (US) is amazing of course). I was pleasantly surprised by how well he played Maxwell Smart because he didn’t seem like he would fit the part.

One thing they did a great job with was getting the standard “macho men” from our media to play the other agents. I recognized almost all of them and it just made the movie feel more realistic, because it’s those actors who we associate with being that time of man. I didn’t really think that the other agents would be macho men but it worked for the movie.

I don’t think someone who hadn’t seen the show would get a lot of jokes in this movie because they play on that a lot. The cone of silence from the original show is back but in a new form and so are a bunch of other awesome gadgets.

The Americans are going to HATE this movie i think. They are constantly mocked and made fun of. There is a great scene making fun of George Bush Jr. and how he responded to 9/11 which was absolutely hysterical.

This movie was a great pleasure to watch. I still found Wall-E, Hellboy II, Iron Man and especially Dark Knight to be more enjoyable but it was still very good. If you grew up watching the old tv show then you should definitely see this, it will bring back some good memories. I give this movie 7.8/10

Well. Well. Well. It has certainly been a long time since my Cloverfail review and I’m glad to be taking a crack at this again. For you see, writing reviews is a lot of work and can be very time consuming if you aren’t passionate enough about the subject of your review and/or you aren’t being paid to do it… But I loved Hell Boy 2, so here goes.

Hell Boy 2: The unnecessarily long title, was an excellent movie as far as I could tell; It was hilarious when it wanted to be, It was serious when it had to be and it was truly epic whenever the ‘smack down’ had to be laid. For truly and surely; Hell Boy is bad-ass-motherfucker, and whenever a mythological villain needed his dose of whoop-ass, Hell Boy would be standing ready with a can opener.

*Mild spoilers! Everybody Run!!!*

Really the only one beating the shit out of anyone WAS Hell Boy, Liz Sherman (adept pyrokinetic) did not, more than once, throughout the entire movie find an offensive use for her flame-flinging abilities. Abe Sapian (psychokinetic, mind reading man-fish) is actually useful as fuck when it comes to detective work but is as good at protecting the innocent as an ordinary damp dish towel, stumbling around avoiding things while sounding as helpless and British as C-3PO in a gun fight. But I must hand it to Abe, he’s a really great character, he has a lot of balls (do fish have testicles?) and sure can take a beating. Finally, other than sounding excellently German, Johann Krauss (ectoplasmic being inhabiting a mechanical diving suit) does little in the way of combat until he possesses something else mechanical that is capable of kicking ass and then he lets das beatings beginnen.

There is no point in providing you all with a story outline as you can look it up very easily and I’m trying to keep the spoilers to a minimum. Instead I offer you some reasoning for my claims of excellence. The costume work in this movie was beyond fantastic, it was incredible! The only time you could even tell that the movie was using CG on a character was during scenes of distant, rapid movement or acrobatics, and even then the CG was beautifully done and impressively seemless. Attention to detail when it comes to the costumes, environments and effects in this movie is just astounding. The special effects were as good as you expect them to be and nothing ever seemed less than perfect, the movie was built into a world that really let you believe.

Every actor absolutely nailed their parts and I was never left cringing at a poorly delivered line or cheesy love-scene. Expect to thoroughly enjoy a scene where Hell Boy and Abe get drunk; an instant classic. Liz is possibly one of the most competently acted female protagonists out there, never giving into to classic short comings of female characters such as fainting, doing shit all, standing around while the men act the movie and almost killing the cast of heroes by fucking up some how or triggering an obvious trap. You’ll never get frustrated at a character for not doing something or for doing something very obviously wrong just to trigger conflict, these characters are not two-dimensional, they seem real and they act with common sense.

All of Hell Boys guns are deafeningly loud and wonderfully over-powered and deadly, not that his massive stone fist isn’t equally as deadly. If you like action, then you will enjoy this movie; all the fight scenes are well choreographed and the weapons with which they are fought are all absolutely fucking sweet. Unlike cliché villains you will not get frustrated with Prince Nuada (captain bad-elf) for giving up too easily in a fight or for not ruthlessly murdering every human in his sight.

If you like fantasy, then you will enjoy this movie; it is set into a really interesting universe and back story with plenty of wonderful tie-togethers and interactions between a wide variety of mythological and fairytale creatures. But if you are just looking for a funny, exciting, well put together movie, you can look no further than Hell Boy 2: The Golden Army for your summer movie fix. It is an exciting, entertaining movie with so much bloody work and detail put into its visual presentation that you cannot leave the theater without feeling satisfied. Hell Boy 2 is proof that if you just try and create a movie that makes sense and does not take itself too seriously, you get a quality movie.This movie understands itself, it knows what it is and what it is supposed to do and does not try to be anything more than what it should be, entertainment. This is a great movie. Don’t believe me? Here is a more reputable source.

I give this movie a 9/10. It’s damn awesome.

P.S: I haven’t seen the first Hell Boy, so no enraged hollerings of “fanboy” from you folks.

P.S.S: There was only one scene in the whole movie that didn’t quite work, I won’t spoil it but basically while rescuing a baby, the ensuing movement and acrobatics ensure that Hell Boy has never heard of Shaken Baby Syndrome.

There is no reason for this following picture other than I couldn’t stop thinking about a parody like this once I left the theatre. Besides, Hell Boy is bad ass and a complete tank, he really deserves this title.

This is a great fake trailer that is part of The Onion Movie that came out on June 3rd. It’s a pretty funny movie and definitely worth watching. There really is no way to explain this video except to watch it.

I don’t think you have the balls

Short little movie reviews are going to become a fairly common thing on Exploding Wumpus for the next little while as so many great movies are coming out. I’m hoping to see pretty much every movie that is on our Movie To See lists for each month. So without further ado, here is my review of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

I’ve been a huge fan of the original Indiana Jones trilogy pretty much all of my life. I’m too young to have seen it when it was originally on theaters but ever since i first saw them i had really liked them. They are up there with the original Star Wars trilogy as one of my favorite trilogies. Me and a few of my friends got together a little over a month ago and watched all of the original trilogy so i’ve got the trilogy fresh in my memory.

Everything from this point on is going to have some spoilers, so if you don’t want any spoilers then don’t keep reading. Read more »

That’s Right. Uwe Boll’s newest shit-fest, Postal the Movie, is having an extremely limited release. It’s opening at all of 4 screens. That’s right. FOUR. On the movie’s official website Uwe Boll through a nice little bitch fit about this and said the following

To all of you writing now about me and the fact that POSTAL is not getting screens.its okay ..its fun kicking a guy nonstop who is on the ground you are all not getting it that i’m the guy who made it against the big hollywood system and you are all only busy to destroy me and finish me up and then you YOU WON WHAT ? the attention of the studios, michael bay .. ????? if you damage me you feel closer to Hollywood ? what is your game plan?

Looks like another one of Uwe Boll’s movies is going to join the worst films ever on Rotten Tomatoes. Below is the R rated trailer for the “movie” Read more »

This is an absolutely amazing short film and i’ve got to say that i’ve never seen anything like it before. It’s by a group called Blu and it is all stop frame animation of wall paintings. It is definitely worth watching all the way through.

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

CNN is reporting that Apple’s Jonathan Ive played a large part in designing WALL-E’s love interest, EVE, in Pixar’s upcoming film Wall-E. Now you probably don’t recognize the name Jonathan Ive but i’m sure you will recognize the the things he has played a part in designing, like the iPod, iMac and iPhone.

Image Via: Mxmln
Via: The Pixar Blog

Check out this Amusing and beautifully shot web series Take Me Back. “Al’s life turns upside down when he’s kidnapped by a masked vigilante after an unusual day in his otherwise mundane life.”

This is some awesome stuff check out the first chapter

Take Me Back - Chapter 1 from Joe and Seth on Vimeo.

You can view the rest of the chapters on the TMB Series Website

Watching these 7 minutes from the movie really depressed me. I had high hopes for Speed Racer and thought it looked interesting and as good as The Matrix, in it’s own unique way. But it looks like the Wachowski brothers have let me down yet again, like with Matrix Revolutions and half of Matrix Reloaded. I don’t really understand why the Wachowski brother’s name makes people have high hopes for films anymore, they have only done 2 1/2 good movies(The Matrix, V for Vendetta and half of The Matrix Reloaded). On a happier note, this trailer is extremely pretty and i recommend watching it in HD off of Yahoo Movies (480p, 720p or 1080p. All require Quicktime for playback)

Via: SlashFilm