Yes Man (2008)

Yes Man, 2.5 out of 4 stars

Zooey Deschanel as Allison and Jim Carrey as Carl the man who always say "Yes!!" in the movie "Yes Man". What would I say? I just say "Yes" and "No".

Yes yes yes this is an American comedy movie starring Jim Carrey, no no no I don't like the first half of the movie. Just say yes but only if you really want to. "Yes Man", directed by Peyton Reed who brought you "The Break-Up" in 2006. This movie is about the life of Carl Allen (Jim Carrey) who spends his life working in the bank as a loan approval officer. After working, he spends all his time watching DVD at home (Almost like me, and I really hope he enjoy watching "Saw" movie.) One day, his friend Nick (John Michael Higgins) wants him to enjoy life and don't be lifeless, so he took Carl to attend a show called "Yes!" From there he met Terrence Bundley (Terence Stamp) and start from that day, Carl promise them to say "yes" to everything. Because he like to say yes, he really has a positive starts, he meets Allison (Zooey Deschanel) in the process and everything started to be perfect. So, he attend the flying lessons, attend Korean language lessons, learn to play guitar and so on. Besides that, he also approved all the loan that went through him. But, saying too much "yes" without knowing the reason also will cause some consequences. So, Carl has to find out the meaning of saying "yes" so that he can impress his love one and continue his wonderful life by saying "yes" and "no" or something else (I'm not telling you). After I watch this movie, I can't resist to say no for the first half of the movie because I've been brain wash by the word "yes". So I have to get this opportunity to say "No!". No, I don't like the first half, maybe is because Jim Carrey said too much "No". It makes the first half very down fall and felt a little bit boring. Despite that, there is a few part which I think is funny, the part where he going to the store to buy the "Transformers" DVD, and the part where he watching "Saw". Besides that, I have to say no to the plot progression. The plot progression is going flat. So the whole movie is just flat, this is because the story is simple and predictable. This film still can survive is because it contains a love story. When you apply the "Yes" and "No" principles in the love story, that will be great and I'm glad the director did it right this time. Other than that, Jim Carrey's acting is nice, he knows how to make the audiences laugh and he knows how to make that situation becomes funny and hilarious, I like the part where he's playing guitar while singing. But I'm tired of his repetitiveness. For the second half of the film, it becomes more fun and delightful from the beginning to the end. The second half try to send us the message about the meaning of the "Yes", and must be brave to say "No" of course in some situation. Just say "Yes" if you really want to. Despite I said "no" for the first half, this film is still delightful and funny to watch.

Space Chimps (2008)

Space Chimps, 2.5 out of 4 stars

Luna (Voiced by Cheryl Hines, Ham III (Voiced by Andy Samberg) and Titan (Voiced by Patrick Warburton) in "Space Chimps" and looks like they have a great time working together.

Space Chimps is an 1 hour 21 minutes long movie, so this movie is short and of course this will be a very short review. This computer-animated film is directed by Kirk De Micco. This film is the story about a chimp, Ham III (Voices of Andy Samberg) a grandson of the first chimpanzee in space. Ham III is a circus performer. He always perform a stunt to impress human. One day, a 3.7 billion NASA probe has disappeared. So, the agency from NASA recruit Ham III and his crew member Luna (Voices of Cheryl Hines) and Titan (Voices of Patrick Warburton) and send them to space to investigate and retrieve the probe. During their travel, they find out that there is planet which contain life forms. From there, they get to know their new friends and help them to defeat an evil on that planet. First of all, this film is short, so that's mean the plot progression is very too quick. When you watch it, you won't enjoy every minutes of the film because some part you don't even have time to enjoy. Other than that, some of the jokes is quite hilarious, this is why I gave it credits. The jokes are quite funny and some are quite lame. But it still hilarious. This is not a very beautiful made film, of course it is not as beautiful as "Wall-E" and other animation in recent year. It uses a very simple techniques to make this movie. It doesn't look colorful and eye catching. Besides that, the story is quite simple and easy to follow, but the story will be mention a few topic that everybody talks about nowadays, which is "Is there any lifeforms from other planet?" and much more which is maybe one day chimps will be smarter than us, you never know (Hope not). And the story is predictable. For this kind of movie, you won't enjoy every part of it, but it still very comfortable to watch it. Other than that, this movie lack of some music, that's why some part of the movie is not intense and feels nothing. Overall, this is a movie which it doesn't reach the standard of the other animation film in recent year, but it is still a watchable animation.

Transporter 3 (2008)

Transporter 3, 2 out of 4 stars

Jason Statham as Frank Martin in "Transporter 3".

I'm going all the way back yet again. Now Frank Martin really has another job to do in Transporter 3. This film is directed by Olivier Megaton. This is a third installment in Transporter trilogy and I think this is the weakest in the trilogy. The film begins with a transport ship which travel through a big ocean, then the two workers inside are trying to open the drums in the container. After they opened it, they realize that inside the drums is the toxic waste. The captain of the ships then throw the dead bodies to the sea. Then the film cut to the scene where Frank Martin (Jason Statham) and Tarconi (Francois Berleand) are fishing together. Then the film introduced Minister Leonid Vasilev (Jeroen Krabbe), head of the Environmental Protection Agency. He has a plan to save the environment, but he has been forced to work with Johnson (Robert Knepper). At that night, Frank was alone in his house, then he is knocked out by some one. After that, he wake up in a room. Then Johnson tell him that he would like to hire him to do a job. Frank has forced to take the job but in one condition that he only drive his own car. So, Johnson mention to him that the metal device around his wrist is a bomb, if he's at 75 feets away from the car, the bomb will explode. So, Frank has to transport the package to many other places. In order to survive, he must protect the daugther of Vasilev, Valentina (Natalya Rudakova) who has been kinapped and he has to make sure that he's always stay with the car. But soon, he'll find out that Valentina is the package that he's transporting. This is a disappointing sequel. I can say Yes to the action. There will be a lot of action. But, the filming style (Such as camera view, angle, movement and shot) for this film is very bad and it's not suitable for this movie. It makes the action sequences looks very fake, lacks of energy and not intense enough. When you watch the action sequences, it cannot give you the adrenaline rush. The car chase sequences also feels a bit lame and unecessary. Why it feels lame? It is because I don't like the camera angle while shooting the scene, it really makes the sequences lack of energy and don't have the feeling of need for speed. It feels like you're watching Hong Kong movie style of car chase. The only watchable part is the train action scenes. Besides that, the story is quite good actually, there is a plot twist and it's quite predictable, because of this, it's really makes this film not a bad movie. The acting is normal, Jason reprise his role as Frank Martin and he really knows how to kick their ass. But, he's acting is not as good as "Transporter 2" and lack of energy also. Talking about "Transporter 2", there is a lot of stylish action, the intensity of the action makes the film more eye candy. It makes us think "Is it possible to do it?" That's is why many people like it. Then talk about this one, some action is unique, but still it lacks of energy. And people will say "I'm tired of it". This wil be a short review because I had nothing to say about this movie. I give this film 2 stars is not because the movie is bad, this movie is not a bad movie, it just lack of energy and misuses some of the cinematic techniques to lift up the movie.