Next Day Air
A crew of criminals accidentally get 10 bricks of cocaine sent to their apartment. This leads one to wonder if drugs are often sent via FedEx style delivery services. The crew of criminals is trying to unload the drugs while the rightful owners are trying to find the drugs. The delivery guy is high all of the time and trying not to get fired for it. Mos Def shows up for 2 scenes to make people laugh. A super sexy Puerto Rican girl wanders around in tube tops and the tightest of jeans. Everyone has a gun. The director fragments the action by going forward and backward in time to show us things when he feels we need to know them. The movie is goofy until the climax which is bloody and violent. The movie was 87 minutes long but I could have sworn it was the longest movie ever. There are a lot of guns and bullets, but most don't hit their target, which is funny because it shows that just because you are good at video games that require gun shooting does not mean you will be able to actually shoot a gun. However, the only thing that really matters is that Eddie Winslow (Yes, I am talking about Family Matters) is in it and he is the tough guy. Eddie Winslow as a tough guy. Yes, that pretty much explains this movie.
Battle for Terra
Terra is a peaceful world somewhere in space. They are amphibian looking creatures that celebrate art, music and life. They have whales that fly and they live in the trees or something like trees. Humans come and ruin everything. In a sort of reverse War of the Worlds scenario, the humans come and attack Terra because Terra has a similar atmosphere (?) to what Earth used to have before human beings ruined Earth and made it unlivable. If it sounds like Wall-E it kind of is, except it is not good. The dialog was so cliche, Robbie suggested a drinking game consisting of drinking every time obvious dialog was spoken. Luke Wilson provides nice voice work, but it just is not very good. We did get alien, teenage, animated side boob, so that was cool. The animation is pretty, but not ground breaking and the ultimate message of Military bad, aliens good is a bit too heavy handed. I did like the ending because they took a big risk for a kids movie in doing what the did. Kudos.
Next Day Air Final Grade: F
Battle for Terra Final Grade: D
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