Hitch – KY’s movie review

Romantic comedy starring Will Smith, Eva Mendes, Kevin James from Kings of Queens, and Amber Valletta.

Now, many movie reviews will have a run down on the plot, well, you are not going to find it here. I’ll give you a slightly different perspective, as usual.

The chicks:
Eva Mendes the hot hispanic never fail to look sexy, with her busty figure and sumptous lips. Too bad she did not get naked.
Amber Valletta was elegant and attractive. Too little screen time tho, but her dancing rocks, just slightly less cool than FA‘s

The dudes:
Will Smith has gone back to his fresh prince way. While funny, it gets old after a while.
Kevin James delivered, the dude from the popular TV series “the King of Queens” stole the show with his .. er.. dancing.

The plot:
Usual romantic comedy chick flick type. Fall in love, fall out of love due to some misunderstandings, fall in love again, happy ending. Of course, with some comedy threw in.
What I got from the movie was a little bit different from the anticipation off the preview, but it wasn’t really better, or worse.

The recommendation:
If you want to watch a romantic comedy, try “How to lose a guy in 10 days“. The chemistry is there, and Kate Hudson would just make any guy fall in love with her.

I’ll give this show a 5.5/10. Watched it since I missed my flight and had nothing to do for a night. Judging from the lack of reviews from the gang (ST, Kim, Faggot, Galvin, Radiance, Kerol), I guess Hitch wasn’t such a HIT.

Sepet – KY’s movie review

Went to watch Sepet at Pyramid with a group of friends including Faggot, Galvin, Dree, Radiance, Elaine, and Jason. The sound system at the theater sucks, I still favor Summit’s theaters.

If I were to pick a single movie to exercise my linguistic ability, it’ll have to be Sepet. All the 5 langauges in my arsenal were delivered in the movie, for this alone makes the movie truely Malaysian. Btw, they are English, Malay, Mandarin, Cantonese, and Hokkien.

The flick showed a microcosm of our culture, the issues of racial divide/inequalities, friendship, love, and even a hint of sex.

Enough of the boring “review” I attempted, now lets check out the highlights:

• The chick is hot, you wish you are the hair brush when she stick it in between her chest and her sarong
• Censoring board assumes that we do not know about the real world.
• Pak Atan spelled out MILF while playing scrabble with his wife, the girl’s mom. (censoring board missed this one)
• Keong can’t act worth of shit
• They shouda filtered out the sound of the lorry carrying the camera when filming Jason riding his bike
• The chick is hot, and her father knows the word MILF

Excerpt:
Mak Enom – “Orked got the scholarship even though she had only 5As”
Kak Yam – “Jason got 7As … (censored)
Substitute “censored” with “and yet he did not get a scholarship”. The board apparently decided that Malaysian can’t handle the truth.

There were a few other scenes that were censored. A lenghty discussion about racial stereotypes was cut short, and the scene of Pak Atan dropping his sarong to reveal his old school underwear. While I do not condone censorship, the latter act by the censoring board was somewhat of a blessing as it reminds me of Masud.

The ending, in my opinion, was somewhat of a dissapointment in the attempt to make the movie more artistic, symbolic, or perhaps both. As you know, I am a simple man, and I demand simple things, a steamy ending would have been preferred.

Anyhow, this is a good movie. I would definately check out the version as intended by the director when it is available.

KY-o-meter gives it a 7/10, and would probably bump up a point if not for the censorship.