Mortdecai: A Juvenile Romp Around the Art World

I don't know about you but I found the moustache of Mortdecai a bit irritating.  It does not do anything for Johnny Depp at all!  Except that he's still a very good actor with good comedic timing.  That weird looking moustache just looks gross to me!

Anyway, I watched Mortdecai today and I quite enjoyed it.  It was juvenile fun and I enjoyed the lavish sets and locations used by the movie.  Gwyneth Paltrow looks imposing and beautiful,  Paul Bettany looks mysterious and hot, Ewan McGregor looked hot to me even if he was wearing suits most of the time, and I think it was Olivia Munn who came out rather weird in her role as a vixen.  It's because I see her as that intelligent journalist in HBO's Newsroom, so to see her here in an unforgiving unfunny role, kind of vexed me!

It's very light comedy.  You can bring your family and your kids to watch it.  It would even be better if you just watch it at home! To save money on individual tickets and popcorn!

Five Things I Like in Magic Mike

#1 The picture above is my favorite scene in the movie Magic Mike.  Seeing Alex Pettyfer gyrating like that, priceless! and delish as well!

#2   Just five minutes into the movie and we all get to see Channing Tatum's ass.  Ok!  Thanks!  And we see it again - and again - and again - worth the movie ticket price!  Now onto the DVD version!

#3 I looovvvee Olivia Munn!! So I was really happy to see her in a very interesting role here in Magic Mike.  My favorite scene was her tattoo touching scene on the beach!  She was fantastic in it!  Frankly, I'd prefer HER to be the girlfriend than Cody Horn's character.  Oh well, better write my own movie!

#4 Steven Soderberg's understated direction.  Ok, I am still looking for another Traffic-like movie or Erin Brokovich-like movie from this guy - but still we're waiting.  However, his ability to coax real performances from guys who are not really 'character actors' is impressive!  And I meant Channing and Alex - who are really just pretty faces - but here, you actually care for them!

#5  All the beefcafe scenes!  Yum yum!

Raving Over Olivia Munn in The Newsroom

I first discovered Olivia Munn in last year's I Don't Know How She Does It.  She played an officemate of Sarah Jessica Parker and her character was so uptight, but very smart.  This year, it was fun to see her in Magic Mike where she was funny and quirky - and finally, she landed a role in the HBO series, The Newsroom where she gets head to head every episode with all the important characters in the story.  She's my favorite character there!  She's also my favorite actress for 2012!