Here is an interesting article from http://www.debbieschlussel.com/ reviewing some of the movies that came out over the past weekend. This follows this post about some of the movies from last week and THIS POST about some movies that have been released over the past few years that you might have missed! This all follows this post about guidelines to choosing good movies to watch yourself!

Thanksgiving Box Office: Horrible Bosses 2

By Debbie Schlussel
It used to be that a lot of good, big movies would open for Thanksgiving. But that’s apparently no longer the case, if “Horrible Bosses 2,” which opens in theaters today, is any indication. I did not see “Penguins of Madagascar,” the other movie opening today, because the screening was on the Jewish Sabbath.

As for “Horrible Bosses 2 (HB2),” they should have removed the word, “Bosses” and the number “2” from the title, and you’d know exactly what kind of movie it is. Just horrible. Utter crap. Disgusting and mostly stupid. Yes, there were some very funny parts and lines (I laughed between five and 10 times). But it’s just a depraved, sexually graphic (in words and visuals), anti-business movie (does the evil business tycoon narrative ever expire?). Yes, it was mildly entertaining and had a mildly amusing storyline. But it was mostly silliness that was incredibly unbelievable and not worth your ten bucks and nearly two hours of your time. However, if graphic descriptions of orgies, multi-party sex, and gay sex is your thing, then this movie is for you! For everyone else a/k/a decent people who know three important letters: T-M-I!, skip it. I’m no prude, but you don’t need to be one to know this is garbage.

The story: The three guys (Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, and Charlie Day) who took revenge on their horrible bosses in the first installment of this series (“Horrible Bosses” – read my review) are back. This time, they are the bosses. They’ve invented their own product: the “shower buddy.” And a billionaire owner (Christoph Waltz) of a SkyMall-esque company tells them that he will get them a credit line if they will produce 100,000 units for his company. He bamboozles them into the deal and into mortgaging everything they have, and then cancels the deal, telling them he plans to buy their company and product at pennies on the dollar after they go belly up.
The three guys want revenge . . . and to get out of the hole they’ve been tricked into. So, they plot to kidnap the billionaire’s spoiled son and ransom him for the money they need to pay back the loan. And, then, predictably, many things go wrong. On top of that, two of the horrible bosses (including the sex addict dentist played by Jennifer Aniston) and the crime guru (Jamie Foxx) from the first movie make several appearances.
And did I mention that a subtext of this movie is that it doesn’t pay to be an entrepreneur and start a small business because an evil rich guy will just steal it all from you?
Like I said, it was mildly entertaining and occasionally funny, but it’s lowlife, anti-free-market junk. And you don’t need to waste your time with this crap. Thanks, Hollywood, for giving America yet another crappy movie for Thanksgiving. Fortunately, America is too busy with Black Friday, now Black Thursday, to worry about it. And too busy rioting on the streets over a thug who got killed.
Horrible Movies 552,902,378.
FOUR MARXES PLUS FOUR OBAMAS PLUS FOUR BIN LADENS

Weekend Box Office: “Horrible Bosses”

Here is an interesting article from http://www.debbieschlussel.com/  reviewing some of the movies that came out over the past weekend. This follows this post some of the movies from last week and  THIS POST about some movies that have been released over the past few years that you might have missed!  This all  follows this post about guidelines to chosing good movies to watch yourself!




Weekend Box Office: “Horrible Bosses”

By Debbie Schlussel



Most of the critics are raving about “Horrible Bosses,” the guy buddy comedy which debuts in theaters today. But I’m not. Forget the word “Bosses” in this movie’s title, and you get my review: “Horrible.” (I did not see “The Zookeeper,” but I heard it stinks.)







While, yes, there were some laughs, I mostly didn’t find it that funny. Instead it was mean, filthy, and just thin. It’s yet another movie in the Judd Apatow mold, meant for and aimed at 20-something frat boys and 30-something slacker boys who haven’t grown up. I found last summer’s evil boss/eager employee movie,”Dinner for Schmucks” (read my review and read the New York Times article quoting me about the movie), far more charming and funny.



This movie was just cold to me and kind of clunky. Sterile, yet filled with so much filth and class warfare. Yes, especially in these hard times where you have a choice between a bad boss or no job, many people fantasize about doing all kinds of things to their bosses. But few bosses are as bad as the ones in this movie. And it looked like a United Workers of the World fantasy that eventually goes bad, not a comedy for escape from my real life and yours.



And I could have done without “Horrible Bosses’” mocking of my religion and religious observances. When a sexually harassing dentist (Jennifer Aniston) squirts her male hygienist’s groin with water, she says, “Shabbat Shalom. Somebody’s circumcised.” Shabbat Shalom is the greeting I and my fellow Jews use to wish each other a good Sabbath, the observance of which is the key religious observance in Judaism. Can you imagine if Hollywood had the gall to say, “Happy Ramadan. Somebody’s circumcised.” Or “Alhamdillullah [praise allah], somebody’s circumcised”? It would never happen. And if it did, the filmmakers would already be negotiating with HAMAS’ CAIR Action Network to provide sensitivity training workshops and a buttload of cash and t-shirts.



If there was one high point in the movie, it’s that it shows the sexual harassment situation in the workplace as one between a harassing female boss (Aniston) as the aggressor and her male employee as the victim. Yes, women can be pigs, too, and don’t ever forget it, despite what the left (and now the right) says. But that’s been done before, and far more effectively and accurately in the 1994 movie “Disclosure,” starring Demi Moore and Michael Douglas.



Another high point in the movie is Jamie Foxx. As much as I don’t like the guy and his pro-Muslim statements (his real-life father was Muslim), he played his role as “murder consultant” and financial scammer well against three silly, gullible White guys looking to kill their bosses.



The story: three guys who are buddies have horrible bosses. A dental hygienist (Charlie Day) has a nymphomaniac dentist (Aniston) as his boss. She insists he have sex with her, but he is engaged and doesn’t want to. Yet, he cannot leave his job because as a sex offender (he is on the list for urinating on a playground at night), no one else will hire him. Another guy (Jason Bateman) is angry at his evil boss (Kevin Spacey) who denied Bateman a long-promised promotion and took the title and salary for himself. And, finally, there’s Jason Sudeikis who worked for a wonderful boss (Donald Sutherland), who suddenly dies. The new boss, his son (Colin Farrell) is a cokehead creep with a combover, who forces him to fire a guy in a wheelchair and fat employees. The three of them decide to combine forces to kill their bosses. But, as with any wannabe comedy, they can’t exactly carry it out correctly. They, instead, screw things up and “hijinks” (or something) ensue.



And it’s not just that the movie is filthy that made me hate it. I’m no prude and like comedies like “The Wedding Crashers.” I just hated this. There just wasn’t enough humor or anything else to cut the bite.



Like I said, a few laughs here, but not too many. And this was instead a cold, raunchy disappointment. Thought I’d like this. But I just didn’t.



ONE-AND-A-HALF MARXES