movie review

I took 3 movies out from the library last week. Accepted, Pirates of the Caribbean 2, and Derailed. I never watched Derailed. I looked at the movie trailer on the DVD for the movie and didn't have any interest in it at all. Apparently it's about two married people who have an unplanned affair sparked from a chance meeting on a subway--and during their tryst a person robs them...and then uses the contact information he gleaned in the robbery to blackmail them. That's all far too sordid for me so I didn't watch it. Did any of you like it?

Pirates had a huge budget and it shows. Shows? Hell, it's more like the money is a stinking polecat (skunk) being thrust at your face--you just can't ignore it and while it's kinda pretty, it's not entirely welcome. I didn't dislike Pirates 2 but I can't say I enjoyed it either. To me it was like a 2 hour commercial for the third movie. And that's more than a little annoying. It's a very polished movie but despite the sometimes frenetic pace it never seemed like anything happened and Depp's drunk pirate act was wearing a little thin at times. I'm glad I didn't spend the money to see this at the movie theatre. It didn't measure up to the first Pirates movie.

Accepted is a dumb movie. And I liked it. Quite a bit actually. But I don't really know why. It's about a group of kids that are graduating high school and for a variety of reasons haven't been accepted to college. And they want to be in college. So... the lead fellow decides to "fake it" for a year until he can get into a real school. And that "little white lie" snowballs until you have a sit-com style movie. It reminds me a little of Caddyshack though almost any teen comedy has elements of this movie in it. I guess I liked it mostly due to the cast, most of whom were appealing.