RED 2

Sometimes a brother puts on a movie whilst doing other things in the house, like taking down the Christmas tree, picking up baby toys, reading up on the Duck Dynasty controversy and keeping up with the Kardashians.  The problem with performing all these tasks while RED 2 is going on is I was only able to pay so much attention to it, but from what I gathered it was a descent movie where Bruce Willis and the girl from Weeds seek to better their relationship at COSCO, at least until they're thrust into another fight for survival from a few sexy bad guys who seek to penetrate their lives… what is wrong with me?  Other than the acting from the beautiful Mary Louise Parker, the other part of this movie that tickled my insides is the presence of my all-time favorite actor, and of course I talk about Sir Anthony Hopkins!  I can’t remember a movie Anthony starred in that I didn’t like, and he is especially amazing to watch when he’s playing a villain, which is what he is in this movie.  When thinking about Anthony Hopkins as a villain the automatic assumption is a character like or related to Hannibal Lector, but what makes his villain so good in this movie is that he’s a chipper, happy and completely unpredictable.  So Anthony Hopkins not only plays a villain that's the polar opposite of Hannibal, but he also plays that villain well. 

 3 out of 5

Top Ten Movies about Parenthood #9

So What to Expect When You're Expecting was more of a cute, warm, and fuzzy approach to parenting, and although the cute, warm, and fuzzy parenting films are the more preferred ones to watch, a brother can't deny that there are some movies with examples of pretty crappy parenting!  Although some of these movies can appear bleak and can sometimes be borderline depressing, I feel that viewing them is important because it exposes the viewer to what some of the consequences are when a parent is not doing his/her job right.  if only they made a biopic about the childhood of the Kardashians!

Mama

Victoria and Lilly have what you would call a hard knock life! At a young age their mother passed away because of the father doing something stupid, and instead of turning himself in and trying to make a better life for the girls he instead makes plans to kill them.  But no fear, his murderous intent was stopped by floating skinny old women who looks like she has been rubbing poo all over herself, and who has a mouth the size of Steve Tyler’s.  Although the children were now lost and abandoned by their biological father, this new entity took them in and made them her children, and also provided them a good diet of cherries, and enough of them to clean out a crohns patient.  So with this new mother to love them, and this new cherry-diet giving them healthy colons, they seemed to have it made… grizzly Adams style.  Eventually the kids are found by their uncle and his punk-rock-child-hating girlfriend, and together they take them in and try to fix the damage that years of isolation had done to them.  This all sounds fine but their mother who took care of them in the woods is a jealous mother, like soccer moms, and she might not take kindly to the new parents.  I found this to be an interesting movie about parenthood, because the Mama creature isn’t such a bad person, quite the opposite, she’s just very protective of these two girls.  The problem is Mama is so protective that anyone who forms a relationship with the girls will be violated by this poopy skinned creature.  The moral of this story is that if you are too incredibly protective of your children, eventually you start killing everyone around you… makes sense.

4 out of 5