Mean Girls
Mood:  silly
Topic: Comedy
My next movie review is Mean Girls starring the Disney channels, Lindsay Lohan. Having grown up in Africa and been home schooled by her adventurer parents, Cady (Lindsay Lohan) is an intelligent, confident and adaptable teenager…until she enters an American high school for the first time. Naïve Cady quickly falls in with the “art geeks” who encourage her to pull a prank on the school's popular girls, the “plastics”, by infiltrating their clan. Successfully navigating her way through the psychological minefield of “girl world”, Cady finds that she's no longer just pretending (because, after all, impersonation is what fitting in is all about) and suddenly is a “plastic” - and the top queen bee at that.
Mean Girls screams from the outset that it's here to deliver a message of empowerment to popularity-addicted teen girls. But teen comedies can rarely display an impacting conscience when by design they exist in a universe as trumped up and nonsensical as the annual prom. It's precisely for this reason that Mean Girls works best when its lightweight feminist themes appear naturally in Cady's logistical struggle with the rules of girl-dom than when screenwriter and Saturday Night Live comedienne Tina Fey takes to brash sloganeering (“Don't call each other sluts”, she pontificates, “It just gives men an excuse to”).
That said, this is a genuinely funny film, proudly based on a pop psychology that claims
teenage girls’ awareness of their own sexuality has been usurped by the desire to please men. In
which case, its brick-to-the-face “messages” may just be subtle enough.

Well tata to next time!!!!

Man on Fire
Mood:  chatty
Topic: Action
Well this is my first entry so far... on the topic of movie reviews i would like to review the last movie that i saw Man on Fire staring Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, Christopher Walken, and Giancarlo Giannini. It is a drama/action movie rated: MA 15+ medium level violence.

Synopsis:
Denzel Washington stars as a government operative/soldier of fortune, who has pretty much given up on life. In Mexico City, he reluctantly agrees to take a job to protect a child (Dakota Fanning) whose parents are threatened by a wave of kidnappings. He eventually becomes close to the child and their relationship reawakens and rekindles his spirit. When she is abducted, his fiery rage is unleashed on those he feels responsible, and he stops at nothing to save her.

My Verdict:
John Creasy (Denzel Washington) is a burnt out former soldier who is slowly drinking himself into oblivion in Mexico City. His friend Rayburn, (Christopher Walken) convinces him that life is worth living and he should get a job as a bodyguard since there are so many kidnappings happening. In the opening sequence of the movie, we are told via subtitles that a kidnapping occurs every 60 seconds in Latin America and there is a survival rate of only 70%.

Nothing, absolutely nothing is going to stop him from a very fierce revengeful pursuit.

'Man On Fire' is a very heavy movie, notwithstanding some tear-jerking moments by Dakota Fanning, and is very big on vengeance. Denzel Washington is a serious, believable John Creasy and the other standout is the gorgeous Dakota Fanning who will just melt your heart adding an excellent contrast to Washington. Although a relatively long movie it never feels too long and the finale is very poignant and emotional. Certainly worth a look.