Love Happens

Since it's almost Valentine's Day I thought it was about time I reviewed the movie Love Happens, which I rented about a month ago. I didn't really know much about it when I rented it, I just knew it had Jennifer Aniston and Aaron Eckhart in from the billboards, and they seemed like an unlikely combination for a romance movie so I was intrigued.

It is a bit of an odd movie. Aaron Eckhart plays a self help guru called Burke Ryan who holds seminars to help people get over the death of a loved one after his own wife died and he wrote a book to help himself get over it.  However, he's ashamed and unhappy because he isn't really over it, and this is only magnified when a TV network wants to sign him up to host a talk show and go national.

Jennifer Aniston's character is an eccentric yet gloomy florist who gets kicks out of vandalising public places with obscure words such as "quidnunc" and "poppysmic".  Predictably she helps Burke move on and he makes her happier as they fall in love.

Rating 5 out of 10 - Passed the time nicely but could have done with more humour to lift the mood at times.  Not really that memorable or worth watching again either.

And here's some I prepared earlier

No time to write a new blog post today, but I'm on a roll so I thought I'd recycle some of the reviews I posted on Flixster a while ago.

Clash of the Titans Rating 2 out of 10 - Bad acting, rubbish dialogue, poor use of 3D, and very cliched.  The original was better, all this version improved on was the special effects, but they're half the fun of the original.  Also very disappointing performance from Sam Worthington after stealing the show in Terminator Salvation and Avatar.

The Hangover Rating 10 out of 10 - Laughed till it hurt, had to look away at one point so I could breathe! Best comedy I've seen in years and it's still funny the second time!

Daybreakers Rating 7 out of 10 - Solid intelligent plot that was slightly undermined by the gratuitous gore (but hey some people see that as an added bonus). Would have liked more details in the back story about how the disease spread but they're probably saving that for a sequel.  Still managed to add some new dimensions to the vampire mythology though.

Monsters Vs Aliens Rating 7 out of 10 - Worth watching for the insectosaurus alone!

2012 Rating 9 out of 10 - Breath taking special effects sequences that make me want to see it on the big screen again, good performances from John Cusack and Woody Harrelson, not a boring moment. A brilliant return to form for the apocalyptic action movie!

Sherlock Holmes Rating 6 out of 10 - Holmes and Watson were great but the bad guy was uninspiring and the scene on Tower Bridge seemed a bit gratuitous too (look Mom I'm in London!).  Refreshing to see a period drama that's not some stuffy Dickens or Austen remake though.

Avatar Rating 9 out of 10 - Amazing effects, gripping action scenes and a satisfying yet predictable ending.

Inglourious Basterds Rating 9 out of 10 - Much better than I expected, worth watching for Brad Pitt's accent alone!

Funny People Rating 6 out of 10 - Haven't quite made my mind up about this one yet. It was funny in places but the story was also depressing.  It's not as good as you would expect given all the big names in it either.

District 9 Rating 7 out of 10 - Decent storyline but too slow moving, would probably have worked better as a TV series. It just started heating up at the end so I'm hoping there will be a sequel to finish off the story properly. The setting in South Africa and local actors made a refreshing change from the usual Hollywood movies too.

Men Who Stare At Goats

I missed Men Who Stare At Goats when it was in the cinema so I was pleased when it turned up on TV recently. Unfortunately it also got sent out to us from our DVD rental list at the exact same time, doh!

It's about an experimental US military unit called the "New Earth Army" that trains recruits to be "Jedi warriors". They aim to develop skills such as invisibility, remote viewing (being able to see any place in the world in their mind), phasing (running through walls), and most importantly to be able to stop a goat's heart by staring at it. But as you might expect there isn't much evidence that anyone in the unit developed a single power, they mainly just grew their hair out and acted like a hippy cult until the unit eventually gets disbanded.

The training program initally got approval because the the Russians heard a rumour the Americans were training an army of psychics, then the Americans heard a rumour that the Russians had started their own psychic army in retaliation, so of course the Americans had to start one too. The movie starts with the disclaimer that "More of this is true than you would believe", but I'm not sure that's true because I could believe 100% of it. Just look at the other crazy stuff the US military got up to during The Cold War, and the similarities between the War On Terror and the book 1984.

Anyway the plot of the movie follows Ewan McGregor who plays a broken hearted reporter who goes off to cover the latest Iraq War to impress his wife who left him for his one-armed editor (there seems to be a lot of amputees in independent films lately!). He meets George Clooney's character, a former member of the unit who's been "reactivated", in Kuwait and they travel to Iraq together to start the mission.  However they don't get very far before they crash their car and are held hostage by armed Iraqis.

Rating: 5 out of 10 - No where near as funny as it could have been, especially considering it also had Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges in it, the storyline and characters let the concept down despite George Clooney's best efforts.

Extract

After we got back from seeing TRON:Legacy we decided to watch the rental movie Extract.  I didn't hear about this movie at all when it came out, but I added it to my rental list without really knowing anything about it because it's a Mike Judge movie and Office Space is one of my all time favourites.

It turns out Extract is about a group of workers at a factory that makes food extracts.  The setting really isn't that important to the story though, it would work equally well with any mundane job, it's just observations about normal people which is what Mike Judge is known for

The story mainly follows the owner of the factory who has built up the company from nothing.  He's unhappy in his marriage and an attractive new employee tempts him into having an affair but he doesn't want to risk the financial loss of a divorce. That's until his bartender friend (a hilarious return to form for Ben Affleck) dopes him up on ketamine and convinces him that he should pay a gigalo to seduce his wife first so she wouldn't have a case. However this backfires when the gigalo falls in love with the wife and won't stop seeing her.

Meanwhile the owner of the plant is trying to sell it but that's put at risk when there's an accident in the factory (one of the idiot employees loses a testicle), and there's the risk of a major lawsuit bankrupting the company.  There's also a number of petty thefts from the employees which causes further unrest. All this comes to a head in comic fashion at the end of the film when the owner realises one person is causing all his problems.

Rating: 7 out of 10: Original and amusing movie with some laugh out loud moments and interesting characters, it's no Office Space but it's a major improvement over TRON:Legacy (yes I really hated that movie and here's why if you missed my earlier review).

No Ordinary Family

A new show called No Ordinary Family started a few weeks ago, and it looked very promising. I was over in the States at the start of the Fall season and I saw billboards for it all over Times Square that made it look really exciting, so I was disappointed when it didn't start showing in the UK as soon as I got back. And I was  surprised that when it did start showing in the UK it was on Watch, a channel I've never actually watched anything on before and an unlikely home for a hit new show. However after watching a couple of episodes I can see why.

It stars Michael Chiklis and Julie Benz as the parents of two teenagers in a typical middle class family. The Mom is torn between her successful career in scientific research, spending enough time with her children and working on her marriage. The Dad is unhappy that his career in art peaked as a sketch artist at the local police station and resents the lack of respect he gets from other men for being the main carer for his children. The daughter doesn't want to lose her boyfriend because she isn't ready to sleep with him, and the son is about to be put in the 'special' class because he keeps failing tests despite his best efforts.

But that all changes when a freak plane crash into some radioactive water leaves them with super powers.  The Mom can move at lightening speed so she has enough time for everything now. The Dad gets super strength, super high jumping and super tough skin. The daughter becomes psychic and the son starts to see The Matrix and ace all his maths exams.

Now so far so good, but unfortunately the show fails to capitalize on the innate coolness that comes with super powers. The script spends most of its time focusing on the relationships between the family members which is just dull. Every now and then we're given glimpses of a deeper plot involving more people with powers and an evil plan by the company the Mom works for, but it's moving so slowly it makes Lost seem pacy. Basically it suffers from all the same problems as Heroes but it only took 2 episodes to make that obvious.  The start of a new series should be gripping enough to see you through the next few episodes when the writers start saving their best material for sweeps. So given the amount of competition in my current Sky+ planner I think I'm going to have to give the rest of this show a miss.

Rating: 3 out of 10 - Not at all original and doesn't even pass the time that well. I found myself looking at my watch after the first 20 minutes and the 2nd episode didn't improve on that.

Stranger Than Fiction

I saw the movie Stranger Than Fiction on TV over the Xmas period. I'd already seen it on DVD a couple of years ago, but I made a point of seeing it again because I really enjoyed it the first time. It's a Will Ferrell movie but don't expect another Blades of Glory. This is his attempt at branching out of his stereotype much like Jim Carrey's The Truman Show and Adam Sandler's Punch-Drunk Love, and he possibly does a better job of it than either of those two.

He plays a serious tax auditor called Harold Crick, who leads a boring and routine life. However one day he starts hearing a narrator describing everything he does down to the number of times he brushes each tooth and whether he'll miss the bus or not that morning. As you can imagine this is extremely disturbing for Harold, especially when the narrator predicts things that haven't even happened to him yet. But then he hears the narrator say that he's going to die and his whole life is thrown into turmoil. He starts meeting English professor Dustin Hoffman to find out what sort of story his life is and if there's anything he can do to avert his fate. Meanwhile we find out that the narrator is actually a reclused writer played by Emma Thompson. She always ends her books by killing off the main character, but she can't bring herself to do it to Harold, so Queen Latifah is sent in by the publisher's to help her clear her writer's block and finish Harold off.

Rating: 8 out of 10 - Very surreal, but if you can suspend disbelief you'll enjoy a very original and moving story.

Sunshine Cleaning

I watched the movie Sunshine Cleaning last month on blu-ray. It's an independent movie about a domestic cleaner who needs to earn some extra money to pay for her son to go to private school, so she goes into business with her slacker sister and starts cleaning crime scenes instead of toilets. Predictably it all goes horribly wrong mainly due to the aforementioned slacker sister, but also because they have no idea of the laws they're supposed to follow when dealing with bio-hazards or the equipment they'll need. They get some assistance from a friendly one-armed cleaning supplies store owner (disappointingly you never find out how he lost his arm though). And there is a somewhat happy ending, but it wasn't particularly entertaining or satisfying to watch. There were some funny moments, mainly due to the oddball father who's always looking for creative ways to make money but he's lucky if he breaks even with any of them.

Rating: 4 out of 10, most of the points are for originality rather than entertainment value though.

One Tree Hill

I've been spending a lot of time lately catching up on old episodes of One Tree Hill because E4 have been repeating it from the start at 6am every weekday (don't worry I have sky+ so I'm not actually getting up at 6am to watch it!). I wasn't interested in it when it first came on the air because the commercials made it look like a show about basketball, but that's actually a very small part of it. It's just a general teen drama with added grown up drama from the parents, much like The OC and 90210. What's weird is that I was never interested in this type of show when I was a teenager (you couldn't have paid me enough to watch Dawson's Creek), but I seem to find them totally gripping ten years on. I guess it takes a while for the rose tint to develop on our high school years so we don't mind looking back instead of running away as far and fast as possible.

But anyway, I digress, the plot of One Tree Hill focuses on the complicated relationships between a small group of characters in a small town called Tree Hill in North Carolina. At the start of the first season we meet Nathan Scott, the star of the high school basketball team and a typical jock jerk. Dan Scott is his overbearing father trying to relive his glory days through Nathan when he's not showing off the money and power he has as owner of the local car dealership. Lucas Scott is Dan's son from a previous relationship who is just 2 months older than Nathan. He joins the team and threatens to steal Nathan's glory and girlfriend, but he's actually a really nice guy and the narrator of most of the episodes so you're hoping he'll come out on top. Peyton Sawyer is Nathan's girlfriend and a cheerleader whose mother died when she was younger which left her troubled and consumed with arty angst. Brooke Davies is Peyton's best friend and captain of the cheerleaders who also has her eye on Lucas. Haley James is Lucas' best friend and a tutor at the school who Nathan starts seeing to get at Lucas. Keith Scott is Dan's brother who's been a surrogate father to Lucas since he was born, he's also tantalisingly close to starting a relationship with Lucas' mother and Dan's ex-girlfriend Karen Roe, but it's unclear why they haven't gotten together over all those years. Karen is also a business partner with Deb Scott, Dan's wife who hates him but is too weak willed to leave.

There are many twists and turns in the plot after that point, new relationships form and others fall apart in spectacular fashion. The main constant seems to be that Dan is evil and always looking for ways to screw up everyone's lives. He's very convincing in this role, and I always dread what he's going to do next when he appears in a scene. I also get nervous any time all the other characters are happy because I just know that's screaming out for a disaster of some sort. I'm nearly at the end of season 3 now and so far we've had 2 car crashes, a fire, a boat lost at sea and a school shooting. There's also been 5 marriage proposals, one ditching at the alter and a pregnancy scare, there's annulment and divorce papers that never seem to quite get signed too.

I'm not really sure why I enjoy the show so much. Part of it is probably the fact that I can watch it every day or several episodes back to back which really helps me get into the storylines. It's also encouraging that the show is in its 8th season now, so I know there's plenty more good stuff to come. After this season they jump the storyline forward 4 years in the future too which will definitely help keep things fresh (and stop them having to come up with a lame way of keeping all the characters together in one town like they did in Buffy). But I think it's just generally well written with believable characters. I also love the soundrack and the fact they get real bands to perform on the show in the club and cafe that Karen and Deb own.

Rating: 9 out of 10 - a rollercoaster of emotions but well worth watching for the characters and general escapism, their problems always make mine pale in comparison!

TRON: Legacy

I went to see the movie TRON:Legacy last month and it was absolutely awful! In fact it was so dire that it's taken me until now to calm down enough to articulate exactly why it was crap.

They clearly only made it to cash in on the legacy of the first movie, leaving a generation of fans feeling cheated. The disappointment started before the opening credits when a message was displayed saying that only certain scenes are actually 3D but you should keep the uncomfortable glasses on for the whole movie anyway. (And I didn't even notice the 3D scenes when they did occur!) It continued downhill from there with the blatant Nokia product placement, predictable plot that shamelessly ripped off movies like The Matrix and Hackers, mediocre CG (the young Jeff Bridge's looked about a natural as Data in Star Trek), 2 dimensional characters that were poorly acted, innane dialogue, and monotonous soundtrack.

Watching this movie reminded me of foreign films like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon because the character's motivations weren't clear and the plot wasn't always coherant; it was like something got lost in translation. The dialogue was also complete gibberish a lot of the time, like someone had flicked through a computing dictionary and put random terms together into a sentence. The movie threw around some grand concepts like isomorphic programs being created from nothing, but none of them were properly explained, and the leap from that to being able to cure cancer with them was just ridiculous. It reminded me of Lost trying to explain away all the mysteries of the island by saying it was electromagnetism; just because you say it's science doesn't make it so!

Now don't get me wrong, I like Daft Punk and the sound track did add a certain atmosphere to the movie, but all the songs blended into one instead of highlighting specific scenes. It felt like watching one long music video at times, especially during the scene in the club where the band is in the background as DJs. The Matrix had a far better soundtrack with a mixture of artists and genres to add variety too.

Rating: 2 out of 10, don't bother paying to see this movie, save your money and watch the first one again instead. As usual the 3D is a total gimmick and I've heard songs with deeper plots. This movie makes the Matrix 2 and 3 look good.

Walking Dead and Raising Hope

Two new shows have hit our TV screens in the last few weeks (well at least they have if you have Sky).

The first one, "The Walking Dead", is a big budget dramatisation of a graphic novel by the same name. It's about a deputy sheriff who wakes up from a coma to find that most of the world has been hit by a virus that's turned them into zombies. He's on a mission to find his wife and son, but while he was in a coma they fled to a commune with some other survivors and his wife, believing he wasn't going to wake up, started a relationship with his best friend and partner. The lead is played by Andrew Lincoln, who you may remember as "Simon" in the Channel 4 comedy "Teachers". It's been interesting watching him pull off a Deep South accent as the show is set in and around Atlanta, Georgia. Seems like more and more Brits are stealing the leads in US shows lately with Stephen Moyer in True Blood and Hugh Laurie playing House, accent coaches must be raking it in!

Rating: 7 out of 10, I'm not usually a fan of zombies because I don't really like being scared, but I'm finding this show well written and pretty gripping so far so I'll stick with it.

Now on to the second new show. "Raising Hope" is a comedy from the makers of "My Name Is Earl" about a white trash family. The show centres on the son, Jimmy.  He had a one night stand in his van with a girl he picked up on his way back from getting ice cream. She turned out to be a wanted serial killer who'd murdered most of her previous boyfriends. She went to jail, and was later executed despite having a newborn baby, so Jimmy was granted custody of "Princess Beyonce" (renamed "Hope" at the end of the first episode). He's pretty clueless about how to raise a baby, but he means well and refuses to abandon her at the fire station regardless of what his parents say. Now I know all this sounds a bit dark, but the family have a refreshingly naive and lighthearted outlook on life which actually makes it quite uplifting. My favourite scenes so far have probably been the first time Jimmy changed Hope when he had to run out to get paper towels because he accidentally threw up on her, and when Hope got stuck in the garage under a precarious mountain of clutter that the mother had been hoarding, and the senile grandmother had to play Jenga with it while listening to "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" to free her.

Rating: 8 out of 10, novel and witty show, the 30 minute episodes are always over too quickly!

Better Off Ted Cancelled - Damn You ABC!!!

This is the first of a new series of posts about TV shows that should never have been cancelled. It really pisses me off when an amazing show like this gets scrapped before it has time to find its audience. (Usually because the network didn't really give it a chance anyway!) TV has certainly improved in the last decade with bigger budgets and better actors, but it's rare to find a comedy show on a mainstream network that's intelligent, pushes boundaries and is still hilarious. However Better Off Ted met all those criteria and more. The dialogue was excellent and as quotable as any episode of Glee. The wide range of characters, acting and storylines were great too.

The show centered around a group of employees in the research and development department of Veridian Dynamics, a fictional evil corporation with the typical faceless bureaucracy and ethos of profit before ethics. Each episode included a fake commercial for the company with genius taglines such as "People lie. Companies protect their interests. It's different."

Many of the plots focused around the company's attempts to increase profits, including my personal favourite episode where they gave one employee each day a red lab coat instead of a white one. The employees speculated endlessly as to the meaning of this, and switched back and forth between thinking it was a reward or a punishment depending on who received it each day. But regardless they worked harder to earn or avoid it, which is exactly what the company planned. It turned out the assignment of the red lab coat was totally random, it was just because they did a study that proved any change in the workplace increased productivity. I just hope none of the managers at my work saw this one!

Another great episode featured a new automated system for the whole building including doors and elevators that operated using sensors to detect people, however it couldn't see black people. Instead of reverting back to the old system at great expense, the company's answer to this problem was to pay white people minimum wage to follow around the black people.  The black employees tried to rise up against this, but ended up stuck in an elevator on the way to the boss's office.  It was classic!

So anyway, in an effort to spread the word about this show (and hopefully help the DVD sales so they reconsider cancelling it), here are some clips for your enjoyment. The first one is an outtakes reel from an episode where a typo in a memo led to all employees being forced to swear at each other (so beware there is some objectionable language in that one). And the others are some of the Veridian commercials I mentioned earlier.

A couple more of my favourite Veridian commercials that I didn't have permission to embed:
Veridian Dynamics: Competition. It makes everything better.
Veridian Dynamics: Family. Yay.

Rating: 10 out of 10, TV comedy doesn't get much better than this!

Monster Magnet at Southampton University

I went to see Monster Magnet at the Southampton University Student Union on Monday night. I didn't have high expectations because I only know them from one song released 12 years ago, but my husband was quite excited about seeing them and I figured I owed him after the Goo Goo Dolls.

The venue was essentially a big hall with a table off to one side selling band tees, and a "bar" selling room temperature cans of Fosters, Blackthorn cider and Coca Cola or bottles of Smirnoff Ice poured into a plasic cup...classy! It wasn't even that cheap at £3 per alcoholic drink and £0.80 for the coke. However there wasn't much separating you from the bands, the crowd wasn't that densely packed, you could move about freely and see the stage easily; it was probably one of best gigs I've been to for actually appreciating the music.

The opening act was a band called Seventh Void who seemed determined to make up for a lack of good songs or lyrics with volume. This tactic is used by many of the metal bands I've seen live, and I still don't see how it works in their favour to deafen their fans. (The amateur AV nerds running the sound system could have been at least partially to blame though.) I'd never heard of the band before and they weren't even billed on any of the promotional material for the concert, but after reading about them on Wikipedia I found out that two of the band's members were from Type O Negative, so it's surprising they didn't suck even more.

So as for the headliners, their songs did at least sound different from each other, and I could make out some of the words, but there was nothing that memorable except for the last song of the night, "Space Lord" which had a surprising number of the crowd singing along...clearly the only reason we were all there! The lead singer had an annoying habit of turning his back on the crowd and facing the drummer towards the end of each song, and there wasn't a whole lot of chemistry on stage. However, the band did have the most impressive collection of effects pedals I've ever seen, the sound check was probably one of the highlights of the night, watching them test each one individually.

Rating: 4 out of 10, entertaining enough for a Monday evening, but wouldn't pay to see them again.

Seventh Void - I want the Vaya Con Satan tee!

Check out the lead singer's pose - the wink and the gun x 2!

Oh how the mighty have fallen (OK they were never that mighty but he's sure hit rock bottom!)

Check out the rock angst!

The Goo Goo Dolls at the Brixton Academy

I saw The Goo Goo Dolls at the O2 Academy Brixton on Saturday night. I wasn't sure what sort of crowd to expect because none of the people I talked to before the show had heard of them. But the venue was sold out and there was literally a queue round the block to get in! This was the first event I'd been to at the Brixton Academy, and I'd definitely go back since it had plenty of bars and it was small enough that you could actually see the band from anywhere inside. The surrounding area looked fine regardless of what I'd been told about it beforehand too.

The band is currently on tour in the UK to support their latest album, "Something for the Rest of Us". I got the album a couple of months ago in preparation, and to be honest I wasn't that impressed. Each album they make is increasingly bland and they've almost completely lost touch with their alternative rock roots much like U2, Bon Jovi and Coldplay before them. There are some great songs on the album and I'm sure they'll make a killing selling them to TV shows like Grey's Anatomy to provide the soundtrack to heart-wrenching break ups. However it's never a good sign when the token songs they let the bassist Robby Takac take lead on are a welcome respite from the monotony of commercial love songs.

Despite all that I actually enjoyed the concert and I probably appreciate the album more after having heard it live. They are one of the few bands I've seen who sound just as good, if not better live. And the live performance added a rawness and volume which provided a much needed kick to their latest songs. They also acknowledged their past successes by covering most of their greatest hits including "Slide", "Black Balloon", "Dizzy", "Broadway", "Name", "Here Is Gone" (my personal favourite), "Better Days" (Merry Xmas everyone!), "Stay With You", "Let Love In" and of course "Iris", which according to lead singer Johnny Rzeznik, "they have to play." (Although he left it to the crowd to sing most of the words and had to pause at one point because the cheering was too loud for him to sing over!) I would have liked to have heard "Sympathy", "Naked", and "Long Way Down" too, but I'm not complaining because I expected the setlist to be much more weighted in favour of the new material.

Rating: 6 out of 10, enjoyed myself but wouldn't bother seeing them again unless they release some new material as good as the 90s stuff.

Johnny Rzeznik and Robby Takac (and random backing musicians)

"Black Balloon" with actual black balloons!

Robby Takac was over-excited throughout the performance.  Most of the time he seemed like a crazed fan who'd jumped on stage and was milking it for all it was worth before security tackled him!

Due Date: a decent rental but NOT the next Hangover

I went to see the movie Due Date on Saturday, so I thought it would make a good candidate for my first movie review on here.  The movie stars Zach Galifianakis AKA Alan (The Lone Wolf) from The Hangover, and people have been talking about it as the "next Hangover".  This fact put me off before even seeing it because any movie that says that is just trying too hard.  The Hangover was great partially because it wasn't expected to be so good. No one in it was particularly famous, so they could actually make it about the script and acting (a rare thing in Hollywood these days).  Who would have thought a Korean man jumping out of a car boot could be so funny!?!?  You can't manufacture that kind of comic genius!

Due Date also stars Robert Downey Jr. who is starting to make me nervous too because he seems to have gotten way too famous, way too quickly.  I know he's been around since the 80s but you'd be hard pushed to name anything decent he's been in before Iron Man, and all of a sudden he's in everything!  He reminds me a little bit of Johnny Depp who mainly seems to be famous because he makes a sexy pirate and because he's friends with Tim Burton but I'll save that rant for another time.

Anyway back to the movie review: Due Date was good but it wasn't great, and there weren't any big budget special effects that demand the big screen experience, so I'd put it firmly in the rental category.  Don't get me wrong, there were definitely some funny moments (which I won't go into because I hate spoilers!) and Zach Galifianakis did a fine job of playing an annoying but loveable idiot.  However, the plot is pretty much ripped off from Planes, Trains & Automobiles with a post 9/11 update so it doesn't get any points for originality.  It also has a cheesey over the top stoner scene which loses it even more points.

Rating: 6 out of 10, it was an enjoyable way to pass a couple of hours but I don't think I'd mind if I never saw it again.