What’s your Number? is the question to ask this week. Sex much anyone?!! Haha the sex theme romance comedy are full of Chris Evans and Anna Faris style comedic timing. The charm of Chris chisel…… ahemmmmm…… body….. language and Anna Faris classic clumsy dumb-blonde antiques. No one can make it more natural and strangely enough the awkward chemistry between the 2 mingle perfectly and is really refreshing too. Rather than those look pretty, and act dumb a little bit and lots of strange smooch kinda romantic comedy, or the dumb ass spoofing kind, this one smell pretty fresh really. And I must say, McHale?! How many movies are you in this year?
Anyhow, there’s a tons of laughter in the cinema, Anna plays more than average reluctant sex kitten, 19 bad one is a really big number indeed. And Chris Evans as always is the next door sex machine. Have you ever see one movie without his stripping off either his shirt or pants? Anyhow, there not much flirtation around. Which makes it quite unique, the relationship start when Anna try to not break her number 20 by finding her old one back to get married to. And Chris is finding them for her. And just like that it….. happen. Unpretentious, even by movie standard, everything is really organic, that’s pretty amazing in the genre that pride themselves on every pretentious angle you can get to squeeze out any laughter from the audience.
Of course the biggest opening oversea this week, is non-other than the star-studded Three Musketeer. With Logan Lerman helming(not really any helmet in the movie at all) as the charismatic young D’Artagnan, Mathew Macfadyen as heartbroken betrayed Athos, the up-and-coming Luke Evans (he’s appear in more movies this 2 years than I can count. And he’ll be a really Sexy Zeus next month in Immortals.) as the ever gentleman Aramis and the rough and tumble third musketeer,Porthos, is carried by the rough and rugged Ray Stevenson.(always a delight to see a Irish strut their ruggedness on screen. They just seem so right for the part.)
The story are pretty close to the original, except for the stealing of the war machine part, and the young dumb king part. I like the wider angle takes on most part of the fight scene. Young D’Artagnan come to town to be a musketeer, meet and wanna fight with everyone and setup one with all three, Athos, Porthos and Aramis. But before they begin they are interrupted by the Rochefort, by the ever evil looking (except is artsy independence movie) Mads Mikkelsen (hense the name…no pun intended) captain of the Cardinal Guards. The true Evil behind the screen of course is the Cardinal, by the talented Christopher Waltz (oh he just play villain so well.), who have actually taken the most of the power from the young king Louis. And the quest to help the queen to divert attacks and scheme from the Cardinal begins as D’Artagnan arrival injected a new energy to the faith-lost-still-dashing-and-skillful Musketeers.
Somehow, the biggest names that’s actually promoted the most is not all of the above mentioned, it’s Orlando Bloom as Buckingham and Milla Jovovich as Milady, who both in the original story merely another Pawn in the hands of the Cardinal. Of course no one can miss James Corden as Planchet and Juno Temple as the Queen. The cast is so…. New and energetic and it’s refreshing while story is not though. It is pretty surprising though to see the graceful gore master behind Resident Evil and Event Horizon to be doing a classic like Musketeer but the 3D shot is just perfect. After the testing with Resident Evil:Afterlife, Milla’s husband just did it again and this time it blend perfectly to the story.
it's really funny to have seen 3 remake of the story already now. so which would you rather, the Chris O'Donnell version with Charlie Sheen(Yes, he is a Musketeer once) and Keifer Sutherland (I think this one is the best cast ever) ,or the less known Justin Chambers' version..... or the new reinvented Logan Lerman version?
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