This is basically the "Batman Begins" of Robin Hood. This film is about how Robin Hood become the Robin Hood we all know. The film starts showing Robin Longstride(Russell Crowe),Robin Hoods real name, as a soldier in King Richards "The Lion Heart"(Danny Huston) army. Robin is already friends with Will Scarlet(Scott Grimes) and in the true mans man way becomes friends with Little John(Kevin Durand) by getting in a fight with him and beating the crap out of each other. At the same time Robin also becomes friends with Alan Doyle(Allan A'Dayle)(strangely close names) and the four of them decide to leave King Richard's army once he is killed. On the way back to London they run into Sir Robert Loxley(Douglas Hodge) who is dying. His dying wish is that Robin return his sword to his father in Nottingham. Robin being the honest man he is does this and the Robin Hood we all know starts to take shape. In Nottingham they run into Friar Tuck(Mark Addy). Robin returns the sword to Loxley's father who decides that Robin Hood will take his son's place and pretend to be him. This means that he now has a wife, Madden Marion Loxley(Cate Blanchett). They now have to help bring England together and fight the invading French. Of course everything works out, one of the down sides to a prequel, you kinda know what's going to happen at the end.

I like this movie. It was good enough. It had some good battle scenes and as the movie went on it got more and more bad ass culminating at the end with a perfectly place arrow.(of course, it's Robin Hood) I think this movie was a combination of "Gladiator" and "Braveheart" of course it wasn't as good as either but it's kind of tough to beat those two.

It was like "Gladiator" because Robin was a soldier in an army and left to go back to where that army's headquarters are and right some wrong. Oh also because it's Russell Crowe and Ridley Scott(director of "Gladiator")

It was like "Braveheart" because it's kinda the same time period and around the same area. It just has that feel when you watch it that it reminds you of "Braveheart". Also Robin has to band together with some of his countrymen and stop an invading army.

This movie also had some humor in it which always makes me like a movie. The only thing that I just couldn't get on board with in this movie was trying to make Cate Blachett sexy or desirable. I mean she's ok but she just doesn't raise the ole main sail. I mean I think she was cast perfectly for the role because she looks what I imagine the women back then to look like I just don't think she's hot, sorry Cate. (I doubt she's going to mind.)

Now, with any sequel or prequel or any other quel, you always compare the new movie to the old one. I loved the old Robin Hood with Kevin Costner and Morgan Freeman. That movie was awesome. It was gonna take a lot for me to like this Robin Hood better than that one and of course it didn't live up to it. However, I felt the same way about "Batman Begins" vs. the old Michael Keaton "Batman". I liked the original better. Speaking of "Batman Begins".(oh yeah I just made a sweet transition, you're welcome Mrs. Feamer, (9th grade english teacher.))

So like I said earlier, this is like the "Batman Begins" for Robin Hood and I think that the next Robin Hood in this line of films(because I think they will make a sequel and should)could possibly be like "The Dark Knight". You know because "Batman Begins" was ok but then "The Dark Knight" came out and was the shit. I think this could be possible for the next "Robin Hood" if they do it correctly. Lets hope so because "The Dark Knight" was the tits.

After all of my rambling I would have to say that I give this film a B. Go see it.

You don't really have to see the first one to get the second one but it helps, so if you haven't seen the first one I recommend that you do and then go see the second one.

"Iron Man 2" is the story of Tony Stark(Robert Downey Jr.) and his invention, the Iron Man suit. Tony is the CEO of Stark Industries which makes high tech weapons for the U.S. government. All of this you get from the first one. In the second one Tony is dealing with trying to live up to the hype of being a superhero, like all superheros do. He also is trying to keep the U.S. government from confiscating the Iron Man suit to use as a military weapon. The main plot line in this film is that Stark Industries is no longer making weapons for the U.S. government so Hammer Industries has taken over. Justin Hammer(Sam Rockwell) is the CEO and Tony hates him. You can easily see it coming so I'll just tell you that Justin is one of the bad guys.

You have to ignore all the stereotypes in this movie because it's a comic book movie, of course it's going to be stereotypical. It has great action sequences and is also pretty funny. I attribute the humor in the film to Jon Favreau being the director. Robert Downey Jr. does an awesome job in this, and the first one. He fits the role perfectly and mixes humor with sarcasm and is still believable as a super hero. This film like the first one also has awesome "future" technology in it which I love. One thing that this film has that its predecessor did not is Scarlett Johansson. Oh man, Scarlett Johansson. Now, I do have to say that I already have a huge thing for her but even if you don't she is so hot in this movie it hurts. She is an added bonus to all the things that made the first one great. I think that "Iron Man 2" is as good if not better than "Iron Man".

I say go see this movie, you won't regret it. You don't have to see the first one but I'm just too OCD about movies not to see the first one in a line of movies so I recommend that you see the first one. I give it a low A.

This is the story about the funeral of Aaron's(Chris Rock) father. Aaron meets with the funeral service to review his father in the casket and finds out that they sent him the wrong casket.(this is the scene from the previews that I saw a million times.) After this everything else just goes terribly wrong. This is a comedy of errors to say the least. Aaron's brother Ryan(Martin Lawrence) shows up but only manages to make things worse. He's a famous author and is the stereotypical "famous" relative. When then see Elaine(Zoe Saldana) and her boyfriend Oscar(James Marsden). As I'm sure you saw in the previews, Oscar accidentally takes acid basically and is tripping out for the entire movie. Then Norman(Tracy Morgan) and his friend Derek(Luke Wilson) go to pick up Uncle Russell(Danny Glover). Everybody finally gets to the funeral and things just continue to go down hill from there. But don't worry it all works out in the end. Yay.

This movie was ok. I wanted it to be funnier and I thought with the cast that it would be but it wasn't. It is kind of strange to take a british script and try do it as a black comedy. I thought that it would have been better if it had more black humor in it kind of like a "Life" or "Friday." Anyway, there were some parts that I laughed very hard at but overall it fell flat. I mean drug humor is another thing that gets to my funny bone so I liked James Marsden on acid. I think that the best people in it were Tracy Morgan, Danny Glover and James Marsden. They kept the film from being to boring and monotonous.(yeah I said monotonous)

Overall I give it a low C. Redbox it one night if your board and there is nothing better to get.