Movie Night - May 14th

It's a Saturday night and I decide to go to the movies and my friend Arthur was going to join me. I got there earlier than I had expected so I grabbed my ticket from one of the kiosks. Why anyone stands in the throng of hundreds just to hand over your debit/credit card is beyond me! 


I stood waiting in the lobby, and things were pretty calm until one of the women behind the ticket counter stood on something and yelled, 'Water for Elephants is sold out, I repeat, Water for Elephants is sold out!'


I asked myself how that possibly could have happened and then noticed the mood of the crowd begin to change. Groups of women, who moments ago were talking peacefully, began to scramble to the holding area for the movie. It looked like one of the women still on line had burst into tears or her allergies were acting up.


I stood amazed at the power that Robert Pattinson's wide-set eyes hold over people.


I clutched my ticket for Bridesmaids and waited.


Arthur showed up and we bypassed the cattle pen of Water for Elephants.


Of course 35 minutes after we sat down that the movie began.


I had read that one scene in the movie was Maya Rudolph and Kristen Wiig improvising for an hour and a half and if I am right it is near the beginning and I wanted to see more. 


It plays like a female Hangover, just slightly reimagined.


I almost wet my pants from the audiences reaction to the use of the 'c' word.


Jill Clayburgh plays Kristen Wiig's mom and that was a little freaky, but she didn't look like she wasn't going to make it. She looked pretty good.


There is an obligatory vomiting scene.


And nothing like a little shitting in the street to make you feel better about spending almost $11 on a ticket.


Melissa McCarthy stole a bunch of scenes, there's one on a plane where with one leg up on the door jamb she asked a guy if he can 'feel the heat, the steam' coming off of her. 


And for some reason I could not quite get the Little Britain guy is in this. He's pretty funny but he kinda wasn't in this.


Maya Rudolph and Kristen Wiig are hilarious, too bad no big foreheads and baby hands.


Pretty good movie if you ask me. I thought it hit all the right notes for something directed by a guy who once appeared on The Facts of Life.