Its funny whenever I do these three movie reviews at a time they are always such radically different movies.

Shrek Forever After

Even though they said Shrek 3 was the final one, they came out with one more. I guess its hard ot turn off the gravy train. What can I say about this movie? Nothing, its just another Shrek movie – the first one was good, but they have gone downhill with each installment. That said, it was still fun, we saw it at the Cinema Grill where we can have dinner during the movie. It was the first time we took Eva to the movies, of course about 5 minutes in we remembered that Eva is not a quiet baby – she is in fact a really , really loud baby who likes to scream a lot. Sure, they are happy screams, but still no screams in the theater are good, so Erin ended up walking net door to Target while Ella and I stayed. Something tells me Erin enjoyed Target more anyway. The other day, Ella and I had a conversation where we recounted the many films we had seen in the theater together – it was pretty fun to already be reminiscing with my daughter.

Sherlock Holmes

I have been wanting to see this for some time now, so was very excited to finally get to it after many near misses. I was curious to see what Guy Ritchie could do with some heavy hitters like Robert Downy and Jude Law. Well, it was classic Guy Ritchie style – so much so it seemed like I was watching reruns of past movies at times – the bare-knuckle boxing scene with Downey was a total redo of Brad Pitt’s scene in Snatch. The film was entertaining – it had action and humor. Nothing amazing, just fun.

Tetro

This was a true cinematic fan’s film. Francis Ford Coppola directing a character piece starring Vincent Gallo, come on? This was Coppola’s first original screenplay since 1974 (The Conversation), and is based on his own memories and emotions, although twisted into a fictional tale. Very fascinating film, with a lot of stylistic swings. I very much enjoyed it, but . Roger Ebert eloquently called the film “boldly operatic”.