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The Ghastly Love of Johnny X (2012)
De Anna Joy Brooks, that's why.
This is a unique kind of a movie, no question there. The genre is more or less unclassifiable.
Let's get to the point. For all the ways I wanted this movie to be great, it's so-so at best. It's disorganized and inconsistent.
But the movie has one high point: De Anna Joy Brooks. She plays "Bliss", a member of the Ghastly Gang from another world, sent to earth as punishment or perhaps redemption. Brooks literally steals the movie with one song and dance routine, "These Lips That Never Lie." She is positively dripping with personality and suave. I wish I could say that about the rest of the cast, but De Anna is the only one who's clearly overqualified for this movie.
Overall, I'd say skip this movie. But don't miss De Anna's dance number, perhaps on YouTube, etc. I've watched it a dozen times and never tire of it.
Team America: World Police (2004)
Among the funniest (and grossest) movies of all time.
In terms of gross, this makes the South Park movie look like a Saturday morning cartoon. In terms of political humor, strangely the only people NOT offended (nor even mentioned) are either from the Whitehouse or from the presidential contender's party. As a satirical social commentary, it is a wonderfully insightful look into how the important current issues and pundits of the day are spun into a high-chaos distortion. But the manner of the distortion accurately depicts how each side views their opponents. The film doesn't seem to take sides, but does pull in all of the key players: Islamic facists terrorists, Kim Jong Il (North Korea's dictator), Hanz Blix (the U.N. weapons inspector), and a host of politically motivated Hollywood celebrities.
On the real issues, I may lean one side or the other. But for me, this movie made such good fun of my political opponents that I easily laughed through satire of my own hero's.
The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997)
One of the funniest Bill Murray movies
Bill Murray is in his best form in this movie. I bought the DVD version after seeing the VHS version. Just yesterday I watched it twice in a row. I found myself giggling through many of the scenes.
Murray stumbles his way through what he believes is a live-action on-location "Theater of Life", but in reality is an international plot to assassinate Russian and Britain ambassadors and resurrect the Cold War spy game - by the very same high-ranking officials in Britain and Russia who whould oversee it.
The dialog is full of double meanings, as Murray talks in terms of the theater, and everyone else around him is talking in terms of the real-life spy game going on around him. He is unaware of each of his bumbling moves, yet each one is seen as the performance of a highly-trained master spy. The dialog alone is a tightly-crafted jewel. After several viewings it becomes predictable, but Murray's performance admirably carries the entertainment value.