Blended, Unbroken and Into the Woods reviews

 Blended Review - 6/10

 After hearing a ton of negative reviews and the fact that Adam Sandler's recent movies have been nothing short of terrible, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that I enjoyed this movie. Are there extremely corny, lame, overused jokes? Sure, but the chemistry between Sandler and Berrymore is kind of undeniable.

The opening scene sets the tone with a blind date going terribly badly for the main characters. As fate would have it they end up in Africa together and the story goes. I personally find the little one line jokes of Sandler to be the most entertaining. Berrymore has some ok ones that I chuckled at as well, and the 5 kids all do their part and add intrigue to the story.

It won't win awards and it won't be liked by a few, but I thought it was a decent rom-com that had enough laughs to keep me interested and recommend it.

Unbroken Review - 7/10


Not having read the book may be better when you watch the movie. I didn't read the book but heard a lot of criticism about how much is cut out of the book especially the ending. For me personally though, I enjoyed most of it. It was well acted, along with enough small humor and disturbing scenes to keep it interesting throughout.

I didn't like that almost half of the film takes place when he gets stranded after the plane crash. 3 guys floating in raft can only be so interesting on film. It was an amazing feat that he survived 45 or so days out at sea and they had to come up with resourceful ways to survive. but 30 minutes of that was a bit much in my opinion.

He then gets "rescued" by the Japanese and goes through all types of torture. These scenes may be hard to watch but it's not graphic just disturbing. Yet this guy pushed through everything and made it to the end of the war alive.

The last scene explains in a few sentences what happens after the movie takes place. This is what most people were upset about. Quite frankly, there is no way this could've been filmed and not have this movie be 4 or 5 hours. I feel that deserves a story of its own. For this particular film, I enjoyed it and got what I expected.

Into the Woods Review - 4/10

I knew it was a musical and I knew it was a broad way play, I didn't know that the play was much darker than this film. Obviously, being released by Disney it's more of a family oriented film. People do die off screen but it caught me off guard with all of the darker stuff. I feel like they tried to mix the 2 together and make it somewhat of a dark yet light type of movie and it didn't succeed.

The songs themselves weren't all that entertaining except one of the last songs in the movie which I really enjoyed and it was performed and filmed brilliantly. There was one point in the movie when I thought it was over, yet there was another 45 minutes. That tells me I was bored for the most part. People will disagree, but it was slow and with only a few funny lines here and there, mixed with it trying to be a family film with dark material, I can't give this higher than a 4. A bit of a disappointment.