Jack Sparrow, now an arts dealer?!

Can't remember when last I laughed so hard! Now I have a bad habit when it comes to movies, I only watch a movie once! Its true, believe me, and you can ask those who know me! Its how I am wired! Strange right?! What is worse are the films I have downloaded, I simply watch and then delete, CHIKENA! But I leave some exceptional ones to stray around my PC so that I can always come back to watch again and again again...I simply call these movies my classics! And  the movie Mortdecai starring Johnny Depp, Gwyneth Paltrow and Ewan Mcgregor as lead characters have won their way into the loving arms of my heaven!

The story actually revolves around a painting that is said to be of unmeasurable worth which goes missing after when the last person that possessed it was murdered. The mystery of this painting attracts the attention of the crown and a host of other characters who would go to any length to acquire it.

Mortdecai (Johnny Depp) is an arts dealer who is on the brink of going bankrupt, owing the British government as a result of a huge backlog of unpaid taxes, so he and his beautiful wife Johanna (Gwyneth Paltrow) put up most of their most priceless possessions for sale so they can maintain their bourgeois lifestyle. Mortdecai is brought in as a consultant in the theft and murder case by Inspector Alistair Martland (Ewan Mcgregor) of the Mi5, who also has a huge crush for Joanna since their school days in Oxford, to help in getting back the painting before it gets into the wrong hands. But Mortdecai is also seen as a prime suspect in the missing painting thereby putting him in the line of danger with Russians and a French criminal. With the help of his wife Joanna, and his manservant/thug/bodyguard, Jock (Paul Bettany) Mortdecai unravels the mystery of the painting while also ensuring he is kept alive.

What was interesting about the movie Mortdecai was the simple fun attached to it! Compared to the perceptive complicate nature of movies that is related to art and the even the British cinema, the Mortdecai story line is easy to grasp and enjoy, and Johnny Depp not sparing a bit of his comical personality brought in the Jack Sparrow character we all enjoyed him play  in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. so if you miss that drunk crazy pirate in the ugly feather hat, then this is the film for you!


But what I find most disturbing is its performance at the box office as it was reported that the film Mortdecai raked in $30.4 million after a budget of $60 million was spent to make the film. On the popular movie critic site Rotten Tomatoes, Mortdecai holds a rating of 13% based on 84 reviews. The site called the movie "Aggressively strange and willfully unfunny!"

Chei, that's not fair na! Abi is it beef?! Our very own Jack Sparrow, 13%?! No way, I don't gree joor HABA! Anyway I sha know that the performance of a movie at the box office does not prove if its worth watching or not (yes, na me talk am), so go out there and watch the movie Mortdecai and please, again I plead, PLEEAASEEEE, use your church mind to judge if the movie was supposed to be a flop! Enjoy the film jare and don't mind the beefers, LOL!

Movie review: Young Adults

Where should I start? Maybe apologize for being away too long! I can give all the excuses but I cannot run away from the fact that I let all of you down. When I started this blog a few years back, It was of a mentality to put an end to my low financial status especially after getting inspired by aunt Linda and Co. who are raking in millions per day from their blogs. 
But as time went on none of that seemed to matter, as I enjoyed watching how the visits to my blog increased inspiring me to keep writing.

Well in the last 2 years since I have been off, I got married to the most beautiful woman who gave me three precious gifts, a set of twin boys and a girl!  I am so fulfilled! Now, I can use that as my alibi for not putting up any posts, but instead I will be the bigger man and say that I am SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SORRY for letting you guys down and I hope you all will find it in your hearts to forgive me for my laziness.

Now back to business!

Young Adults! I watched this movie today and I was kinda impressed at Chalize Theron's performance! She plays Mavis Gray, a divorced washed up young adult writer on the brink of a psychotic meltdown.

One morning Mavis wakes up to an email by her high school sweetheart, Buddy Slade played by Patrick Wilson (Guardians of the Galaxy) that his wife just gave birth to a baby girl. Instead Mavis decides to head back to  her hometown Mercury, Minneapolis where Patrick still resides with his family, on a mission to get him back.

There she bumps into an old high schoolmate, Matt Freehauf played by Patton Oswalt (Agents of Shield) at a bar and in her drunk state lets the cat of the bag about her mission back home. Matt who then develops some kind of friendship with Mavis now tasks himself with the responsibility  to try and discourage her from carrying out her evil plan as it may blow up in her face!

I like the movie Young Adult thanks to Charlize Theron's bringing some kind of dark side to the comedy with the portrayal of the character Mais Gray while also playing up the pathetically sad drama part showing how people choose to be miserable when they shield themselves from reality and are highly absolved in their own pettiness. 

Although the movie was produced four years ago, its one I will still recommend to be seen. To confess I didn't know there are books that are classified young adult literature until I watched this movie!

The film received generally positive reviews, scoring 80% positive reviews out of 173 from critics on Rotten Tomatoes. 

Rotten Tomatoes- "Young Adult is a funny and ultimately powerful no-holds-barred examination of prolonged adolescence, thanks largely to a convincing performance by Charlize Theron."

Young Adult is a 2011 American comedy-drama film directed by Jason Reitman starring Charlize Theron playing the lead character Mavis Gray.