Cannonball Run

Cannonball Run

Who's in it: Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Farrah Fawcett

What's it about: The Cannonball Run is a race across the US and JJ(Reynolds) and Victor(DeLuise) are a team racing in an ambulance in order to go fast without too many stops. They pick up a 'patient' named Pamela(Fawcett). In their journey across America, they meet a bunch of challenges and some other teams desperate to win the race. It starts to get tricky when the police get word that the race is going on. Road blocks and car searches begin to narrow down the competition until only the clever ones remain.

What I Think: I'm not usually one for a movie like this, but my boyfriend talked me into it. It was a pretty good movie. Alot of innuendo to other things, but that made it even funnier. I enjoyed DeLuise in his role as Victor and Captain Chaos. My boyfriend and I agreed that certain characters are just made for that man. Most of the time, this movie had me laughing until my sides hurt. There were other minor roles in it that I loved. Jackie Chan was in it and he was hilarious!

Kung Fu Panda

Kung Fu Panda

Who's in it: Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Seth Rogen, Lucy Liu, Jackie Chan, David Cross, Ian McShane, Randall Duk Kim

What's it about: Po(Black) is a panda working in a noodle shop. His dream is to be the greatest Kung Fu master in all of China. After he is chosen to be the Dragon Warrior by Oogway(Kim), he is to work with Shifu(Hoffman). Shifu has trained the Furious Five, which includes Tigress(Jolie), Mantis(Rogen), Viper(Liu), Monkey(Chan), and Crane(Cross). When Tai Lung(McShane) escapes from prison, the village is in deep peril. Po must learn the way of Kung Fu quickly before Tai Lung arrives. The only problem is that not only Po, but Shifu also, doesn't believe that Po can live up to the title he'd been given.

What I Think: I first saw this movie in theatres. I loved it then and I love it even more now. There were so many things that I missed the first time around and then I got the DVD and was able to really inspect some of the things. I listened to some of the commentary and it was amazing how many things I didn't catch on to! Anyways, Jack Black is always awesome and I loved him doing a big, fat panda. His humor and way of distorting his voice made everything really fit. You felt as if he were really the panda. Hoffman I didn't even notice wasin the movie until the credits. I knew that I recognized the voice and then it hit me when I saw the name.