The Flowers of War Movie Review

The Flowers of War

                                                                  

The Flowers of War is a historical drama war film released in 2011. This movie is directed by Zhang Yimou and its plot is based on the novel “13 Flowers of Nanjing” by Chinese-American author Geling Yan. The major roles of The Flowers of War are played by Christian Bale, Ni Ni, Zhang Xinyi, Tong Dawei, Atsuro Watabe, Shigeo Kobayashi and Cao Kefan. The plot of this movie is set on Nanking, China during the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937.

The Flowers of War tells the story of survival of an American man, a group of schoolgirls and a group of prostitutes who are living together in a church. This is a beautiful story of how crisis brings people together and how humanity comes out of people when they are surrounded by brutality.  

Christian Bale and Ni Ni in a scene of The Flowers of War

Plot:

The Flowers of War starts with a war scene where a group of Chinese soldiers ambush a group of invading Japanese army who were chasing a group of schoolgirls. Although the Japanese army faces large damage at the beginning, but soon they bring strong reinforcements and crash the Chinese resistance, leaving only two survivors of the Chinese army. But in the meantime, the group of schoolgirls manage to reach a church where they were supposed to come for shelter. While going there, they meet an American mortician named John Miller who is also heading for the same church to bury the priest.  

After reaching there, John meets the caretaker of that church (a small boy) but can’t find the body of the priest. He still demands money as he has come all the way for his job. He doesn’t care much about helping others in a situation like this, instead he tries to get comfortable in living in that church as the priest. Soon a group of prostitutes come to that church seeking for shelter, claiming that the church’s another caretaker has taken bribe from them to give them shelter here. As soon as they arrive, they start to flirt with John. Later, they hide in the cellar of the church.

Now, the two survivors of the Chinese army from the previous fight come to that church. One of them is severely wounded. The other one carries him and leaves him at the prostitutes’ care. He then leaves the church and takes position in a nearby collapsed building. Inside the church, the schoolgirls and the prostitutes don’t get along much, but somehow manages to live. John is attracted to the leader of the prostitutes and tries to interest her in him. She offers John that she, with her team, will satisfy John if he can take them to the nearby safe camp.

But time doesn’t pass peacefully, a group of Japanese army attacks the church and after searching, finds the group of hiding schoolgirls. But a girl shows a noble gesture by not getting into the cellar when she was being chased, thus helping the prostitutes stay hidden in the cellar.  Some members of the army get brutal and try to rape the girls. John tries to stop them and fails. Then the lone survivor of that Chinese army shoots some of the Japanese army which gives away his hiding position. The Japanese soldiers leave the girls and go looking for him. He alone kills a good number of Japanese soldiers and finally gets killed.

Then a Japanese high ranked officer comes to the church with his team. The schoolgirls sing for him. Seeing everything, the officer gives them his words for their safety and also appoints some soldiers around the church for the safety of everyone living there. With the officer, there is a Chinese man who’s daughter is there among the schoolgirls. He is helping the Japanese only to find safety for his family. At a chance which came later on, John asks him for some parts for the damaged truck of the church, so that he could take everyone to safe camp. He says he’ll try his best to help.

One day, John finds two of the prostitutes missing. They went to their previous home, one to bring her earrings and another to bring strings for her musical instruments with which, she wants to play to the wounded soldier.  John rushes to search for them with the caretaker of the church knowing they will not survive for long in this warzone. He finally finds them, one killed and another brutally raped before being killed. John then comes back to the church.

Few days later, the Japanese officer visits the church again and gives John a written order that the schoolgirls and a prostitute (who has accidentally got in the schoolgirls’ team) will have to sing at a victory celebration of the Japanese army. Fearing the worst, John doesn’t agree to send the girls. But the officer warns him that it is an order from higher officers and they may use force to carry on this order.

Everybody at the church can guess what is there in the girls’ fate. At the party, they will be brutally raped and even may get killed. Nobody wants the girls to go to that party. But John has no ways to say no. So, to avoid this horrific fate, later on that night, all the schoolgirls together try to commit suicide by jumping off the bell tower of the church. John and the prostitutes try to stop them and then the leader of the prostitutes says that they will go to that party instead of the girls.

The last part of this movie is about their attempt to save the schoolgirls and the fate of John, the caretaker, the schoolgirls and the prostitutes. Can they deceive the eyes of the Japanese army? Can they be saved? You have to watch the movie to know the answers.

My review about The Flowers of War:

First of all, I felt that The Flowers of War is a beautiful piece of work.

The plot was beautiful and touchy. Like other great war movies, The Flowers of War will make you hate a war and will make you worried about the innocent lives of a warzone. This movie has showed what a dreadful fate waits for some people who are not involved with the war in any way. The Flowers of War also shows some extraordinary examples of some good people in wartime. The direction and screenplay of this movie seemed excellent. 

The acting and dialogues are good in The Flowers of War. There is no question about the acting of Christian Bale and he has done a perfect job. The acting of all other characters, specially the schoolgirls’ and the prostitutes’ seemed fluent and natural. The dialogs were also good according to the movie’s plot. Same goes for makeup. The plot of The Flowers of War needed some glamour for the prostitutes (specially their leader) even in these situations and the director has matched them pretty well.

There are some war scenes in The Flowers of War which fitted with the movie’s subject nicely and seemed realistic. These scenes includes some killings, dead bodies and some rape scenes which were needed to express the shocking violence of a war and the director has shown them nicely without going too extreme. There is no direct nudity in The Flowers of War.

The special effects and music of The Flowers of War are also goods. I couldn’t catch any flaws in any scene or in the plot.

So, finally, I really liked The Flowers of War. To the fans of war movies, I’ll recommend this movie as a must see. If you are a fan of all other kinds of movies, for you also, The Flowers of War is a must see. 

For those who are interested: 

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Wikipedia link : The Flowers of War Wiki

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You May Not Kiss the Bride Movie Review

You May Not Kiss the Bride
                                                         

You May Not Kiss the Bride is an American romantic comedy drama movie released in 2011. This movie is written and directed by Rob Hedden. The major stars of You May Not Kiss the Bride are Dave Annable, Katharine McPhee, Mena Suvari, Kathy Bates, Vinnie Jones and Rob Schneider.

You May Not Kiss the Bride is the story of a photographer, who is forced to marry the daughter of a gangster and then takes her to honeymoon, but all the time he must keep one thing in his mind: he cannot even touch her.

Dave Annable and Katharine McPhee in a Scene from You May Not Kiss The Bride

Plot:

Bryan is a pet photographer. His has a beautiful assistant, who is obsessed about him. One day, he was shooting a pet dog of one of his clients, when his assistant enters with another client who brings a cat. Seeing the cat, the dog chases it and ends up in injuring the cat.

The cat’s owner turns out to be the wife of a mafia gang boss, who was having problem with his daughter’s green card. He kidnaps Bryan and to compensate his wife’s cat’s injury, he asks Bryan to marry his daughter so that she can get the green card. Bryan has no other option other than agreeing. But the gang boss also warns Bryan that his right hand man loves his daughter and wants to marry him, so he will keep an eye on them. Even after the wedding, Bryan cannot touch he gang boss’s daughter, let alone do anything else.

After returning home, Bryan finds his secretary at his apartment trying to seduce him. He does not agree. Bryan also calls his mother asking for advice, but without understanding the whole situation, she forces Bryan to marry the girl.

The gang boss’s right hand man gives Bryan a head start by telling about the girl. Bryan didn’t expect much of that girl, but gets amazed when he finds her as a beautiful lady. From the beginning, they like each other, but only as strangers. But two immigration officers are following her to understand the whole plot.  

Soon they get married. In their wedding program, Bryan’s secretary tries to create a scene, but fails. After their wedding, Bryan and his wife goes to a honeymoon trip. To reach that island, they take a helicopter driven by a crazy pilot. On the way, they falls into a storm and finds that most of the helicopter’s equipment are not working. But the crazy pilot somehow manages to take them to the beautiful resort.

Bryan’s wife keeps distance from Bryan according to the whole situation. A waitress at the resort tries to help Bryan so that he can impress his wife. While she was teaching Bryan dancing, his wife sees it and gets upset.

Then the waitress tells Bryan about a beautiful place where he should take his wife to cheer her.  Bryan and his wife visits there. But from there, two men kidnap Bryan’s wife. Bryan comes back to the hotel and to add more complication to the situation, his secretary and the right hand man of the gang boss also arrives at the hotel. The waitress again offers her help and her cousin, the crazy helicopter, pilot takes Bryan, his secretary and the waitress to search Bryan’s wife.

Bryan’s secretary falls for the helicopter pilot and their activities harm the rescue mission. In the meantime, Bryan’s wife escapes from the kidnappers and finally Bryan manages to find her. But they were still being chased by the kidnappers and the right hand man of the mafia boss.

The last part of the movie is about their running away and staying alive, the plot and betrayal about the kidnapping and about Bryan and his wife’s relation.

My reviews about You May Not Kiss the Bride:

To be honest, I didn’t expect much from this movie. At first, You May Not Kiss the Bride seemed to me as just a B grade romantic movie, so I felt strange when Mena Suvari and Rob Schneider appeared on it. But as time passed, You May Not Kiss the Bride became interesting and I ended up liking this movie to a bit.

The plot of You May Not Kiss the Bride is good, perfect for a romantic comedy movie.  There are enough drama to keep you interested throughout the movie. The locations where this movie was shot are also beautiful.

My opinion is, You May Not Kiss the Bride has a great problem with the casting and the script. The director should have appointed a more renowned and strong actor as the gang boss. That character alone could make this movie much mature. Or even keeping him, the director should have made that character’s role stronger. Again, Mena Suvari’s character seemed too immature to tolerate. I know her character here was supposed to be immature, but it was so annoying that it has affected You May Not Kiss the Bride. A more renowned actor as the hero could take this movie much higher. Katharine McPhee looked beautiful in here and her acting was also good.

Dialogues are okay, expect for some characters. The makeup and the camera works were good too.

There are no nude scenes in You May Not Kiss the Bride, so its safe to watch this one with kids.

The ending is a little dramatic but it looked good. Although ending of You May Not Kiss the Bride is not unpredictable for a romantic movie, but I like the way things happened.

My feeling is,You May Not Kiss the Bride had a great potential to be a really beautiful movie, but has failed for the lack of good casting, acting and dialogues.

So overall, I liked You May Not Kiss the Bride  specially when I expected almost nothing from it after seeing the first few minutes. I won’t mark it as a great movie, but still, I’d recommend You May Not Kiss the Bride to all romantic movie lovers. But remember, don’t watch it with high expectations, it will fail to you.

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Trishna Movie Review

Trishna 

                                                 

Trishna is a British drama film directed by Michael Winterbottom. It is released on 2011. The plot of this movie is an adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel "Tess of the d'Urbervilles". The major roles of the movie Trishna are played by Freida Pinto, Riz Ahmed, Roshan Seth and Anurag Kashyap.

The movie Trishna is about a village girl from India, who comes to big cities to chase her dreams. This movie is based on Indian cultures and values, like the fantasy movie Life of Pi.

Freida Pinto in the movie Trishna

Plot:

This movie Trishna tells the story of an Indian village girl named Trishna. Her regular life involves helping with her father’s business, spending time with her younger siblings and working part-time in a luxurious hotel on special occasions. A young man named Jay (who used to live in London and cant speak Hindi) visits the hotel where Trishna works with his friends and likes her. They gives a lift to Trishna and her friends and thus knows her house. Next day, Trishna and her father faces an accident which paralyze her father.  On their way back to home, Jay offers Trishna a job at his father’s hotel, which he is taking care of right now.

Few days later, he sends a letter to Trishna’s father stating the formal job proposal for Trishna. This changes her life. She accepts that job and moves to that hotel which was on another state. While working there, Trishna receives special attention and care from Jay. One night, Jay saves Trishna from some eve teasers and takes her to a garden and kisses her (at least, this was shown on the screen).

On the next morning, Trishna leaves the hotel and comes back to her home. She starts feeling morning sickness after a few days. Her family takes her to a hospital and the doctor finds that she was pregnant. Then she has an abortion. After getting well, she starts working on her uncle’s factory.

In the meantime, Jay goes to her home and from there, he gets the address of Trishna’s uncle’s factory where she was working then. He goes there and asks Trishna to move in with her in the city and Trishna agrees. Trishna leaves her current job just then and moves into Jay’s apartment. They starts living as lovers. At that time Jay was busy in making a movie with his friends. Trishna enjoys living there and starts to go to a dance class.

On day, Jay’s father falls sick in London and Jay goes to London to visit him, leaving Trishna alone in the apartment. While he was there, the lease of that apartment gets expired and Trishna moves into her friend’s apartment. When Jay comes back to Trishna, he had to take care of his father’s hotel again and Trishna goes back to her life as a hotel waitress.

Day by day, Jay becomes more aggressive and forces Trishna to have sex with him. He reads the books of ‘Kama Sutra’ and does the experiments on Trishna. He starts to use her to fulfill his abusive fantasies against her will. His abusive behavior grows more than what Trishna can tolerate, so one day she tries to take her fate in her own hand.

My Reviews about the movie Trishna:

First of all, I’d say, I loved this movie.

The plot of Trishna is very good and realistic. It tells the story of an ambitious girl and what may happen to her if she runs after her ambitions blindly. It also shows us how a man can behave if he thinks he completely owns a girl. Although the ending is a little dramatic, but it is very much attached to the real world. The direction and screenplay of the movie seemed top-class. 

I’ve written the plot of Trishna is realistic, but still I’ve found some small scenarios in this movie which doesn’t fit, specially for a rural Indian society. For example, when Trishna came back to her village for the first time from the hotel job, she was pregnant and she had an abortion. But none of her family members questioned her about it (as shown on this movie) and all of them seemed okay about it. This will never happen in an Indian society. Another time, when she left her job at her uncle’s factory to move in with Jay, she left just then without any further thinking (not thinking about her family or paralyzed father or anything else ), which also looked unrealistic to me.

Acting of all the characters is good enough. Remember, this movie is completely focused on Trishna which makes all other characters side characters. And Freida Pinto has done an awesome job of acting here. Her beautiful face and acting has blended perfectly with her character in this movie. I think only a very few Indian actresses could be matched in this movie this much. The acting of the other characters is satisfactory. Same goes for make-up, no excess use of glamour was seen in Trishna, which keep the quality of this movie intact.

The director has also done a praiseworthy job of choosing the locations in this movie. The parts involving Trishna’s village is shot in a very rural area where the hotels used in this movie are gorgeous. They match perfectly to the plot of this movie.  

Although there was no direct nudity seen in this movie, but for the subject, this movie is not appropriate for kids.

So, overall, I’d say, Trishna is a nice piece of work, specially for the fans of drama movies. Although from time to time this movie plays a romantic note, but it is nowhere near a typical drama movie. I believe, anyone will enjoy watching Trishna.

What are your opinions about this one? Feel free to share in comments.

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IMDB link :  Trishna IMDB

Wikipedia link : Trishna Wiki

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Life of Pi Movie Review

Life of Pi
                                    

Life of Pi is an American fantasy drama film directed by Ang Lee. It was released on the year 2012. This movie is based on Yann Martel's 2001 novel of the same name. The leading characters of Life of Pi are played by Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Gérard Depardieu, Tabu, and Adil Hussain.

The movie Life of Pi is about the journey of a boy who has to survive alone in the middle of a sea on a boat, where his only companion is a Royal Bengal Tiger. This movie is in English, but the plot is based on an Indian boy with his local cultures and values, like what we saw in the drama movie Trishna. 

A Scene from the movie Life of Pi

Plot:
The movie Life of Pi  starts with a conversation between the adult Pi and a tourist. Pi tells him about his childhood and how he gets the name “Pi”. Pi’s father owned a zoo and since childhood, Pi is familiar with the animals. One incident about a tiger is shown particularly from his childhood, as that experience has some special importance for the rest of the movie.

One day, when Pi is 16, Pi’s father decided to close the zoo and sell the zoo animals to some American buyers. His father also plans to settle in Canada. So few days later they start their journey in a Japanese ship, taking all the animals with them. Their ship falls in danger on a stormy night. Pi want to save this family, but the crews of the ship throw him in a lifeboat. The ship sinks and Pi, along with a zebra, an orangutan, a hyena and a tiger ends up in that lifeboat. Gradually Pi loses companion and the last two survivors are Pi and that tiger.

Pi’s struggle for life starts from here. His challenges are to keep himself alive in the sea and to stay as far as possible from the tiger, again, to keep himself alive. Luckily, he finds some supplies in the lifeboat.
The next part of the movie is all about his journey and struggle. On the way, he finds different technique and has various experiences like a strange killer island, flying fishes, gigantic whale and so on.

My Reviews about Life of Pi:

First of all, it’s a beautiful piece of work. I guess everyone will enjoy watching Life of Pi.

The plot of Life of Pi is exceptional and enjoyable. Although, at the beginning of the movie, you can see that Pi has survived, but this movie was never about the ending. Its all about the journey.

The acting of all characters is good enough.

The special effects of Life of Pi are beautiful. Several time I wondered how they managed to shoot the scenes, specially the scenes with the man and the tiger on the same boat. The other effects like the sinking ship, the strange island, the whale, the lighting sea creatures, the flying fishes and everything else are a pure pleasure to watch in Life of Pi.

The best thing about Life of Pi is its cinematography. All scenes are played really well. The mixture of good dialogues, good make-up, beautiful acting and splendid special effects and animations have made it beautiful. The director has put special efforts to make you enjoy the scenic beauty of the nature throughout the movie Life of Pi. And these efforts are a complete success. Even if the plot or the acting was not good like this, I’d still enjoy watching this movie just for the beautiful scenes.

There is no nudity in the whole movie, so everyone can watch it. Life of Pi has a very little romantic story, which ends before the journey of the ship starts.

And “Life of Pi” also gives its own philosophy about religion and life. May be, some of them can make you think.

The only thing I didn’t like about the movie Life of Pi is the accent. No offence to anyone, but personally, I’m not a big fan of Indian English accent.

Overall, any movie lover should love Life of Pi. So I’d recommend it as a ‘must see’ for all the movie fans.

For those who are interested:
IMDB Link : Life of Pi IMDB
wikipedia Link: Life of Pi Wiki

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Celebrity Sex Tape Movie Review

Celebrity Sex Tape
                                     

Celebrity Sex Tape is a comedy movie released in 2012. It is written by Jonathan Haug, Patrick Sheehan and Matt Short, directed by Scott Wheeler and starred by Jack Cullison, Howard Cai, Jonathan Brett, Colbert Alembert, Julie Barzman and Amanda Ward.

Celebrity Sex Tape is the story of some teens who tries to earn money by taping the celebrity sex videos and then selling those videos over internet. Then something goes wrong and they feel their lives threatened.

A scene from the movie Celebrity Sex Tape

Plot:
A group of regular school-going teens joins a party. They were not very popular, but by their sudden luck, one of them has sex with a drunk celebrity, where another record the scene with the camera in his phone. Although they get beaten by that celebrity's boyfriend, they enjoy the whole incident and shows the tape to another of their friend who is addicted to internet and porn.

That friend releases the tape over internet and get popularity. He gets huge hits on his website and people starts to download that clip like crazy. The group becomes astonished but amused by this.

Few days later, suddenly, a lawyer of that celebrity comes to their house who has armed guards with him. They get accused by the lawyer for harming his client's image and demands half a million dollar and threats them that, all of them will go to jail if they don't pay this amount by a month.

The group of friends become scared and start to look for a way to get that money fast. They find a way, that is, to earn that money, they start making sex tapes with different celebrities and publish them on the internet. 

The rest of the movie is about their attempts to make the local celebrities to have sex with some of them and to record that. Their plan was going smooth until something happened. Let's watch the movie to know what happened to them, if they could pay the lawyer or not.

My Reviews about Celebrity Sex Tape:
First of all, let me put it straightforward: there is nothing enjoyable on this film Celebrity Sex Tape.

Although the plot of Celebrity Sex Tape is not that bad itself, but bad screenplay has make is worthless. A good and enjoyable movie can be made with the same plot. The direction also felt horrible. 

The dialogues in the movie Celebrity Sex Tape are no good, just like the poor acting. Same goes for the makeups.

The whole movie Celebrity Sex Tape is full of nude scenes, but most of them seem vulgar, not a candy for the eyes. The director has used them excessively and it felt irritating. So I believe, no movie lover will enjoy the nude scenes in Celebrity Sex Tape .

Clearly, Celebrity Sex Tape is not a movie for kids. 

So overall, I don’t want to recommend Celebrity Sex Tape to anyone.  Watch it if you want to, but in the end, it should feel like a waste of your time. A poor rating in IMDB is also there to give you evidence for my comments. 

If you are still interested,
IMDB link : Celebrity Sex Tape IMDB
wikipedia link : so wiki found on this movie.

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Newlyweds Movie Review

Newlyweds
                                                          

Newlyweds is an American romantic drama film released at 2011. It is directed and written by  Edward Burns. Edward Burns, Kerry Bishé, Marsha Dietlein, and Caitlin Fitzgerald stars in this movie.

Newlyweds tells the story of a newlywed couple, who starts to have problems with their relationship when the husband's sister comes to stay with them. Then the couple tries to solve their problem in their own way.

A scene from the movie Newlyweds

Plot:

Buzzy and Katy are just a regular newlywed couple living their ordinary life. They are very close to the family of Katy's sister (she and her husband) who are leading an unhappy conjugal life. Buzzy regularly visits to a gym which is owned by Katy's sister's husband. Katy's sister and her husband regularly fights with each other  over very small things and whenever they are around Buzzy and Katy stops their fight.

One day, the simple life of Buzzy and Katy gets interrupted when Buzzy’s sister Linda comes to live in their apartment without proper prior notice. Linda leads a bohemian lifestyle, without taking much care about anything. Buzzy loves her younger sister very much, but Linda’s lifestyle doesn’t match with the peaceful lifestyle of the couple and this irritates Katy. For the sake of the peace inside the house, Katy keeps herself from exploding.
  
To make the situation worse, Katy's old boyfriend visits their home one day for some reason and meets Linda, who, starts to see him. He has a lot in common with Linda, but Buzzy has a hard time accepting this relation and asks Linda to get away from it.

The fights between Katy's sister and her husband grows more and more and at at one point, they get separated. After separation, she moves in with Katy which complicates the situation more. She also cannot tolerate Linda and wonders why Katy is letting Linda stay in their house.

 All these things together create irritations between Buzzy and Katy. So, the happy life of Buzzy and Katy gets complicated and they start to think about their marriage all over.

My review about the movie Newlyweds:

I find Newlyweds as just a regular romantic movie, nothing more. It felt nothing special.

The plot of the movie Newlyweds is very simple, and at the end, you will find a very predictable conclusion for a romantic movie. The only positive thing about the plot is, it tells the realistic story of a couple, which can happen to anyone.

The acting of all the major characters in Newlyweds were okay. Same goes for the dialogues and make-ups. The direction and screenplay were average, nothing special. 

The characters of Katy’s ex-husband and of her brother in law in Newlyweds seemed very weird to me. Both of them seemed irregular and unrealistic. The character of Linda was okay, she just portraits a girl who doesn't care about anything.

In the whole movie Newlyweds, the main characters are seen giving their comments (from being outside of the plot of the movie) about the current situation in every few minutes, which gives Newlyweds a documentary-like image. Seriously, I haven’t found any point for this. It could feel better, if the director could tell the stories in a regular way. Leaving this comments parts, the director could add more story in this movie. 

As I said, there is nothing surprising about the ending.

So, overall, I didn’t enjoy watching Newlyweds  I won't recommend it for any reason, but if you still want to watch it - its your choice.

To know more about it:

IMDB link: Newlyweds IMDB

Wikipedia link: Newlyweds Wiki

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Friends With Kids Movie Review

Friends with Kids
                                                                                               

Friends with Kids is an independent American comedy released at 2011 which is written, produced, directed by Jennifer Westfeldt.  She also starred in this film, along with Jon Hamm,  Kristen Wiig, Adam Scott, Maya Rudolph, Chris O'Dowd, Edward Burns and Megan Fox.

Friends with Kids is about two good friends who have a child together and then start to grow a special feeling for each other. 

A Scene from the movie Friends With Kids

Plot:
Friends with Kids tells the story of two long time best friends Jason and Julie and four more friends of them. Among the other four friends of them, Alex & Leslie and Ben & Missy are couples with children. Both of the couple are living a very unhappy married life. None of Jason and Julie has plans for getting married, but Julie wants to have a child with Jason and Jason agrees to her proposal.

So they do it and Julie gives birth to a baby boy, Joe. Together they start parenting in a beautiful way by sharing the responsibilities. Their life becomes much better, beyond the imagination of the other two couples. But soon Julie gets a crush on Jason and gets hurt when Jason starts seeing another girl. Her feelings get expressed by her behavior, but Jason overlooks them. Controlling herself, Julie also starts to see another man. 

The six friends, along with Jason’s girlfriend and Julie’s boyfriend, goes to a ski trip. At a dinner there, Ben (one of the other four friends) starts questioning Julie and Jason’s relation and their future. Soon it starts a argument between Jason and Ben and at a point, Ben leaves the resort. Later on Ben and his wife gets divorced.

After a few days, on her birthday, Julie tells Jason about her feelings towards him but Jason replies, he thinks of Julie only as her friend and he is having a good relation with his girlfriend.

Julie cannot live with that, so she leaves her place and moves to somewhere a little far from Jason. Few days later, Jason brakes up with her girlfriend and feels that, he also has feelings for Julie. 

Next ... okay, lets watch the movie to know what happens next.


My review about Friends with Kids:
First of all, I’d say,Friends with Kids is just a typical romantic movie. 

The plot of Friends with Kids is regular and the ending is very predictable, what we expect in all regular romantic movies. You can predict the ending in just 10 minutes after the movie starts and it will not surprise you. So Friends with Kids has nothing special about the plot. The direction and screenplay seemed just average, nothing extraordinary.

The acting of all major characters of Friends with Kids are just okay, again nothing extraordinary. Actually I didn’t like the acting of Adam Scott. To be honest, I’d say the acting of all the other characters are not that good, but still will not make you feel bad watching it. The dialogues will not give you any extra fun. The makeups were good.

A good thing about Friends with Kids is the appearance of Megan Fox as Jason’s girlfriend. But she doesn't have much effects on the plot, just adds glamour to this movie, nothing more.

There is nothing else special in this movie to look for. 

Friends with Kids does not contain any nude scene, so it is safe to watch this movie with kids.

 About comedy: I haven’t found much of that in here.

 So, overall, don’t expect much from Friends with Kids, otherwise you will be disappointed. I will not recommend Friends With Kids as a great movie, but if you are a fan for the romantic movies, watching it won't hurt you.   

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