DELIVERY MAN

Touchstone Pictures

Rated PG-13

Running time: 105 Minutes



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In Touchstone Pictures Delivery Man, Vince Vaughn is a slacker working at his Father's butcher's shop delivering meat - when Vaughn discovers that his sperm donations have produced 533 children.

In this comedy remake of Writer/Director Ken Scott's French/Canadian film Starbuck, Vaughn owes $80,000 to some thugs and his girlfriend Police woman Cobie Smulders is pregnant with his baby. When lawyer Damian Young informs Vaughn that Vaughn's fertility clinic made a mistake and used his sperm multiple times, Vaughn suddenly finds himself the father of 533 children - adult, grown up children who have joined together in a class action lawsuit in order to force the clinic to reveal who their real father is. With the reluctant help of Vaughn's friend and lawyer Chris Pratt, Vaughn goes through the profiles of his children and finally finds his true purpose - deciding to be a guardian angel to his grown up children.

This was a cute film, and not as nasty about sperm donation that I thought the film would be. I liked the fact that Vaughn eventually decided to become involved in the lives of his children. Some of the children of course are a little suspicious of Vaughn, but to see the children's lives change for the better as a result of Vaughn's encouragement was a tear-jerker for me. Having Vaughn observing what their jobs and lives are like was very touching for me. What I did not like was the fact that there were several concepts and ideas that were brought up in the movie that were not followed up to their conclusions. And Vaughn's relationship with one child was both illogical plot wise considering the lawsuit and was not followed through to the end, although Vaughn's relationship with this child was a tear-jerker of a relationship.

Among the media coverage, cameos with Jay Leno and Bill Maher appear as themselves as they discuss who this mysterious father is as they appear on their talk shows in the movie.

Rated PG-13 for language. Running time: 105 Minutes.

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the INTERNSHIP

Twentieth Century Fox

Rated PG-13

Running time: 119 Minutes



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In Twentieth Century Fox's The Internship, obsolete salesmen Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson suddenly lose their jobs when their company closes and they apply for a summer internship job - at Google, the gigantic Internet search engine.

Written, Produced, and Starring Vince Vaughn this comedy is a nice, feel-good movie for the summer with a strong Google and fanboy slant. Totally different from The Social Network - the other computer website related movie - and the small audience that I saw The Internship with was laughing throughout the entire movie. Actually, the young cast of the movie made me feel like I was watching a college oriented film with people who have dreams. What is sad is the reason that Vaughn and Owen lost their jobs. Now these old guys have to compete the young tech-savvy college crowd. As Owens says, They are looking at some sort of mental Hunger Games against a bunch of geniuses kids for just like a handful of jobs. Of course being the old interns, Vaughn and Owen have no idea of what all the fan boy slang is that the interns Josh Brener, Tiya Sircar, Dylan O'Brien, and Tobit Raphael are using.

I liked the fact that they played Muggle Quiditch. I had never realized that they actually had created a game called Muggle Quiditch. Given the fact that the game is played on the ground, Muggle Quiditch pretty much follows Wizard Quiditch. Muggle Quiditch was actually pretty much fun to watch.

John Goodman's uncredited cameo as Vaughn's and Wilson's boss was great as always. Will Ferrell's cameo was also uncredited. There is also a cameo by Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin.

This movie is basically about fitting in amongst this complicated world, especially with computers. Learning about computers in order to run the help desk appeared to be daunting as Vaughn can attest to. It is a sad state of affairs that Vaughn and Wilson lose their jobs because their company was outdated and the business had to close.

A lot of Google products were shown, including Google's Gmail, Google Plus, Google Wallet and Google Maps, and the Google's self-driving car gets a cameo too. While the movie may be considered a commercial for Google, I liked the fact that I got to know more about Google and it's culture. There have been reports from Google interns that a lot of the movie is pretty accurate. 

The end credits were designed by Google's creative team.

Rated PG-13 for sexual situations, language, and violence. Running time: 119 Minutes.

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THE WATCH

20th Century Fox

Rated R

Running time: 102 Minutes



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In 20th Century Fox's The Watch, Ben Stiller forms a neighborhood watch - and soon discovers that their neighborhood is being invaded by aliens.

When his newly American citizen security guard Joe Nunez is killed at his store, Costco manager Ben Stiller makes an announcement at the local high school football game that he intends to find the killer and starts a neighborhood watch composed of Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill, and Richard Ayoade to see if they can search for the killer. As they bumble through being a neighborhood watch amongst the quirky neighbors, rowdy teenagers gone wild, and the local small-town hick police Will Forte and Mel Rodriguez as the Watch looks for the killer, the Watch soon run into aliens hidden amongst the neighbors in the neighborhood as more people are killed for their skins and that anybody could be an alien amongst them.

A combination of Ghostbusters meets ET and Aliens, with the film co written by Seth Rogen, this was a cute science fiction comedy about aliens invading a neighborhood. Although I can not recall why they wanted to invade that out of the way neighborhood, so the reason did not make an impression on me. However, I thought the movie was funny.

With lonely Stiller continually forming groups that he is in charge of, Stiller's put upon and baby-starved wife Rosemarie DeWitt wants Stiller home so they can have a child and must compete with Stiller's new group - The Neighborhood Watch. Fellow Watch member Vaughn meanwhile designs their logo and has to deal with his teen aged daughter Erin Moriarty and her horny boyfriend Nicholas Braun, of whom Vaughn did not like at all. 

The core group of Stiller, Vaughn, Hill and Ayoade made a nice group for the Watch - a group similar to The Ghostbusters - although Ayoade does not have the star power of the others. I had never heard of Ayoade before, and Ayoade was much more subtle in his characterization when compared to the others - especially with wanting sex with an Asian housewife. Hill was a typical Jonah Hill character. R Lee Ermey was great in one of his rare non-military roles as a cantankerous gun-wielding neighbor. Billy Crudup was an appropriately creepy new neighbor for Stiller. I liked that DeWitt eventually became an unofficial part of the watch.

It is too bad that this movie did not get much promotion as I thought this was a fun movie. With Stiller being a manager at Costco, a lot of the jokes and scenes take place at the Costco store as well as the jokes happening throughout the neighborhood. The couple behind me were laughing a lot at this movie. Unfortunately, due to the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida shot by a neighborhood watch captain, 20th Century Fox altered their marketing for this movie. These changes in marketing, as well as the various events of the 2012 summer season and the movie's R rating, is what I believed helped kill the movie as I saw very little marketing for The Watch. I am also sure the film would have done better as a PG-13 film.

Rated R for language, sexual situations, violence. Running time: 102 Minutes

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