Spring Break
End-of-season films bring on laughs
Alysson Cwyk
Issue date: 8/22/08 Section: Arts & Entertainment
The warm weather may be winding down, but the movie season is still heating up with end-of-summer releases coming out right as most of our friends head back to school and Drexel students are miserably taking finals and resting at home for a few short weeks of relaxation.
Since the beginning of the term, the highly anticipated "Sex and the City" had audiences raving, "Wall-E" provided enjoyment for the whole family and "The Dark Knight" kept viewers coming back for more. Now, it's time for comedies to take over for the second wind of summer films. Two movies that will have audiences laughing and quoting their favorite lines post-viewing are "The Rocker" and "Hamlet 2."
"The Rocker" stars NBC's funny-man Rainn Wilson. In true Wilson style as seen in "The Office" and "Juno," he continuously spurts out one-liners that will make your belly hurt by the time the credits roll. Wilson plays Robert "Fish" Fishman, an ex-drummer of an 80s rock band still dreaming to make it big and holding a fierce grudge against the members who exiled him from their group, Vesuvious. After being fired from his job, getting kicked out of his home by his girlfriend and moving in with his sister, Fish is given a second chance at rock stardom as a drummer for his nephew's band, A.D.D.
From their first gig at the high school prom, to touring around the country, making music videos and signing a record deal, Fish and crew go through their ups and downs of friendship and musicianship. The biggest issue for A.D.D. comes when they are asked to open for Rolling Stone Magazine's cover boys, Vesuvious, Fish's former band and worst enemy. It's an opportunity of a lifetime, but will A.D.D. subject their drummer to the ones he fears the most?
Several sub plots crowd "The Rocker," but in the end, it all evens out and connections actually seem to make perfect sense. "The Rocker" is now out and playing in theaters nationwide.
Rating: ????/5
When I first heard of the film title of "Hamlet 2," I had originally thought that it was an amateur, YouTube popularized movie-mainly because I remember from 10th-grade English class that every character had passed at the end of Shakespeare's great work. But director Andrew Fleming, who co-wrote successful, laugh out loud movies like "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut" and "Team America: World Police," creates a strange remake of the British classic.
Since the beginning of the term, the highly anticipated "Sex and the City" had audiences raving, "Wall-E" provided enjoyment for the whole family and "The Dark Knight" kept viewers coming back for more. Now, it's time for comedies to take over for the second wind of summer films. Two movies that will have audiences laughing and quoting their favorite lines post-viewing are "The Rocker" and "Hamlet 2."
"The Rocker" stars NBC's funny-man Rainn Wilson. In true Wilson style as seen in "The Office" and "Juno," he continuously spurts out one-liners that will make your belly hurt by the time the credits roll. Wilson plays Robert "Fish" Fishman, an ex-drummer of an 80s rock band still dreaming to make it big and holding a fierce grudge against the members who exiled him from their group, Vesuvious. After being fired from his job, getting kicked out of his home by his girlfriend and moving in with his sister, Fish is given a second chance at rock stardom as a drummer for his nephew's band, A.D.D.
From their first gig at the high school prom, to touring around the country, making music videos and signing a record deal, Fish and crew go through their ups and downs of friendship and musicianship. The biggest issue for A.D.D. comes when they are asked to open for Rolling Stone Magazine's cover boys, Vesuvious, Fish's former band and worst enemy. It's an opportunity of a lifetime, but will A.D.D. subject their drummer to the ones he fears the most?
Several sub plots crowd "The Rocker," but in the end, it all evens out and connections actually seem to make perfect sense. "The Rocker" is now out and playing in theaters nationwide.
Rating: ????/5
When I first heard of the film title of "Hamlet 2," I had originally thought that it was an amateur, YouTube popularized movie-mainly because I remember from 10th-grade English class that every character had passed at the end of Shakespeare's great work. But director Andrew Fleming, who co-wrote successful, laugh out loud movies like "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut" and "Team America: World Police," creates a strange remake of the British classic.
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