Eleanor Infante – Cut To The Chase

Directed By: Nisha Ganatra

Written By: Jordan Weiss

Story By: Elyse Hollander and Jordan Weiss

Based on characters, Based on the book By: Mary Rodgers

Cinematography: Matthew Clark

Editor: Eleanor Infante

Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Julia Butters, Sophia Hammons, Vanessa Bayer, Mark Harmon, Manny Jacinto, Chad Michael Murray, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Christina Vidal

22 years after Tess and Anna endured an identity crisis, Anna now has a daughter and a soon-to-be stepdaughter. As they navigate the challenges that come when two families merge, Tess and Anna discover that lightning might strike twice.

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This was unexpected a sequel, so many decades after the original hit though will admit kind of had interest to catch this can say that it’s not disappointing. It stays fun and lively throughout. It doesn’t offer necessarily anything original but it’s perfect for its target, offering fans of the original or more first a chance to see the two stars in their element who they grew up with, and it allows their children a chance to see characters their own age they can identify with.

Though I might not be the ideal audience, it reminded me of Disney adult aimed humored films where they still have an innocence, despite being more maturely themed

The film wisely stays with Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis‘s characters whose bodies are supposed to be inhabited by these teenagers and they get to major league showcase and be broad throughout whereas we do see the teenagers supposedly inhabited by older people, but the movie doesn’t rely on them as much.

It’s especially nice and surprising to see Lindsay Lohan back on the big screen and a major release making her comeback of sort. She has been making a comeback and more Hallmark and straight to streaming movies but here is the first time she’s had a chance on a major big screen platform. After so much trouble in her personal life it seemed like she was destined for tragedy or at least never really work again, which was a shame as always thought that she had the talent and goods to be a leading lady and have a long career so this film was a nice surprise.

Even though she doesn’t have as much to do or shine as in the last film, she still impresses, and it still quite the screen presence.

Jamie Lee Curtis is obviously having fun with her role here and gets a lot of time to shine and showcase and feel steadier here than in some of her more recent roles

Chad Michael Murray continues to be type cast as the hunk who gets away and kind of temptation that lays on the side, pure of fantasy, which leaves him with very little to do.

The film breezes along and mannequin to have and beat everything for each part of the audience. It can be romantic, comedic, young, mature, juvenile, and it manages to stay fun throughout, except when it goes from the second act of the third act with a plot device that of course is needed for a 3 act structure, but still has you rolling your eyes Kind of like getting a shot at the doctors office it’s needed and you know it’s coming, but the process is always a pain

Is the film is everything you expected to me, though? It also has charisma and charm. This is not going to went over anyone new to the franchise, but the fans of it will be in heaven as they bring back most of the cast from the first film and it feels like not your standard sequel. There was a lot of effort put it into this film That makes it feel like it goes above and beyond for its audience not a general audience again, but its audience.

Grade: C+

Directed By: Peter Atecino

Written By: Kevin Biegel and Scotty Landes

Cinematography: Eigil Bryld

Editor: Eleanor Infante

Cast: Bert Kreischer, Mark Hamill, Jimmy Tatro, Iva Babic, Robert Maaser, Stephanie Kurtzuba, Martyn Ford, Jessica Gabor, Rita Bernard Shaw, Oleg Taktarov

Bert’s drunken past catches up with him 20 years down the road when he and his father are kidnapped by those Bert wronged 20 years ago while drunk on a college semester abroad in Russia.

While this is another comedian Bert Kreischer taking from his stand-up and making a movie out of it, or at least part of his stand this one actually kind of works a little deeper as a presents itself as a sophomore, action comedy. At times the humor is juvenile, but in the end, it’s all about taking responsibility and trying to do the best for your kids. Not to mention the complicated relationships families can have. Especially when trying to either honor or prove yourself.

it also focuses on a father and son relationship and bonding that I’ve done well, I am a sucker for. Which, at least, gives this film some kind of depth.

So, while the action scenes are serviceable and not entirely impressive, they do help break up the film and add a little bit more excitement to it.

As Director, Peter Atecino is more of a noted comedy Director. He does OK with the action sequences.

It’s nice to see Mark Hamill on the big screen and not only doing a voice acting role or just some extension of either playing himself or a Star Wars movie

I will admit to being a partial Bert Kreischer fan as I have seen many of his online antics. I have listened to his podcast. I’ve read his book and he just seems like the type of guy you might wanna hang out with or if you do, something memorable who just seems to collect those moments

It’s cloudy how his drinking superpowers sort of make him invincible in flashbacks. It just shows I’m taking off her shirt and getting drunk and not performing any particularly that define hacks, though it does seem like if anything it just gives him more drunk courage which, in the end, helps him out as an adult, living up to the legend And being not work.

He and Mark Hamill have great chemistry as Burt plays a version of himself that makes the film a little meta–

Not to mention have to give credit to a found that feels like a 1980s over-the-top action comedy with a scene right out of a Schwarzenegger movie where he literally uses a machine gun just to light his cigar in the middle of a battle. I can imagine Arnold Schwarzenegger watching that and thinking why didn’t I do that makes me a little jealous.

It’s a Film worth taking a chance on, it’s entertaining, and it’s not gonna change your world. If you’re a fan of Hays, you should enjoy it but it’s not something that is going to lay in your memory for a long time, it’s a Film for his audience or a nice introduction to who he is.

In the end, the film is more silly than anything else

Grade: C

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