I hope everyone is having a great weekend so far. The box office announcement should be out soon. Hopefully, I will have that up for you this afternoon. If you didn’t catch the return of Zach Galifianakis to studio 8H, make sure to check out his hilarious monologue clip!

After viewing Zach’s monologue, I can tell that it was a great night last night as Saturday Night Live took on corn syrup, the ladies of “The Talk,” and much more. “March Madness Cold Open” will get you into the Selection Sunday mood. And join Zach in the latest Digital Short as he hunts for a new assistant!

My favorite joke is the Red-neck shopping at a convenience store. I didn’t get the racist joke, so does that mean I am not racist? Which jokes do you like the best?

Being as I am single at thirty (hint, hint, ladies), I may not be the best person to talk about the new Tina Fey and Steve Carell comedy Date Night.  But thankfully, I do know from funny, and I do know what I like, and I can tell you that despite a lot of misgivings in the beginning, I really enjoyed this movie.

Date Night brings us the Fosters, a couple from suburban New Jersey who’ve seen better days in their marriage.  The grind of day to day living has started to wear on them a bit.  Children and book clubs and birthday parties and all those things that happen in a normal life leave them a little worn, and just a bit neglectful of each other.  Their saving grace as a couple is their weekly “date night”, a custom of married folk (or so I hear) in which they get dressed up (for them) and go out…to the same place they usually go and order the same dishes they usually order.

But this date night is different for the Fosters, after hearing about a divorce in their circle of friends.  They decide to amp it up a bit, and in doing so, set off a chain of events that starts with reservation hijacking and ends with exposing corruption on an epic scale within the New York Police Department and beyond.

Make no mistake about it, Tina Fey, former head writer for Saturday Night Live and quite possibly the show’s only saving grace post Ferrell / Kattan era, and Steve Carell, general quarters funnyman, are in top form here and put out a LOT of hilarious laughs as they portray what amounts to Mom and Dad Save New York.  Yes, they’re awkward.  They have no real idea of hip modern slang terms.  Carell’s attempts at being a tough guy fall hilariously flat because he looks like he could be blown over by a stiff wind and coming in contact with an ACTUAL tough guy (Mark Wahlberg, playing it very straight and succeeding, nicely) causes him to shift wonderfully to the envious husband who would rather that he JUST FREAKING PUT A SHIRT ON because he feels so woefully inadequate in front of the woman he loves.

Ladies, speaking as a guy here who would probably not look very good against Mark Wahlberg either, this is EXACTLY HOW IT WORKS FOR US.

And Tina Fey, meanwhile, is also doing her level best to portray a modern harried Supermom type who would kill for an afternoon of peace and quiet but is somehow wrangled into not only dodging bullets but keeping her husband’s fragile ego in tact.

Balanced against all this is a familiar but still steadily expanding plot that wraps up a little incoherently but with more than enough personality to forgive.

Date Night is much like that which it portrays–it uses a bucketload of comedy to spice up an otherwise woefully familiar set of proceedings and instead gives us an unexpected good time.  The Screenhead Ten Scale gives it a seven out of ten for not taking a whole lot of chances but for making the familiar seem a lot more bearable thanks to loads of comedy.

Toy Story 3 is a ringer!  So much is happening in this story. The movie is created by the team that gave us Up, Finding Nemo and Wall-E.  I can’t wait to see the movie and June 4, 2010, its opening date, is not close enough.

It’s a perfect time for Christmas movies to start coming out, seeing as the decorations have been up in the stores since like September.  And so, we’re tackling Four Christmases today, a movie that shows that sometimes, time with the family is the best gift of all.

Even if you don’t notice it at first.

This time, a young couple who’s not terribly interested in getting married, usually manages to duck their family obligations around the holidays by making up elaborate stories and going off to various getaways instead.   But a surprise San Francisco fogbank socks in the airport irrevocably, and so the four are left forced to spend Christmas in the last place on earth they want to…with their families.

Families.  FOUR of them.  Both of their families are divorced, and thus, they’ll have to spend four Christmases in just one day.

What’s so unnerving about this movie is that it veers so wildly between hilarious and awkward that it almost can’t decide whether it’s supposed to be funny or uncomfortable.  It’s like the fat kid at school…he’s trying desperately to be funny, but it’s actually just about as sad.

Each of the families is deranged for its own reason, and believe me, they’re deranged.  The least of the deranged is a family of backwoods amateur ultimate fighters.  It gets worse from there.

It’s awkward.  It’s painful, in spots.  But it’s also got a lot of humor and warmth to it.  There’s lots to enjoy here.  We’ve all seen this kind of thing before. This is Christmas at its absolute.  Family, friends, lovers, growth.  Life.

Four Christmases is like LIFE.

And as such, the Screenhead Ten Scale gives this strange little allegory a six out of ten.  There’s lots to like here, and there’s lots to feel uncomfortable about.  It IS life.  Take it for what it’s worth.

There appears to be some excellent talent in FAQ About Time Travel, a British film full of British humor, but the movie trailer lacks American spunk (if there is such a thing).

 

MTV has a new show that resembles ‘Cops’ for the MTV generation.

MTV viewers are about to find out that you can run and you can hide but when the police catch up with you, you’d better have your story straight. The network will give the phrase “You’re so busted” a whole new meaning in a daily dose of police busts and outrageous infractions with the series premiere of “Busted.”

Check out this interesting new clip from Disaster Movie, the latest genre spoof from filmmakers Jason Friedbeg and Aaron Seltzer, the team that parodied the teen-horror genre in Scary Movie, cliche romantic comedies in Date Movie, overblown blockbusters in Epic Movie, and the ultra-macho 300 in Meet The Spartans. Disaster Movie stars Matt Lanter, Vanessa Minnillo, Carmen Electra, Kim Kardashian, G-Thang, Nicole Parker, Crista Flanagan and Ike Barinholtz.

Here’s an interesting little scoop. My.spill.com managed to get a hold of Michael Bay’s unsolicited script for The Dark Knight, which of course got instantly rejected by Warner Bros, who released Christopher Nolan’s current record-breaker. The site manages to post a couple of pages of said script, revealing the extent of Bay’s “talents”. Quality moments include a description of Rachel Dawes as: “She is the hottest woman in the world, but she wears glasses because she is also the smartest woman in the world”, the attention given to Bruce Wayne’s pecs, and the slow-mo sequences of the Batmobile narrowly avoiding civilians happening “seventeen times”.

Okay, obviously this is a joke, but in every joke there is some truth, and I imagine if Michael Bay ever attempted a Batman script, we’d end up with something pretty similar. Kudos to My Spill for coming up with one of the funniest parodies in months!