DELIVERY MAN (Released to Theaters USA 2013)

 

Ben Meyers’ Rating: 4.5|5.0 Starsìììì Delivery Man—well done and entertaining—examines sperm donation from the angle of ‘I want to meet my biological father.’ David Wozniak (Vince Vaughn), who delivers meat for the Wozniak family’s meat business, finds that his college sperm donations fathered 533 children of which 142 have filed suit to release records that will allow them to meet him. David has his own life ‘going on’ with his pregnant girlfriend, Emma (Cobie Smulders), and difficulties with debt to gangsters. Film Poster Courtesy of Google Images Additional Thanks Thank you to Director Ken Scott for directing efforts. Thank you to Executive Producers Scott Mednick, Ray Angelic, and Mark Sourian for making the film possible. Cast include: Vince Vaughn, Chris Pratt, Cobie Smulders, Simon Delaney, Bobby Moynihan, Adam Chanler-Berat, Sébastien René, Bill Maher, and Jay Leno. Buy a ticket? Yes? No? Maybe? Yes. This film more than works for the adult audience.  Video Critique Available Here: Ben Meyers

INTO THE WILD (Released to Theaters USA 2007)

 

Ben Meyers’ Rating: 4.0|5.0 Starsìììì  Into the Wild—message story with its message deeply hidden—is partially based on a true story of one young man's quest for the meaning of life. This movie is based on a book written by Jon Krakauer, story picked up by Sean Penn who decided to write a movie script and produce the film. This has some nudity and some sexual scenes. But besides that the film is a good watch.  Film Poster Courtesy of Google Images Storyline A young man wants to find the meaning of life and how to achieve more happiness. He leaves his mother, father, sister, and material assets behind and begins hitchhiking across the United States while gradually heading toward the Alaskan wilderness. Additional Thanks Thank you to Director Sean Penn for directing effort. Thank you to Producers Sean Penn, Art Linson, and Bill Pohlad for making the film possible. Cast includes Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt, Jena Malone, Catherine Keener, Brian H. Dierker, Vince Vaughn, Zach Galifianakis, Kristen Stewart, and Hal Holbrook.  Buy a ticket? Yes? No? Maybe?  Yes. There is a strong message at the end of story that has been presented exceptionally well. The answer to both of his questions is given within the movie and allows any person watching the film access to the answer without needing to go on this young man's quest. Video Critique Available Here: Ben Meyers

WEDDING CRASHERS (Theatrical Release USA 2005)

Ben Meyers’ rating: 3.0|5.0 Starsììì

Wedding Crashers—lots of brief nudity with a heavily adult theme—uses the talents of Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, and Christopher Walken to tell its story. Is the film well done? Yes. As an educational watch, it can serve as a terrific visual exploration into the world of exceptionally skilled predators looking for that ‘free ride’—free food, free entertainment, free sex without responsibility for the cost of the ‘party’. It’s a coming of age movie when two men are a little too old to still be coming of age. The story is slightly reminiscent of the Adam Driver and Ben Stiller movie, While We’re Young, when two adults ‘missed the boat’ as all their friends got on board and moved to the next stage in their lives.

Film Poster Courtesy of Wikipedia

Storyline

John Beckwith (Owen Wilson) and Jeremy Grey (Vince Vaughn) crash weddings to bed women.

Additional Thanks

Thank You to Director David Dobkin for directing effort. Thank you to Executive Producers Cale Boyter, Richard Brener, Toby Emmerich, and Guy Riedel for making the film possible. Additional characters/cast include: Secretary Cleary (Christopher Walken), Claire Cleary (Rachel McAdams), Gloria Cleary (Isla Fisher), Kathleen Cleary (Jane Seymour), Grandma Mary Cleary (Ellen Albertini Dow), Todd Cleary (Keir O’Donnell), Sack Lodge (Bradley Cooper), Randolph (Ron Canada), Father O’Neil (Henry Gibson), Mr. Kroeger (Dwight Yoakam), and Mrs. Kroeger (Rebecca De Mornay).

Buy a ticket? Yes? No? Maybe?

Maybe. The film serves a sophisticated, mature audience. Its most redeeming factor becomes a type of education concerning the uninvited guest, why that guest may be escorted out when discovered, and how sophisticated a con becomes when someone wants something for free without responsibility toward the cost and maintenance of the free item. There is a certain theme running through the film that reminds one of the 1956 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production of High Society with Frank Sinatra and Grace Kelly.

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