We liked this one a lot. It's a car chase movie combined with a romantic comedy between modern, evolved adults. I'm a big fan of Dax Shepard (Crosby on Parenthood, was in Baby Mama (2008) and more) and he wrote the script and co-directs with David Palmer, as they did on another project. Kristen Bell, Shepard's real-life fiancée, plays his girlfriend here. They talked about the movie on Jimmy Kimmel in this video. It's an independent movie made with a $2 million budget (that's low, believe it or not), half of which went to music rights (clips here). Shepard, a car buff, provides the awesome onscreen muscle cars from his own collection AND does his own driving. Don't try those fishtails yourself, kids!
Also in the cast are Joy Bryant, who plays Crosby's girlfriend on Parenthood, Tom Arnold as a dumb cop, and Bradley Cooper in unfortunate dreadlocks. This has gotten bad reviews (45% critics, 58% audiences on rottentomatoes). We still enjoyed it two weeks ago and you can now on the big screen or later at home.
It's just a few minutes before midnight, and I'm celebrating an anniversary. Four years ago today, 9/3/08, I saw Brideshead Revisited and wrote the first entry in this blog. As of today I have seen 502 distinct feature films in those four years. This is number 500 (still catching up, as usual). Including the 21 I saw before that date and wrote up after, 521 are summarized as of right now. See my index for the running total.
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