After being betrayed in Bolivia on a black ops mission that has gone bad. This rag tag group seeks revenge against the person who targeted them.

For the second week in a row we have a movie based on a comic, this time it’s a knock off of the A-Team. The premise has been done before so to pull off a film like this you need style and action although the Losers delivers on both fronts, it feels as though the product was watered down for mass consumption. This is a movie that to be done right needed to be rated R. Unfortunately it is PG-13.

The biggest problem is that “The Losers” suffers from the same type of poor shoot em up violence you would expect from a James Bond movie where people get shot but there is no blood, While this might have worked in the 80’s in 2010 it doesn’t get the job done. Furthermore this flaw is only that more glaringly obvious coming out right on the heels of Kick-Ass which earned its R rating with a smile on its face.

Don’t get me wrong “The Losers” is not a bad movie by any stretch of the imagination Jason Patric plays one of the best supervillians in recent memory (Chewing up every scene he is in). Chris Evans shows once again why he should be a star and Zoe Saldana in her bra and panties displays another reason why this needed to have an R rating, Less Jeffrey Dean Morgan hairy chest and more scantily clad Zoe would have really given “The Losers” that little bit extra it so desperately needed.

Grade-83

Dave Liewski is a nobody in highschool, who is really into comics. He wonders why nobody has become a superhero and decides to give it a try.

One day while patrolling the streets pretending to be a super hero which he has named Kick-Ass, Dave gets caught up in a street fight, while battling off the attacker’s he is video taped by bystander’s who upload the video to the internet. The video goes viral and Kick-Ass becomes a pseudo celebrity.

Things quickly spiral out of control for Kick Ass, when he is blamed by local gangster Fank D’amico (Mark Strong) for the work of a Father/Daughter team known as Hit Girl (Chloe Moretz) and Big Daddy (Nicholas Cage) who have been systematically knocking off Frank’s goons.

Kick-Ass is a really fun film to watch that doesn’t take itself to seriously Nicholas Cage delivers his best performance in ages as Damon Macready/Big Daddy who teaches his protégé daughter Mindy/Hit Girl how to be a lethal killing machine.

The dialog in the film is spot on with Dave and his friends Todd (Evan Peters) and Marty (Clark Duke who is on a roll after Hot Tub Time Machine) speaking how teenagers speak, while Hit Girl speaks like a superhero three times her age (There is something extremely hilarious and never gets old about a young girl having the foul mouth of a sailor). Hit Girl truly holds the entire film together.

The Violence is graphic and non-stop and is exactly what this Comic Book world needed where the superheroes have no super powers.
Kick-Ass is a brave film to come out in our current uptight PC culture, Kick-Ass thankfully didn’t try to water itself down to get a PG-13 rating.
It’s Violent, Funny and really enjoyable.

Grade-90

A middle aged couple and a case of mistaken identity result in a night they will never forget.

Phil (Steve Carrell) and Claire (Tina Fey) Foster are a middle aged couple, who in there currently busy lives try to go on a date night once a week, upon learning that a couple they are in a book club with are breaking up they decide to change up there usual date night and instead of the new jersey burbs decide to travel into Manhattan.

When the Fosters attempt to get into the hottest new restaurant “Claw” in NYC are not successful they decide to be dangerous and take the reservation of a couple who no showed and soon are mistaken for that couple.

Along there trip across NYC they come across a multitude of character’s including Holbrooke (Mark Wahlberg) a former client of Claires who works in a blackwater security capacity and refuses to where a shirt, the couple who’s reservation they took Taste (James Franco) and Whippit (Mila Kunis) And the always great J.B Smoove (Leon from Curb Your Enthusiasm) as a Cabbie stuck in the middle of a car chase with the Fosters.

I was actually quite surprised by Date Night I walked in thinking this was just a ploy to cash in off the pairing of two successful television stars and one of whom (Steve Carell) that after Evan Almighty and Get Smart I had zero interest of seeing unless it was a movie that involved Judd Apatow.

In fact the pairing of Fey and Carrell worked will they have great chemistry and I wasn’t thinking of them as lemon or scott at all but in fact as the fosters, the boring middle aged couple they portrayed. While not laugh out loud funny the entire time, the film is very entertaining and has some great moments worked for comedic effect. The cast is great and its extremely well paced. Against my preconceived notions of what this film would be I was won over.

Grade-88

The son of Zeus must go on a quest to destroy the Kraken and stop Hades from destroying Argon.

Perseus (Sam Worthington) is a small baby rescued by a fisherman when Hades kills his family he soon learns he is the mortal son of Zeus (Liam Neeson) and goes on a quest to destroy the monster that killed the Titans and is about to destroy the city of Argon “the Kraken”.

This reboot or remake or reimagining of the campy 80’s cult classic was not a film that many thought would be remade. The blueprint of the original is followed to a tee get some high profile actors who you wouldn’t think would be part of the project add in a wooden leading man throw in some mythology and a good time should be had for all.
Much to my dismay any fun that the original brought together is lost in this wasted retread.

Ralph Fiennes interpretation of Hades is laughable, pink eye shadow does not really show the power or awe one would expect from the god of the underworld. His menace doesn’t even compare to the animated Hades in Disney Hercules. Sam Worthington has shown that without James Cameron at the helm, if he is in a movie you should stay away. His Perseus a mere fisherman is able to fight with the best of them with as much of an explanation given to this, as to how he is the only person on the earth or MT Olympus with a buzz cut. Apparently while everyone has long grimy hair and beards Perseus was not only given a mythical sword and a Pegasus but also some magical hair clippers.

The entire movie lacks any form of charm that the B-Movie original possessed, one would think that with the advancements in special effects that the stop motion effects of the original would be destroyed by today’s CGI I will take a stop motion medusa over this version any day. Clash of the Titans is a disappointment and a shining example of how to remove fun from a film. Grade-70