The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Four girls who have been inseperable since birth have the entire summer ahead of them -- ufortunately, they must spend it apart. Lena is going to Greece to spend the summer with her grandparents. Bridget is going down to Mexico for soccer camp (unfortunately for her, it's 'girls only'). Carmen is going to South Carolina to spend the summer with her Dad, who left her and her mother when she was little. That leaves Tibby to stay at home in Bathesda, Maryland to finish making her documentary on the lives of everyday people in her town (which she has temporarily entitled 'Suckumentary').

On the day before they part ways, they go shopping and find an incredible pair of jeans that mysteriously seems to fit all of them. Being all shapes and sizes, they have no idea how this is happening. They decide that these jeans are special jeans, and they resolveto share them for the summer. In doing this, they create the 'Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants'.

While wearing the pants, something special happens to each girl. At first, it seems like the jeans are bad-luck jeans, but as time progresses, they realize that the things they experienced and received while wearing the jeans turned out to be the most precious and unforgetable things that occured all summer.

I really liked this movie. It's a great movie that every girl needs to watch. I'm not sure if it follows the book exactly, seeing as how I've never read it, but it's an awesome movie regardless. It's heartwarming and carries a good message for girls everywhere. It's even all right for guys...my brother watched it with me and admitted that it was OK.

Some of the acting was bad, but the four girls held character for the whole movie and each had a special message to share. Most of the bad acting was by minor, insignificant characters that no one will remember anyway.

Four and a half stars...this one's a winner!

Pirates of the Caribbean

Oh
my
gosh
I
LOVED
this
movie!!!!!

Pirates of the Caribbean is a movie placed in Port Royale in the Caribbean (obviously). Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) is the beautiful daughter of the governor of the small settlement who is desperately in love with Will Turner (Orlando Bloom), a poor blacksmith's apprentice, who she helped rescue years before when the ship he was on was attacked by pirates. When the whimsical Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) comes to Port Royale, one thing leads to another, and the port is being attacked by pirates! But these are no ordinary pirates...they are cursed because of a secret that is trapped in Will's past, and they have been searching for him for eight years. Will and Elizabeth go with Jack Sparrow on a crazy adventure and end up in the typical happily-ever-after ending.

Johnny Depp is AMAZING. There are not enough words to describe the absolute perfection of his performance. He reminded me of a marvelous mix between Keith Richards and a swashbuckling scallywag that's addicted to rum. He was funny, charming (for a pirate), and has permanently earned the title of 'Jess's Inspiration'. Johnny Depp was robbed of an Oscar.

I've never liked Orlando Bloom -- I don't think he's hot, I think he's full of himself, and I firmly believe that he is severely overrated. He did alright in this movie, I must confess. He had emotion, but not quite enough to make me care about whether he lived or died. Orlando and Johnny and fabulous chemistry on-screen, and I was semi-convinced that Orlando and Keira Knightley were in love. Keira did a pretty good job, as well...I can't believe that she was only 17 years old when they were filming Pirates...

Geoffrey Rush was an incredible bad guy! By the end of the movie, you hate him, yet you feel sort of sad for him. He was evil to the core and added so much to the film.

I am definitely looking forward to the sequels that are coming out next year. A 'Pirates of the Caribbean' Trilogy...what could be better??!

4 and a half stars. SEE IT!!

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

This was the most retarded, ridiculous movie I've ever seen. I LOVED IT!!!

The plot was hard to follow, but in the end, it all makes sense. Arthur Dent is an ordinary guy who lives somewhere in Europe (I think, anyways...his home is never truly established. The point is, he lives on the planet Earth). His house is about to be demolished, and just when he thinks all hope is lost and his home is gone forever, his friend Ford Prefect comes and says, 'You're right, all hope is lost and your home IS gone forever, 'cause the planet is about to be destroyed by the Vogons'. Arthur's confused to the extreme, but before he can ask what's going on, the Vogons descend to destroy the planet, and Ford and Arthur have very little time to escape. They escape -- onto the Vogon starship. The Vogons blast them into space, but they are picked up by the President of the Galaxy in his stolen starship and a girl that Arthur met at a party (who he also has secretly loved since the night they met).

The rest of the movie somehow gets them involved to find the Ultimate Question. They already know the answer -- it's 42 -- but they have to go from one end of the galaxy to the other to find the question.

Then we find out that humans are NOT smartest creatures on the planet Earth, but rather, the 3rd smartest. The second smartest are dolphins and the first...well, just see the movie.

It's an excellent movie. It's got stupid humor, and it doesn't make sense right away, but it's not pointless (like Napoleon Dynamite). It's based on the book by Douglas Adams, and I fully anticipate the making of 'The Restaurant at the End of the Universe' or one of Douglas's other works. In my opinion, he's a genius writer.

4 stars