Triple Feature Reviews Today!

We rented three movies lately and I haven't got around to posting them until now.  The reason I picked today to do the reviews that Anna looks very busy in the kitchen, so I will look busy on the keyboard.

1.  THE CAMPAIGN directed by Jay Roach and starring Will Ferrell and Zach Galifanakis.  Both stars more or less play the type of character each has been type-cast for.  It is a comedy about dirty politics in North Carolina which I think some research has been done it doesn't wander far from the truth nitty gritty of actual happenings in politics and sticking it to Mr. Average Voter.  Strangely, there are two sinister evil billionaire brothers playing dirty politics to get their way and make money at the taxpayers expense, their last name is Motch that sort of rhymes with Kotch.; coincidental of course.  The movie is of course good over bad wins, which remember, is a movie, not real life.

2.  BUTTER.   BUTTER takes place in a small town in Iowa that has a butter carving contest every year and the winner goes on to the state competition.  The movie is a comedy about a lady who is a pretty good carver, which she learned from her husband, a previous winner.  She thought she would be a shoo-in but up comes an orphaned girl who has a natural talent for carving butter. The competition becomes fierce and underhanded.  Jennifor Gardner makes it look like she thinks she has a calling from God to present the best carving - it is her destiny, so to speak.  The orpan's name is Destiny.    Other than Jennifer Garden the movie stars Yara Shahidi, Ty Burrell and Rob Corddry.  It was directed by  Jim Field Smith.


4.  YOUR SISTER'S SISTER.  Another comedy but this one is more like a Woody Allen comedy - situations that you have to think about, where there is no clear answers to what is right or what wrong.  I think this movie may have orginally been written to be play.  It is all dialog with very little action outside a cabin.  I hate to spill the beans about the plot but how else can I say what it is about.  This is the basic of the conversation:  The man's late brother's girlfriend offered the man to use her parents' cabin so that he can get away from it all and contemplate his naval.... ream it out and get all tht cotton fuzz out of it.  When he arrives he discovers his friend's sister is also there, to be alone.  Then one seduces te other, which is hard to decide which one did the seducing and why.  The whole dialog and plot reminded me of something Woody Allen would cook up.  It was witty in a charming British way, not  bursting out laughter like you would see in a Will Ferrell or a Zach Galifanakis movie.  It was directed by Lynn Shelton and the actresses and actor were Emily Blunt, Rosemarie DeWitt, and Mark Duplass.