Many mini-views

Mrs. Misawa and I enjoyed a lovely weekend in the mountains this past weekend through yesterday, doing what we do best - napping watching movies. A couple of them I plan on posting full fledged reviews for, but we honestly watched so many, most of which were a bit older, that I'll just be posting some quick takes here.

• Ice Age 2: The Meltdown - I liked this one better than the first. Following Manny, the lone woolly-mammoth (voiced by Ray Romano) and his band of friends as they make for high ground so as not to get flooded as the Ice Age comes to an end. 7/10
• The Breakup - I'm a Vince Vaughan fan - I love his rapid fire, deadpan delivery and way of sneaking in jokes in a seemingly normal and serious conversation. The arguing scenes between him and Jennifer Anniston go from slightly zany and funny to serious and uncomfortable quickly - a bit too uncomfortable for my taste at times. 6/10
• The Sentinel - Starring Jack Bauer... er, I mean Kiefer Sutherland and Michael "still wanna be an action star" Douglas. This dud has potential at times, but in the end was rather blah. It follows Douglas as a distinguished (read: old) Secret Service agent who is having an affair with the President's wife, Kim Basinger. Sutherland growls in all his Bauer-ish ways as the investigator charged with finding out who wants to kill the President - and all signs point toward the guy playing hide the Shelaleigh with the First Lady. By the end, you really don't care about most of the characters - even the President himself is not such a bad guy. A lackluster 5/10
• Firewall - Harrison Ford is an IT master for a bank. His family is taken hostage and he must assist the criminals with their heist in order to free them. This was better than expected, but I didn't have high expectations for it anyway. 6/10
• Taking Lives - a decent thriller starring Angelina Jolie as a FBI profiler tracking a serial killer. Lots of holes to punch in this one, but a good amount of fright plus some twists keep it interesting. 6/10
• Click - I'll admit it - I'm an Adam Sandler fan. It dates back to my (first) college days and fraternity parties fueled more by Mt. Dew than alcohol. In this, Sandler gets a "universal" remote that literally controls his universe, allowing him to fast forward through fights with his very-easy-on-the-eyes wife Kate Beckinsdale, as well as other tedious and unwanted things. Cookie cutter, but fun - the scene between Sandler and boss David Hasselhoff is priceless. 7/10