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What to Expect When You’re Expecting the Movie What to Expect When You’re Expecting

Posted on March 24, 2012 Written by ripitup

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What to Expect When You're Expecting. Jennifer Lopez poster via moviefanatic.com

Yes, I’m afraid the title is a mouthful and a painfully obvious pun but I just couldn’t resist.

After all, a movie creates expectations in each of us- and just like the book the movie is based on gives us some ideas about what to expect when we are expecting (babies).

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What to Expect When You're Expecting posters- Cameron Diaz and Elizabeth Banks. Image via superstarbabies.com

Movies with big casts featuring lots of familiar names scare me. It is usually more bad news than good. There a lot of movies with great casts and lousy scripts and tedious results. Look at Dr. T and the Women  Or Gary Marshall’s Valentine’s Day. Just because you got lots of names, it doesn’t give you the right to shoot a story that has no entertainment value – mindless or otherwise.

But sometimes, with a good story and a famous cast- you can come out of it with great results, such as He’s Just Not That Into You, Hairspray or Stardust.

Plot and Cast

What to Expect When You’re Expecting will apparently tell the tales of many mother and father-to-bes

As well as the parents who are doing their best to cope. The cast has Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Lopez, Dennis Quaid, Matthew Morrison, Elizabeth Banks, Jessica Kendrick, Megan Mullally (Will and Grace’s Karen), Chase Crawford (Gossip Girl’s Nate) and Chris Rock.

The trailer looks entertaining, but only time (and the movie itself) will show which category this movie will belong to. But I really like the gang of dads who boast of their kids’ “accidents.”

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What to Expect When You’re Expecting is coming to the theaters in May.

[pro-player width=’530′ height=’253′ type=’video’]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQTetUGvKWk[/pro-player]

So what are expecting from this film?

 

Other recommended ensemble cast movies:

 The Good Shepherd feat. Robert De Niro, Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, Alec Baldwin, Billy Crudup, William Hurt, Timothy Hutton, Lee Pace, Gabriel Macht.

The Air I Breathe feat. Sarah Michelle Gellar, Brendan Fraser, Forest Whitaker, Emile Hirsch, Kevin Bacon, Julie Delpy, Andy Garcia

Stardust feat. Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert De Niro, Claire Danes, Henry Cavill, Ricky Gervais, Sienna Miller.

Hairspray feat. John Travolta, Christopher Walken, Michelle Pfeiffer, James Marsden Zac Efron, Allison Janney, Amanda Bynes

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Coming Soon:Bad Teacher starring Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel & Justin Timberlake

Posted on March 13, 2011 Written by ripitup

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Bad Teacher starring Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel & Justin Timberlake. Coming in June.

Bad Teacher is a summer comedy that will start hitting the theaters at the end of June. So let’s see what it’s all about:

Cameron Diaz is in fact a ridiculously inappropriate junior high teacher who values only herself and money. She believes she’s too good for the school’s gym teacher Jason Segel and when she begins her man hunt, she goes after the new instructor Justin Timberlake. Of course judging by his ex, she believes that she can only get him after a major boob surgery. So she decides to go after the bonus too, a reward given to the best teacher. But she now has to win over Lucy Punch, who is.. well, a  better teacher.

Can she win the money and the guy?

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Bad Teacher looks entertaining but I’m not sure it is funny enough. It’s a fun premise but a movie has to be really, really funny when it’s centered on characters that you don’t care about at all. And while gorgeous, Cameron Diaz doesn’t play a likable character.

I really enjoyed Jason Segel in Forgettting Sarah Marshall and I love you, Man but he doesn’t seem to have enough punch lines here. He only made me giggle when he called his student  “Hey, Twilight” . Well, the kid’s hair is very Twilight’s Edward Cullen-ish.

Oh, and I am not ready to embrace Justin Timberlake as a leading actor yet. Yes, he is an OK actor and his acting hurts less than his music, but the lead? I guess the writers thought it would be a fun touch casting him as the guy Cameron strives to get, as Cameron already got Justin – from 2003 to 2006. They dated for 3 years. The attraction to Justin is something I’ll never get, as I like my men (and my male celebrities) tall, well-built & manly.

Directed by Lawrence Kasdan’s son Jake Kasdan. Written by Gene Stupnitsky, Lee & Eisenberg, whose credits writing credits include (American) The Office series and the Jack Black comedy Year One.

Let’s see if this is a good movie with a mediocre trailer. The trailer is available on imdb.com

 

Other Cameron Diaz Movies & Posts:

Knight and Day starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz

The Box starring Cameron Diaz, James Marsden and Frank Langella

My Sister’s Keeper starring Cameron Diaz, Jason Patrick & Abigail Breslin

4 Good Movies with Awesome Soundtracks: Shoot ‘em up, Jerry Maguire, Reality Bites and Vanilla Sky

10 FUNNIEST MOVIES EVER: Laugh Till Your Ribs Hurt

Cameron Diaz Trivia

Other Jason Segel Movies & Series:

Forgetting Sarah Marshall starring (&written by Jason Segel)

How I Met Your Mother – Comedy Series

I Love You Man starring Jason Segel & Paul Rudd

Other Justin Timberlake Movies:
The Social Network starring Jesse Eisenberg. Featuring Justin Timberlake

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Knight and Day starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz

Posted on July 12, 2010 Written by ripitup

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Knight and Day starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz. I attached a foreign poster because it just looks way better than the regular. Image via http://forum.divxplanet.com

June Havens (Cameron Diaz) is a beautiful car mechanic who is about to fly home with her recently acquired car parts from Kansas. She needs to be at home soon for her sister’s wedding and she will be using the parts for her wedding gift, a car their deceased father has left them.

When she meets handsome stranger Roy Miller (Tom Cruise) at the airport and ends up on the same plane with him, she is more than thrilled. The problem is, she was never meant to get on that plane. The plane carries only a bunch of passengers and along with the pilots and stewardesses, they are all intent on killing Miller- who happens to be a very capable and deadly secret agent.

When June goes to the bathroom to well…look prettier and work on tactics on how to get on with Roy, Roy is busy killing everyone attacking him. She comes out to face the biggest adventure of her life when landing the plane in a field, being briefed about what not to do when rogue agents come asking about Roy is only the beginning…

As much as June tries to get along with her life, FBI tracks her down. They do everything Roy told her they would and he  comes and “saves” June from them. She doesn’t exactly trust Roy, but he has saved her life several times and well, he also happens to be the most attractive and exciting guy she ever met.

So June is thrown into a journey involving  agents (Peter Sarsgaard), Spanish arm dealers (Jordi Molla), genuis teenagers (Paul Dano), exotic islands, around-the-world traveling, a lot of (car) chases and some good old fighting. But the question remains: Is Roy telling the truth and as genuinely interested in her as he seems to be or is he the rogue one? And how far will June go to find out?

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Knight and Day is an excellent blend of action, comedy and romance. There rarely comes a movie that combines all these genres perfectly. Knight and Day never ignores a genre that it belongs to. Cameron Diaz and Tom Cruise are together on screen once again after Vanilla Sky. While Vanilla Sky was an intriguing film, comedic action has suited this dynamic and extremely attractive duo much better.

As much as I like to make fun of Tom Cruise’s weird fascination with everything Katie Holmes and scientology, I am going to admit that he has never stopped being one of my favorite actors and entertainers of all time. And he is notably gorgeous and young-looking at 48 is beyond me.

I have read many funny and stupid comments about the movie. Some of them includes:

–          That Cameron Diaz is too old to wear a bikini and look bad in it.

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Cameron Diaz looks bad in a bikini??? You have to be kidding me! Image via fotos.ekolay.net

Are you kidding me? She may not be the youngest-looking 37-year-old actress out there, but she certainly looks amazing all the time.

–          That this movie is an insult to animal rights as it involves scenes in Spain with bulls…

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Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz in Knight and Day. Talking about having an exciting relationship. And effects are marvelous. Tom Cruise stands taller than Diaz 😉 Image via http://www.scene-stealers.com/

This movie is the perfect reminder of why Tom and Cameron have been so popular for so many years. They are pretty, talented, in shape and they provide great chemistry.

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Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz in Knight and Day. Image via foto.ekolay.net

Favorite Line/Scene: June is given a form of truth serum. She is supposed to escape from the bad guys with her knight Roy but she is much more intent on flirting and expressing her true feelings for him. Trust her to distract the most professional agent:

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Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz in Knight and Day. Image via foto.ekolay.net

June (to Roy): I think we would have great sex!

Roy: Did they give you something?

See it. You will have fun.

9/10 for all over entertainment, well-done script and casting.

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Trailer:

[pro-player width=’530′ height=’253′ type=’video’]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKxMHwVgFbc&feature=related[/pro-player]

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3 Summer Movies to Anticipate: Inception, Salt, Knight and Day

Posted on July 5, 2010 Written by ripitup

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Knight and Day starring Cameron Diaz and Tom Cruise. This movie does look fun! Image from

Maybe these movies already came to the theaters in your country or you did have a chance to see them already at an early screening. But for those of you who haven’t, here are 3 movies to anticipate and enjoy in the summer. The article features  trailers and info on the movies. You can read it here.

More Cameron Diaz

The Box

My Sister’s Keeper

Vanilla Sky

More Cruise

Lestat, Dracula and Other Vampires

TOM CRUISE: Love him? Hate him? Maybe both…

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Filed Under: Movies and Actors Tagged With: Angelina Jolie, Cameron Diaz, inception, knight and day, leonardo dicaprio, movies, salt, summer movies, Tom Cruise

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