Thursday, March 15, 2007 Movies at Gaisano Mall this week
COMEDY is the flavor of the week, as three laugh-out-loud flicks open today at Gaisano Mall of Davao.
The blockbuster spoof Epic Movie leads this week's new releases that also include the teen romantic-comedy Happy Hearts and the mother-daughter comedy Because I Said So.
The road thriller Hitcher give a variance.
Getting extension is America's current #1 movie, 300, and You Got Me now runs in its third week.
Epic Movie
The twisted minds of two of the six writers of Scary Movie tackle the biggest mega-blockbusters of all time in Epic Movie.
The #1 movie for two weeks centers on four not-so-young orphans: one raised by a curator at the Louvre (where an albino assassin lurks), another a refugee from Mexican "libre" wrestling, the third a recent victim of snakes on her plane, and the fourth a "normal" resident of a mutant "X"-community. The hapless quartet visits a chocolate factory, where they stumble into an enchanted wardrobe that transports them to the land of Gnarnia. There they meet a flamboyant pirate captain and earnest students of wizardry - and join forces with, among others, a wise-but-horny lion to defeat the evil White Bitch of Gnarnia.
Because I said so
Daphne Wilder (Dianne Keaton) is a mother whose love knows no bounds or boundaries. She is the proud mom of three daughters: stable psychologist Maggie (Lauren Graham), sexy and irreverent Mae (Piper Perabo) and insecure, adorable Milly (Mandy Moore) - who, when it comes to men, is like psychotic flypaper. In order to prevent her youngest from making the same mistakes she did, Daphne decides to set Milly up with the perfect man. Little does Milly know, however, that her mom placed an ad in the online personals to find him. Comic mayhem unfolds as Daphne continues to do the wrong thing for the right reasons...all in the name of love. In a hilarious battle of strong wills, the mother-daughter dynamic is tested in all its fierce, wacky complexity. The girls help Daphne finally discover the truths and impossibilities of motherly love, all while trying to answer the questions: where does it begin and where should it end?
The Hitcher
From filmmaker Michael Bay's production company comes The Hitcher, an update of the 1986 film of the same name.
Collegiate couple Grace Andrews (Sophia Bush) and Jim Halsey (Zachary Knighton) hit the road in a 1970 Oldsmobile 442, en route to spring break, but their pleasure trip soon turns into a waking nightmare after encountering the mysterious hitchhiker John Ryder (Sean Bean). The initial encounters with Ryder are increasingly off-putting for Grace and Jim, and they bravely fight back when he ambushes them. But they are truly blindsided when he implicates them in a horrific slaying and continues to shadow them. The open road becomes a battleground of blood and metal as, in trying to elude not only Ryder but also New Mexico State Police Lieutenant Esteridge's (Neal McDonough) officers, Grace and Jim must fight for their lives and face their fears head-on.
Happy Hearts
Happy Hearts is about true love between a young man and a young woman, a son's love for his father, a father's love for his son, and true love between a man and a man. Alvin (Rayver Cruz) returns to the Philippines with her mom Sarah (Jean Garcia) to visit his father, Enrico (Rustom Padilla) a respected professor of an exclusive university for boys and his godfather Louie (Wendell Ramos), a sing-along master and who happens to be Enrico's live-in partner.
Alvin falls in love with Kristine (Shaina Magdayao), a rich and talented girl who lives under the strict hand of a very influential father (Tirso Cruz III).
Can love survive the odds? Will Alvin fight for his true love? Will the man get to keep his romance with the man? Will everybody's hearts indeed be happy?
