New DVDs: Laugh Yourself To Death

The Benchwarmers
A group of middle age losers put together a baseball team to compete against the nastiest bully team in little league. This movie has an all-star comedy cast with Rob Schneider (Deuce Bigalow, The Hot Chick), David Spade (Joe Dirt, The Emperor’s New Groove), Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite), and Jon Lovitz (Rat Race, Coneheads).

The Benchwarmers is a part of a new era of comedy flicks - a mixture of slapstick comedy, suggestive humor, moral undertones, and unattractive middle age heroes. Basically movies like Old School and Wedding Crashers fared so well among the 16 - 25 year-old male crowd that the production companies adopted the same formula to create comedy films for a PG preteen audience.

Your thirteen year old would really like this film, and to your chagrin your husband will find it amusing too.

Final Destination 3
Last night I had a nightmare - I got into a car accident. Although I’ve never had this particular dream before, crashing my car is a pretty constant theme of my slumber-theatre. It’s the same scenario most of the time - I choose to hit the gas instead of the breaks and I can’t put my car in reverse causing me to and speed right into another car - off a bridge - into a tree. I’m of course going to avoid driving for the next couple of days as dreams always bear the question: Was that a vision or just fiction?

Take for example the teenage action/thriller Final Destination 3- when Wendy Christensen, a clairvoyant high school senior, has a vision of fatal roller coaster accident at an amusement park. She could have just shrugged it off and taken the mighty plunge - but instead she prevents her and her friend’s deaths!

In the third installment of the cult hit Final Destination series - the unseen forces of darkness set out to kill the survivors that were supposed to die in the freak accident. Just like the Final Destination and Final Destination 2, the movie leaves us all asking if it’s possible to cheat death.

After the nightmare I had last night, you know I’m pulling for Wendy and her friends! Otherwise I am going to have to call in sick tomorrow.

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