Alex (Teo Halm), Tuck (Astro) and Munch (Reese Hartwig) are best friends but, due to a freeway being built, their neighborhood is to be torn down. It is the boys’ last week together and we follow them as they discover a strange signal on their smartphones and see that it is a map of a nearby desert. The signals seem to be guiding the kids as they set out on their last great adventure together in “Earth to Echo”
Though derivative of other films – “ET,” “The Gonnies,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Robot Giant” and the original “Clash of the Titans” (when you see “Earth to Echo” you will know what I mean) were ones I came up with – this is an enjoyable film that is ideal summer entertainment for teens and younger. But, much like the abovementioned films, “Echo” is also entertaining movie-going for older teens and young adults who want something light and airy, even with a sinister thread that pervades the film.
To read the rest of Robin's as well as Laura's review, click here:
http://www.reelingreviews.com/earthtoecho.htm
With her job lost, her husband cheating, her car on fire and no financial resources, a woman's desire to quit her town leads her to her unorthodox party animal of a grandmother, Pearl (Susan Sarandon), anxious to escape her daughter's plan to move her to a senior living facility. But a road trip in Pearl's car only brings more trouble for "Tammy."
Cowriter (with Melissa McCarthy)/director Ben Falcone makes his directorial debut with a vehicle for his wife inspired by a dream he had about her and her grandmother on a road trip. While the couple try to invest their comedy with deeper subtext about understanding between women a generation apart who have little sympathy for each other at the picture's beginning, there is something distasteful about their attempts to gain sympathy for Tammy by defining her as a pathetic, undereducated loser whose on the road romance is initiated by pity. Casting Sarandon, an iconic movie road tripper ("Thelma and Louise") is a bit of a stunt, but the actress, wearing a curly gray wig and prosthetic canckles, is game.
To read the rest of Laura's review, click here:
http://www.reelingreviews.com/tammy.htm
To read the rest of Robin's as well as Laura's review, click here:
http://www.reelingreviews.com/earthtoecho.htm
With her job lost, her husband cheating, her car on fire and no financial resources, a woman's desire to quit her town leads her to her unorthodox party animal of a grandmother, Pearl (Susan Sarandon), anxious to escape her daughter's plan to move her to a senior living facility. But a road trip in Pearl's car only brings more trouble for "Tammy."
Cowriter (with Melissa McCarthy)/director Ben Falcone makes his directorial debut with a vehicle for his wife inspired by a dream he had about her and her grandmother on a road trip. While the couple try to invest their comedy with deeper subtext about understanding between women a generation apart who have little sympathy for each other at the picture's beginning, there is something distasteful about their attempts to gain sympathy for Tammy by defining her as a pathetic, undereducated loser whose on the road romance is initiated by pity. Casting Sarandon, an iconic movie road tripper ("Thelma and Louise") is a bit of a stunt, but the actress, wearing a curly gray wig and prosthetic canckles, is game.
To read the rest of Laura's review, click here:
http://www.reelingreviews.com/tammy.htm
