Movies of a Petite Aspie

Director David Dobkin may have garnered a number of laughs, shocks, and gasps from the audience, but The Change-Up is, essentially, an R-rated bromance version of the mother-daughter body-switching comedy Freaky Friday . So inspired, in fact, that the lascivious comedy can hardly be called innovative. Dave (Jason Bateman) is a career-obsessed lawyer with a loving wife (the screechy yet lovely Leslie Mann) and three young children.  Mitch (Ryan Reynolds ) curses in front of Dave’s children, smokes marijuana in public, and adores himself and his looks, which he uses to sleep with as many women as possible (and brag about it incessantly).  He is reckless, careless, and carefree.  One drunken night, Dave and Mitchell urinate in a fountain, simultaneously chanting, “I wish I had your life.” Thunder, a blackout, and body-switching follow and the predictability ensues. Of course, following the supernatural formula established in Big , the magical fountain ha...

Cowboys & Aliens , director Jon Favreau’s latest high-budget venture, opens in a bleak but picturesque New Mexico landscape in the 1870’s, and a dazed cowboy (Daniel Craig) notices a peculiar electronic bracelet affixed to his wrist. He evidently cannot remember his name or anything else, and he soon wanders into a Western town inhabited by various folks, including a hardened Colonel (Harrison Ford), a mysterious beauty (Olivia Wilde), a frank preacher (M.C. Gainey), and a clueless saloon owner (Sam Rockwell). He discovers that his name is Jake Lonergan, and that he is wanted for a variety of terrible crimes, including murder. However, the threat of an invading alien spacecraft comes to the forefront, as friends and family members of the townspeople are captured by these bizarre creatures that they call “demons” – at that time, humans had yet to invent the term “aliens,” and the thought of another planet with living beings would never have crossed their minds. Lonerga...