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Best Comedy Film of the Year
Jennifer’s Body. I know, I know. This is not technically a comedy movie. Still, when Megan Fox shares her deepest insights with a young high school football player and those profundities amount to "you gave me a wetty" we are stunned into hysteria. A wetty you say? Yes sir, I must have drooled on myself while laughing, not to mention dessert when Fox ate her prey. Yummy.
Best Cartoon/Animated Film of the Year
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs with special consideration for Up and Astro Boy. Cloudy made my girlfriend hungry, while it made me crave…for more animated films. It contains a wonderful parable with brilliant Real D 3D animation. Astro Boy and Up are in the A-/B+ category but to win this award a movie requires an A or higher.
Best Action Film of the Year
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, with special consideration for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Transformers is everything one could hope for and more. In Blu-Ray it is quite simply the most visually scintillation picture in history. The action is relentless and the stars are in the prime of their careers. It does not hurt that Optimus Prime is a badass once again. Harry Potter is improving with every attempt and should end with a glorious bang, or poof.
Best Drama Film of the Year
Inglorious Basterds wins and is closely (within a hair’s length) by Beyond a Reasonable Doubt with Michael Douglas and Jessie Metcalfe. Both films present compelling and rich quandaries, but Quentin Tarantino’s movie is too important to be ignored for this award. I will take Michal Douglas over Brad Pitt 9/10 times, especially since Shining Through is a million times better than Inglorious Basterds, but being a 2009 pop culture sensation, Basterds, a film about Jews assassinating and exacting revenge of Hitler and the SS is forever a part of cinematic history, for better or worse.
Best Romance Film of the Year
The Twilight Saga: New Moon has few competitors. This has been the first year I can remember in which the romance pictures have been lame and pointless. To be good or even great a romance film needs a dashing leading man, a sappy/romantic woman at a crossroad, and a lot of couple’s humour. The Ugly Truth offers a few one-liners, The Proposal has Ryan Reynolds pretending not to be gay, and All About Steve showcases a little bit of nothing, which for those of you in Port Saint Lucie Florida is still nothing. Twilight offers Robert Pattinson and Kristin Stewart, both successful young rising stars, both enamored with one another in real life, and both willing to channel burning desire. Stewart amuses audiences with her old-fashioned charm and she is in the midst of severe teen angst that could endanger her life and the lives of literally everyone around her. It satisfies the triangle of criteria.
Best Science Fiction Movie of the Year
Star Trek was the most highly anticipated science fiction film of the year. Others in this category include Knowing, Pandorum and Avatar. Only Star Trek is a complete work that fires on all cylinders. Pandorum has action and storyline twists, Knowing has the alien Garden of Eden and Nicolas Cage, Avatar has great special effects, but Star Trek offers all of that and ten great acting performances.
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