The Aristocrats (documentary): So there’s this joke told by comics to each other that goes back to Vaudeville times called “the aristocrats.” Essentially the joke sucks. It starts with “A family walks in to a talent agent’s office and says, ‘Have we got an act for you,’” and ends with “We call ourselves… The Aristocrats.” In the middle, comics put in the most vile things that they can think of. There were points that I laughed at this movie, but if someone just put together a 10 minute documentary and threw it on the web, it would be more than enough. Although I find myself writing versions of the joke in my head, I wouldn’t waste any time watching this one. D

Four Brothers (drama): Imagine a 70’s Detroit Cop Movie where the street-wise rebel needs to exact revenge on the pimp that killed his mother. Now, imagine that same movie in 2005 where Markie “Come on guys! Let’s get those Apes” Mark is the best thing in it. The acting sucked, the plot was stupid, the characters were paper thin, and the “action” was laughably stupid. I wonder just how much Hollywood dick had to be sucked to get someone to commit to putting this on film. F

Trekkies 2 (documentary): If you ask me which I would recommend in this series, I would have to say that the original Trekkies noses this one out. I can’t say that Trekkies 2 was bad, but it was just a re-hash of the first movie with fresh nerds. I would say that it should be a companion disc to the first movie, and there seemed like there was enough material in the deleted scenes to make a short film. Actually, I think I can say that I enjoyed the deleted scenes more than the movie itself. C+

In Her Shoes (chick flick): The movie starts out with Cameron Diaz having sex in a bathroom stall until she throws up all over the place. She then gets kicked out of the house by her evil step mother and gets taken in by her straight-laced lawyer sister. As gratitude, she screws her sister’s new boyfriend. And so begins the downward spiral that lands the bad sister in a Florida retirement community trying to manipulate a grandmother that she hasn’t seen in 15 years. This is the story of 2 sisters and the way that they interact with each other. It is also solidly in the chick flick realm, but I have to admit that I was involved enough in the story by the end that I didn’t really care all that much. B

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