Smith Month - Mini Review: The Pursuit of Happyness

I’ve decided to save my sanity and limit the Will Smith Oscar baiting movies to this one and Collateral Beauty. But I’ve chosen this one to introduce another member of the Smith family we’ll be looking at a couple more time. May I introduce Mr Jaden Smith… You know the guy who tweets this sh*t

No Jaden, Baby Geniuses is cr*ppy movie series, not a representation of Real Life

At a mere 8 years old (probably younger during production) and with only a cameo in Men in Black II under his belt, young Jaden would have a starring role in this, the Pursuit of Happyness

Released in 2006, the movie had a decent reception with 67% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and an average 8/10 on IMDb. The movie was profitable, earning over $300m on its $55m budget. But does it hold up? Here are my thoughts.

#57 - Smith Month - Shark Tale

I’ve not done a single Guilty Pleasure review in ages, and that’s not about to change now, we continue Smith Month with an animated future, infamous as one of the worst of the Dreamworks Catalogue, Shark Tale.

Released in 2004 and making a sizeable profit of $367m on it’s $75m budget, the movie had a mixed critical reception at the time and it’s only got worse as time went on. I normally wouldn’t cover a movie Mr Enter had already torn to shreds, but this is a Will Smith movie and hey? When was the last time I reviewed an awful kids thing? What's that? I did in my last 2 rage reviews… why break up a trilogy? This is Shark Tale

Smith Month - Mini Review: Men in Black 3

It was only about 8 years late, but we finally got a second Men in Black sequel, does it improve on areas that were lacking in the last movie? Well, with a 68% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and making enough money to surpass the previous film, it certainly seems things are back on track, but are they? Let’s take a look.

Star Wars Rebels Season 4 Finale Review - A Fool's Hope/Family Reunion and Farewell

And so we come to the end of a journey. Back in August 2014 I started Star Wars Month, a month dedicated to Star Wars Material: movies, tv shows and cr*ppy lego shorts. Just as I did, Star Wars was preparing for its big return with the Force Awakens. But before then, a little kids’ show in Disney XD cropped up. I decided to review it, episode by episode, and whilst other shows failed to meet the standard I require to be invested, this show never dropped that far, at least not consistently. Sure the quality varied from episode to episode, I’d argue this season gave us some of the most consistent quality I’ve seen, not a single episode scoring below a 7, and I’ll tell you right now, that’s not changing with these final ones. This show had 2 purposes, the first was to the show the foundations of the Rebel Alliance, an arc that basically concluded in the last series and secondly to see a rag-tag group of rebels fighting the good fight with the end goal of liberating Lothal, and here we are, let’s take a look at the final episodes of the show. Spoilers will be covered, so here we go

Smith Month - Mini Review: Men in Black II

Let’s continue with the Men in Black series as we continue Smith Month

Men in Black II came out in 2002 and was met with a decent Box Office performance but a poor critical reception, which likely factored into the 3^rd movie not coming out until 10 years later. Why was the critical reception so poor, well here’s my take on it.

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Smith Month: Mini Review - Men in Black

It’s March, you know what that means, time for an obligatory theme month!

  

Ah, Will Smith, a guy who somehow ends up in some dire awful movies, but maintains a certain charm that keeps him employable, even moving over to the first Netflix blockbuster, Bright (which is not a great movie but I won't be covering here) but like I said, he’s been in a lot of bad movies, and I have a select few I plan to cover. Let’s start with one that isn’t sh*t, Men in Black.

Released in 1997 to financial and critical success, including 3 Academy Award Nominations, this movie would go on to the first of a 3-movie franchise, the rest of which we’ll cover next week.