1st timewhere: CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when: Friday, July 24th, 2009
show: 2:00 pm in Disney Digital 3-D
costs: $10.25 Ticket + $4.50 "Power-C" Vitamin Water = $14.75
auditorium: 8
seat: 3rd row, 12th column
2nd time
where: CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when: Monday, July 27th, 2009
show: 10:40 pm
costs: $9.50 Ticket + $4.25 Diet/Zero ( with Barq's & Cherry flavors ) Coke + $1.00 Banana Chips ( smuggled-in ) + $0.20 Pretzel Sticks & Cheddar Dip Snack ( also, smuggled-in ) = $14.95
auditorium: 1
seat: 4th row, 7th column
A clandestine FBI program has trained a group of guinea pigs to do espionage work for the government. On their initial and unauthorized outing at Saber's ( Bill Nighy ) place, they uncover the ambitious industrialist's grand plan to conquer the whole world. But they have no idea that someone is maliciously tampering with their evidence. As a result, their program is shut down. To clear their reputation, they go undercover to locate the crucial evidence before time runs out for them and the whole of humanity!
noteworthy scenes: 1.) Infiltrating by way of a car's wheel; 2.) Coat room; 3.) Back at the Hide-Out with FBI agents; 4.) "Stealth hamsters;" 5.) The pet shop; 6.) Playing "dress-up" with Juarez, the female guinea pig; 7.) The cockroaches; 8.) The birthmark; 9.) The garden sprinkler and the spare tire; 10.) The brat kids' home; 11.) The cappuccino maker; 12.) Ben's ( Zach Galifianakis ) confession; 13.) The chase; 14.) The fireworks show; 15.) The microwave; 16.) The evil bad guy revealed; 17.) Badges; and 18.) The party.
audience reaction: The audience, especially the kids, enjoyed this movie.
recommendation: If you love cute little fur balls, go see this movie.
spoiler alert! This movie has too many U.S. "pop culture" references that do nothing but distract non-Americans from truly enjoying the movie. This movie could have easily done without such "self-centered" references. Hollywood should hire me as a script editor so that I can teach its idiots a thing or two about "universal appeal."
A fly can't keep up a chase with three SUVs going in three different directions. An R/C car's steering wheel doesn't come off that easily. No guinea pig is heavy enough to bounce off a mini-trampoline, especially from such an height. The rechargeable screwdriver that the guinea pigs used doesn't really have enough torque to unscrew air vent grills with in real life. Hurley's piece of cake should have resembled a crumb more than a mini slice because he just grabbed and broke off a chunk. And what the Hell are the Decepticons doing in this movie?!?!?! ( Some one's getting sued! )
2nd spoiler alert! The cat, in real life, would have pounced on Hurley.
fyi: Back when my family was living in an apartment, I wanted so much to have some of my own guinea pigs. So my parents got a couple for me. Every day, I would go across the street to the vacant lot to get some grass to feed the guinea pigs with. Every day, that is, until I got fed-up with the daily routine. So, my parents decided to let the guinea pigs go. They set them free in the vacant lot across the apartment building, a vacant lot that was inhabited by snakes and monitor lizards. Gee, that was way so smart of my parents to do! They could have given them away to some other kids, instead.
Later on, my family moved to a sub-division at about the same time that my voracious appetite for food grew. One day, as soon as I finished eating lunch, I excused myself to go use the toilet a.s.a.p. When I got done answering "nature's call," I walked out of there with my dad waiting for me in the living room with this comment, "You know, you're like a guinea pig 'cause all you do is eat and sh-t!"
2nd fyi: I swung by Food For Less first to buy the contraband snacks because I still had about 45 minutes before the start of the movie.
word of advice: If you have a really hairy butt, don't play "Lighting Farts!"
If your kid wants a pet, make sure he/she is mature and responsible enough to care for one on a daily basis. Maybe you can start him/her off with a Tamagochi Virtual Pet. If your child can keep such a virtual pet "alive" longer than your digital watch can run on its battery then, perhaps, he/she can have a living, breathing pet to call his/her own.
tidbits: The female guinea pig, Juarez, looks like she got surgically plumped-up lips. What's next on the list, a "boobs" job ( she's got more than a pair )? Hollywood's vanity has no boundaries at all!
A couple of days before seeing this movie, I went to its web-site. As I watched all the selections, a segment from the Flo Rida Feat song, Jump ( 2009 ), kept playing over and over on an endless loop. The song got stuck in my head! So much so that before I left the house to go see this movie and THE UGLY TRUTH, I had to delay my trip because I couldn't finish reciting my prayer on a timely basis ( which is 10 minutes ) because the Jump song kept cutting-in the middle of my prayer! Opps! there goes that damn song again. Now, if you'll excuse me ....
