where: CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when: Saturday, April 17th, 2010
show: 9:35 p.m.
costs: $10.00 Ticket + $4.25 medium Diet/Zero ( w/ Cherry flavor ) Coke + $2.99 ( sale price ) Safeway Chicken & Provolone Hoagie Sandwich ( my dinner; smuggled-in ) = $17.24
auditorium: 14
seat: 4th row, 6th column
synopsis: A switched corpse brings with it a "train wreck" of unwanted events for family and friends during their time of grief and sorrow.
noteworthy scenes: 1.) "Jackie Chan" ( Jamison Yang ); 2.) Traffic jam; 3.) Mom ( Loretta Devine ); 4.) Old folks' home; 5.) "Valium"; 6.) Ryan ( Martin Lawrence ); 7.) Not now, I'm grieving; 8.) Inside a lime; 9.) Just being neighborly; 10.) Frank ( Peter Dinklage ); 11.) Baby thing happen; 12.) "Bee Gees"; 13.) Martina ( Regine Nehy ); 14.) Not Valium; 15.) Dad ( Ron Glass ); 16.) Amazing Grace; 17.) I want our wedding to be like this; 18.) Aaron's ( Chris Rock ) eulogy; 19.) Pigment mutation; 20.) Eight hours; 21.) Grief does strange things to people; 22.) What's owed to me; 23.) Skinny dipping; 24.) Hey, Sponge Bob's on; 25.) Michael Jackson's -----; 26.) Shoes; 27.) It's Hammer time; 28.) Deal; 29.) The struggle; 30.) Not a compliment; 31.) Knee slapping; 32.) Fight; 33.) You missed a spot; 34.) He's dead; 35.) Grinning like Louis Armstrong; 36.) Fight with the table; 37.) Naked on the roof; 38.) Be spontaneous for once; 39.) I'm pregnant; 40.) It's on my cheek; 41.) We can't never touch again; 42.) I love you, too; 43.) Eulogy, part two; 44.) Just like candy; and 45.) A couple of "Valiums".
audience reaction: The audience enjoyed this.
recommendation: I found this funny, too, although the "bathroom humor" was way out of hand ( Ahem ).
spoiler alert! For his diminutive size, Frank sure didn't get as "high" as one would expect him to get. Any prescription drug is designed for administration on an "average" 180-pound adult male. Frank probably weighs about half of that. Therefore, half the amount of any drug is sufficient for his size. But he was given "4 or 5" pills, meaning that the drug-effect on him should predictably have been 8 to 10 times greater than it was for Oscar ( James Marsden ). In other words, he would have been "flying higher than a kite" or "deader than a door nail" from drug overdose! So, it was a surprise to me that his drug reaction was rather mild by comparison.
By the way, any drug in tablet or pill form will take at least 30 minutes to start showing its effects once it has been orally administered. Why do I mention this? Simple, by the time the drug took effect on Frank, the movie would have already ended! Ha, ha, ha.
fyi: Years ago, I worked with this young black man who worked part-time for a funeral home. One day, he and his co-worker went to the morgue to pick-up a cadaver--a morbidly-obese cadaver. As they wheeled the body to their van, the gurney became unbalanced and tipped over; and the cadaver fell to the ground. The force of impact ripped the stitches open so that the cadaver's internal organs spilled all around it. They had to scoop "everything" off the ground and put them back into the cavity, and haul the cadaver back up on the gurney. Did I forget to mention that they didn't have waterproof aprons on or that they didn't even have some rubber gloves handy? Yuck! Gross! Puke time! And after all that mess, they went and had lunch! Double Yuck! Double Gross! Double Puke time! True story, I kid you not.
word of advice: Don't give somebody else's medication to someone else.
tidbits: As I waited in line to buy a movie ticket, I noticed that the girl in front of me is the granddaughter of a former co-worker. She and another girl were there to see KICK-ASS. I asked her if she's 18 years of age already. She said, "No." I told her that the movie that they want to see is rated R. Luckily for them, the other girl's mother was in the parking lot waiting to see if they could get tickets for the show. So, the other girl used her cell phone to call her mom over and buy the tickets for them. I wished them both, Good Luck, as I walked into the theatre. Like I said yesterday, I wished I were in the "Fake ID" business right now.
