This Means War

ATTENTION: MOVIE SPOILERS INCLUDED!!

This Means War

February 18 2012

Now that Valentine’s Day is over, it’s time for a little rom-com! I adore Reese Witherspoon and love her movies so I was looking forward to seeing this one. It got some unfavorable reviews, but I like to make up my own mind about a movie so I decided to give it a shot! I don’t always agree with the reviewers…..I know big shock!

My opinion:

3.5 out of 5 bags of popcorn for the overall movie

4 out of 5 boxes of milk duds for my personal entertainment

My suggestion: Would be a good rental or a great date night movie in the theatre

The gist: Two best friends and CIA agents, FDR (Chris Pine) and Tuck (Tom Hardy) unintentionally start dating the same woman, Lauren (Reese Witherspoon). Once they discover this they wage an all-out war against one another to win Lauren’s love. What follows is a full scale operation to sabotage the others chances with Lauren.

I really liked this movie. Sure it was a little cheesy and the plot line was beyond simple but that is what was so enjoyable about the film. If I could have one complaint it would be this…..please don’t show us 90% of the comical scenes in the previews!! Chris Pine and Tom Hardy are great together. They start out as best friends almost like brothers and end up as rivals and full on enemies as they try to get Lauren to choose one over the other. Just when you think they have gone too far, the other steps in to up the ante.

Reese Witherspoon started out as adorable and cutesy (like most of her roles) and then quickly turned into a fast talking, sexy, no nonsense kinda woman. I have to admit, I really loved her in this role. She is one hot babe! Her trash talking, best friend, Trish (Chelsea Handler) added some truly laugh out loud moments and the movie wouldn’t have been the same without her!

Another thing I really liked about this movie is that Lauren does finally end up choosing one of the guys over the other (I won’t spoil it by saying who) but it wasn’t who I thought she would pick.

I didn’t realize until the end of the movie that it was directed by McG. I absolutely adored The OC so enough said there!

Overall, I think most people would like this movie. It does what many other movies out today fail at and that is simply to entertain the audience. If you like Reese Witherspoon and the guys you will be happy and thoroughly entertained!