Drop Dead Gorgeous & Millions

Drop Dead Gorgeous is intermittently very funny, but also it's very easy satire. Especially if you think that mocking small town midwestern people is easy satire. However, those very funny bits make the movie worth watching. Plus, it has a great cast (Kirsten Dunst, Ellen Barkin, Allison Janney, Brittany Murphy, Michael McShane, and, of course, Adam West). It's also cool that the director was Michael Patrick Jann, of The State, which needs more recognition for its brilliance. So basically, it's a fun little 100 minutes, with an interesting soundtrack.

Millions is an outstanding family film. But it has something for people who got completely confused by the saints, in that the soundtrack is typically good Danny Boyle. Any family film that uses Hitsville U.K. is good with me. It's just very well done, especially the neat camera tricks. The moral values taught in it are also a lot less in your face than an American film would be. Even if it's a very similar plot to that John Cusack movie, Money for Nothing. Except that was based on a true story, instead of just using some real events to add some reality. I did especially like the touch of how the robbers got away from the police. Brilliant.