Insidious: Chapter 2

There are some decent scares in this one. There is also some humor, although I am not sure all of it was intentional.

The Lambert family, with their oldest son now back awake, are still plagued by the demon that has haunted them in part one. It becomes pretty clear, that it has latched itself (himself) onto the father of the family. Again, that is.

The details of how he was possessed as a child are filled in via flashbacks throughout the film and ultimately also reveal the identity of the ghost/demon/person that took over his body. This happened when he was a boy first and then later his son...because the person taking over their bodies was himself robbed of his boyhood, because his crazy mother raised him as a girl (and then later made him kill women).

There are some clever overlaps with the first film, as well.

6/10

The Internship

Alright, if it is free I might as well go watch an Owen Wilson/Vince Vaughn comedy. Even though I hated The Wedding Crashers and normally don't get the funny in what they do.

So, I did not expect anything. This is probably the best possible mindset as it frees you to enjoy the few jokes that are actually funny.

The premise is stupid. Two salesmen get canned after their boss closes down the business without bothering to tell them. They have no skills (other than selling stuff) to speak of so one of them decides to make an application for an internship at Google that may or may not lead to an employment.

Because, see, the way they do that at Google is they split the interns into teams and give them challenges (like writing an App - most downloads win - or playing Quiddich) which will lead to one team winning and all their team members getting offered jobs.

I'm sure that is exactly what Google does.

Will Wilson/Vaughn be on the winning team?
Will whatever team win in the nick of time?
Will the kids get the Flashdance references?

Nailbiting. Totally.

4/10

I Give It a Year

Nat (Rose Byrne) and Josh (Rafe Spall) get married after a 7-month romance and a short time later realize that they are not really made for each other. Determined to make it through their first year (at least), they work on their marriage with the help of what is possible the most ill-equipped marriage counselor ever.

Anyway, Josh is really still into his former girlfriend Chloe (an unfortunate looking Anna Farris) and Nat falls for Guy (Simon Baker), who she flirts with, mostly to get his account for her company. (If you know Simon Baker's Patrick Jane, he appears weirdly under dressed in just regular suits...I'm used to seeing him in three-piece ones.)

It doesn't help that Nat and Josh are surrounded by less-than-helpful friends and family, like Nat's sister Naomi (Minnie Driver), who is predicting that they will never last and is constantly annoyed by her own husband, or Josh's best friend Danny (Stephen Merchant), who is one of those people that says the most improper thing at the worst possible moment.

Through all this amusingly weird things are happening in the background and slightly out of frame.

Love, Actually... this is not, but still amusing.

5/10