'Ye Old' DVD Review - Without a Paddle

This is a movie that I was really loathe to watch in the first place, but liking the cast and being placed under duress, I gave it a try. Man am I glad I did! This is brainless entertainment at it's best and there's nothing wrong with that - sometimes I just want to switch off and have a laugh. 

Without a Paddle is the story of friends who reunite for the funeral of their childhood buddy. When looking through his belongings, they discover a trunk which contained details that reveal he was hot on the trail of the $200,000 that went missing with airplane hijacker D.B. Cooper in 1971. They decide to continue his journey, but do not understand the dangers they will soon encounter.

Interestingly, The character of "D.B. Cooper" is based on an actual person, who in 1971, after hijacking an airliner, extorted $200,000 from its owner, Northwest Orient, and leaped off the airborne plane with 21 pounds of $20 bills strapped to his body. He was never caught...

With memorable quotes like:

Dan Mott: Billy's dead and he still has a better chance of getting laid than I do. 

Tom Marshall: This never leaves the cave. 

'Ye Old' DVD review - Can't Hardly Wait

New releases are great, but sometimes there's nothing like getting out an old favorite for an evening in with popcorn and a trip down memory lane.

That's why this month's 'oldy but a goody' movie review goes to a little film called Can't Hardly Wait. Yes, the 1998 teen comedy with Seth Green and Jennifer Love Hewitt. The cast also included Ethan Embry, Jaime Presley, Selma Blair and Peter Facinelli. Jason Segel from How I Met Your Mother and Forgetting Sarah Marshall even has his screen debut here as 'Watermelon guy.'

Its high school graduation, and like all seniors they want to party. In the meantime a boy wants to get a girl he's loved for years and as luck, or the forces of Barry Manilow would have it,  she just broke up with her boyfriend. There's also a nerdy head-case that wants revenge on a lifelong bully and a hip hop weirdo that is trying to lose his virginity and gain some respect. So the party comes, things develop. People have sex, drink, and go along with most of the guidelines of a high school graduation party.

With great lines like:

Denise: There's a mirror right there. Take a look, you're white. 

Stoner Guy: You know who else I like that didn't get much play? Velma from Scooby-Doo. She was cool. She was a hip, hip lady. 

William: I can't feel my legs, I HAVE NO LEGS! 

William: Nobody drink the beer, the beer has gone bad! 

Kenny Fisher: Let's go, boys. Time is honey. 

Kenny Fisher: Those shoes! 

Denise: What? 

Kenny Fisher: Do they serve an orthopedic function? 

This is most definitely worth the trip to the DVD store, even if only to relive your own high school embarrassments.