Movies: X-Men: Dark Phoenix (12A), Meet the Fockers (DVD – 12), Ghost World (DVD – 15) & Little Fockers (DVD – 12)

X-Men: Dark Phoenix (12A) – what’s it about? After Jean has a close encounter in space her powers begin to grow, and she aligns herself with her new dark inner forces.

This is supposedly the final in this series with the new X-Men and it is a nice end to the story, it could have done with another film though before this rather than bam the Phoenix story in just one movie. That said this is still a great film, though I may be bias as I love the X-Men and this is by far my favourite part of the Marvel universe, and plus you know you get to see Nightcrawler <3 total fangirl. Ok yeah, it’s a good film if you enjoyed the newer X-Men movies, it’s got a good lot of story and action scenes.

Rating: ****

Meet the Fockers (DVD – 12) – what’s it about? The sequel to Meet the Parents where the Byrnes family meet up with the Focker family with amusing consequences.

So if you liked Meet the Parents then this would be right up your street. It continues on in the same vein but this time at the Focker residence, and you can’t get such different families its amusing. Yeah, it’s filled with humour and some things that are like ohhh I probably shouldn’t be laughing at their misfortune/situation but as it’s a movie and just make believe its ok. If you like a giggle at some stupid humour, then you know check out this series of films.

Rating: ***

Ghost World (DVD – 15) – what’s it about? A couple of teenage girls finish high school and basically this is about their lives whilst they figure out what to do with themselves.

Ok I’m trying to think about something positive for this movie and well I’m sorry, but I can’t. Well I thought I’d give it a watch as I’d never seen it and I don’t think I will ever watch it again because it was bloody awful. The story was really boring and slow, not much actually happened and it wasn’t really funny at all even though it’s sold as a comedy – I don’t think I laughed once! Yeah this is what two hours of my life I’ll never get back, seriously don’t even bother with this one…well unless you want to bore someone to sleep that is.

Rating: *

Little Fockers (DVD – 12) – what’s it about? The third and final film in the “Meet the Parents” series, where the families get together for the twins birthday party.

Well I actually had to watch this after watching Ghost World because I wanted something to bring me up after the massive downer of that film and I thought this one may lift my spirits and that it did. It gave me quite a few giggles, it’s one of those where you can just watch and not really think about anything, some parts make you a little cringey, but others are just amusing as you can see it happening in real life. Yep if you liked the previous movies then this one is worth watching too, it may not be as good as it’s all been done a few times before but it’s still a good light-hearted movie to watch.

Rating: ***