In Theaters: April 17, 2015

There are THREE wide releases this week.

Monkey Kingdom

Let me get one thing straight.  I don't like monkeys.  But if you do like monkeys, this is your weekend.

Monkey Kingdom is DisneyNature's latest.  Does that mean it's Earth Day soon?  I don't know.  But if the label is DisneyNature instead of normal Disney that means it's a documentary.

I believe this movie follows the exploits of one monkey family as they go around doing monkey things, like bothering tourists and stealing their food.  Welcome to Indonesia!  Or wherever this was filmed.

Monkey Kingdom is rated G for . . . actually it doesn't even give a reason.  The MPAA does not feel the need to warn you about a single thing in this movie.  So it's rated G because there's nothing lower than G.

Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2

Paul Blart is back after six years and I really don't know why.  The first one was alright and pretty funny at some points, but let's be honest, it was riding the line between real movie and made-for-TV movie.

The ads don't really say what this is about, but one can safely assume our hero must rise to the occasion somewhere to stop bad people from doing bad things, and it's all probably pretty funny.  Paul Blart was a very likable character in the first one.  And some people thought Observe & Report would be the mall cop movie that would be remembered.  Ha to them!  I bet almost none of my readers even remember that movie!

Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 is rated PG for some violence.

Unfriended

Just when you thought we were going to have a totally kid-friendly weekend.

I'm gonna be straight with you here too.  The idea of this movie makes me laugh.  It's a horror movie marketed to teens and it's called Unfriended.  Because, well, you know, what could be more horrifying than someone deleting you on facebook, right?  Hahahahaha oh I think that's hilarious.  Does that make anyone else laugh?  Does it sort of sound like that's the direction they're going with this to anyone else?  Let me know in the comments.

Okay I didn't think this was possible but I just watched the trailer and frankly my idea was better.  You all know I don't like horror movies - this is why.  So a teenager commits suicide after someone posts an embarrassing video of her online.  Two years later her old friends (who are still in high school I think) are having a Skype chat (because hanging out in person is so 2014) and they are joined by an anonymous user . . . who haunts them.  From their Skype chat they are haunted.  Honestly the trailer was embarrassing to watch.  We may have reached a new low in the horror genre.  And that's saying something.

Unfriended is rated R for violent content, pervasive language, some sexuality, and drug and alcohol use - all involving teens.  I'd rather see Monkey Kingdom.

      Big Shot Critic