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Yes, I know it is a Tuesday but I was on leave yesterday and it wouldn’t be right to break tradition that the first post of the week for my blog should be a movie review. And it is usually a Monday, and it is my blog! Therefore, Monday Movie Review remains.

The first movie I caught late night on Friday was Despicable Me. It was a cartoon that I was really keen to watch but either I was really tired or the movie was just not that great, because I fell asleep 3 times during the movie. Think of this cartoon as a version of Spy vs Spy except this is Villain vs Villain.

You have the cute Agnes, the cute minions, but the two main characters just didn’t seem that funny. Again, it seems like the best moments were already in the trailer, and all I was watching was the fillers in between. Many have said it was a great movie and I don’t think it was a bad one, just didn’t stand out compared to say, Toy Story 3.

Let’s make this quick and hopefully painless.

1. After three movies, I have the right to call Bella a bitch for playing with the feelings of others. This movie reaffirms that point of view.

2. Why are there so few female werewolves? Sexist genes?

3. The only interesting plot of the series is probably that V group, Vultari or Voltari or Vulgarity or something like that. Yet it takes a back seat to the obviously boring love triangle.

4. Robert Pattinson still can’t act, Taylor Lautner probably can’t as well, and Kristin Stewart also belongs to the “can’t act” category.

5. I will probably sit through Breaking Dawn, mainly because Sharon likes the series. She has already told me the possible plot and already I gave it a big WTF. So, the review for that is probably along the same as this one.

And finally, we managed to catch the Ip Man without Donnie Yen. And it turned out to be alright. I don’t know about the actual history of Ip Man but this one seem more realistic compared to the first two movies.

Even without Donnie Yen, the fight scenes were still awesome and the appearance of the real Ip Chun showing some moves was pretty cool as well. I am beginning to wonder if all plot for Chinese martial arts movies are the same. I could certainly see Bruce Lee movies following such a storyline, and since he was a student of Ip Man, I wonder if he was influenced by the stories he heard from his master.

I had doubts about the movie since Donnie Yen wasn’t involved but I must say they did well without him. You should certainly catch it on the big screen if you like the first two Ip Man movies.