Blake Schwendiman's Blog and Blook

Shrek the Third, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End and Spiderman 3. I saw all of them this past weekend.

Shrek was good. What would you expect? It was Shrek. I laughed and had a great time with the kids, though we rarely laughed at the same things. That's the beauty of a Shrek movie.

I had seen Spiderman already, but this weekend I took the family. This was a lot like Spiderman 2. I just couldn't like it, even though I really wanted to. Too much talk, too many emotions -- and Tobey Maguire crying as often as Frodo (Elijah Wood) looked like he was going to puke in the Return of the King. If Spiderman 3 had been cut by about 40 minutes and all of the extensive relationship drivel had been removed, that would have been a good movie.

Pirates. Well, I loved it. It was slow in places, no doubt about that, but I loved the direction the movie took. I can't say a whole lot about it because you may not have seen it yet, but if you like a movie that goes somewhere unexpected, then you'll like this one. I think I was expecting a "wrap up" movie, but it didn't go there. It found closure in some things, but it didn't wrap everything into a nice (yet bland and cliche) package. That was really cool. It was long, so make sure you go potty before -- and don't forget to stick around until after the credits. There's another little gem there.

And if you're wondering if I did anything else this weekend, I did. I had enough time leftover from movies to get a nice sunburn on my scalp. Hadn't considered that when I had Holly cut my hair so short. Oops.