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This Means War

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What do you get when you take a CEO of a consumer product company and 2 CIA spies vying for her attention? War. In the new movie This Means War starring Reese Witherspoon and Chris Pine 2 CIA operatives fall for the same girl and the comedy that ensues is spectacular.

Comedy movies like this one is all about happiness.  Happiness - depending on one’s state of mind when the read the word, could make one smile, cry or even want to throw something.  Happiness is something that I have been lacking in the past week and when I think back to the last time I was happy in the past week (besides scoring my hockey team’s winning goal with 8.6 seconds left!) it was when I went to see this movie.  It was hysterical. I found myself laughing harder than I have laughed at a movie in a long time. It might have been because I was in a movie theater with other people besides my fiancée but I like to think that the movie really was that funny.  I can’t wait to watch it again when it comes out because I can’t wait to laugh out loud again. 

It was a lighthearted romantic comedy that many people would simply write off. I am glad I didn’t.  It was over the top, explosive and some will say predictable but in the end it was highly entertaining and that is what a truly good movie is supposed to do – give you entertainment and take you out of your everyday life for 2 hours. 

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