Could Guy Ritchie be back?

Guy Ritchie made two very entertaining movies back in the 20th century, "Snatch" and "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels". These multi-threaded British crime comedies helped launch the careers of Jason Statham (who still hasn't been in anything better) and Vinnie Jones. "Lock, Stock..." which was made for a paltry 1.6 million British pounds became the third highest grossing British film ever.

Then he met Madonna and things spiralled downward from there. Since that time he has only directed one feature film which was the almost universally panned "Swept Away".

Now years later and regardless of the current state of his marriage to the material girl, Ritchie is finally back to the genre that he help put on the map, crime action comedies set in London.

Hopefully his upcoming "Rock N Rolla", which has a pretty good looking trailer if you ask me, will be his triumphant return to relevance.

A brief review Star Wars : Clone Wars

It has gotten pretty trendy to slam George Lucas and his Star Wars series. Critics are certainly eviscerating his recent works for their perceived sins. This is probably justified for the most part. For the most part, the 21st century editions of the Star Wars saga have failed to live up to the hype of thousands upon thousands of salivating uber-nerds. Those of us who discovered Star Wars as children or teens grew up and that I think is the real sticking point. These stories are clearly meant for children. No perception shifting moral conflicts are meant to be present. Only kooky aliens and wild action scenes need apply.

So when I decided to kill a couple of hours on a lazy Monday night catching the new animated chapter of the saga, I did so with a kid's outlook. What I found was that it is not nearly as bad as it is being made out to be.

The Clone Wars is meant to be the pilot episode for a kid focused animated series to tell the tales of the Star Wars universe between episodes II and III (Movies 5 and 6....whatever). In his was it succeeded. It sets a tone of fast action scenes that happen at a an A.D.D. pace. Some new characters are established and a general plot (such as it is) is put into place. This film will not win any Oscars but I doubt even the creators would think it should. It is mindless sci-fi adventure entertainment for kids and at that it is does a fine job.

These new Star Wars tales may not have the "special" feeling of the old ones. That will bother some. But calm down people....it is just sci-fi.

Geeks + Triumph the Insult Comic Dog - A great combination