tibejordan

I can't say much more than others have. I didn't catch this show until it was nearly cancelled (sort of a trend here among reviewers I think--great scheduling by the folks at NBC). Anyway, by the time I realized how wonderful this show was it was off the air. I've been watching the reruns on FOX FAMILY and what can I say: Great Writing, Great Acting, the best ensemble cast I've seen in a long time, characters and situations that people can relate to, and moments (in the same episode no less) that will make you laugh out loud and feel misty as well. Every episode I've watched has been fantastic but I watch it with a sense of regret knowing there are only 18 of them out there. Had NBC actually promoted this show and allowed it to find an audience (and it would have) this would have been the breakout hit last season (and it would have been well deserved). Anyway, if you get a chance, catch the reruns because the show is (just maybe) the best thing on television.

Honestly, I wasn't expecting much of this film, but there are a lot of funny moments (I haven't laughed this much at the movies in a long time). You will quickly find yourself rooting for this ragtag group of underdogs. Like others who have left reviews, the preview crowd I saw this with laughed uproariously throughout the film and applauded every touchdown. Lots of fun and a nice way to spend two hours.

I have to agree with a lot of points made by my friend from Escondido. Cube has a great premise and starts off really well: a disparate group awakes to find themselves in a cube-like prison of connecting rooms, some of which are laced with (delightfully cinematic) deadly booby-traps. The film begins as a mind game as this group attempts to work out how to find a way out. Yet about halfway through one of the characters makes MAJOR changes to his personality, and the film becomes less a thinking-man's horror film then a standard evade the psycho flick. Still, its still more inventive, and interesting, than the majority of Hollywood schluck. A seven out of ten.