the-awesome-von-grimm

I literally had no idea what to expect before I watched this movie. I haven't seen the trailer or anything, I just heard people say it's good or bad. The opinions were all different, actually. I thought it would be some kind of teen love story with the fantasy drama in the back but it wasn't any of that. This was a thrilling movie, almost horror-like, but with a magic and mysterious touch. I really liked this movie, even tho I'm claustrophobic and felt itchy and stressed every time somebody went in the maze. I recommend this movie to every horror/thriller lover, it's not a typical teen movie and there is no dramatic forbidden love story that destroys the excitement in the film.

At first everything was alright. My friend told me it was a thriller, and if I hear the word thriller I think of The Number 23 and Taken or whatever. I don't think of ghosts and creepy dolls and scary music. I am not fond of movies with spirits and ghosts and my nice movie night with friends ended with me playing Pokemon on the N3DS because I was to freaked out to watch.

Daniel Radcliffe, forever Harry Potter, made the movie a little brighter because you could just make funny Hogwarts comments and one-liners throughout the movie. At least in the beginning. When you sit and actually see how the story develops, you wish you would have never started it. If you don't like movies with ghosts and stuff you should never even look at it and forget about the existence of this movie. I closed my eyes at the scary parts, in the end I didn't even watch any of it until the last 3 minutes and still I took my cat with me to the bedroom because I was scared. If you actually got balls and aren't such a wimp as me, I think you can enjoy this movie even though it is the same stuff over and over again: scary kids, dolls and angry spirits that will mess you up.

Honestly, I am not really into American comedy. Maybe because I haven't watched a lot of them. Maybe because I think that American humor is throw-cake-in-face-humor with fart and sex jokes. Maybe because I'm right. I have no idea, but that's not the point of this review.

When my boyfriend asked me to watch this movie I thought I would hate it, but I actually enjoyed it and I want to watch the next movie as well. Jonah Hill is a funny and great actor and seeing him starring in this movie was great. The story is funny and heartwarming at the same time. The action is great, the jokes are actually funny and the open ending was a smart move.