| The Back-Up Plan | The Losers | Oceans | Winner
(1 Point per Category |
| Clearest Title | "Papal Bunk Tech" The Pope's newest computer guy just moved in!
| "Hostelers"
Don't mess with competing hostel owners.
| "Canoes" Intertwining love stories of all the different people involved in the canoe industry. | So the titles aren't really clear, except Oceans, which should be about oceans (and if we're lucky, the prequel to Ocean's 11, 12, and 13). Point for Canoes. |
Best Genre
and Rating | Romantic Comedy
Rated PG-13 for sexual content including references, some crude material, and language.
| Action
Rated PG-13 for sequences of intense action and violence, a scene of sensuality, and violence.
| Documentary
Not yet rated? Probably will be rated G, with some scenes not suitable for the youngest audience.
| A documentary about oceans seems more original than a romantic comedy or an action movie. Point for Case On. |
Cleverest Tagline
(out of 5 stars) | "Fall in Love*.
Get Married.
Have a Baby.
*not necessarily in that order"
Pretty clever. I like how the tagline used an asterisk.
3/5 stars
| "Anyone else would be dead by now"
Doesn't tell me much about the plot, but I assume the plot will be awesome now.
2/5 stars
| "Explore the depths of our planet's oceans. Experience the stories that connect their world to ours."
This tagline only tells you about the plot.
1/5 stars.
| I also liked how the poster of The Back-Up Plan "drew markers" around the tagline too. Clever. Point for Catnap Hub Kelp. |
| Best Part of Trailer | The premise of the movie is kind of cute, for a chick flick. | Seems fun. And Zoe Saldana has a rocket launcher! | Whoa! The fast-paced, awesome ocean shots were more exciting than the Clash of the Titans trailer. | My heart skipped a beat when I saw the wondrous ocean animals and the wondrous Zoe Saldana. A Scone and Lesser Hot split the point. |
| Coolest Lead Actor | Jennifer Lopez from Selena, Out of Sight, and The Cell. | Jeffrey Dean Morgan, from Grey's Anatomy (Denny) and Watchmen | Sharks, Whales, Jellyfish, Dolphins | Jenny from the Block is a better actress than some give her credit for. She'll split this point with all of the creatures from the ocean.
Table Chap Punk and Aces No split the point.
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| Best Cast Member | Alex O'Loughlin from the movie WhiteOut and the TV shows Moonlight and The Shield. | ZOE SALDANA!!!
Should have won Best Actress for Avatar. She can do no wrong.
| Pierce Brosnan, from James Bond fame, is the narrator of this movie. | Perhaps a "This Weekend, Watch This" first: Zoe Saldana wins Best Cast Member two weeks in a row. Tree Slosh wins the point. |
Best Street Cred
For the Production | Cast member Michaela Watkins was an awesome cast member on Saturday Night Live last season. She's the only reason I would watch this movie. | Cast member Chris Evans, from Fantastic Four, doesn't get type-casted and sort of gets cast as the nerd. | DisneyNature, which brought us the movie Earth, knows how to make a documentary. | Disney. Nature. Two unstoppable forces on the planet. Acne So wins the point. |
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