| Planes: Fire & Rescue | The Purge: Anarchy | Sex Tape | WINNER
(1 point per category) |
| Clearest Title | A sequel to the movie Planes? Is that necessary | A sequel to the movie The Purge? Okay, that makes sense | What is the world coming to? | The Purge 2 will win this point. |
Best Genre
and Rating | Animation
Rated PG for action and some peril | Horror
Rated R for strong disturbing violence, and for language | Comedy
Rated R for strong sexual content, nudity, language and some drug use | Three genres. Three 1/3 points given out. |
Cleverest Tagline
(out of 5 stars) | There’s forest fires
A plane wants to help fight them
Action and flying
| All crime is legal
On just one night every year
Will you survive it? | Couple makes sex tape
It gets synced to computers
Need the copies back! | The original Purge would win every plot battle. This time, each will get 1/3 point. |
| Best Part of Trailer | PROS: Even though it was a knock-off Pixar film, I didn’t mind watching the trailer
CONS: May not be a good movie | PROS: Still has as a suspenseful plot at number one
CONS: None, if you liked the first one | PROS: Interesting plot with charming actors
CONS: I didn’t laugh at all in the trailer | The Purge 2 actually had the better trailer. |
| Coolest Lead Actor | Animated planes who talk | Zach Gilford (I recognize him from Friday Night Lights) | Cameron Diaz from There’s Something About Mary | Cameron Diaz is the coolest actress. |
| Best Cast | The voices of Dane Cook, Ed Harris, Julie Bowen, Brad Garrett, Teri Hatcher, and many more. | I didn’t recognize much of the rest of the cast. | Jason Segel (How I Met Your Mother), Ellie Kemper (Bridesmaids), and Rob Lowe (The West Wing) | And Sex Tape has a good cast going for it. |
Best Street Cred
For the Production | Director Roberts Gannaway also directed wrote and directed House of Mouse episodes. | Writer and Director James DeMonaco also wrote and directed The Purge. | Director Jake Kasdan also directed Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story and Bad Teacher. | And these guys will each get 1/3 point for street cred. |
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