Barry's Quick Movie Reviews

[Barry Poppins]

Title says it all, really. This thread is gonna be a quick compendium of movie reviews. These won't be extremely detailed reviews, but rather a set of brief thoughts compounded with a rating score between 1-10. Maybe you'll agree with the ratings, maybe you won't, but this is all in good fun, so enjoy.

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Reviews A-Z:

The Naked Gun (2025) - 7.5/10
Weapons (2025) - 8.5/10

 

[Barry Poppins]

Weapons (2025) - This Zach Cregger film was an extremely enjoyable mystery horror affair, with Josh Brolin as an incredibly sympathetic and irrational father searching for his lost son. Other notable roles were Julia Garner as a suspect schoolteacher, Austin Abrams as a homeless drug addict, and Cary Christopher as the lone child in Garner's class to not disappear. Weapons plays on expectations, refuses to fully explain the details of why things are the way they are, and additionally utilizes techniques borrowed from Citizen Kane, Rashomon, and Pulp Fiction to tell a story of differing perspectives. 8.5/10

 

[Barry Poppins]

The Naked Gun (2025) - A wonderful and punny return of the Naked Gun franchise, this movie serves as a psuedo-sequel to the original trilogy, starring Liam Neeson as Frank Drebin Jr., and Pamela Anderson as Beth Davenport. There's gags galore, plenty of hilarious puns, great wordplay, and it all is keeping in the spirit of the Leslie Nielson era. Expect some great cameos from Busta Rhymes, Dave Batista, Cody Rhodes, Weird Al Yankovic, and even Priscilla Presley reprising her role as Jane Spencer. Perhaps my favorite sequence in the entire movie is a complete non-sequitur involving a snowy cabin and a snowman. If you liked the original movies, you'll get a kick out of this one. 7.5/10