1. La Moustache (2005)
A Frenchman suffers from a bizarre type of retrograde (and anterograde) amnesia, he slips between timelines for no apparent reason, or none of the above. Whatever this movie's really about, it's French surrealism at its best.
Fun Fact: The "friend at the dinner party," Mathieu Amalric, might seem familiar. He played James Bond's adversary in Quantum of Solace.
2. Proof (2005)
Searching account of a mathematician's daughter and her attempt to cope with grief. Every now and then I'll see an (older) movie and think: "Gwyneth Paltrow was a pretty good actress," and this film is just another example. She manages to hold her own against Anthony Hopkins in Proof, and while watching it I was again reminded that she'd probably have a more robust acting career if she wasn't so eccentric.
Surprisingly the weak link here is Jake Gyllenhaal, who isn't given enough to do. Proof would have been better without his character and the attendant love story he represents.
Fun Fact: John Madden also directed Paltrow in the Oscar-winning Shakespeare in Love several years before.
3. Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)
Jim Carrey tones himself down too much while the rest of the cast desperately tries to make up the difference. It's a remake of a much better 1977 movie about a husband and wife who turn to crime after losing their jobs. I laughed maybe twice and kept checking the timer to see how much more of the film remained.
4. Man of the House (2005)
Texas ranger Tommy Lee Jones watches over a house full of cheerleaders for reasons that are never made clear. The best thing I can say about this movie is that the black and Latina cheerleaders are hot. I could see it going down better in Texas, but the rest of the country was probably wondering why they bothered.
Just about any gag or joke in this film will have been seen in some other, better film long before.
Fun Fact: One of the writers, Scott Lobdell, is the same Scott Lobdell who wrote all those X-Men comics in the 90s.
5. The Sandlot 2 (2005)
A sequel to a movie I never liked. Even so the original is much better than this aborted attempt to recap whatever "magic" the first one had. James Earl Jones aside, the cast needed a few more acting classes before stepping in front of a camera. Some of them perform so badly they take you right out of the movie.
For 1972 the soundtrack is a bit off. "Taking Care of Business?" Wasn't a hit until the following year. That kid in the "Sweet" shirt? Assuming it's a reference to (The) Sweet, they were nowhere near popular enough in the States to warrant a T-shirt at the time.
If you've got kids into baseball just show them The Benchwarmers instead. It's way sillier, but satisfyingly so.
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