On the Big Screen: This Means War

Generally when I pay my £12.50 (what's happening to the world!!) to go to the movies, I absolutely require at least one hot person to stare at. It seems only fair as I have to stare at the mundane faces of office personnel all day everyday that during my outings I get something pretty to stare at. So I was super pleased during my last trip to realised I'd lucked out with two pretty faces, in the form of the oh-so-sexy bromance that is Chris Pine and Tom Hardy. LOOK AT THEM. All brooding...

I'll be honest these two were the sole reason I wanted to see the movie in the first place and I was not wrong in assuming that the best part of the movie would in fact be every moment the two of them were on screen at the same time. Not only that I went to see it in one of those giant screens which made their gorgeous faces even bigger! At times there was too much gorgeousness at once to take it all in.

Anyway, so the two of them play CIA agents or spy people or something, no one cares. They both fall in love with Reese Witherspoon and when they realise they set some ground rules, vowing that no girl can come between their bromance = so cute! BUT you guessed it, it like totally does come between them (shocker!) and they battle it out spy style. Despite the fact that the ENTIRE movie is full of cliches from both action spy movies and rom-coms (i.e. people hanging off buildings, Reese dancing in underwear in the kitchen whilst baking - I totally do that of course, cars exploding on a free standing highway etc etc) I really really enjoyed it! It's actually really funny, I laughed pretty much the whole way through. It ain't an Oscar winner obviously, but it worked for me and the rest of the movie theatre who also laughed constantly. I may even go so far as to purchase the movie when it comes out for sale on le DVD!

But what I loved most about it is how relatable it was to me. If I could only count the number of times incredibly hot spies quite literally beat each other up over me...ahem...

SO you should see this movie if you'd like to see: unbearably gorgeous men, beautiful women (Reese is looking fiooone), things blowing up, bad guys who you're not entirely sure why they're bad you just KNOW, Tom Hardy's extreme paintballing, Chelsea Handler being generally hilarious.

Photos from here and here.