Irony Movie Reviews Samples For Students

The study of irony is rather broad and studying irony in film is as challenging as studying irony in drama or literature. Christopher Guest’s Waiting for Guffman falls in a range of humorist tradition in which small-town culture is treated with irony and nostalgia (Frye 122). Through representations of small-town culture, irony in the film asks the audience where they stand on the issues of meaning, knowledge, subjectivity and values. Waiting for Guffman is full of implicit and ironic messages, and the goal of this critical analysis is to give thoughtful consideration to them.
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Introduction

“Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay” is a 2008 comedy film directed by Hurwitz and Schlossberg. The movie presents different ideas about the Asian and American relationships after the 9/11 attacks. It is a captivating comedy with content suitable for adults only. In this paper, the movie is chosen since it presents an opportunity to execute autonomous, creative ideological review that reveals intended messages and structures of a film. It is also suitable due to the concept of “popular cinema.” This review explores the film’s ideology in terms of concepts of negotiated reading, underlying structures, and national ...

The Joneses, directed by Derrick Borte, is about four people who are pretending to be a family living in a wealthy neighborhood using personal product placement to try to increase sales of particular items in the community. It sounds like a simple idea, but the movie has characters, themes, symbolism, irony, and cinematography styles woven in complex ways that give the movie depth and a multifaceted message.
The main characters are the family of four, including Steve Jones (David Duchovney), Kate Jones (Demi Moore), Jenn Jones (Amber Heard), and Mick Jones (Ben Hollingsworth). The movie takes a limited omniscient view, showing each character ...

Movie Review of Strangers on a Train

The film Strangers on a Train is a study in irony, coincidence, and good versus evil. The film’s plot revolves around a chance meeting between a famous tennis player, Guy Haines (Haines) and a pampered, spoiled, mama’s boy named Bruno Antony (Antony). It is obvious from the beginning that Antony is mentally unbalanced. It is Haines’ misfortune to run into Antony. While watching this film, many questions come to mind.

The first question is regarding the meeting of Haines and Antony. The meeting between Haines and Antony appears to be coincidental. Is it? Antony recognizes Haines and tries to engage Haines in ...

Movie Review “I'm in love with a church girl”

Biographical and a Cultural Criticism
The movie shows Miles Montego trying too hard to change his lifestyle within a short period. Having been a major drug dealer for a while, and while still maintaining strong contacts with his former colleagues the conversion to Christianity is a tall order for Miles. He is in love with a strict church girl, has just gone through a traumatic loss of mother, faces criminal challenges from the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and has to handle the accident of his girlfriend Vanessa. Miles’s conversion to Christianity ends up not being a climax or a wholly convincing biography.
The film features interracial ...

Movie review: I'm in love with a church girl

I’m in love with a church girl is a 2013 drama film with a Christian theme. Steve Race directed the film that stars Adrienne Bailon (Vanessa Leon) and Jeff “Ja Rule” Atkins (Miles Montego). The film involves a love story between Miles, formerly a drug dealer and Vanessa, a church girl. The following is an analysis of the film.

The film has some contradicting or controversial biographies and promotes a controversial culture. Since it is an interracial film, there is the likelihood that viewers can take the use of Miles to play a drug dealing character as an acceptance of stereotyping that African Americans overwhelmingly engage ...

- The 1998 film “Shakespeare in Love” directed by John Madden uses elements from the scenery to enhance the viewer’s understanding of the plot. One scene in particularly is the opening scene within the theater. The theater setting indicates that the viewer is looking within the inner workings of the theater to understand Shakespeare’s life. The bustling environment, stage props, and beauty of the theater itself give a glimpse into his life and inspirations.
- The costumes within this film indicate the time period which is Elizabethan England. One instance in where the costumes are particularly of ...

‘Black Gold’ is film about the production of coffee in Ethiopia which is the known to be birthplace of coffee. It focuses on the plight of the Ethiopian workers who spend endless days and nights harvesting a crop that is their only source of income. The coffee industry is a multi billion industry that has seen the GDPs of International countries rise as the major exporters of this treasured commodity continue to remain impoverished (‘Black Gold’).

My take on the movie

With America being the country that consumes the most coffee in the world .This movie was an eye opener for the way the role of ...