Aloha.  Dir. Cameron Crowe.  Bradley Cooper and Emma Stone, A-listers.  Slow start, but it improves to ho-hum.  Major casting error with Stone, and Cooper flops big time after American Sniper and Elephant Man (why didn’t he win a Tony for that performance?).  But I expect the fault lies in the chaotic but plodding screenplay and the directing of same.  “Aloha” is the “ciao” of Hawaiian—it can mean many things, including “goodbye,” which is what you’ll want to say to this one.  I’ll give it a D only because of the scenery, but you can see better views in Magnum PI and Lost reruns and in that “old movie” Jurassic Park (it was on about a gazillion cable channels as Spielberg promotes the new version, Jurassic World, which looks absurd).

Spy.  Dir. Paul Feig.  Melissa McCarthy, Jude Law, Rose Byrne, and Jason Statham, A-listers, plus many cameos.  I changed my mind about McCarthy in St. Vincent and recent episodes of Mike and Molly, so I wasn’t surprised that this movie is entertaining.  I know some people can’t stand her.  Profanity comes out of her mouth as fast as bullets out of an automatic pistol in this one.  It’s a spoof on the Bond franchise and more and deserves its R rating, but it’s great fun.  Watch for hilarious details, especially in the credits.  Forget about Aloha above—this one’s actually worth the ticket price.  I rate it A+ with a caveat: profanity, violence, sexual innuendoes, projectile vomiting, flatulence, and some questionable selfies might seem over the top.  But if you don’t laugh at this movie, you really need to develop a sense of humor.

In elibris libertas…. 

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