Expendables 2

Actors:  Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Terry Crews, Chuck Norris, Dolph Lungren, Jet Li, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Terry Crews, Jason Statham, Liam Hemsworth, Nan Yu
Rating:  8 out of 10, I decided to break up my Doris Day retrospective by going in a slightly different direction.  This is a completely guilty pleasure movie but boy does it rock.  It’s obvious that the 1980s action stars (and every single one of them still alive is featured) are well beyond their prime but this still is a hell of a lot of fun.  The movie starts off with a bang and doesn’t let up for small things like plot continuity.  It’s also great to have the governator back but its obvious politics were not kind to him.  This is a movie in two parts with some straight forward action for the first half but jumping into cartoonish when Norris appears.  This reaches its “high” point when Arnold rescues the Expendable from a mine driving the boring machine from his Total Recall movie.  But that’s alright because this movie was made for people like me who just want to see things blow up and the good guys win every now and then.  That’s what best about this – it doesn’t take itself too seriously (at all) and repeatedly pokes fun at the stars and their 1980s selves.  Nan Yu was kind of a romantic inetrest and she is a very ineretsting actress and can kick ass as well.  I think they realized any romance between her and Stallone would be kind of creepy (for her) and thankfully didn’t go that way.  Supreme popcorn fare, and that’s all right.
MVP:  Nan Yu as Maggie, holding her own with the action and keeping her head above water in this sea of testosterone