I wracked my brains trying to think of exactly what I wanted to say about Kick-Ass after seeing it on Saturday night. It usually takes me a few days to digest these sorts of things — unlike Jorge (Labrador, Editor-in-Chief of the UNLV Rebel Yell newspaper), who started working on his his thoughtful and well-written review of Kick-Ass almost immediately after we left the theater.

In the end, I’m happy to refer you all to Jorge’s review over writing one of my own — but I still thought I’d add to some of what he said with my own thoughts.

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From Damien to Toshio, from Regan to those twin girls in The Shining, Hollywood has been warning us of how evil and creepy children are for years. So, it should come as no surprise that the creepy-child genre of horror comes to the big screen again, this time in the movie Orphan.

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All right, I know. I am a geek, and I love sci-fi, horror, and movies with at least one car chase and/or explosion — but I’m also a geek girl, and I do like to watch romantic comedies every once in a while. Especially when said romantic comedy has more comedy than romance. Welcome to The Ugly Truth, a funny and cute romantic comedy that’s a bit more brash and a little less sweet than most movies of this genre that we’re used to.

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It was inevitable that I would be one of those going to see this movie at the midnight showing, and while I was sad that I couldn’t find my hand-knitted Gryffindor scarf, I was happy to be amongst other fans of the series, dressed up as wizards and witches — and one guy dressed as Dobby! — to watch Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

There are only spoilers here if you’ve never read the book.

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In the latest direct-to-DVD Futurama movie, Into the Wild Green Yonder, Amy’s parents (Leo and Inez) are building a bigger and better Mars Vegas, but not if Frida Waterfall and her group of eco-feminists have anything to say about it.

The protesting eco-feminists cause an accident that leaves a piece of Frida’s jewelry lodged into Fry’s brain under his hair — which, as it happens, gives Fry telepathic abilities.

The story revolves mainly around Leela and the eco-feminists, who become outlaws when they team together to try and save an astroid of primitive life and a Violet Dwarf star. Meanwhile, a secret society convinces Fry that he must stop the mysterious “Dark Ones” from destroying the universe and everything in it.

Being from Las Vegas, I was very amused by the opening of the movie, which gives us a tour of “Mars Vegas,” a futuristic and alien version of my own home town — only to watch the whole thing be blown up after the credits are done rolling. All the people watching the explosion was funny as hell to me, because casino implosion is a big attraction for Vegas locals.

The story is very slow-paced at times, but it’s overall enjoyable. It’s more or less what you would expect from Futurama, including hijinks with Bender and the Robot Mafia, Zapp Brannigan being called in to handle the eco-feminists, and Fry going along with outrageous plans to save the universe just to prove his love to Leela.

Was this movie as good as the others? Not quite, nor was it as good as the overall television series. However, it does have its moments, and it’s definitely worth watching for any Futurama fan.

I give Into the Wild Green Yonder a solid B.