By Harley Bauman

Trojan Tribune Staff

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The Vow came out this weekend and it was said to be a big hit. Considering the main star Channing Tatum, who plays Leo in the movie, what woman wouldn’t want to drag their man to see the chick flick?

The men in this situation are taken advantage of; they have to sit there watching this movie that they think is boring while their girl drools over some guy on the big screen. For those who are there to actually watch the movie, and not drool over Channing, the movie has a very good story.

The movie starts out intensely, with a car accident that puts Paige, played by Rachel McAdams, in a serious coma. The storyline then flashes back to previous memories of the two, of them being in love and showing their affection for each other. When Paige awakens from her coma, she doesn’t remember any of this. The last thing she remembers is being engaged to her previous sweetheart, Jeremy, who is played by Scott Speedman. Leo tries his best to get her to remember, but his attempts seem to be getting him nowhere. He tries to relive their first dates and make her see what she saw to begin with.

Leo was married to a Paige who was in love with art and refused to eat meat; she was always out late working on her projects, and she loved being tickled. Now, the Paige he lives with is worried about finishing law school for her father, and she doesn’t remember becoming a vegetarian. She freaks out when Leo tries tickling her to bring her back. Paige’s family is messed up and she hadn’t talked to them for five years, and now that she’s back from this coma, she doesn’t remember why she disowned them. Her sister is getting married now, and Paige decides it would be best for her to move back in with her parents to help with their wedding.

Paige finds out what made her so mad to begin with and realizes why she did everything that she forgot. She decides to drop out of law school, for the second time, and pursue her art career again. Yet, there’s still one thing wrong with what she’s doing now: there’s no Leo. While she is unpacking her art supplies that Leo had given back to her, she finds something that sparks her interest again. Overall the movie was great; it had an amazing story line and it was a great tear jerker. The ending was a little upsetting, but it does leave plenty of room for a sequel.

By Madi Monahan and Alex Davis

Trojan Tribune Staff

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Fan of Harry Potter? Like Glee? Well, what if we told you you could get the best of both worlds? A Very Potter Musical is a Harry Potter-based internet phenomenon which was produced by Starkid Productions (a theater production company now based in Chicago) starring Glee-sensation Darren Criss as The Boy Who Lived. First performed at the University of Michigan in April 2009, the filmed musical was uploaded onto Youtube in June of that year. Since it came online in 2009, it has received raving reviews by fans of the series, and it has surprised those who aren’t, awarding over 110 million views.

This hilarious parody mixes original songs with plots from the books without giving anything away or ruining it for the hardcore addicts. In the opening number, “Get Back to Hogwarts”, Criss is revealed under a single spotlight, presumably in the cupboard under the stairs, and shares with the audience the trials and tribulations of being a boy wizard in the muggle world and his longing for his home away from home, Hogwarts.  Alongside Harry are his trusted best friends, Ron Weasley (played by Joey Richter), who comically always has food with him, and the frumpy, know-it-all Hermione Granger (Bonnie Gruesen), who is always the first to put a damper on the boys’ crazy ideas.

When they finally arrive at their beloved school, they are approached by possibly the funniest character in the whole sha-bang: Draco Malfoy. Played by a girl, Lauren Lopez brings slithering skills and a whole new perspective to the character. With quick wit and an obsession with Pigfarts, (the Mars equivalent of Hogwarts) there is never a dull moment with Lopez onscreen. Add in a couple of bromances between Voldemort (Joe Walker) and Quirrel (Brian Rosenthal), with a very touching duet, “Different As Can Be”, and Dumbledore (Dylan Saunders) and Snape (Joe Moses) with an obsession with a “boss Zefron poster” and you’ve got a marvelous way to entertain yourself for a night.

This crowd-pleasing play has inspired a sequel with a threequel in the works. You can find these musicals along with a few others produced by Starkid on Youtube under their account name, StarkidPotter. Although three hours long, it is definitely worth your time.

By Tori Kock

Trojan Tribune Staff

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Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to head to a close movie theatre to see Mission: Impossible–Ghost Protocol. Tom Cruise returns as IMF Agent Ethan Hunt in the fourth installment in the Mission: Impossible series, and the series keeps getting more thrilling!

When a fellow IMF agent is killed while fulfilling an assignment code-named “Colbalt”, Hunt is extracted from a Moscow prison to lead his team to infiltrate a secret Moscow Kremlin archives files identifying Colbalt. During the mission, someone alerts the Russians to Hunt’s team and a bomb destroys the Kremlin. Ethan’s plan soon falls apart when the Russians have called the attack an undeclared act of war, and the U.S. president initiates “Ghost Protocol”, which disavows the entire IMF team. Hunt and his team are blamed for the attack, and they must find their own way to escape from custody so that they can track down Colbalt.

Misson: Impossible–Ghost Protocol premiered on December 16, 2011, and received positive reviews. The film is considered the best-reviewed entry of the series on the site Rotten Tomatoes. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film a positive review by saying the film “is a terrific thriller with action sequences that function as a kind of action poetry.” Along with positive reviews, Ghost Protocol has made a worldwide total of $506,747,000 so far! It ranks as the second highest-grossing film in the Mission: Impossible series.

This movie has proved that it’s worth the money to attend. It’s a great film that thrills all audiences! So go buy a ticket and watch Tom Cruise master his role in Mission: Impossible–Ghost Protocol!