“Jamie Kennedy’s Blowin’ Up”
One would think that giving a no-talent hack like Jamie Kennedy his own television show would be criminal enough, but the sheer fact that the rapper duo (which includes Canadian voice actor Stu Stone) also got the chance to cut their own record is just sickening. “Blowin’ Up” may be getting marketed as an MTV reality series, but there’s nothing real about this. All seven episodes are obviously set up, and it’s insulting to think that the producers of the show would even believe they could convince us otherwise.
“The Simple Life 4: ‘Til Death Do Us Part”
Paris and Nicole chew up the scenery as usual in the fourth season of their dubiously popular reality series, but this time around, they’re both flying solo. That’s right folks. Despite a rather public falling out after filming wrapped on the third season, Fox has somehow managed to stitch the show back together so that the two celebrity socialites would never have to actually the share the screen together. This time around, the girls are tasked with playing mom-for-a-day to ten very lucky families, but the concept never quite works as the fiery competition that it’s meant to be.
“Broken Bridges”
As is to be expected from any recording artist looking to break in to the movie business, Toby Keith’s debut film has the country music star pigeonholed as a washed-up singer/songwriter who is reunited with his high school sweetheart (Kelly Preston) and the 16-year-old daughter (Lindsay Haun) he never met when tragedy strikes his childhood town. Really just a shadow-and-mirrors platform that enables Keith to sing more than he acts, “Broken Bridges” performs exactly as you’d expect it to. Heck, I wouldn’t even be surprised to hear what Keith had to do for this role considering there’s a Ford truck commercial right dab in the middle of the flick, but it hardly matters, since this Lifetime-lite piece of garbage is most certainly not built Ford tough.
