10 Years

10 Years is an interesting movie. It revolves around a 10 year high school reunion. It stars Channing Tatum, Jenna Dewan-Tatum, and Justin Long. It also stars a shit-load of other people you've probably haven't heard of.

It's about a high school reunion and it follows around a variety of people. They all have their own problems throughout the movie that they deal with in different ways, but it gets a little confusing jumping around to all these different people. This movie suffers from the problem of "who the hell is the main character anyway?" meaning that the main character isn't any one person. Instead, this movie uses the setting of a high school reunion to tell multiple stories with multiple endings.

Part of me wanted this movie to be done in a way that focused first on one group, then on the next in short-film fashion rather than this jumping from group to group in a completely confusing way. It was hard to follow in the format it was in. I mean, eventually I got used to it, but until that point it would just jump around meeting different people in different groups so fast that I'm surprised I didn't start puking from motion sickness.

If you look to my right you'll see a picture of ALL THE MAIN CHARACTERS IN THE MOVIE! I'm not even kidding. Does it get a little confusing? Yes, yes it does.

Anyway, this movie wasn't bad. There was some pretty funny stuff throughout it and some dramatic moments too, but I feel this movie really wanted to be a comedy about a high school reunion more so than anything else, but does it succeed?

The answer is: sort of. It has it's moments. I laughed. It happened. But it doesn't really fit the formula of a movie. It doesn't have much of a plot, instead just showing us these random scenes with these people. I

mean, we DO get a sense of who these people were when they were in high school just as we get a sense of who these people are 10 years later. But, what we don't get is a good story arc, or much of a conclusion outside of "oh, i guess the reunion is over." "Let's go to the bar!" And they do, and we watch that for a bit, but it doesn't give us anything more. Just more scenes with these random people doing random things randomly.

Overall: C-. It had it's moments. Made me laugh. It had people who I ended up caring for and was interested to see what most of the people in this movie were going to do next. But the problem with having so many main characters really bog this down. There were a few characters I didn't know who they were no matter how many times we came back to them. Also, not having a plot might work for a poem or a short story, but you really need that in movies, otherwise you'll end up feeling like you just wasted two hours of your life. Now, I enjoyed this movie, but it really just seemed kind of meaningless. Movies need plots, they need conclusions THEY NEED STUFF TO HAPPEN IN THEM GOD DAMMIT! Otherwise, they really aren't worth the effort.