Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?

If you are looking to go to the movies, grab that bucket of popcorn and of course a diet soda and watch a movie that just flows with some very funny moments, a boatload of character actors who we have watched over the years but sometimes have troubles remembering their names and the movies they were in and after the movie is over spending time talking about the challenges the characters faced and discovering more golden nuggets of the story, then grab some friends and see this movie. The story is about our American male love of guns, significant others, family,small town community and others who try to influence our actions in some very funny and awkward situations. I don't want to give away any of my favorite moments, so if this movie is playing in your area, go and enjoy.

This is one of those movies that can get a high score because people are voting in the message, instead of the movie itself. Pro gun people vote low and anti gun vote high. That's the only way that (by the time I'm am writing this review) this movie can achieve a score of 7.1. I am completely against guns. But messages aside, this is a horrible movie, full of the worst clichés, bad acting and lousy humor. I rarely stop a movie until it's finished, but this was just impossible to take. It's like the bad kind of B movie, but with good image quality!

Like most of the movies coming out of Hollywood these days, this is a politically motivated picture. It is so much so that it's message appears more obvious than one made by the old Soviet Union propaganda Machine. In the past you would have an odd line discreetly inserted in the dialog but this is done in an unashamedly obvious way. It's like they have the political message they want to push and then wrap a week script around it. I can't imagine lots of viewers giving this film high score but the people coming out of the same stable as the makers of this picture. No wander it's rating is falling like a stone.

This film tells the story of a woman who stands up to guns by refusing to have sex with her husband. Soon many more women join her in the fight.

The film is just really silly, but it does offer a few laughs. It is alright brain off entertainment, but don't expect much more than that.

Not a coincidence that this movie seems oddly familiar to Spike Lee's Chi-Raq as both are modern day takes on the Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes. It's like both films are on two different sides of the spectrum with Chi-Raq being on the darker side, while Is that a Gun in your Pocket being more lighter.

Taking place in Texas, after two kids accidentally shoot a man non lethally, the women in a small town decided to stop having sex with their men until they get rid of their guns.

Seems like a difficult task in a place like Texas, and this movie is far more liberal than I would have expected a movie about gun control in Texas would be, but I guess the point is if they can do it in Texas they can do it anywhere.

It does seem like a fantasy, but the message is clear and should be told. The point comes across in an entertaining way.

Very impressive how both Chi-Raq and Is that a Gun in your Pocket can tell such a similar message in two very different ways.