Yep…

Our fave babe from Barbados has admitted that she likes her men to be gifted in the downstairs department. The 23-year-old S&M singer said that she is a sucker for a large package, but confided that she is also attracted to ’sweet’ men. When asked by Cosmopolitan magazine how she likes her men, she joked, ‘Hot and hung, but sweet will do.’  ‘I’m turned on to a guy by different things,’ she continued. ‘It could be the way he looks. It could be his intelligence. It’s really a spontaneous thing.’

She also revealed that she is like a man when it comes to dating. ‘I’m open to love but guys should have to earn it because the minute they get it, they want something else,’ she explained. ‘Men are like hunters, they like the chase. So you have to keep them guessing.  ‘Actually, I’m like that too. I get bored very quickly. So if someone can make me laugh, that’s the best.’

Love. Her.

Our boy, Nelly has spoken out about recent allegations that he’s spent all his money on drugs and gambling.

A Twitter beef between Nelly and a man name Slim occurred last week, when the Missouri native fired off at Slim for trying to book him for an appearance at a basketball game in St. Louis. In retaliation Slim, who also claimed to be Nelly’s manager, tweeted that the ‘5.0′ creator was broke due to a gambling and drug habit and also alleged that he was close to foreclosure on his home.

“#FACTS u broke you spent yo whole fortune on #coke #steroids #ashanti #PILLS and at #HARRAHCASINO, u prolly there now!” Slim’s tweet read.

In response, Nelly fired back via Twitter, stating that Slim wasn’t his manager, but a promoter who he’d worked with in the past and that his claims were false.

“First if you believe Slim was my manager then this is pointless anyway. Second don’t nothing go in this body but fish, chicken, turkey, protein, ROZAY, Ciroc, Remy and Budweiser! Third, Ino some hoping that foreclosure statement is true but I’m sorry, ‘epic fail!’ Anytime anyone in STL wanna match deeds or pinkslips HOLLA! #FACTS,” Nelly wrote.

More importantly, can someone please tweet Ashanti and tell her we need another hit. Thanks!

A  fun new beauty product is nail polish strips.  Nail polish strips are dry sheets of nail polish that you size to your finger nail and apply but merely peeling off the back and sticking to you nail. The fun thing about nail polish strips is that they come in TONS of patterns from cheetah to zebra… even metallic and most of them last for about 10 days.

Sally Hanson Effects is a good one to start with… you can find it at any drug store and it’s about 10 bucks.

And don’t worry… if you don’t love then… they can be easily removed with nail polish remover.

The Daily Mail posted an article talking about the first things women notice about other women. Check that article out here.

Listen to the Wake Up Call talk about this article.

Women Judging Women

Did you watch the finale last night? Check out Mother Monster’s racy performance below!

Well doesn’t this look sweet?  Picture yourself going to Jingle Ball 2015, a Kings game or other future concerts at this stylin’ new spot!  Pretty cool, right?  Well, this can be in all of our futures if our dear elected officials can figure out a creative way to get this thing paid for without raising taxes.  It would be located right around where the Amtrak station downtown is currently, around 5th and J streets. C’mon Sacramento, WE CAN DO THIS!

After winning American Idol, Scotty McCreery snubs Jack Black. Watch the video here…

Snub happens at 1:08 into the video.

Full disclosure, I am not a disciple of The Hangover.  I thought the first movie was funny and I gave it a “B.”  I didn’t think it was the funniest movie of all time or even of that year.  I thought the first act was great, then it got pretty good and the last third of the movie wasn’t really that funny at all.  When I heard they were making a sequel I groaned.  When I watched the trailer I rolled my eyes.  After watching the entire movie, I could do nothing but sit there shaking my head at how truly awful it was.

The Hangover Part 2 is the perfect example of what’s wrong with Hollywood.  The original was a surprise hit and went on to be the highest grossing R-rated comedy of all time.  Did it have more to say?  No.  Did there need to be a continuation of the characters?  Not particularly.  So why did this get made?  Pure greed.  Not only was this made ONLY to make money but it was done so arrogantly and lazy.

It’s one thing to give the people what they want, but it’s another thing entirely to shovel the exact same story down their throats.  I was blown away by how much the trailer made it look like the sequel was going to be a rehashing of the first one but nothing could prepare me for how carbon copied it really is.  It’s so bad that there are characters from the first one that are in the second one that have absolutely no logical reason for being there.  In case you don’t know, the story is the exact same as the first one except now they’re in Bangkok preparing for Stu’s wedding, who’s played by Ed Helms (NBC’s The Office, Cedar Rapids).  He’s joined by his friends played by Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis and Justin Bartha, who played Doug in the first one.

You can draw a straight line between the two films for comparisons.  For instance, when they wake up from their party they no longer find a baby to care for but instead a monkey.  Stu didn’t pull out his tooth but instead got a face tattoo.  I could go on and on with this but I don’t want to put any spoilers in the review (although spoilers in a movie like this is a ridiculous notion since you know exactly what’s coming next and who will do it).  Let’s just say that there are so many that it’s fairly sickening.

That’s not to say that The Hangover Part 2 isn’t funny…of course it is.  Just like the first one, it’s funny at first and then starts to lose its way as the movie goes on.  For this one the burn is far quicker because director Todd Phillips confused kicking the craziness and humor up a notch with simply making it darker, more serious and gross.  It makes you feel extremely unsettled.  In the first one, although it dealt with a kidnapping, drugs and wrongful marriage, the hijinks the boys get into are relatively frat boy-like behavior.  In this one it’s disturbing and dangerous.  It’s a lot harder to laugh it off and I could hear that reflected in a packed theater of rabid Hangover fans who sat silent for about 45 minutes of the film.

Even Galifianakis, who single-handedly stole the show last time with his witty, improvised, quotable one-liners, was phoning it in.  It almost makes me judge everyone who worked on this movie as being void of integrity.  However, if I had a studio lobbing piles of cash at me to do the exact same movie I already did, I would find it impossible to turn down as well.  But the level of unoriginality that went into this movie is almost insulting as an audience member.  The fact that the studio and Phillips think so less of us that they could deliver this in hopes that we would eat the same exact meal and never notice we were is just sad.

I’m sure The Hangover Part 2 will make tons of money all over again.  And I’m sure the studio will figure out a way to get everyone back for another one.  I can only hope the poster for the movie was taken after the cast saw how much the critics hated this movie and that they may have sullied their legacy.  But as far as I’m concerned, I’m officially hungover on The Hangover.

The Hangover Part 2 (Rated R)
Gavin Grade: D+

In 2008, when Kung Fu Panda came out, I remember saying that it looked like one of the worst children’s movies I ever saw.  It looked insulting to Asians, a mere merchandising vehicle, and annoy since it was just as we started to get over-saturated with Jack Black.  Despite many people telling me that it’s good and that I would enjoy it, I have yet to sit down and watch it.  So I brought my co-host Katie’s 7-year-old daughter with me to the screening so that she could fill me in on what I needed to know from the first one.  Since 7-year-olds can’t really do a great job of recounting something like a movie from three years ago with great detail, I didn’t learn too much; however that had no effect on the fact that I enjoyed its sequel immensely!

Since I never saw the first one I can’t tell you if this picks up where the last one left off.  What I can tell you is that it gets off to a relatively slow beginning.  There isn’t anything particularly funny or action-packed until you’re almost a third of the way into the film, which is about the original Kung Fu crew going to a far-off city to stop an evil peacock from destroying all of Asia.  But once the plot picks up and the adventure begins it’s nothing but a fun, exciting ball that keeps building in size and speed.

I know that the tradition for animated movies is to pad them with a ton of celebrity voices since doing voice work is easy, quick and it’s a way to get big names to endorse your silly kid movie but this is an impressive pedigree!  Returning from the first besides Black is Angelina Jolie, Seth Rogen, Jackie Chan, Dustin Hoffman and the always funny David Cross (Men in Black II, HBO’s Mr. Show).  The list gets even better with new characters for the sequel voiced by Gary Oldman (JFK, the Harry Potter series), Jean-Claude Van Damme (JCVD, Bloodsport) and Michelle Yeoh (Sunshine, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon).  These are all small, backseat performances compared to Black’s but that’s totally fine when you look at the subtly of the whole picture.  The only standout show-stealer is Gary Oldman who plays the villainous peacock named Lord Shen.  He rarely gives a bad performance, even when he’s bad movies like Red Riding Hood, and has a never ending rolodex of character voices he can do to make you go “That was Gary Oldman?!?” when the credits roll.

To me, the most impressive thing about this movie was how the action gave me goosebumps and the ending gave me tears.  This is probably the best animated film since Toy Story 3 and certainly the one with the most heart.  There are scenes in the movie where the action is so well executed and directed by comic book nerd Jennifer Yuh (Kung Fu Panda, Spawn) that you’re delivered the same emotion you get from watching a great action sequence from an adult, live-action film.  Her use of slow motion as a homage to other kung fu films is not on-the-nose or pandering, it actually makes the scenes better.  In addition to that, it builds to an emotional climax that impressed me to the point where I hid a tear or two behind my 3D glasses.

Kung Fu Panda 2 is so good that it makes me feel foolish that I ever said those things about the original.  I plan on watching the first one as soon as I can, but if I had to guess, Kung Fu Panda 2 has done what few movies, whether they’re for kids or adults, can pull off…it’s better than the original!  Plus it did it with the uphill battle of having Jack Black in it.
Kung Fu Panda 2 (Rated PG)
Gavin Grade: A-