{"id":3012,"date":"2014-01-31T21:52:42","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T21:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/?p=3012"},"modified":"2014-01-31T21:52:42","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T21:52:42","slug":"ride-along-delivers-action-packed-and-comedic-thrills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/2014\/01\/31\/ride-along-delivers-action-packed-and-comedic-thrills\/","title":{"rendered":"Ride Along delivers action packed and comedic thrills"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Ivory Jones
\n<\/strong>MC301 Contributor<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cRide Along\u201d delivers an action packed, comedic equivalent to \u201cTraining Day\u201d for moviegoers.<\/p>\n

Directed by Tim Story, known for directing hit comedies such as \u201cAct Like a Lady, Think Like a Man\u201d and \u201cBarbershop,\u201d story has another hit with the movie starring Kevin Hart and Ice Cube.<\/p>\n

\u201cRide Along\u201d rests comfortably at the top of box office charts. Raking in almost $42 million its first weekend according to boxofficemojo.com. That is nearly double the profits of it competition. If you have not seen the previews, let\u2019s refresh your memory.<\/p>\n

Hart plays Ben Barber, a loud mouth high school security officer with intentions on proposing to his live-in girlfriend Angela (Tika Sumpter).\u00a0 But first he has to get the approval of her overly protective big brother James (Ice Cube), a rebellious Atlanta detective. After Hart receives news of his acceptance to the Atlanta police academy, Cube offers to take Hart on a ride along to prove he is unworthy of his sister and not fit to be a police officer.<\/p>\n

Ewele Vincent, a junior majoring in biology\/pre-nursing from August, Ga., said \u201cKevin Hart is the funniest comedian and I like anything with Ice Cube in it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Justin Cannon, a senior from Baton Rouge, La, said he wants to see \u201cRide Along\u201d because, \u201cFrom the previews, it looks like it would be something that would amuse me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hart is at his absolute best in this film which is the one thing that saves it from being a total lack luster. His fast-talking rants, cowardly behavior and self-depreciating comedy style breathes life into the predictable story-line. The plot is no different than any other uncooperative turned buddy cop scenario. Think \u201c48 Hours\u201d meets \u201cBad Boys\u201d with a splash of \u201cShow Time.\u201d The only semi-surprise is who the villain turned out to be.<\/p>\n

Jaleesa Wilson, a senior psychology major from Horn Lake, Miss. may have the right idea when she said, \u201cI might just wait until it goes to DVD so I don\u2019t have to pay the movie cost.\u201d<\/p>\n

A matinee will suffice as well. Despite the basic plot, it\u2019s most certainly worth the five bucks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ivory Jones MC301 Contributor \u201cRide Along\u201d delivers an action packed, comedic equivalent to \u201cTraining Day\u201d for moviegoers. Directed by Tim Story, known for directing hit comedies such as \u201cAct Like a Lady, Think Like a Man\u201d and \u201cBarbershop,\u201d story has another hit with the movie starring Kevin Hart and Ice Cube. \u201cRide Along\u201d rests comfortably […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-variety"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}