MTV Movie Awards

I watched the MTV Movie Awards tonight and realized that Jimmy Fallon just is not funny. He can be mildly amusing at times, but mainly I found myself wondering how funny his jokes could have been if delivered by Adam Sandler or Chris Rock. While I am complaining, would it have killed MTV to at least give us some decent musical performances? This is MTV as in music television right? The one thing you can usually count on from an MTV awards show is quality musical numbers. Until now that is. Eminem's performance was boring and Mariah's song made me get up and leave. Yellowcard did their best to cover "Don't You Forget About Me" by Simple Minds, but really they were a bad choice. The Foo Fighters gave the only inspired performance of the night but Dave Grohl's vocals were drowned out by the other instruments. All and all bland, safe choices. Where were the up-and-coming, next big thing groups MTV loves to put on the award shows? John Legend or Fall Out Boy would have been a welcome sight. I'd have even settled for Tatu and a bunch of girls making out in schoolgirl outfits.

As for the actual awards show, it was pretty much the same as it ever is. The wrong people win just about every award but it is chalk full of funny moments and sketches. Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson teaching kids how to score was classic and Ben Stiller's acceptance speech was funny as well. A lot of the big laugh guys from years past were no shows tonight though. Jim Carrey, Will Smith, Will Farrell and Jack Black have given us some of the funniest MTV Movie Award moments in the past, but none of them showed, which kind of sucked. The salute to The Breakfast Club was very cool, especially for a big 80's film geek like myself. Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams kiss was great too. I want them to get married and have babies. They still have that electric chemistry that had me a little misty while watching The Notebook. All and all, it was a good but unmemorable show. But hey, at least Napoleon Dynamite got some love. That was pretty friggan sweet.


List of winners:

Best Movie: Napoleon Dynamite
Best Female Performance: Lindsay Lohan (Mean Girls)
Best Male Performance: Leonardo DiCaprio (The Aviator)
Best Comedic Performance: Dustin Hoffman (Meet the Fockers)
Best On-Screen Team: Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Lacey Chabert and Amanda Seyfried (Mean Girls)
Best Villain: Ben Stiller (Dodgeball)
Breakthrough Female: Rachel McAdams (Mean Girls)
Breakthrough Male: Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite)
Best Kiss: Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling (The Notebook)
Best Fight: Uma Thurman Vs. Daryl Hannah (Kill Bill, Vol. 2)
Generation Award: Tom Cruise
Best Action Sequence: Roland Emmerich (Day After Tomorrow)
Best Musical Performance: Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite)
Best Frightened Performance: Dakota Fanning (Hide and Seek)