MTV Movie Awards 2009

The MTV Movie Awards is a bit like the Oscars naughty cousin. It’s less dignified and respectable, but much more popular and playfully tongue in cheek. It’s a celebration of what’s ‘big’, but not necessarily what’s ‘clever’. As each year, an eclectic mix of celebs swarm together for a night of silliness, music and movie parodies.

Tonight, the Emo revolution took another worrying step toward global domination, as Twilight won everything in the world. Robert Pattinson won best male breakthrough performance and the undying love of your moody teenage sister. It must be fun to be dreamy. Twilight also won best fight, best female performance, best film and the infamous best kiss award. Slumdog Millionaire was this year’s big star at the Oscars, but it left empty handed, wondering why it didn’t have more hot vampires in it.

Elsewhere, Zac Efron and Ashley Tisdale both picked up awards for their wholesome musical efforts in High School Musical 3. (Yes, they did make three of them... no, don’t worry, it probably won’t happen again). Heath Ledger won yet another posthumous prize for his best villain performance as the Dark Knight’s Joker. Hannah Montana and/or Mylie Cyrus (which one’s real again...?) won for best song. Jim Carrey picked up an award to prove he’s still got some funny left in him, while the nights semi-prestigious ‘MTV Generation Award’ went to Ben Stiller. There were even some glimpses of the new Harry Potter and Transformers movies for anyone who bothered to watch the whole thing live.

The MTV award shows consistently produces landmark pop culture moments. It usually involves Britney Spears making out with aging pop queens, dancing with snakes, or self destructing. This year, it was Eminem getting an unwelcome face full of Sacha Baron Cohen’s crotch. Dressed in a thong and angel wings, Cohen was making his way to the stage on a high wire when he ’accidentally’ plummeted upside down into the rap star's lap. It seems to be widely accepted that he was in on the joke, but I’m just not sure why anyone would volunteer for such public humiliation. I will say this; Eminem’s expression was not one of a man pleased to see buttocks.

Pictures and links to the video below check it out and make up your own mind....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8076898.stm

Twilight Premiere footage below for anyone who enjoys screaming and Robert Pattinson's face...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcuCWkGyyrY&feature=channel_page