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Tangled
Tangled is awesome. It has lots of singing, and that’s cool, and I have no idea what to say now.
It’s about Rapunzel. She can sing. She has crazy long blonde hair, and she lives in a tower with her tiny, cute, adorable chameleon called Pascal. Very cute.
All she wants to do is get out of her tower, and see the floating lanterns on her birthday, and makes a deal with Flynn Rider to do that.
You have to see the rest.
It’s very, very sweet, and it is basically Rapunzel, with more back-story and stuff. It’s good, and the music is great, and I really liked it.
I’m giving it a 4.5/5, because I like it, but I don’t exactly love it. But it’s really, really, good.
And I’m bored.
Jo
The Tourist
Herro, again!
Yes, we watched The Tourist, and it is also quite confusing. This one more than Salt, because it keeps you guessing ’til the end. And it’s got JOHNNY DEPP! That is epic.
It was a little disappointing, because I’ve always thought Johnny Depp = Jack Sparrow/other insane characters. In The Tourist, he plays a normal character, but he does it well.
So. Everyone is looking for this guy called Alexander Pearce. Elise Clifton-Ward, played by Angelina Jolie, is Pearce’s lover. Pearce is a man who stole a lot of money, and is wanted by the police and the guy he stole money from. Everyone knows that Pearce would have undergone plastic surgery, and they need Elise to identify him. Under orders from Pearce, she chooses a decoy: Frank Tulepo (JOHNNY DEPP), an American tourist visiting Venice. She puts his life in danger, because the police/guy Pearce stole money from believes that he IS Pearce. They end up falling in love, which is awkward for Elise, because she loves Frank AND the Pearce guy.
Again, a brilliant movie, and even more confusing. Only at the end do you see the truth. Hi.
Another recommendation that you see it. It was action-packed in some places, and in others it moved kinda slowly.
4/5
J0
Salt
Herro!
OK. I think this movie was brilliant, and twisty. It was a little confusing, but it makes sense once you finish.
Anyway, it’s about a woman called Evelyn Salt, who is accused of being a Russian spy called Chenkov. She has some very, very cool disguises, and, like I said, it is a little confusing, about who she is, and what she’s doing. The Russians have a program thingy, where they swap American kids with trained Russian kids, who are sent to America. They lie in wait, and they all have their own missions, for Day X, and basically, they’re trying to start a war.
It turns out that Salt is Chenkov, but that isn’t as important as some other stuff. I think that the blurby thingy on the back of the DVD gives the wrong expectations – it makes you think that she isn’t, or that she’s totally innocent and will somehow prove her innocence. But she isn’t.
It’s a great movie – I recommend you watch it. I’m giving it a…4/5
Happy holidays.
rawr,
Jo
Despicable Me
Herro!
Last night, I saw Despicable Me. It was just awesome, with the cuteness overload and the plot and OMG THE CUTENESS!!!!!!!
*WARNING! THE FOLLOWING REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS*
Plot: Mr Gru wants to steal the moon. Using a shrinking gun/laser. Who some other bad guy has, called Vector. So he tries numerous ways to steal it, each ending in failure, until he notices three little orphan girls selling cookies. They get in.
CUE THE LIGHTBULB!
Anyway, he adopts them, and at first he hates them, but they grow closer, and become a happy family. SO CUTE.
But complications arise when Gru becomes a little …. too distracted by the girls, as well as the fact that the shrink effects are temporary. Which is discovered after the Moon is shrunk.
I can’t be stuffed to say anything else, so you should REALLY GO WATCH IT!!!!
Fave character: I’d have to say Agnes, or the minions.
Agnes:
Minions:
Fave scene: When Gru reads them a story book with puppets.
Also when Agnes wants/gets her unicorn toy.
Fave baddie: Gru counts. He’s a baddie.
Fave machine: The squid gun!!!!!!!
Fave explosion: At the end, when the Moon returns to its original size
Fave quote: “It’s so fluffy I’m gonna DIE!” – Agnes
And stay through the credits! 3D is really good there, but actually, no where else. Just the credits part.
And for the quote/scene :
I would add some more, but that would ruin the movie.
GO WATCH!
BE ASTOUNDED BY THE CUTENESS!!!!!!!!!
4.9/5
It would get a 5/5, just because IT’S SO CUTE, but when he gives them back, it’s just so… not very emotional. I think that they could play on Gru and the girl’s emotions a little more.
Rawr,
Jo
The Time-Traveller’s Wife
OK. So my sister and I rented a few DVD’s, and we watched TTTW. Fail abbreviation.
Anyway, I personally think that the story was very romantic and sweet. However, the plot was a little drifty-ish, sometimes having no point to it at all.
The Time-Traveller’s Wife is a about a girl named Clare Abshire, who, at the age of 8, meets a time-travelling man called Henry. Henry has some gene thingy that causes him to involuntarily travel through time.
Without his clothes.
Yeah. So, the movie is based around the time when Clare meets Henry at a library, and recognises him from her youth, but he doesn’t know her yet, because he hasn’t time-travelled to her time yet. Confusing. (Spoilers below)
The audience follows Henry’s travels through time, but also focuses a little on Clare, without Henry, such as during the wedding ceremony, and the honeymoon.
Overall, I rate it a 3.5/5. It’s a great story, and the effects are great, and I love the romance in it. My favourite character, however, is Alba. She’s absoulutely adorable.
Alba, played by Tatum McCann, and Hailey McCann.
Rawr,
Jo
*SPOILERS ALERT*
The film begins to reach a complication when Clare wants to have a baby with Henry, but continues to have miscarriages. Henry insists on adopting, but she doesn’t want to.
Eventually, she falls pregnant, and keeps the baby – a daughter, named Alba, who can also time travel. But Alba can control when she wants to time-travel, unlike Henry.
Another big problem is presented when Clare and friends are visited by a dying Henry from the future, with a gunshot wound. They try and figure out a cure for his time-travelling, but they fail.
*UBER SPOILER ALERT*
Henry dies, but is able to see his daughter grown up, because she can time travel to the past, and he can travel to the future.
Isn’t it cute?
Inception
Holy crap, this has to be the best movie I’ve ever seen. It. Is. EPIC.
It’s about dreaming, and inception, and a guy with a sad, sad past. If you look at that poor guy, dreaming is pretty crappy too.
I refuse to tell you anymore, because it it so cool, and I do not want to spoil it. Seriously, I’m obsessed. AND IF YOU WATCH IT, STAY AFTER THE CREDITS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m giving a 4.999999999/5.
No, actually. 5/5.
It is a little confusing, but the effects, plot and characters are amazing. It’s perfect (practically). Heck, there’ s the tiniest, tiniest bit of implied romance.
Have I mentioned it’s awesome???? If not, it is. Extremely awesome.
Rawr,
Jo
Toy Story 2 & 3
In the holidays, I saw Toy Story 3 and 2, and I thought both of them were great. They’re both really funny, and captivating, and Toy Story 3 was heaps better than I expected.
Toy Story 2 is when Woody is stolen by the Chicken guy, and almost sent to Japan. Along the way we meet Jessie, and Bullseye, and another Buzz, and his dad, Zurg, and the bad guy, Stinky Pete. Woody doesn’t want to go to Japan, but Pete tries to stop him. Naturally, the day is saved by normal Buzz and the rest of the toys.
And in Toy Story 2, we meet the adorable little aliens, who take to Mr Potato Head after being rescued by him. They are the cutest.
Toy Story 3 is when Andy is off to college, and all the toys are left behind, and almost thrown out. They make their way to Sunnyside Daycare thingy, and it seems perfect, but Woody is loyal to Andy, so he leaves. Anyway, Sunnyside isn’t all it seems, as head bear Latso is more than just a friendly old toy. At the end, ignoring the journey, the toys are headed towards a big inferno, where rubbish is burned. It’s really touching here, because all the toys hold hands, but then the adorable little aliens rescue them, using “the claw”.
I’ll try not to spoil it anymore, so I’ll try and wrap it up. Like I said, I think all the Toy Story movies are really epic. They’re not just for little kids, they can be for anyone with a sense of humour (or not). Really funny, interesting and overall awesome.
I’m sorry it’s a bit short, but I’m giving it a 5/5 (gasp).
Jo.O
The Phantom of the Opera
First time posting. I tried to review 2012 and Double Jeopardy, and I forgot.
Anyway, I saw Phantom of the Opera and I thought it was ridiculously epic. It’s full of dramatic, romantic, awesome music, and the plot is, well, awesome.
It’s about a kind of love triangle between Christine, a young soprano taught by the “Angel of Music”, the Phantom, a deformed genius who lives in the caves beneath the Opera where Christine sings, and Raoul, Christine’s childhood sweetheart. a huge mess.
Fave character: Meg Giry, daughter of Madame Giry who rescued the Phantom as a boy.
Fave scene: In the beginning, and the chandelier is being drawn up, and as it goes, the light shines and creates colour. Very epic. Look it up of Youtube: Phantom of the Opera 2004 part 1.
Or the scene where the Prima Donna, Carlotta, decides to leave, and the two new managers say, “What should we do?”
“Grovel.”
Fave baddie: The Phantom, because he’s cool and a good singer, but he turns out a little psycho at the end.
Fave machine: The chandelier?
Fave explosion: Where the chandelier is crashing down onto the audience, and it sets the whole place on fire.
I love this movie, and it’s my new obssession. It’s a fantastic movie, the 2004 version, and its’ got great music and singing and effects. I swear.
4.9/5, because Christine is a bit stupid sometimes. But I still love it.
Jo
