Spirited Away

--Storyline--

Ten-year-old Chihiro Ogino moves with her parents to a new town. When they are losing, they find an abandoned amusement park. Chihiro’s father insists on exploring it, even though Chihiro finds the place is very creepy. Her parents discover an unattended stall and sample the delicious food there.  After eating, they turn into giant pigs magically. Chihiro has to survive herself and finally she manages to save her parents and returns to her own world. Through her experience she learns how to live, gaining the true will and power, she is changed from a sulky girl who is languidly lying on the backseat of a car into a lively and truly courageous girl.

--Review--

The “Spirited Away” stayed in the theaters for almost 10 months, breaking all the previous box-office records in Japan. The film is charming enough to all ages of people. It delivers one of most colorful fantasy worlds. It is a triumph of psychological depth and artistic brilliance.

 --Movie Trailer--

 

Shutter Island

--Storyline--
It's 1954, and up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Boston's Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital. He's been pushing for an assignment on the island for personal reasons, but before long he wonders whether he hasn't been brought there as part of a twisted plot by hospital doctors whose radical treatments range from unethical to illegal to downright sinister. Teddy's shrewd investigating skills soon provide a promising lead, but the hospital refuses him access to records he suspects would break the case wide open. As a hurricane cuts off communication with the mainland, more dangerous criminals "escape" in the confusion, and the puzzling, improbable clues multiply, Teddy begins to doubt everything - his memory, his partner, even his own sanity. 

--Review--
The story follows Teddy, a federal Marshall, and his partner Chuck (Played by DiCaprio and Ruffulo). They go to this mysterious island enveloped in fog to investigate an escape. From these opening scenes, Marty has set up a dark and creepy premise.

Almost the whole movie incorporates this story as Teddy desperately tries to find the truths he seeks. Teddy is shown as a scared man; a man of war and violence as portrayed in various flashbacks. These will go on to be increasingly important as the story progresses. We follow Teddy on his quest, through every dark corridor and perilous confrontations. Slowly, we are given pieces to the puzzle, but the audience does not even realize it. For we, like Teddy, are blind. For the moment at least. It is because of this that the thrilling conclusion will leave many blindsided. But, you see, that is where this thriller becomes something more. We as the audience are put in Teddy's shoes, and we feel all the things he feels. It is a complete assault on the senses, and it works beautifully. 


This is also a film I would recommend seeing a second time. In fact, it is even better the second time. All those pieces of that puzzle you didn't catch the first time, you will the second. You see, we as the audience are first put in the shoes of Teddy. The second? Well, without giving too much away, lets just say you are put in someones else's shoes entirely during the second viewing.

Shutter Island. A film that will make you question your own sanity. A film that will leave you breathless. A film that has re-ignited the thriller genre. A film that will leave you, and the main character, searching for answers. 


--Trailer--

Twilight

--Story Line--

Bella was sent to live with her father in the little town of Forks, Washington, when her mother remarries. As she starts her junior year in high school, she becomes fascinated by Edward Cullen who is unlike any boy she is ever meet. He is intelligent and witty, and he seems to see straight into her soul. Soon, Edward falls in love with Bella, while Bella learns Edward’s secret, he is a vampire.  However, she is not afraid of his blood-thirsty needs and the fact he could kill her at any moment. The thrill begins when James, a nomadic vampire finds it is a challenge to hunt Bella down for her irresistible blood. Edward and his family risk their lives to protect her from the attack of James. Finally, James is destroyed.

--Review--

Twilight is the first movie adapted from Stephenie Meyer’s series of teen novels. It is a big hit with young girls. The romance between Edward and Bella was the crux of the film; it probed the timeless dilemma of wanting what you can’t have. It is an interesting and compelling story.

Hanna

Hanna (Saoirse Ronan) is 16 years old. She is bright, inquisitive, and a devoted daughter. Uniquely, she has the strength, the stamina, and the smarts of a solider; these come from being raised by her widowed father Erik (Eric Bana), an ex-CIA man, in the wilds of North Finland. Erik has taught Hanna to hunt, put her through extreme self-defense workouts, and home-schooled her with only an encyclopedia and a book of fairy tales. Hanna has been living a life unlike any other teenager; her upbringing and training have been one and the same, all geared to making her the perfect assassin. But out in the world there is unfinished business for Hanna’s family, and it is with a combination of pride and apprehension that Erik realizes his daughter can no longer be held back

Kung Fu Panda 2 (Review)

---Plot---

In Kung Fu panda 2, Po(dragon warrior) face his second challenge in his life, he is trying to find inner peace that master shifu teaches him and he have to master the this Kung Fu skill before he can fight with the evil shen(peacock) that plan to take over the entire china city.

The enemy is a Peacock called evil lord shen, shen create the most powerful deadly weapon to destroy traditional Kung Fu. As Po knew this news, he was furious because he can’t let Kung Fu been destroy.
So the Furious Five (Snake, Mantis, Tigress, Crane, Monkey) and Po, the Panda set out to get rid of shen.

Po also discovers who his birth parents are and what had happened to them when he meets evil lord shen. Then on, it's a battle for survival.

---Cast(some main)---

Jack Black - Po(voice)

Angelina Jolie - Tigress(voice)

Dustin Hoffman - Shifu(voice)

Gary Oldman - Shen(voice)

Jackie chan - Monkey(voice)

Seth Rogen - Mantis(voice)

Lucy Liu - Viper(voice)

David Cross - Crane(voice)

---Review---

The movie start off with the a short story of lord shen, it was say that lord shen will be defeat by a black and white warrior(which is a panda) then the story goes back to Po. The story goes on to Po had a mission is to save Kung Fu which lord shen wanted to destroy. The characters have fully matured and been fleshed out to the point where even Jack Black fits comfortably as Po, though regrettably the Furious Five barely get any screen time. Overall is a nice movie to watch with your family and friend also it is worth watching it in 3D, it gives you twice the awesomeness!

Ballet Shoes

--StoryLine--

The movie is about three girls Pauline (Emma Watson), Petrova and Posy Fossil adopted by a fossil collector who instead of collecting fossils, starts to collect babies. He leaves them with his cousin's daughter Sylvia and her nanny and two of them take care of these three girls.

They live in poverty and decide to rent out rooms. Luckily the tenants are very helpful, the friendly, learned Dr. Jakes and Dr. Smith, the helpful dance instructor Theo Danes, and handsome John Simpson.

They grow up and each one finds a gift in them thanks to the academy of stage arts they got into for free with the persuasion of Theo Danes. Well, everyone expect Petrova who wants to be a mechanic. Pauline wants to be an actress and Posy a ballet dancer.

The three of them named them self Fossil because of the man who adopted them and they do a swear in which they promise to put their names in the history books because of them not because of their grandparents.


--Review--

I had been looking for Emma Watson's movies and found this "Ballet Shoes". Although I have no idea why it is called ballet shoes, it is indeed a good movie. We can see how the three sisters are being aspired  to be actor, aviator and ballerina.



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Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chip-wrecked Trailer

Yay! Alvin and the Chipmunks is back for their third movie!
Enjoy the trailer!