Happy Feet 2

(Wikipedia) Happy Feet Two is a 2011 American-Australian 3D computer-animated family film directed by George Miller, who co-directed the original film Happy Feet. The film is a sequel to Happy Feet and stars Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Hank Azaria, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Pink, Sofía Vergara, Common, Hugo Weaving, Richard Carter, Magda Szubanski and Anthony LaPaglia. Dr. D Studios in Sydney, Australia produced the film, which premiered in North American theaters on November 18, 2011 in Digital 3D and IMAX 3D.

Plot (me)

Erik, son of the penguins Mumble and Gloria, is reluctant to try dancing as most of the penguins in Emperor-Land do. Erik's first attempt at dancing embarrasses and outcasts him from the rest of the penguins. The story unfolds as Eric and a few friends follow Ramon to his part of Antartica, his father trying to get them back, and a glacier impacting and trapping the populace of Emperor-Land.

I wasn't actually expecting to watch this movie (Sherlock 2 was after it in the drive-in theater, and we thought it was the starting film), and I wasn't impressed with the trailer for it what-so-ever - but it surprised me by being almost as good as number one.

Eric's character needed a little more work, though his singing voice is good. The first song he did was pretty funny since the lyrics were sooo not what should go with that singing style (notice I'm not going to tell you what the style is, lol, you'll just have to watch it).

The addition of the Krill characters I thought was nice, too. They added some color to it, as well as the human crew on the Antarctic sea vessel a bit (they were amazingly animated too, by the way. Almost looked real when they were searching for Lovelace in the water later in the story).

My sister and I (Samurai) both rated this a solid 3 out of 5, but for younger kids I'm sure it would make a good 4 out of 5.
Another thing that's funny though, since we were watching this movie at the drive-in on Christmas the temperature was around 38 to 40 degrees! The cold fit with the snowy theme, lol.

Tron: Legacy

(wikipedia)Tron: Legacy is a 2010 American science fiction film directed by Joseph Kosinski and produced by Steven Lisberger. It is a sequel to the 1982 film Tron with Jeff Bridges reprising his roles as Kevin Flynn and CLU, while Bruce Boxleitner reprises his roles as Alan Bradley and Tron. Garrett Hedlund portrays Flynn's adult son, Sam. The other cast members include Olivia Wilde, Beau Garrett, Michael Sheen, and James Frain.

Plot (wikipedia):
In 1989, Kevin Flynn, software engineer and the CEO of ENCOM International, disappears. Twenty years later, his son, Sam, now ENCOM's primary shareholder, takes little interest in the company beyond playing an annual practical joke on the board of directors. Sam is visited by his father's friend, ENCOM executive Alan Bradley, urging Sam to investigate a message originating from Flynn's abandoned arcade. Upon entering the arcade, Sam reactivates the long dormant power supply, as well as a vintage juke box. As Journey's hit song Separate Ways plays, Sam discovers a Tron arcade game, which draws his interest. Attempting to play the game with the quarter given to him by his father the evening he disappeared, the machine ejects the coin, causing Sam to discover gouges in the floor which reveal a secret passage. Following the passage and discovering his fathers secret office, Sam unintentionally teleports himself to the Grid, a virtual reality, in the "ENCOM 511" supercomputer, created by his father.

Before watching this movie I had doubts on how good it would be, but I was pleasantly surprised that it was quite good. I loved the part with the stand-off between the security guard and Sam, lol.
Also, the CGI was epic! I loved the bikes and flying vehicles! Makes me want one like it, especially the part where they pack so light.
The character development was really good for the main characters, but really bad on some other important ppl, like maybe TRON HIMSELF?? C'mon, we're in the dark on that 'program' for practically the whole time, he almost never speaks. The intense moments in this movie weren't intense enough in general, but I think they really needed to make Tron show some kind of internal struggle or something to give him more depth.
Goes to say Big Bucks don't fix plot holes, lol.

Family Friendliness: A son finds his dad again after 20 yrs, that's powerful, but there is also absolutely no kissing or what not! I mean, c'mon, even cartoon movies have that these days! That's ranks it along side iRobot in my opinion, because though both have quite a bit of smashing, neither have blood and gore. Only "questionable" scene in Tron was the part where 3 girls were changing his outfit into techy Tron-style, which I guess could compare to the fact the iRobot starts out the movie by showing Will Smith in his boxers. :-P

But seriously, for a live-action movie that DISNEY made, it's better than one would think.


Samurai's Overall Rating: A decently good but wobbly 4 out of 5

Metajets

I'm big on animated TV shows obviously, so here's what I watched most recently.

Metajets (a Canadian show, produced by Cookie Jar Entertainment premiered in Canada in 2008, South Korea in 2009, and the United States in 2010) is pretty awesome in my opinion - yeah, the plot is kinda predictable and there are a few plot holes, especially at the end (maybe there was supposed to be a season 2?), but all in all a good clean good-vs-evil animated TV show, though I have no idea why the world always needs saving and these kids are the only one's available.

One thing I found surprising about it when I first started watching it was the fact that the vehicles and some of the close-up scenery are made in 3D - when the characters themselves are only in 2D. The jets look pretty cool that way but the characters look kinda funny if they give you a cockpit shot, lol.
Another thing is that these semi-military kids seem to be always at the race track, which gives the show more suspense in a different way than the usual shows with just fighting and such.

Johnny (Ace) is my fav character, with Maggie coming up next.
I hear they even have a flight-sim-like game with it too, maybe I should try it, lol.


For family friendliness this show rates pretty high, there's a lot of character development and overcoming one's personal problems
As for a straight out rating I give this at LEAST 4 out of 5 stars, and I'd suggest watching as much if not more than I would Eon Kid.














I posted about this and possibly my new animated TV fix Robotech on my personal page HERE. Click to learn more.


~Samurai

The Dark Knight Rices

Decided to post a funny, lol. If we're going to post a Dark Knight reveiw, NuttyNinja would be the one who would.

~KnightlySamurai

(does that sound better than just Samurai? It has a nice ring to it, lol)

New Addition

New Addition to the About Me pages!

The addition is a "Recently Watched" section, where the admin puts in a recently watched movie/show. It may not be updated regularly but I hope mine will at least, lol.






This is what it looks like:

-Recently Watched-
Samurai:
☺How to Train your Dragon (again) - Oct 30th
☺Puss in Boots - Oct 29th
☻Metajets (Animated TV show) - ep. 24

Whether or not I will currently make the ☺ and ☻ mean watched and unwatched/currently watching I have no idea. I suppose I could.

Eon Kid

Eon Kid (USA)

(Wikipedia) Eon Kid is the English title of a South Korean-Spanish CGI animated television series Iron Kid (Korean: 아이언 키드) produced by Daewon Media and Design Storm in South Korea, and BRB Internacional in Spain. While the series is known as Iron Kid in South Korea, Spain and other non-English-speaking countries, it is known as Eon Kid in the English-speaking countries due to the legal concerns.
It premiered in Korea on KBS2 on April 6, 2006, and on TVE in fall 2006. In the United States, it is distributed by Manga Entertainment and premiered on The CW's Saturday morning Kids WB block September 22, 2007.

Iron Kid (South Korea)

In this show the main character (Marty) is unknowingly the last in the line of the House of Eon, or bearers of the Fist of Eon (I'm saying Eon because I like it better than the Korean Iron Fist and I will throughout) which puts him in a tough place when The General's forces are again threatening the world after being defeated 100 years prior by Eon, Marty's ancestor. In the show he not only makes many enemies, but also good friends, some in unlikely places, who help him along the way.

At first I wasn't expecting much from this show as in the first 5 to 10 episodes or so the plot was pretty slow, but it gives some good action afterward to make up for it, so it's still a good watch in my opinion.
I really like the good action scenes and characters, though on some of the characters you're left guessing as to their origin and their story, which is a bummer, but hey, I doubt it was big budget.

That being said the animation quality is awesome! They do a good job with the flame-like aspects of some of the attacks and special abilities, and I really like the concept of the robot characters that are almost so like humans you can barely tell them apart by actions alone - and apparently don't rust very fast, lol.

Gaff is totally my favorite character, though I still don't know why he doesn't show himself till past episode 13, I guess I'll just have to finish the series, lol. ;-D

EDIT: Ok, finished it. Once it picks up it's good to go. I don't like all the mythical stuff though, about the eastern Chi or inner-spirit what-not.


~Samurai
No idea why I didn't also write entries for X-Men: Evolution, Wolverine and the X-Men, The Avengers: World's Greatest Heroes, Astro Boy, or Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Maybe I will get to a few of those eventually.

Samurai Rating: 4/5 (The Eastern mythical "Chi" idea that this show gives and the plot holes, but the rest is good)
NuttyNinja Rating: N/A
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SALT

This isn't an official post (yet), but I just watched all but the first 15min of Salt on TV while waiting for our vehicle to get an oil change. Anyone reading this post have any opinions on it? I liked it some, but it is a bit confusing (though missing the first bit may contribute to that), and though the action towards the end resembles something from the Bourne series you really have no idea why the gal is running, not even after it's explained, lol. I need to watch the beginning...


~Samurai

Samurai Rating: 3 1/2 out of 5 (because the Bourne series only averages 4 1/3!)
NuttyNinja Rating: Waiting for reply entry
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This blog is for rating movies! We hope to rate them ourselves as well as give links to popular rating sites. :-D

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