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3/29/2011

Tangled

Stars:
5 stars

They're taking adventure to new lengths.

After receiving the healing powers from a magical flower, the baby Princess Rapunzel is kidnapped from the palace in the middle of the night by Mother Gothel. Mother Gothel knows that the flower's magical powers are now growing within the golden hair of Rapunzel, and to stay young, she must lock Rapunzel in her hidden tower. Rapunzel is now a teenager and her hair has grown to a length of 70-feet. The beautiful Rapunzel has been in the tower her entire life, and she is curious of the outside world. One day, the bandit Flynn Ryder scales the tower and is taken captive by Rapunzel. Rapunzel strikes a deal with the charming thief to act as her guide to travel to the place where the floating lights come from that she has seen every year on her birthday. Rapunzel is about to have the most exciting and magnificent journey of her life. (Source: IMDB)

Starring: Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi
Released: 2010

Megan's Movie Review:
OH my! I LOVED THIS MOVIE! This is totally a classic Disney movie but all animated instead of a cartoon. Ya know what I mean? Anyways, this movie was fabulous! I felt like a little girl again haha! I can't believe it's taken me this long to see it. It was funny, the romance was great, the storyline was awesome. The ending perfect. I loved the lantern thing. I just thought that was so cute! Rapunzel was beautiful and Flynn was handsome. lol My favorite character was the chameleon. He was adorable and I want one for myself! This movie is great for children, especially little girls and it's even funny for adults. The horse character was hilarious too. He was so funny acting all tough and cool. After I watched this movie I wanted to watch it again. It really was just your typical Disney Princess movie. But up to date and better!

5 stars right??!

It's Kind of a Funny Story

Stars:
3 1/2 stars

Sometimes what's in your head isn't as crazy as you think.

Craig is a high-school junior, in the gifted program, infatuated with his best friend's girl. When he realizes he's suicidal, he checks himself into the psychiatric ward of a hospital, thinking they'll do an observation, help him, and send him home in time for school the next day. Once in, however, he must stay for a week; the juvenile ward is being renovated, so he's in with adults as well as a few youths. Bobby, a man with a young daughter, shows him around; Craig notices Noelle, about his age. He tries to keep his friends from finding out where he is. Little things: he draws, goes to therapy, sings, helps Bobby rehearse an interview. Is this the stuff of insight? (Source: IMDB)

Starring: Keir Gilchrist, Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts
Released: 2010

Megan's Movie Review:
Well.. I had never seen or heard of this movie but my husband put in on our Netflix list. It had a kind of a sweet, interesting story. It had my attention from the beginning. I didn't appreciate the sex content in this though. For reals, he is like 16 years old.. I just think it's stupid. But other than that, I liked the story. He just learns a lot about life within a few days of being in the hospital. It did have some funny things in it too. The boy had a kind of weird/interesting imagination. Yet it was funny (sometimes). But I just really liked the ending. It was great and I didn't think that Keir Gilchrist was too bad of an actor either.

Comments?

Abandoned

Stars:
1 star

If someone took the one you love... How far would you go to get him back?

Mary Walsh delivers boyfriend Kevin to a hospital for routine outpatient surgery. But when Mary returns to take him home, he's mysteriously vanished. An administrator can find no record of him, and a police search turns up nothing. Increasingly frantic, Mary's taken to staff psychiatrist Dr. Bensley, who pronounces her unstable. Now she must not only find her missing boyfriend, but prove her own sanity as well. When a stranger informs her he knows Kevin's whereabouts and demands a $10 billion ransom, she has one hour to comply... and her boyfriend's life hangs in the balance. Forced to embezzle the money from the bank where she works, Mary soon discovers the shocking truth behind the disappearance. Now time is running out and she must take matters into her own hands to save herself. (Source: IMDB)

Starring: Brittany Murphy, Dean Cain
Released: 2010

Megan's Movie Review:
This movie was absolutely horrible. I mean, I don't even know if that is even the right word. It sucked. I feel so bad because I don't know if this was her last movie that she filmed, but I'm sure it was one of the last ones, and it was terrible. Her hair in the movie looked awful! I don't know who their dresser was but whoever it was sucked. Brittany Murphy looked like her hair was constantly wet and gelled down. She needed highlights. Then her make-up artist sucked as well. They made her look like a clown. Her lipstick was like off of her lips. Anyways, her acting was probably the best compared to everyone else's but it was still not great. Dean Cain.. didn't he used to be Superman? What the heck happened? I could've been a better actor than him. This movie had the stupidest lines. It was just terrible. My husband and I just kept making fun of it and couldn't believe that we actually were watching this movie. I feel bad that this was one of Brittany Murphy's last movies.

I will be shocked if you liked it..

3/24/2011

Holes

Stars:
4 1/2 stars

Can you dig it?


"But if you forget to come back for Madame Zeroni, you and your family will be cursed for always and eternity." Those were the exact words spoken to young Elya Yelnats the day he forgot to repay the gypsy Madame Zeroni. From then on his family was cursed with bad luck. One hundred years later Stanley Yelnats IV is accused
of stealing a pair of cleats from a major league baseball player and sent to Camp Green Lake (a dry lake bed in the middle of the desert). It never rains at Camp Green Lake, it hasn't for one hundred years. The secretive and mysterious Warden has each inmate spend every day digging one hole to "build character." But when an artifact from the famous "Kissin' Kate" Barlow is found in a hole, the Warden forces the boys to work double time leading Stanley to deduce they're digging because the Warden is looking for something. But what? And how is the mystery of Camp Green Lake connected to Stanley's family curse? (Source: IMDB)

Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Sigourney Weaver, Jon Voight

Released: 2003


Megan's Movie Reviews:
I just read the book for the first time and lets say it made me love this story even more. I had never read the book before I saw the movie, and so when I saw this movie I loved it. I think it has a great story and I truly enjoyed it. I especially loved the romance between Kate Barlow and Sam. :) Haha.. Of course I do! I love any kind of romance even when it's cheesy. "I can fix that." Love that part in the movie!!! So sweet! Anyways, this movie was great, and the story was awesome. It also followed the book extremely well and the reason is because the author wrote the screenplay for the movie! Incredible.. I appreciated how this movie that good things will happen to you if you are honest. It just might take some time or test your patience, but it will happen.

Comments?

3/22/2011

Battle: Los Angeles

Stars:
4 1/2 stars

A Marine Staff Sergeant who has just had his retirement approved goes back into the line of duty in order to assist a 2nd Lieutenant and his platoon as they fight to reclaim the city of Los Angeles from alien invaders. (Source: IMDB)

Starring: Aaron Eckhart
Released: 2011

Megan's Movie Review:
I heard a few different things from people about this movie and it was mainly that everyone didn't like this movie. They said that there wasn't enough alien in the movie. Really? How much more freaking alien did you want?! I went into this movie expecting to not ever see the alien. But maybe it's because I saw skyline and you don't see the alien very much in that movie and then watching this movie you see them all the time. And by the way, this movie was cool! Super action packed alien war movie. Tons of fighting and the fighting scenes were good too! I really, really liked this movie. I don't know how people didn't like it or said that there wasn't enough "alien" in the movie. I also liked how this movie ended. Yes, they didn't save the world, they just saved their city, but at least it showed you how they would be able to save the world. I also liked how the aliens didn't die because of the oxygen like War of the Worlds. They actually had to kill the aliens. It makes it a challenge and they won! Well..they won Los Angeles. If you like aliens and if you like action packed movies, you most likely will like this.

Alien fans?

Taken

Stars:
4 1/2 stars

His daughter was taken. He has 96 hours to get her back.

Seventeen year-old Kim is the pride and joy of her father Bryan Mills. Bryan is a retired agent who left the Central Intelligence Agency to be near Kim in California. Kim lives with her mother Lenore and her wealthy stepfather Stuart. Kim manages to convince her reluctant father to allow her to travel to Paris with her friend Amanda. When the girls arrive in Paris they share a cab with a stranger named Peter, and Amanda lets it slip that they are alone in Paris. Using this information an Albanian gang of human traffickers kidnaps the girls. Kim barely has time to call her father and give him information. Her father gets to speak briefly to one of the kidnappers and he promises to kill the kidnappers if they do not let his daughter go free. The kidnapper wishes him "good luck," so Bryan Mills travels to Paris to search for his daughter and her friend. (Source: IMDB)

Starring: Liam Neeson
Released: 2008

Megan's Movie Review:
Wow. This movie was pretty awesome! It is super intense and full of action. I loved Liam Neeson in this movie. He was phenomenal. Very cool! His fighting scenes were awesome, like Bourne Identity awesome. I loved how he was so determined to find his daughter. One thing I didn't like about this movie was how you see all the women being sexually abused. Well you don't actually see it, but you know what was happening to them. It bothered me because I hate to see that. You know it really does happen in this world and it makes me sick. I wish at the end of this movie he would have somehow saved all those other women from the torture they were in. But since the government knew about it and didn't care, I'm pretty sure he probably couldn't have done too much. And another thing that bothered me was how Maggie Grace (she plays the daughter) over acted all her parts. She always had to be running somewhere like she was 5 years old. It drove me crazy. But I loved this movie and how he was so smart and could just do anything.

You have to like this movie...

3/14/2011

Surf's Up

Stars:
4 1/2 stars

Birds Fly...Penguins Soar!

This story follows a teenage rock hopper penguin named Cody Maverick from his hometown of Shiverpool, Antarctica, where all of the other penguins think he's nothing but a surfing fool, to the "Big Z Memorial Surf Off" on Pen Gu Island. Young Cody is determined to win the most important competition in the world of penguin surfing in honor of "Big Z," a deceased surfing legend whom he has idolized since childhood. But the waves in Pen Gu are different than in Shiverpool, and the competition is steep. The current champ, egotistical Tank Evans, isn't just about to let this little penguin knock him from first place without a fight. When Cody wipes out and encounters Geek, a recluse aging former surfer, living in the jungle, he learns some important lessons about life and surfing, and even teaches Geek a thing or two. (Source: IMDB)

Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Jeff Bridges, Zooey Deschanel, Jon Heder, Diedrich Bader
Released: 2007

Megan's Movie Review:
Okay, so we bought this movie when it came out on dvd a while ago and watched it and all I can remember is that I didn't like it. I must have been in a bad mood or something, because we just watched it again last night and I absolutely LOVED it!! Shia LaBeouf is soo funny in this and I didn't realized how many big actors there were in this movie. There were so many funny parts in this movie and if you listen to everything, it really is quite a hoot. Some of the sayings I liked were "Pecker face?..." or "He's a dirty trash can filled with poo." I can't believe that I didn't enjoy it the first time. Great movie, loved it! I'm so glad that we have it haha and I think this will be a good movie for our kids. It's a good story about how to never give up and to follow your dreams. Have confidence in yourself!

You should see this if you haven't yet.

3/12/2011

Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

Stars:
5 stars

The eye of the enemy is moving.

While Frodo & Sam continue to approach Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring, unaware of the path Gollum is leading them, the former Fellowship aid Rohan & Gondor in a great battle in the Pelennor Fields, Minas Tirith and the Black Gates as Sauron wages his last war against Middle-Earth. (Source: IMDB)

Starring: Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Orlando Bloom, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, John Rhys-Davies, Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd
Released: 2003

Megan's Movie Review:
I forgot how much I loved the last movie. The ending was great, it seems cheesy but its really the perfect ending. The big battle/war scene is awesome! Legolas is so cool for bringing down that giant elephant. It was longer than I remember and I didn't even watch the director's cut. Has anyone seen those ones? Well its a great movie even if it is the theatrical version. Love these movies, can't say it enough. I don't care how long they are, they are fantastic movies. Someday I will read the books.

How'd you like this one? If you've read the book, how is it compared to the movie?

3/07/2011

Signs

Stars:
4 stars

It's Not Like They Didn't Warn Us.

In Bucks County, Pennsylvania, a five-hundred-foot crop circle is found on the farm of Graham Hess, the town's reverend. The circles cause a media frenzy and test Hess's faith as he journeys to find out the truth behind the crop circles. (Source: IMDB)

Starring: Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix
Released: 2002

Megan's Movie Review:
Good movie! It does seem to be a little slow in the beginning but it's good if you just sit and watch it. It gets intense at parts and the whole time you are on the edge of your seat just waiting for an alien to pop out. Mel Gibson was a good actor for this part. The boy kind of bothered me in this movie. But I really liked the little girl and of course the uncle. He was awesome, and hilarious. You appreciate comedy in movies like this to ease the tension. I always love how the director somehow pops up into his movies. M. Night Shyamalan is such a creative director and I truly appreciate his work. If you want an intense, alien movie, here you go. It's not what you think either. I love the ending, it's great!

What do you think of Signs?

Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers

Stars:
5 stars

The fellowship is broken. The power of darkness grows...

Sauron's forces increase. His allies grow. The Ringwraiths return in an even more frightening form. Saruman's army of Uruk Hai is ready to launch an assault against Aragorn and the people of Rohan. Yet, the Fellowship is broken and Boromir is dead. For the little hope that is left, Frodo and Sam march on into Mordor, unprotected. A number of new allies join with Aragorn, Gimli, Legolas, Pippin and Merry. And they must defend Rohan and attack Isengard. Yet, while all this is going on, Sauron's troops mass toward the City of Gondor, for the War of the Ring is about to begin. (Source: IMDB)

Starring: Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Orlando Bloom, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, John Rhys-Davies, Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd
Released: 2002

Megan's Movie Review:
Again, I love these movies! The battle scenes are awesome in this movie, especially at the end. I also appreciate how they add in some 'comical relief'. The elf and the dwarf always competing is quite hilarious. Graphics are great in this movie. This story is awesome. You feel bad for Aragorn because he left his beloved elf but don't worry.. Everything's going to be okay. Gollum is quite an ugly creature though. He scares me and is very creepy. You do pity him in the middle of the movie, but then by the end, you just know that the evil can't be taken out of him. I was also happy when Gandalf came back into the story. He is such a great character and actor that it wouldn't be the same without him.

Opinions please?...

Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Stars:
5 stars

Power can be held in the smallest of things...

An ancient Ring thought lost for centuries has been found, and through a strange twist in fate has been given to a small Hobbit named Frodo. When Gandalf discovers the Ring is in fact the One Ring of the Dark Lord Sauron, Frodo must make an epic quest to the Cracks of Doom in order to destroy it! However he does not go alone. He is joined by Gandalf, Legolas the elf, Gimli the Dwarf, Aragorn, Boromir and his three Hobbit friends Merry, Pippin and Samwise. Through mountains, snow, darkness, forests, rivers and plains, facing evil and danger at every corner the Fellowship of the Ring must go. Their quest to destroy the One Ring is the only hope for the end of the Dark Lords reign! (Source: IMDB)

Starring: Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Orlando Bloom, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, John Rhys-Davies, Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd
Released: 2010


Megan's Movie Review:
I looooove these movies! I know they can be kind of weird with all the fantasy creatures in them, but I thought the director, Peter Jackson, did a fantastic job on these movies. I have never read the books, although I did start the first one and there is quite a few things that are different, but the storyline is basically the same. These books are so detailed it would be too hard to include everything into the movie. The graphics were fantastic on these movies! One of the greatest things about these movies are their battle scenes. They aren't short either. But they aren't too long to where I'm wondering when they will end. This movie keeps me interested the whole time. Good vs. Evil. I love Sam! He is my favorite hobbit and the most kind too. These movies were just very impressive and I loved all the characters!

Lord of the Rings lovers?

3/05/2011

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole

Stars:
3 3/4 stars

On his way to finding a legend...he will become one.

Soren, a young barn owl, is kidnapped by owls of St. Aggie's, ostensibly an orphanage, where owlets are brainwashed into becoming soldiers. He and his new friends escape to the island of Ga'Hoole, to assist its noble, wise owls who fight the army being created by the wicked rulers of St. Aggie's. The film is based on the first three books in the series. (Source: IMDB)

Starring: Jim Sturgess
Released: 2010

Megan's Movie Review:
Well this movie wasn't what I expected. I thought from the previews that you would be able to tell what happens in the movie, and I was wrong. I thought, this little owl has these heroes that he admires, and he would eventually find them and they would be evil and ruin his whole perspective on them. That's not the case. It is such a cute story and I really liked it and want it for my children to watch. The story was great and it had a little twist that I didn't expect. The owls were so cute I wanted them for myself. This story was good for children because it taught them to have dreams and to not doubt yourself. It also teaches them to love their family no matter what and to fight for your family. I really liked it, good movie! I know this is based on a series of three books, hopefully they will make the other two. But I don't know if it did well enough for them to make the other ones.

And what do you think? :)

The Social Network

Stars:
3 3/4 stars

You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies.

On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history... but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications. (Source: IMDB)

Starring: Jessie Eisenberg
Released: 2010
Megan's Movie Review:
This movie was not what I expected it would be. I will be honest, I did not want to see this movie at all and my husband wanted to see it so bad! I had heard it was good but I had no desire to see it because why do I care how Facebook came about? Well ... like I said it wasn't what I expected and it wasn't like my husband expected. I thought it was actually pretty good and my husband didn't think it was as good as he had expected. Okay, this movie was not an amazing movie, have to have on my shelf, kind of movie. It was just interesting. The story kept my attention and I was intrigued by how Facebook did come about. Now I know movies sometimes portray the real people incorrectly, but in the movie, Mark Zuckerberg seemed kind of like a punk. He somewhat stole the idea from these guys, but then I'm on Mark's side because he knew how to code it and did it all by himself. But how he betrayed his best friend in the end.. so messed up! I felt awful for Eduardo. He was so smart it was crazy and I did feel bad for him in the end, because it seemed like even though he created this website where you could make all these friends, he seemed to have messed up all his own friend relationships leaving him with nobody. They could've taken out the sexual scenes in the movie. It was stupid to have them in the movie and I really didn't like those parts at all. Why are they even in movies? They are pointless and freakin stupid. Anyways.. that's all I have to say about that. But this movie was very interesting and I was glad that I watched it even though I didn't want to in the first place.

Facebook people, what did you think about this movie?!!

3/02/2011

The Last Airbender

Stars:
3 1/4 stars

Four nations, one destiny.

The world is divided into four kingdoms, each represented by the element they harness, and peace has lasted throughout the realms of Water, Air, Earth, and Fire under the supervision of the Avatar, a link to the spirit world and the only being capable of mastering the use of all four elements. When young Avatar Aang disappears, the Fire Nation launches an attack to eradicate all members of the Air Nomads to prevent interference in their future plans for world domination. 100 years pass and current Fire Lord Ozai continues to conquer and imprison anyone with elemental "bending" abilities in the Earth and Water Kingdoms, while siblings Katara and Sokka from a Southern Water Tribe find a mysterious boy trapped beneath the ice outside their village. Upon rescuing him, he reveals himself to be Aang, Avatar and last of the Air Nomads. Swearing to protect the Avatar, Katara and Sokka journey with him to the Northern Water Kingdom in his quest to master "Waterbending" and eventually fulfill his destiny of once again restoring peace to the world. But as they inch nearer to their goal, the group must evade Prince Zuko, the exiled son of Lord Ozai, Commander Zhao, the Fire Nation's military leader, and the tyrannical onslaught of the evil Fire Lord himself. (Source: IMDB)

Starring: Noah Ringer, Jackson Rathbone, Nicola Peltz
Released: 2010

Megan's Movie Review:
Well, this movie was better than average, but only slightly. It was really more of childrens movie for like ages 6-12. The storyline was interesting but it didn't end to great. They left it open for sequel but I don't think this movie did well enough for a sequel to be made. Maybe it will, I don't know. Also, this was not M. Night Shyamalan's kind of movie. The acting wasn't that great either and it was weird to see Jackson Rathbone in this movie because he plays Jasper in the Twilight series. The girl actress bothered me. She was not a very good actress. But I did like the story, it was interesting and kind of cool.

M. Night Shyamalan fans, tell me what you think of this movie?