Tuesday, November 29, 2011

On the lighter side-Movies-Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

Pretty good animated sequel of the continuing saga of creatures from the Ice Age, starring the voices of Ray Ramono, Queen Latifah, Denis Leary, Sean William Scott and John Lequizamo. This time the elephant (Ray Ramono) partner is pregnant with his child and he goes overboard to make sure everything is done safely for the baby to arrive. In the meanwhile they fall in a pit and land in an alternate world where Dinosaurs rule. Good animation and some good jokes. Fun to watch and highly Recommended for every one.

On the lighter side-Movies-Inglourious Basterds (2009)

A remake of the same name of the seventies movie regarding a group of Jewish American soldiers on a mission to kill the Nazis in Germany. Brad Pitts stars as the leader of the group. Gory at times but the main issue is the length of the movie (over two and a half hours) and quite talkative at times with not enough action to hold your interest. Brad Pitt's accent is a struggle to understand but very nicely done. Recommended with reservations.

On the lighter side-Movies-Insidious (2011)

Weird horror movie starring Patrick Wilson as a teacher whose one son goes inexplicably into a comatose situation and finds out the hard way that he is in a world called " the Further". Don’t ask me how or why he goes there because it does not make sense. Although the chills are there (like Paranormal Activity stuff) but not great of a movie. It was made for USD 1.5 Million but made USD 92 Million worldwide surprising the movie industry. Expect a sequel to it by the way it ended (like all the horror movies do). Recommended but only for horror fans, all others stay away.

On the lighter side-Movies-Scream 4

All the three main characters return to the horror series which is now getting too tired to watch. David Arquette as the Sheriff, Courtney Cox as his reporter wife and Neve Campbell as the survivor of the previous massacres all came back to this sequel (as if sorry to say they did not have any other movie deal). Not that great, but lots of killings and not even that is innovative or new. Not Recommended