Treasure Planet

This was the other movie the guy asked me about. Before I saw parts of it but I didn't see it all, but just like Atlantis, just earlier I finished watching it and I have to admit, I found it to be a bit more likable than Atlantis. What's the story? Apparently in another universe in the 18th century a little boy named "Jim Hawkings" hears the story of a place called "Treasure Planet," which is an actual planet full of treasure. Years go by and Jim is now a teenage delinquent, always getting into trouble and surprisingly, he's feeling bad that his father left. No I'm serious, when he was young, his father just left for no reason and never came back. Anyway, he finds an alien pirate who gives him a treasure sphere thing that shows them where Treasure Planet is. Jim comes across one of his mothers friends named Doctor Doppler and he suggest that they find a ship and crew and go find it. The captain is a cat-lady alien named "Captain Amelia." The cook is named "John Silver." There also a robot named "B.E.N" and a little transforming glob of goo named "Morph." So what's good about this movie? I actually really like these characters. They aren't really anything new but it's the execution that makes me like them. The animation is another thing I should bring up. It's really well done, and also it's more brighter here than it is in Atlantis. There's also a lot of sci-fi designs and while they do look cool, there was about one or two of them I didn't like. John Silver is the villain of the movie, but to be fair he's a very likable villain. Before they find out he's a bad guy himself and Jim get to know each other more and afterwards he refuges to kill him once the cover is blown. Even the relationships between the characters are pretty great. Also, this film was directed by "Ron Clements and John Musker" my two favourite Disney directors. They directed other Disney films like The Great mouse detective, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Hercules and most importantly, The Princess and the Frog. So overall I think movie is pretty good. It has good characters, good animation and a good story, I'd say take a look at it.

Atlantis: The Lost Empire

Atlantis: The Lost Empire. I know it's weird doing this one considering it came out after The Emperor's New Groove and I've past the movies after that but while I was look through my comments one person asked me if I would do this and Treasure Planet. So here we go. One of the reasons I didn't review this until now is because I never saw it and I really wanted to so just earlier today I found it, I watched it and yeah I did enjoy it... but. O.K let's just go to the movie itself before I get side-tracked. This was Disney attempt to do a kind of adult movie with lots of explosions and people die in a kind of horror way, and boy did it backfire. Not only did this movie do incredibly poorly at the box-office but a lot of critics gave it bad reviews. Were they right? Well I wouldn't go that far as to what they said. I mean like I just said I did like. What's the story? In a museum in 1912 there's a janitor named "Milo." He meets a person who used to be a friend of his parents. He gives Milo a journal that his grandfather left for him called the "Shepard's Journal" that could possibly be a map to the lost city of Atlantis. The same man has actually been spending years and years putting together a team of explorers and equipment and stuff like that to go down and find the city. Along the way they come across obstacles, trouble, monsters and all that stuff trying to stop them until they do manage to find the city and the lost people. They meet with the emperor and his daughter named "Kida" and she and Milo try to explore for a mystical crystal that's keeping the Atlantians all alive, that is until a villain is discovered. So what's good about this movie? First off the animation is very different from any other kind of Disney animation. A lot of that comes from the designs, especially the character designs. The characters are not bad I guess. Milo is this regular geeky character and there's nothing really different about him. The side-characters are actually very funny and they do get a lot of really good lines. The villain is the captain named "Rourke." And his motivation is just like Clayton's, greed. That's right, he's just a idiot who just wants money. Every time I see a villain like this I just get tired of them. But to the film's credit, every scene with him before we find out he's the villain, he does almost seem likable. The voice actor for him is just perfect. To be perfectly honest, I would say that the only problem I have with this movie is probably some scenes that drag on for too long and some things are a little boring. But aside from that I had a lot of fun watching this movie. If you want to see it fine, but if you would listen to what the critics said and that it was a bad movie. But for me I would say it is a good movie.

Brother Bear

I only saw a few years ago with my brother, sister and mam and when we saw it we liked it despite the fact that when it was released in theatre in 2003, it wasn't a hit. What's the story? A man named "Kenai" tries to find and kill a bear that he thinks killed his older brother "Sitka." He does but the spirit god get angry at him for doing it because the bear was innocent and as a punishment he gets turned into a bear too. At the same time his other older brother named "Denahi" wants revenge too. He think the bear killed Kenai and know he's out for blood. As Kenai tries to get back to the top of the mountain to turn back to normal he meets a little bear cub named "Koda." He stays with Kenai for a bit because he got separated from his mother. And yeah, lets be honest, you can figure out what happens after that. So what's good about this movie? Well for one thing this movie does have a good set-up and the characters are pretty likable. Especially at the beginning when we just see Kenai, Denahi and Sitka for the first time. So to sum up I would say that this movie O.K but nothing really spectacular or surprising. I mean a lot of the story is predictable and there are some annoying scenes and the music is pretty odd a well but for the rest it's not bad I'd say take a look and take your own opinion on it.

Lilo & Stitch

When I was a kid Lilo & Stitch was one of the Disney movies I found myself watching a good amount of times. And I do still like it, but it's not one of my favourites. What's the story? An alien experiment created by an evil genius alien scientist named "Jumba" escapes his captivity and makes his way to earth and befriends a little girl named "Lilo" who lives with her older sister named "Nani." From there a few other things happen. What's good about this movie? The characters are really good characters. Lilo and Nani are both characters people can identify with the way they act is the same way people would act in the same situation they're going through. Stitch is supposed is look like a dog. And he is cute. He's my favourite character actually. Jumba is O.K. While I've said he's an "evil" genius he's not the villain. As a character, he's pretty good. There's another alien side character named "Pleakley" who gets a good few laughs. The villain is an alien named "Gantu" The film is actually based in Kauai and it really does look good the way they portrayed it and even the animation is on it really good. So to close up I'd just say that this is a movie I'd definitely recommend you watching.

The Emperor's new Groove

Before I began doing these reviews I had never watched the Emperor's new Groove before. I mean I had heard of it but I never watched it, and when I saw it I have to say it was pretty good. Before I've seen the spin-off TV show of it called "the Emperor's new School." What's the story. It's about an emperor named "Kuzco" who's an emperor who's completely selfish and a jerk. His adviser named "Yzma" wants to kill him so she can take over as the new Emperor. So her and her henchman named "Kronk" try to kill him by giving him a potion but they accidentally give him a potion that turns him into a lama instead of killing him. But they try to kill him anyway. Kronk messes up and Kuzco gets away. Along the way he meets a peasant named "Pacha" and now the two of them have to journey back to the kingdom and reclaim his position. What's good about this movie? Well for one thing it's really funny and the characters are pretty good. Kuzco is just your basic jerk who'll become a nice guy in the end but he does have some good lines. Pacha is played by John Goodman who also played Sulley from Monsters Inc. and he not that different from that role. But I have to say the true highlight of the movie is Yzma and Kronk as the villains. They are hilarious. They make this movie. Every scene with them makes me laugh incredibly hard especially one specific scene at the beginning as they're entering their lab. Watch this.

 I found this is the Disney movie that had the most breaking the 4th wall jokes in it. Another thing I should talk about is the animation. I think the animation on the characters, especially Yzma and Kronk is really, really good. I especially like he fast paced action at the end when they're all trying to defeat Yzma. I definitely say this movie is worth being watched a few times.

Tarzan

When I was a kid Tarzan was one of the darkest Disney films I had ever seen. Why!? Well, let's just look at the story first. A family's ship crashes on an island and now they have to live on their own. The mother and father construct a tree house for them to live in. However a leopard named "Sabor" comes and kills the mother and father just leaving the baby. Coincidently the same leopard kills the baby of family of apes and what a shock the mother ape named "Kala" and the human baby run into each other. The Kala decides she wants to take care of the baby but the father ape named "Kerchak" dislikes the idea but he doesn't stop her. Over the years the baby, who Kala has named "Tarzan" has turned into a man then one day he meets some other people. A hunter named "Clayton," a bumbling professor named "Archimedes" and his daughter named "Jane." Jane and Tarzan run into each other and immediately begin to fall for each other. Tarzan then begins to show her about the animal world and Jane shows him all about the human world, but then the evil villain is discovered. So what's good about this movie. Well for one thing the animation is pretty good and there are a lot of fast paced animation scenes that are really impressive. Tarzan himself is a pretty good character, when he's just being himself and talking normally and with the apes it is really good, I think they got just the right actor for him. Jane is a really good character. Why!? Because they make her incredibly interesting and she's very identifiable. The rest of the side-characters are pretty good but I wouldn't say they're great. Clayton, and I don't think I'm giving anything away, is obviously the villain. He's not bad as a villain but he's a little boring as a villain. Now when I said this was one of darkest Disney movies I'd ever seen it's because, for one thing it has some of the most intense and scariest Disney deaths ever. Especially Kerchak and Clayton's death. Watch this and you'll know exactly what I mean.

Over all this movie is O.K I guess. I'd say it's worth a few viewings.

My top 10 favourite movies

I know I already said what my favourite movie is in my top 3 film that didn't get a sequel but I think I might of gone a bit overboard with that one because even though you will see that movie on this list again it's not number 1. Let's begin.
10. The original Star Wars trilogy: Now when I say the "original" series I mean the first 3, "A NEW HOPE, THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK AND THE RETURN OF THE JEDI." Out of all the characters "Luke Skywalker" is my favourite character. And out of all the movies The Return of the Jedi is my favourite and I love all the films. To me, the prequels will never beat the original.
9. The Spongebob Squarepants movie: Having there be a movie version of my favourite T-V show of all time has to be on this list. Not only are the characters  their usual lovable selves but the atmosphere they give to this movie is just huge and magnificent. Also the voice actors who play the characters in the show also do the same roles in this movie too as well as there being a ton of celebrity cameos who play even more great characters and not to mention the great adventure the writers give the characters is just spectacular. And there's actually another Spongebob movie coming out next year and I'm really excited about seeing it.
8. The Simpsons movie: Now I know it's weird putting this movie over the Spongebob movie considering the fact that I prefer Spongebob to Simpsons and they are both two of my favourite shows ever. But I think what works a bit better for this movie is the fact that this movie feels more like a movie. When I say that I mean this movie takes every advantage it can and doesn't waste a single bit of time it has. Also I think the story for this one is a bit more creative than the Spongebob movie seeing how we go to different locations and while they do that in the Spongebob movie too but I don't know this one just handle it a bit more cleverly and more creatively.
7. Aliens in the Attic: This is the movie I was talking about a minute ago. While I've said before that this my favourite film ever, it isn't. However it is still at least one f my favourite films ever. Not only is it funny but the action is superb and the cast is just right. Also this movie has aliens in it, thus the name "Aliens" in the Attic, they're so awesomely designed and their plan is so ingeniously thought out and so diabolical and the way they talk to the people is so cool to listen to. It's just a great and cool movie.
6. The Lord of the Rings movie series: I'm sure you've heard everyone saying the Lord of the Rings trilogy is one of the most legendary trilogies of all time and I only began watching this trilogy this year and I loved the first one the second it began. The reason I began watching this trilogy is a long story but I'm still going to tell you. I might of already told you about my friends named the "Mitchells" and we've been friends all my life. The mother "Donna" is a nurse and the two of us have been friends for life. One of her son's name is "Sam" and like I just said he and I have also been great friends for life. He's loved Lord of the Rings ever since it came out. One night when I was sleeping over at their house he and one of his friends were watching one of the Lord of the rings movies I kept peaking my head through the window to see them and at one point he saw me and asked if I wanted to come watch it with them but I said no thanks and then he asked if when I was older if I'd watch it. I said yes and now sometime this summer when I was watching something related to Lord of the Rings I remembered that night and I decided to begin watching them. And I absolutely love the movies. They have great characters and a great story, as well as some of the best action ever. Out of all the characters I would say "Frodo" is my favourite character.
5. The Harry Potter movie series: As I've already said in my last entry I explained about how I began to like this series. And it's still one of most favourite movie series of all time. The casting, the characters, the effects and the shots are by far the best things in the whole series. This summer my family and I went to London o go to the making of it. When I say that I mean where the films were made and it was just a gigantic experience. My favourite character is "Harry" himself.
4. Avengers Assemble: The highest grossing comic book film of all time, the greatest comic book film of all time and the biggest combination of superheroes ever movie has earned the number slot on my list. Not only does this have some of the best action you'll ever see, but also it has great directing from Joss Whedon, amazing acting, fantastic visuals, the greatest M.C.U villain yet, Loki, great dialogue, a huge scope and the greatest superhero crossover ever next to the Justice League, and it will forever stand out as the greatest superhero film of all time... so far.
3. Kung-Fu Panda 2: As if I even need to go into much detail. I've talked about this movie 10000 times and I still love it. I don't really think there's much for me to say except I love it and it's still one of my favourite movies ever, as well as my favourite DreamWorks movie and their going to be making a 3rd one in either 2015 or 2016 and I wonder if it'll beat an absolute masterpiece like this.
2. The Princess and the Frog: I've said before how the Princess and the Frog is my favourite 2-D Disney film of all time and I'm putting it as one of my favourite films of all time. I've talked about how the characters are some of the best characters I've ever seen, the story is wildly creative and how great the animation looks. Also I think the villain, the Shadow-man is one of my favourite Disney villains ever. It's a shame I found this movie as late as I did because I defiantly would of put him on my top 5 best Disney villains as number 5. I don't think there's really anything else for me to say except I just think this is a spectacular movie and it's one of my favourite films ever.
And my number 1 favourite movie of all time is... The Toy Story movie series: Yeah, you knew this had to be somewhere on the list. I just really, really, really adore this movie series. It's actually one of the most legendary trilogies of all time next to Lord of the Rings, the original Star wars and Indiana Jones. This is the first "Animated" legendary trilogy and it's easy to see why. It has some of the characters in cinematic history and it has some great acting too. There's nothing more I can say except I love this trilogy and it's my all time favourite movies and movie of all time.

Mulan

When Mulan first came out it was just a modest hit, I mean critics and audiences seemed to say the same thing, it was just O.K. And even today it's still considered to be just O.K. And yeah I think the same way. What's the story? In China the Huns are invading so an army has to be assembled from one man from each family to go and fight. One is a father of a young woman named "Mulan" who is too old and too sick to fight. So she disguises herself as a boy and goes to fight for him. She's accompanied with a Chinese dragon named "Mushu" and while at first she gets on the wrong ends with everyone at first she does manage to win over the crowd, never letting anyone know her secret. So what's good about this movie? Well for starters the characters are pretty good and funny, particularly the army themselves. Mulan herself is O.K, she's nice, she's not one to give-up easily and she does seem to love her father to go do this for him. Mushu is definitely my favourite character, mainly because he's funny and he's played by one of my favourite comedians, "Eddie Murphy" as in the same person who played "Donkey" in "Shrek." And in my opinion, the villain of this movie "Shan Yu" is defiantly one of the darkest and coolest and most menacing villains ever put in a Disney film. His design is awesome, what he does is awesome and even though he has very little dialogue, which I think makes him even more cool, when he does talk it awesome because his voice is so deep and perfect for a villain like this. And also the animation looks good too especially the backgrounds and the animation during the action scenes is great looking. So yeah, I'd definitely say take a look at it.