Batman

This is going to be like my Disney reviews I'm going to do this as well as Batman Returns, Batman Begins, Dark Knight, Dark Knight Rises and all the Marvel movies. So what's the story? Well if you know the comic stories you know this fine. "Bruce Wayne" played by Michael Keaton is an orphan who is also the mysterious Batman. But there's a man named "Jack Napier" who's also a criminal. One night while trying to stop him and his gang Batman drops Jack into a vat of chemicals transforming him into the villain "The Joker." He now tries to get even with him so to do that he tries to kill everyone with a new liquid that makes them look like him and kill them. But Batman manages to crack the combinations of what he's doing and the Joker is also tying to get together with one Bruce's friend "Vicky Vale." I'd say the best part of this movie is probably the casting and especially how most of them seem to be cast well like Keaton or Jack Nicholson as Jack Napier and while they're both not as good as Christian Bale and Heath Ledger, they are still impressive. The same goes to the director "Tim Burton" who did Nightmare Before Christmas, while his directing isn't as good as Christopher Nolan's in the Dark Knight. There's not really much left to say except I think this movie is pretty good. If you haven't seen it yet and you've got some spare time, I'd say take a watch.

The Nightmare Before Christmas

The Nightmare Before Christmas, wow talk about a film that only did O.K at the box office but got tons on great reviews and praises. To be honest I'd never heard about this movie until I saw it in Kingdom Hearts and it was actually because of Kingdom Hearts I decided to get it on DVD. When I first saw I thought it was, meh. Pretty good but a little annoying. However, over the years I've grown to really like it. It's like my original thoughts on Frozen, I originally thought it was annoying but when I started watching it more and more it's become one of my favourites. When I say it's one of my favourites it's because this was done by Tim Burton, the same person who did Batman and Batman Returns. You can count this as one of my Disney review. What's the story? It seems all the holidays are given their own land, Halloween town, Christmas town and all the rest. The leader of Halloween, "Jack Skeleton" is finally getting tired of his holiday and wants to try something new . So he accidentally finds the Christmas holiday and decides he wants to take it for his own. Showing the people of Halloween what he's discovered and even kidnapping Santa Clause himself, Jack decides he going to transform a Merry Christmas into a Scary Christmas. Instead of bringing treats and toys he's going to bring creeps and scares which ultimately result in a horrible catastrophe. And meanwhile Santa himself has been taken to the evil "Oogie Boogie" by his henchmen "Lock, Stock and Barrel to be torucherd. And now it's up to Jack to stop Oogie and fix everything. The movie has a great story with it's creativity and simplicity. It's also really easy explain and easy to follow The visuals are really cool to look at seeing it's Tim Burton doing it. But also the song are pretty good too. The composer and song writer of this is Danny Elfman who's done all of Tim's movies, even Batman. And yeah the songs in this are actually the same feeling I originally had with the Frozen songs too. Originally I thought they were annoying but they actually are really enjoyable. Like "This is Halloween, Kidnap the Sandy Claws, What's this What's this" and so on. Elfman himself does the singing voice of Jack and I couldn't even tell the songs are just that good. I actually also think the villain is a little weird and little to bad. When I say bad I mean he doesn't do that much and I would of liked there to be a bit more screen time with him. But with the screen time Oogie got he is still pretty cool. My favourite part of the movie is the climax between Jack and Oogie. Just the way they move and the way all of Oogie's invention all fly around. Watch this.

I'd say the only problem I have with the movie is that a few things aren't explained like when Jack comes back to Halloween Town it's never explained about how he found out that Oogie had Santa and his friend named Sally. But still, aside from that the movie is still enjoyable and like I said this is one of my top 5 or maybe even top 3 favourite Tim Burton films. And I especially love it in Kingdom Hearts. It's just that good. If you haven't seen it yet I'd say take a look.

My top 5 favourite superhero movies

I've actually been watching a lot of superhero movies recently and that's why I decided to make this list.
5. Batman 1989: This one may actually surprise you because of what you're going to see in a few minutes with my number 3 spot. But anyway, this movie and it's sequel "Batman Returns" are both on this list. They were both dark, had the same actors and the same director "Tim Burton." They both had some decent action even though it really wasn't anything that spectacular or even not great, but regardless they are still great movies with great actors and a good storyline.
4. The Iron man, Thor and Captain America trilogies: Now this is really cheating because they're all different trilogies. But they all do come together in the 2012 movie "The Avengers." They all have the perfect cast. Like Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man, Chris Hemsworth as Thor and Chris Evans as Steve Rogers/Captain America. They all have some spectacular fighting scenes and really good subtle moments too. They're just amazing.
3. The Dark Knight trilogy: Now I know I've said before that I thought the Batman series is better but after having watched them both again recently I've found that The Dark Knight Trilogy is the superior Batman movie series and a lot that comes from Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne/Batman. In my opinion, he's the best Batman. The way he looks in the costume, the way he does everything cleverly, the way he can look intimidating and look intimidating himself and I actually do think that voice does fit the Batman character and it does have really brilliant looking action scenes.
2. The Amazing Spider-man trilogy: Yeah I bet you thought you were going to see this as number 1 but no, while I do think it's a spectacular superhero film trilogy, it's not my number 1. But still it is amazing. It has a perfect cast, a good storyline, even if it is a little complicated and a little choppy and it does have a lot of likable scenes and intense action scenes. The thing that especially makes it for me is two things. One is Andrew Garfield as Spider-man who is still the best Spider-man in my opinion. His comedy, his brains, his strategies, his entertainment, care and the fact that he is interesting, this is the Spider-man I look up to and admire. And the other thing that makes it for me is both the other cast and the atmosphere that the director's trying to create. The shots, the angles, the pacing, these movies actually allow you to breath for a minute and take in the full size and scope of everything that is Spider-man, it really allow you to suck up the atmosphere.
And my number 1 favourite superhero movie of all time is... The Avengers: Yeah, The Avengers is my favourite superhero movie. It has a great story, great characters, some of the best action scenes ever and it has a perfect ending.  It has Iron man, Thor and Captain America back. As well as Scarlet Johansson as Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow, Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton/Hawkeye, Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner/Hulk  and even Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury. Natasha and Nick appeared in a few of the other Marvel movies before this and man did they do it fantastically. But back to it. It does have some spectacular action scenes. The best one being the New York final battle at the end. It also has a great villain with Loki played by Tom Huddleston and you can tell he's having a bunch of fun in it. He's just so enjoyable to watch. It also has a bunch of the same comedy from the other great Marvel movies as well as some unbelievable visuals, especially the design of the Chitauri aliens. They're going to be making a sequel to it this year and I'm hoping to go to it. Also I'm going to be doing reviews to the Marvel and maybe a few DC superhero movies like I did with the Disney, Pixar and DreamWorks ones. So I think I said enough all I can say left is that it's a spectacular superhero movie and my number 1 all time favourite one of all time.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a film really wanted to review ever since I first saw it and that was only last week. Even though it is mostly a life-action movie it's crossed with animation and animated characters like Disney characters, Warner Brothers characters, Paramount characters. What's the story? Set in Hollywood in 1947 there's a detective named "Eddie Valiant." Apparently a very wealthy prankster named "Marvin Acme" has been murdered by a toon. Eddie doesn't seem to mind seeing how he seems to have a problem with toons. Why? Because a toon killed his brother. How? By dropping a piano on his head... that is hilariously tragic. Everyone think Roger Rabbit is the one who killed Marvin so he goes to Eddie to try and help him clear his name. Despite his problem Eddie does believe that he is innocent. So with the characters from Toontown including Roger's wife named "Jessica" they set out to solve the mystery. I'm trying to think about what to say about this movie that hasn't been said 1000000 times before. Everybody's seen it and love it. In fact they more than love it they go crazy for it. And I'm not going to lie, I'm in love with this movie. It's so funny, it has brilliant characters, it has a really great story that's easy to follow and it has famous animated characters you love that appear together like you see "Micky Mouse" and "Bugs Bunny" together. That is so serial to see. I also think the villain "Judge Doom" is pretty cool. Remember how I said in my Despicable Me review I said I would have put that movie as one of my favourite movies ever, yeah I don't think I thought that fully, but with this film I'm certain I would defiantly put this film on that list as number 10 or maybe even a bit higher. I don't know what else to say, it just a perfect film. I'd definitely say watch it, it's just that spectacular.

Big Hero 6

Ever since the movie came out I've really wanted to see it. Disney's Big Hero 6. Everyone even to this day is still loving it. I only just saw it yesterday and I have to say it was a great film. What's the story? Well in the future there's a city called "San Fransokyo." A boy who lives there is a boy named "Hiro" who's a boy genius. He's got a older brother named "Tadashi." Hiro is that kind of person who has a good mind but mostly just uses it to benefit himself. One night Tadashi shows him the school he goes to and Hiro really wants to go there. But in order to do that he has to win a contest by making the best invention. He wins but one night loses his brother in a fire. A while later he comes across one of Tadashi's robots named "Baymax." Baymax is like a one robot hospital to help anyone physically and mentally. He can also talk too. Hiro sees this as an opportunity stop a new villain who's using his invention to cause destruction. So Hiro and Baymax get Tadashi's old friends "GoGo, Wasabi, Honey Lemon, and Fred and together their united as a team known as Big Hero 6 and stop this guy. So yeah this movie does have a pretty good story. And sense Disney is with Marvel that's why this movie is a superhero movie. There's also a lot of really slow pacing and really funny moments in this especially the police station or even with Baymax's scenes. The relationships between the characters is also decent especially the relationship between Hiro and Baymax. Speaking of Baymax, he's actually my favourite character. He's funny, cute, likeable and does do his best to help everyone out. I don't even know what else to say, it's just such a great movie. If you have time go see in the cinema if you get a chance. You won't regret it.

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

It was nice to see a full Wallace & Gromit film on the big screen. Just another one of those stories of a man and his dog that didn't always have us laughing or but still interested at the very least. They were originally just in cartoon shorts. What's the story? Well in this story "Wallace" who's an inventor and always gets into trouble and his dog "Gromit" always has to save him. and in this story they're rabbit exterminators, well not really they really exterminate the rabbits, they just take them of the person's property and give them a home a their house. But things really get out of hand when one of Wallace's inventions goes wrong, what a shock, when it creates a Were-Rabbit. A creature that goes into everyone's house a eats their crops and vegetables. So now Wallace and Gromit are on the  case trying to stop it but Gromit finds there's a bit more of a twist on this then he thought. Well if you've seen the original shorts like "A Grand Day Out" or "The Wrong Trousers" or even "A Close Shave" you know your favourite characters are back and they haven't changed a bit. Wallace is still this weird guy who does have so selfish moments but still does know when to put his friends a head of himself at times. Gromit is just a dog who can do human stuff like walk, read, drink from cups and eat food normally and yet he never ever talks... once. But to be fair that's actually one of the things I do like about him. With not having him talk and trying to understand what he's thinking through his face expressions it's really good and likable. He actually is really smart and is my favourite character.  The stop-motion is once again brilliant to watch, I mean it just the way the creators built these sets makes them look really big. So for what it is it's o.k. If you want to see t yourself that's fine but if you haven't seen the short yet I start with those first.

Chicken Run

The team that brought you Wallace & Gromit now bring their first full length stock motion animated film "Chicken Run." This is a movie all the critics went nuts for. It was well written, well animated a unique story, some of the best slapstick ever and some of the most memorable characters ever. And yeah I agree. My dad and I love to watch this all the time. It was one of best films the 2 of us ever watched together. It was even a gigantic hit box office when it came out. What's the story? On a chicken farm in England one a group of hens led by one hen named "Ginger" try to escape everyday. Why!? Because the owner of the farm named "Mrs Tweedy" has them lay eggs and when they can't lay anymore she and her husband "Mr Tweedy" kill them. But one night they think they can get out with the help of a rooster named "Rocky." The hens think he flew into the pen but actually he's from the circus and he was fired out of a cannon and that's how he got there. But he doesn't want to go back so he makes a deal with Ginger and the others. If they keep him safe and hide from the circus and don't let the Tweedys find him he'll teach them how to fly. But his wing is broken so he can't teach them right away. But things seem to really get out of hand when Mrs Tweedy decides she wants to start making pies out of the chickens but first Mr Tweedy has to put the machine together. So the race is on to see if the hens, Rocky and another friend of theirs named "Fowler" can get out before the machine is fully put together. For this being the first full length stock motion animated film it's pretty impressive. The designs are unique and the set pieces are pretty big looking. The theme of this is a little different than something like Wallace and Gromit that was a bit more quiet most of the time, this one is constant dialog and constant visual jokes. This is by far one of most adult like movies I've ever seen, I mean it has a lot of adult jokes and the dialog actually does seem like the kind of conversations that most adults would have. And speaking of which I really like the dialog in this movie. It's mostly calm and matches the actor's line with the way the characters are moving perfectly. And like I said before the characters are also likable and even Mrs Tweedy as the villain, while a bit bland at times is actually pretty cool and threatening. I guess my only main problem with the film is the liar revealed plot which I've said before I really hate and it does stretch on for a few minutes and during those few minutes it's just boring. But if that's my biggest problem with the film I have little to complain about. I can't think of anything else wrong with this film. It unique and very creative. What else can I say, I love it. I've seen it 100000 times before and I'll definitely see it 100000 times again.

Despicable Me 2

Well you must of already read my review of the first Despicable Me movie and I say the same for this move except I think this one is really better. What's the story? Gru is back and so are his 3 girls, Margo, Edith and Agnes. As well as the minions and Dr Nefario. But now he's being assigned by a league called the "Anti-villain-league" which tries to stop any villain like acts on earth. The head of the league is "Mr Silas Ramsbottom." Ha-ha, Rams"bottom", get it? And Gru's new partner is "Lucy Wilde." They're trying to find a stolen serum called the "PX-41" which is a transformation serum which makes who ever drinks it look like a big purple, hairy looking Hulk thing. They then begin looking for it at a mall where Gru think one of the shop owners is an old villain named "El Macho" who has a hilarious backstory. But everyone thinks he's wrong until it turns out he is El Macho and he did steal the PX-41 he's kidnapping Gru's minion to give them the serum to make them his servants. And the rest again is petty obvious. Gru stops him and he and Lucy get together. So what's good about this movie? Well for one thing the characters are the same as before and the cast do such hilarious voice acting. And believe it or not but I actually think the minions get more screen time in this and their more funny. The animation is still impressive especially the amount of gadgets that Gru and Lucy have. And also this movie came out the same year Frozen did and yeah Frozen is still by far the best movie from that year. There's also a subplot about Margo having a boyfriend that really doesn't go anywhere and yeah I think it was pretty pointless. But still this movie still has the really likable characters we love, a very cleaver set-up and an environment that feel very natural when you really think about it. And it's much better than the first film and funnier. I'd say look at but I'd say start with the 1st one first if you haven't yet.

Despicable Me

This one is a bit different from the other reviews seeing how this one isn't from Disney but I just thought I should do it anyway and I'm running out of ideas on what to put on this blog. I'm going to be review for his and the 2nd one too. And then after that I'm going to do reviews for Wallace & Gromit, Chicken Run and Ice Age. But for now let's just do this one, Despicable Me. What's the story? There's an evil villain named "Gru" who does plot to take over the world everyday with his "Dr Nefario" and his hilarious bunch of 100000 of little yellow thing minions. But one day he decides his latest plan is going to be to steal the moon but one of his rival steals this idea and his machine to shrink the moon. So to get it back he adopts 3 little girls named "Margo, Edith and Agnes" to get the machine back by selling the guy robot cookies and retrieving it. And I'm pretty sure you can guess the rest. Gru tries to eventually get rid of the girls because he doesn't need them anymore but he realises that they are actually important to him and he becomes a good guy in the end and they become a family. Let's look at what good about this movie. For one thing the characters are pretty good and there's a lot of funny lines out of them. But also that's also because of the actors they got to play these characters especially Steve Carell as Gru and he's actually one of my favourite comedians. He's done other characters like Hammy from Over the Hedge and other things like that. The minions are also funny. They don't even talk properly, they make a kind of "blah" or screaming noises that are hilarious to listen to. Also, the animation in this is actually really creative and pretty different from any kind I've ever seen. The character designs themselves are pretty unique. I actually would of put this along with it's sequel on my top 10 favourite films but I just didn't think about it when I was making the list. So I guess the last thing I could say I that I do think this is a really, really good movie and I would definitely recommend it.

The making of The Little Mermaid