Meet the parents little Fockers (23/12/10)

If you wanna compare between this comedy and Gulliver's Travels, I prefer this. This comedy, like many others, depends if you like the jokes from the actor. In this case, though I'm not a Ben Stiller fan but this would be a better choice. Jokes are mostly intellectual and alittle sexual. Of course, the best part is hearing Ben Stiller saying, "I have eyes too, so I'll be watching you watching me."
In this series, Robert wants Ben to take over as the God Focker. So Ben has to ensure that his kids listens to him and gets into the best school. Jessica Alba plays as a nurse to Ben's clinic and happen to accompany him at his new place alone when he had an argument with Robert. However, Robert decided to apologize to Ben by finding him in that new place. But when he got there, he saw what it seems like Ben making out with Jessica. But in actual fact, Jessica was drunk and wants sex with Ben. Owen Wilson plays a show off role that turns loserish in the end. Impressing Ben's parents at the start, tattooing Ben's wife on his back and getting a party replacement site at his luxurious place in the end finding out that he can never win Ben's wife back to him, who was his formal girlfriend.
My rating: 3.3/5.

Gulliver's Travels (23/12/10)

Useless watching this in 3D honestly. That's just an option to eat your money. 2D is good enough.
Jack Black is a great entertainer. Yet again, if you think its funny, you'll have a great time enjoying his comedy. If you don't think its really funny then its just normal. I mean cold jokes to me. Certain jokes are kind of like expected or erm... ya, that would happen if you do this, so? What so funny? Ya? But if you like Jack Black, then go ahead and watch it. Don't be spoiled by my comments.

Gulliver's Travels is a classic novel, maybe being spoiled by Jack Black here. I don't know if you think so. It has nice plot, very exaggerated, rush and less developed in this movie. Maybe creative to suit Jack's style of comedy. It's slightly less than an hour and a half so you won't feel its draggy at all. It starts with real world scenario, of him as a mail room boy having to impress a manager in the company with his impressive "copy and paste" writing skills. So, he was then being sent out on a trip to explore the Golden Triangle to complete a travelogue. That's when the myth starts.

My rating: 3/5.

Tron Legacy (16/11/10)

This movie is definitely overrated. Marketing for this movie started way back from early 2010 there was even a 15 mins preview trailer for the public to watch. But was it even as good as Avatar, like many of us expected it to me? No way. The plot was entirely fitted for the trons to do their own stuff and what do we audience know what is going on other than what was described in the movie. Certain plot were nonsense. For example, Jeff Bridges, played as the creator of Tron, but he didn't even have the power to take back what he created and at the end, he suddenly stops his clone from getting into the 'wind thing' that would be taking the guy and the girl back to earth. He could have used whatever powers he had earlier. He created tron and he was in the end trapped inside. I believe there were more weird plots, just ask around.

However the graphics were really good. Elaborated luminous colored lights were drawn as the fast objects moved past the screen. But 3D? What for? It wasn't even worth the money at all. Nothing popped out. And at the beginning, there is a statement that says some shots were taken 3D to get the best effect. That would totally make 3D feel wasted paying for it in 3D. So I'm warning everyone to just go for it in 2D. This show should only be watched for the elaborated graphics and sound. The plot is weird. Honestly, this movie buff here slept for like 10 mins in the middle conversational portions. It was really boring in the middle. 3/5.

Rapunzel: A Tangled Tale (25/11/10)

Walt Disney films are typical with their use of songs after songs in the various scenes to express the characters feelings, thoughts alittle more. So if you're into musicals or simply resist to fall asleep when each song comes out, this film should be your choice. In terms of plot, though can be compared to beauty and the beast in some scenes but most of it is different.
The use of the horse character will resemble the behavior of a dog. Horses are not known for their strong sense of smell, but in this movie, the horse, is fantastic in its smelling ability. When it was told to sit or being trained to be tamed, the same method used on the dog, was used on it. So, maybe you can consider that cute. Seems like the behavior of a dog is used in animals reaction in cartoons. This is not really fair because every kind of species has their own kind of reactions or behavior.
Rapunzel who was the only child of the King and queen, was being stolen due to its ability to perform magic on from its hair. The 'witch' like lady who stole it, wanted to keep herself young. So Rapunzel was not allowed to leave the high tower and her hair was prevented from cutting. This selfish desire from the old lady was soon exposed. Watch to find out how Rapunzel was saved and how, Rapunzel, a blonde is a bimbo too.
Watched in 2D. Its fine if you wanna skip this movie. 3/5.

Bruce Lee, My brother (25/11/10)

This movie is based on Bruce Lee's life from age 0-19. It begins with his parents actually say the word 'push' as the name of the kid to the nurse who just delivered him out. 'Push' was probably the only English word the parents knew how to say as they gave birth to him in a US hospital. But the nurse interpret it as 'Bruce', so therefore his name is Bruce Lee. Stupid right? But probably its true that's why they film that.

If you're in for fights and action, you should totally skip this movie, because you'll be kept waiting for about 1 hour plus before the action actually starts. The only two fight scenes which took place in the entire film is about the last 40 mins. Where he fights in a western boxer in a ring and won and again with the same boxer outside of the ring and won again. But in my opinion which the actor himself has admitted, he is no where near Bruce Lee at all.

For the first 1 hour of the movie, was about his growing up as a kid where he already took interest in fighting and only when he turns 17 that he became serious in learning Wing Chun from Ip Man. Most of his teenage life, he just do filming that involves him as a fighter. His actual career only started when he moves back to US at the age of 19. The movie ends there.

What we want to see in this movie is how he mastered the skills of Wing Chun, the amount of time and effort he took to practice and master it and the difficulties he gone through in the training. All these were not shown but rushed through in 10 mins or less. Instead what was shown is him dancing with girls, and him having fun with friends. Maybe the sides that we don't know about him. But is that really important?

Sucks!!! 2/5. Shouldn't even be done.

Chronicles of Narnia: The voyage of the dawn treader (2/12/10)

Nice British movie. 2D would have been enough. If you don't know yet, is from a christian author, so some scenes do relate to christian values. Quite similar to the trailer, three teenagers who are family members stare at a picture and saw themselves in it. Its a picture of a ship in a stormy sea. From there, the fantasy starts, the water from the sea in the picture pours out and fill the entire room. One of the teenager is an unbeliever in the christian terms and only after going through the entire fantasy, he learns how real the adventure can be and how much it had helped him to grow stronger in character. Different scenes in the movie, signifies temptation from the devil, such as food when their hungry and money like gold for wealth to distract them from their cause of journey. Creative plot. After watching it, you'll feel that you've gone through lots of drama, just like the characters in the movie. 4/5.

Kung Fu Wing Chun (18/11/10)

Don't expect much fighting except for the final part of the movie. Its actually a comedy. Basically aims to cover the history and founder of wing chun kung fu. Surprising, but its true that Wing Chun kung fu is named after a lady named Wing Chun, who learned her kung fu from a nun. I guess the rest of the history can read up or seen from this movie. Some jokes are quite funny. The rest are just lame. The fighting part looks quite good. At least better than Bruce Lee, my brother movie. This has to wait till the end. Worth watching but missing it won't be too bad either. I hope there would be another movie on Wing Chun that shows more on how the training was actually done to build up the skills of the learner. Maybe a more serious work and better skilled actors.

3/5.

Hello Stranger (1/12/10)

This is a great movie. If you like thai comedies, this is definitely good. Even those who are not opened to Thai movies or never though Thai movies could be that interesting, you should watch this. Definitely perspective changing. Thai comedies are really creative and expressive.
Lots of effort were put, into the actors, or maybe they're naturally talented.
Its about a guy who were 'sabo' by his friends in leaving him empty handed for his trip to korea. He met a girl to travel around with over there and some how emotions were entangled and they kind of liked each other. But throughout the course of the travel, she found out that he just broke up with his girlfriend of 8 years. He sent a postcard back to his ex-gf from Korea and she came over to find him. In the end, He chose his ex-gf instead of his new squeeze. At the end, you're not sure whether to feel happy or sad, because most of the film were shot how happy the two strangers were with each other as they get to know each other and do different travel activities together. Its comical due to his talents but yet it's very touching with lots of emotions involved in various parts. A must watch. 4.3/5.

Sammy's Adventures: The Secret Passage (2/12/10)

Skip this movie. Its really boring. I slept for a couple of minutes. Almost 1/2 of the movie is about sammy trying to find shelly in the water. And some other turtle friends or sea creatures like the octopus and dolphins come along side to help them find. They are both teenage turtles wanting to be bold to venture out to search for the secret passage in the ocean. They got lost and then separated for many years till one day they found each other back. Though the creatures are cute and the 3D graphic images are good but more like a children's kind of cute instead of adult's kind of cute. The 3D view is really good. You get to see the water, the sea plants flowing right into your eyes. Almost like Resident Evil's 3D view. Not kidding.

The plot of the movie is set to also educate kids about how sea pollution through different human activities like oil polution and waste can bring great difficulty to the sea creatures who are trying to survive in it. The film begins with hatching turtles from their shells, crawling on the sand, making light depressions with their moving fins as they paddle themselves from the sand and into the water. That's quite cute.
2.5/5

Megamind (4/11/10)

Only watched in 2D. I think the 3D is good. Tell me about it. A must watch for kids. In this movie, though megamind stars as the bad guy, he in the end turned out to be the savior of the world. Because, Metro man, voiced by Brad Pitt, decided to retire by throwing his skeleton, acting dead in "megamind's trying to kill metroman's plot". Megamind felt lonely and decided to create a figure to fight with him. His creation somehow turned against him and He in the end saved the world from further destruction. Things get complicated when Tina Fey, didn't know Megamind could transform into many images and Tina actually dated and kissed Megamind, unknowingly. So, the plot is good and Will Ferrel, staring as Megamind, did a great job in his voicing. Very creative. I would agree a 4/5 star from the public. Unexpected twist between good and evil.