Up – Floating Houses and Talking Do[u]gs

Our second review takes us to Paradise Falls. This beautiful and lush area in South America should be a paradise! Or not. Carl Fredricksen, an over-70 year old, is a cranky old man. His wife died, who he was married to forever. Some crazy hooligan named Russel comes around and threatens this old man’s repu- oh wait. Russel, a little ‘Wilderness Scout’, comes to this guy’s house to get his Helping the Elderly badge. Carl tells him about a Snipe. Blah blah blah the next few days are bad with court and stuff, and Carl has to go to Shady Oaks Retirement Village. That is where the movie ends, and his house just floats away.

Nah. So two guys come the next morning to take him away. Carl was a balloon blower-upper and seller, so he did that and his house magically floated away. Russel was on it, they go through a thunder storm, some funny sequences occur, and magically they are in Paradise Falls. They meet a dog named Doug, Russel finds the snipe, which is actually an exotic bird an old Charles Muntz the Explorer is looking for. They find Charles, dogs are evil with squeaky voices, and such.

Spoiler time. Charles Muntz goes nuts for the bird, a dog bites Kevin, Charles falls off the blimp and this implies his body gets skewered by trees and splatters everywhere. Happy ending, right?

This was a fantastically made movie, with funny characters and sequences. The story is a bit too sad to be a kids movie, and things don’t make sense that often. about 1,000 balloons ripping a house from its foundations? No. The animation was great, and this is a very enjoyable movie. Out of 5 stars, 4.5. Out of 10, 9. Out of 100%, 91%.

This was a very awesome review by Alex V.

Avatar – The 13 feet tall Blue Things

Yes, my first review starts out on a very long, but awesome movie. Running for a stunning 2 hours and 42 minutes, this movie dazzles the audience until the end. The basic plot of this is that a man named Jake Sully learns his brother has died. The military is very advanced, and trying to capture a special mineral called Unobtainium. It is on the planet Pandora, which seems like a pretty unoriginal planet. But it is far from it.

So anyway, the guy’s brother is dead, but was with the military. To get closer to obtain the Unobtainium (Makes no sense, right?), they devise a plan to create avatars, which look exactly like the Pandoran people, but also resemble the humans they are supposed to represent. So Jake and his brother are twins, his twin dies. You know where this is going, right? Yes, you do. Jake Sully is now in the Avatar Program, and he is trying to get the Pandorans to leave their Hometree. Did I mention this guy is in a wheel chair, and goes in and out of leg use every time he crosses over into the avatar body (Which is done with technology and strange brain transmissions).

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Back on topic. So after 3 months, he learns Pandoran ways an such, and is all cool and stuff, but then THE EVIL MILITARY comes and blows up the Hometree. Avatarian things survive, batta bing batta boom, they gather 20,000 other aliens on the planet to save them. Jake Sully, or Jakesully as claimed by the Bluetonians, is exiled then unexiled, then another war happens. Boom boom pow, people blow up, Tallbluethingions are killed, and bad stuff happens. Pandorans win. Jakesully becomes an avatar forever, and the general gets 2 giant poison-tipped arrows through the chest. Then the title ‘AVATAR’ is finally displayed, and credits roll.

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This movie was very cool, and had awesome CGI and stuff. It had all types of genres, like Romance, Drama, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, and much more. Also, the wildlife and concept is literally out of this world. This movie is very cool, and is a must see. Out of 5 stars, it gets 5. Out of 10, it gets a 10. Out of 100%, it gets a 100%. It is an excellent movie, and deserves billions of dollars. See this movie or face the death penalty.

This was an Alex V review. I hope you enjoyed.

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