Kungfu Panda 2

 

Genre: Animation, Sequel
  
Tag Line: Prepare for The Return of Awesomeness

Running Time: 1 Hours 31 Minutes

Casts:  Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan, Dustin Hoffman, Gary Oldman

Directed by: Jennifer Yuh

Produced by: Melissa Cobb, Glenn Berger, Jonathan Aibel

Story:

Po is now living his dream as The Dragon Warrior, protecting the Valley of Peace alongside his friends and fellow kung fu masters, The Furious Five. But Po's new life of awesomeness is threatened by the emergence of a formidable villain, who plans to use a secret, unstoppable weapon to conquer China and destroy kung fu. He must look to his past and uncover the secrets of his mysterious origins; only then will Po be able to unlock the strength he needs to succeed.
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Review: 
Here we welcome the sequel of the Big Panda - Kungfu Panda 2" Ska2oosh! Kungfu Panda was released for the first time in 2008 and it caught its audiences. It's one of the best animation ever made and I really enjoy it. And now it's time for the sequel after 3 years. One of the specter of the sequel movie is it usually worse than the first. It's a bit boring and lame, it seems forced to be made out. Can Kungfu Panda destroy that specter? I will say definitely yes, big yes for this second one. For me, it's better than the first one and I enjoy it very much. 
You can call the story move on from the first one but it can stand alone too. So for you all who hasn't watched the first movie, it doesn't matter you still can understand all over it. It's all about a Panda named Po who is destined to be a dragon warrior and his five friends, Snake, Crater, Tiger, Mantis, and Monkey. In this sequel they will face a new enemy, a peacock named Shen who is known later to be a killer of Po's parents and Panda family. And in the end, kindness always defeat wickedness. 
The story may be boring and lame all over the place since the element of this kind is always the same. But this one is really not boring and lame at all. I enjoy it for the first time I sat in the theater seat till I got off from it. It's really exciting for the very first minute. The comedic and fun element in this story makes me laugh out loud through out the movie. The mimic of the character is funny and entertaining. The script is very smart as always for an animation. It's a really a kids movie that adult will also enjoy it a lot. It's like seeing a kungfu movie in animation style. It's so good.
The voices for the character are doing by well known actors/actresses, Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan, Michelle Yeoh, etc. They are really great actors/actresses who can rise the character. They build their own character really good. It's fun, funny and entertaining for me. They do everything in good proportion and I will credit to all of that guys.
The effects are spectacular. I bet the 3D one is better than the 2d, but since I watched the 2D one I just can comment on this. The 2D one even it doesn't pop out from the screen still it's great to see. I like the combination of the color playing in this movie. I feel like wow it's so beautiful to see the scene by scene in this movie. The firework thing, the cannonball are beautiful. It's awesome to see all the color burst from one side to the other side. It's really perfectly good.
Overall, it's a great and perfect sequel for Kungfu Panda. I Bet there must be a next one for completing the trilogy so I can't hardly wait for it. So guys, adults and kids, I recommend you to watch this one because it's very entertaining and fun. Believe me. :D

Good points: 
-   The story and smart script is entertaining
-   The combination of the color is awesome 
-   Funny and fun all over the movie 

Bad points:
-   I don't think it's the bad point but the duration is so short. I can't enjoy enough of it :D

Rating: 8.0/10.0 

Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes (2011)

Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
  
Tag Line: Evolution Becomes Revolution

Running Time: 1 Hours 45 Minutes

Casts:  James Franco, Andy Serkis, Freida Pinto, Tom Felton, Brian Cox

Directed by: Rupert Wyatt

Produced by: Peter Chernin, Dylan Clark, Rick Jaffa

Story:

An origin story set in present day San Francisco, where man's own experiments with genetic engineering lead to the development of intelligence in apes and the onset of a war for supremacy.
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Review: 
Rise of The Planet of The Apes is a reboot project. It just has two options here whether you like it or you hate it if it compares to the original. All I have to say is this is a really good reboot project. Everything seems so great, the story flows in a really good way without being excessive. The script is smartly incredible for the acts. I like the whole thing in this movie, I think it's one of the great movie of the year 2011. It's one powerful movie you should watch in the theater, I bet you'll like it.
The story is all about a guy named Will Rodman who is a doctor/professor who discovers a medicine to cure alzheimer disease. Before running a human test, he tested on chimpanzees and the effect was great. He decides to test it on human before a female chimpanzee goes crazy and harm the workers there. She is shut down by the guard and lately it is known that she acted like crazy because she tries to protect his new born son (chimpanzee). To protect the new born chimpanzee, Will take it home and raise him. He knows that the genetic is also in him like his mother was. The only purpose of Will created this medicine is to cure his father from alzheimer disease. Is everything going OK? Does that medicine cure his father? What about the chimpanzee named Caesar then? I can't tell you much here, it's something interesting you should watch. 
The plot moves slowly but sure. The timing is good. It's not too fast and it's not too slow. Some scenes moves so fast because it should be like that. The script for the acts is also perfect, it's not lame or boring. At the first part, it should be the boring part if it can't developed really good. The middle part increases its intense and you shouldn't feel boring about that. The last part which I wil say the last 20 minutes is the greatest part of this movie. Every great thing come into a great scenes. I bet you will feel amazed of that last scenes. It's beautiful yet scary but perfect. 
The acts like we know James Franco who was well known in Spiderman, 127 Hours, ect is a really great actor. I like his movies and he also did great on this movie. He raises his character to the max and I enjoy it. Since it's not a really love drama thing so, the main actress is not too much showing in scenes, but Freida Pinto as Caroline Aranha is not bad. I want to give credit to Tom Felton who we should have known him from Harry Potter Saga, really plays good here as a jerk. All the acts is in a good proportion of story here.
The effects since it is made by the same person who created the beautiful world of Avatar, it's perfect. All the chimpanzee is CGI effects and maybe some of you will not like it because they didn't use a real chimpanzees but I really appreciate all their work to make it real. I bet if they used the real one, they can't make it this great. The effects is perfect, everything looked so real. The last twenty minutes showed everything about it and you should enjoy it. You will feel the greatest of the effects in this movie. 
Overall, like I said, it's a great movie from its story to the acts to the effects and everything. I just can't for its next installment since it was set to be a trilogy movies. It's recommended to everyone, really. :D

Good points: 
-   All the scenes is in a good timing and proportion
-   Every acts is great in raising their character 
-   The effects to rise the chimpanzees is so real, you will feel it 

Bad points:
-   I don't know that there is really a bad point on this movie but if I have to mention one is I don't really like the ending. ;) 

Rating: 8.5/10.0