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Oh yeah, finally one of my favourite characters of the Spider-man series enters the movie screen. Venom is not so much a character but an infesting parasite that makes all the evil of a person come out. I was really happy to finally see that character played except it wasn’t Venom that ruined the movie it was pretty well everything else. I enjoyed the movie a lot but it was not a Spider-man 2 feeling.

My expectations might have been too high for the movie though I would say it is somewhere between Spider-man 1 and 2. The character worse played was Sandman; I think they could have eliminated him from the movie completely for it was not necessary to have that many characters all at once. It did seems a little bit confusing to other people that I talked to, though if you know all the stories before you get a good idea on what happens because you have a good history. For people who never watched the cartoons or read the comic books you might get a little frustrated with all the different characters and how they evolved.

I do highly recommend that you rent this movie if you have already seen Spider-man 1 and 2. It is worth the rent but not worth the buying. The graphics are amazing and the plot is fairly well done but like I said can be confusing.

Less than a year after the previous installment of the popular pirates’ trilogy, Jack Sparrow and company return in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. The film should be great, given a three hundred million dollar budget, huge anticipation, and the closure a third installment inevitably brings to a series. While this film does show its budget and is quite visually arresting, it lacks a fair share of resolution to the trilogy and confuses with its overflowing exposition rather than purely existing to entertain.

Even in an action packed pirate movie, overly chatty sequences will simply bore audiences just because it’s too hard to follow what exactly is being said. The movie really just had too many vague or unnecessary plot points that didn’t affect the main plot at hand.

All the acting was perfectly fine, with Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow and Geoffrey Rush as Captain Barbosa unsurprisingly being the standouts. The introduction of Depp’s character in the pirate equivalent of Hell called Davy Jones’ Locker is a particular favourite, as well as the scenes at World’s End, which somehow involves a giant, deep waterfall. Keith Richards’ hyped cameo as Jack’s father is nothing to go crazy for, he does a decent job, but his screen time lasts only about two minutes.

Director Gore Verbinski and his crew knew going into this that the reviews would be mixed and the plot would be confusing (in order to encourage repeat viewings), but honestly, at nearly three hours, the more the film confuses you the more it becomes an endurance test. Also, rather than providing a satisfying conclusion to the series, the end opens up the possibility for a fourth installment, which might not even happen. The crew put every penny of the film’s budget on screen, made evident in the hour or so of its bloated climax. The film looks and feels like a true epic, shots are wide, locations are vast, costumes are extravagant, and the scope is large.

Evan Almighty did not meet my expectations compared to the first movie Bruce Almighty which starred Jim Carrey. The laughs were not as often and sometimes the parts just seem so retarded it just wasn’t that funny.

The movie is decent and worth the while to watch with the family. I’ll admit it’s a decent movie for the kids to watch because it has their sense of humour they may find in it.

The storyline was fairly good, though it had a over powering message in it which seem to drag the movie down a bit. Steve Carell did do a fairly good job himself on this movie and I don’t think it was his acting that ruined it, I just think that sometimes their shouldn’t be sequels unless you can put together a movie that can stand up to its original.

This is why I am giving the movie a 3/5.
v Great for Kids
v A lesson is learnt
x Not Laughs more like Chuckles
x Could of used a better script

This Disney movie is colourful and well animated though you get the feeling it is a Jetsons meet Jimmy Neutron movie.

It’s about a boy named Lewis who was abandoned as a baby at the orphanage and could never be adopted out because no one wanted him. He is a great inventor though his inventions seem to always mess up in the end. His little roommate, which I can not remember his name, is played very well. He has a great sense of sarcasm which makes a great children’s movie for adults.

Lewis has made an invention for a Science Fair and a mean man named Bowler Hat Guy comes from the future and sabotages Lewis’s machine so it doesn’t work for the Science Fair. Lewis gives up on inventing and then runs into Wilbur a kid from the future, who stole his dad’s time travel machine. Wilbur tells Lewis that the invention must be completed for its very important. As they go back to the Science Fair they notice that Bowler Hat Guy has stolen his invention.

They are then in a race against time to get it back and end up going to the future to catch Bowler Hate Guy.

The story turns into another must save the world dilemma. It’s a great story and animation for kids and adults. Though not as much for adults for they will get bored of it fairly soon. It is highly recommended for young children especially for those who love Dinosaurs and Frogs. You’ll see what I mean later on.