Kung Fu Panda

Kung Fu Panda, 3 out of 4 stars.

Oogway: Today is a gift, that's why they call it "present".

Kung Fu Panda, directed by Mark Osborne and John Stevenson. The story of this movie is about a panda named Po (Jack Black) who is an apprentice noodle maker, he likes kung fu and one day, he has been chosen as the Dragon Warrior to save the world and to fight a villain, Tai Lung (Ian McShane) who has been trained by a kung fu master, the Shifu (Dustin Hoffman). Shifu also trained five of the greatest warriors, Master Monkey (Jackie Chan), Master Tigress (Angelina Jolie), Master Viper (Lucy Liu), Master Mantis (Seth Rogan), and Master Crane (David Cross). On the other part, Tai Lung escaped from the prison (pretty quick), and he's on the way to the village and wanted to have the dragon scroll. Five of the warriors are trying to stop him but they can't because Tai Lung is too strong, so before all the hope seem lost, Shifu has trained the lazy Panda to become a Kung Fu Panda. First of all, the movie is quite funny, but not as funny as I expected. The way the panda move, expression, dialouge, is quite funny and stupid. Besides that, the story is simple, and some part of the movie are predictable. Moreover, this movie has a lot of action sequences, fighting scene and Panda falling from the sky and it wont die. The fighting scene is pretty cool, very eye popping. The martial art they learned in this movie is very great, most of the skill Panda used is stomach and his butt (heh heh). But some part of the action seems like taken from "The Matrix Revolutions". There is one part where the panda fall from the sky and hit the ground. It similar with the part where the Agent Smith hit Neo from the sky and hit the ground straight. This movie also used a lot of slow motion technique which is make the situation look more funny, and I quite admire the visual effects, it's great. The music used in this movie also great which composed by Hans Zimmer and John Powell and it's contain a lot of Chinese Symphony music. This movie is good, funny but cannot make it to my best animation of the year list. Anyway, still worth watch it.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull, 3.5 out of 4 stars

Mutt Williams: You're a "Teacher"?
Indiana Jones: Part-time.

Here comes a long waited Indiana Jones movie (19 years since the third movie). This movie is the fourth installment of the Indiana Jones series (Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple Of Doom, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade) which also directed by Steven Spielberg who brought you his masterpieces "E.T: the Extra-Terrestrial"," A.I."," Minority Report", and much more. In his latest movie Indiana Jones, Harrison Ford and Karen Allen are back to this action adventure film and I'm glad their back. The film begins with a bunch of soviet soldier attack a military base in Nevada desert, and here comes Indiana Jones. Then Colonel-Doctor Irina Spalko (Cate Blanchett) forced Indiana to lead them to the hangar where the secret government stored the various item which government don't want the outside people know. After that, they start searching the item they want and Indiana Jones are trying to escape and here comes the action begins. In this movie, the action sequences is nice, very old fashioned and classical. The acting is very great especially Harrison Ford and Cate Blanchett. By acting as a villain, Cate Blanchett has a bob cut and learn some karate skills, it makes her looks exactly like a soviet agent. Shia LaBeouf a young actor who act in "Transformers" act as Mutt Williams who is Indiana Jones' son, in this movie he has a great sense of humor and make the story become more funnier. The funniest part is where Indiana stepped on the quicksand and Mutt trying to safe him by using a snake. This movie also have a spectacular stunt. Harrison Ford proves that he is still able to do stunts such as punching, falling, running and much more. Besides that, it used alot of special effects in this movie, and it has a great stunning visual effects. But, this movie will also give us some disappointment, which is the contain of the jokes are less than the first two film, and there will be less blood and gore too (not as much as the first two). When you watch the first two film, you will laugh from the middle till the end of the movie. But the latest Indiana Jones won't give you so much laugh. But still, Steven done a great job in the combination between action and jokes. For the plot, it goes very smooth from the beginning to the first half and explain a lots of things and very easy to understand, for the last half there will be alot of fun and action sequences which will make you laugh. Other than that, there will be a twist in a final few minutes which is very surprising and unbelievable. Music composer, John Williams who composed all four Indiana Jones series, he done a very great job in the theme song. The theme song he composed is very classic and great. After coming out from the theaters, you will keep thinking the theme song. Overall, even though it is not the best in the series, this movie still have a lots of great action, fun, stunning visual effects and very entertaining. People who like the first three movie, will also like this one.

Extra: Can you really survive the nuclear blast by hiding in a lead-lined refrigerator?

Superhero Movie

Superhero Movie, 1 out of 4 stars

Superhero? I don't think so. It's Stupid hero.

Superhero Movie, directed by Craig Mazin who brought you "The Specials" in 2000. The first thing I want to talk about this movie is "It's sucks", even though it is better than "Meet The Spartans". The story is about a student Rick Riker (Drake Bell) who being bitten by a dragonfly and become superhuman who has alots of abilities. Does he fly? Yes!! but have to wait until the last few minutes then he can fly. Then he decided to use his power to save our world and the one who standing his way is the stupid villain, Hourglass (Christopher McDonald) who want to make himself immortal by killing all the people. The story of this movie is almost exactly the same with the "Spider-man", it's only change a bit details and add on some more character from other movie only, for example character from "Fantastic Four", "X-men" and others. There's nothing fresh from this movie, it just like see the same movie again and again. The first hour of this movie is like watching another version of "Spider-man" and the last 20 minutes only you can see some new things. Even though some part of this movie makes me laugh but still this movie makes me feel very boring and sometimes stupid. (But not as stupid as "Meet The Spartans").