The Muppets

It's time to start the music, it's time to light the lights...
Most of today's generation has never seen a single episode of the original muppet show, or seen any of the muppet movies, but everyone knows who Kermit the Frog is. The Muppet movie brings the muppets into the new generation tackling the big problem that nobody now a days has any idea who the muppets are. Perhaps this is a reboot or just another Muppet movie, but one this is for sure: This movie is great.
Written and starring How I Met Your Mother star Jason Segel, it was obvious going in that Segal was having the time of his life filming with the Muppets. Although it has been over a decade since the Muppets have made a movie this film made them seem perfectly fresh.
The movie starts out as brothers Gary and Walter prepare to go to the legendary Muppets Studios in Hollywood with Gary's girl friend Mary (Amy Adams). But they soon figure out that the evil oil baron Tex Richman (Chris Cooper) is planning on destroying the old muppet studios and drilling for oil unless the Muppets can raise 10,000,000 dollars in a couple of days. But the problem is the Muppets haven't spoken to each other for years. But die hard Muppet fans Gary and Walter manage to track down the legend himself, Kermit the Frog. And soon the four (and of course Kermit's robot butler "80's Robot") are on a journey to find the rest of the Muppets gang (Cue montage) and put on a show to raise the money.
Although it is indeed a children's movie it is obvious that a great portion of the movie is directed towards muppet fans. And the movie is filled to the brim with celebrity appearances such as: Ken Jeong, Zach Galifianakis, Alan Arkin, Sarah Silverman, Donald Glover, Jack Black, John Krasinski, Whoopi Goldberg, Selena Gomez, Neil Patrick Harris, and so much more. The massive amount of guest stars in this movie help prove one of the main overall points of the movie that Muppet fans are still out there.
At its core the Muppet movie did indeed have a few cheesy moments but I found my self loving almost ever scene (even some of the musical numbers!). And only can the Muppets truly have you rooting for the romance between a blond haired pig and a frog that plays the banjo, but like all the could be weird things in the muppet movie, it works. The true talent the movie had was to get you to believe that the Muppets were real characters. Never once while watching the movie did I not believe that Kermit the Frog was having a conversation with Fozzy Bear, or Animal was talking to Jack Black. The movie truly brought these characters to life. I give the Muppet movie an 8.1 out of 10.

First Class indeed

X-Men: First Class

The fifth installment of the X-Men film series, X-Men first class moves away from the original four films and becomes a universe of it's own. This super hero film goes back to the Cold War era and shows the origins of Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) and Erik Lanshier (Michael Fassbender) and the bond they shared. Easily the best super hero film of 2011 and in my opinion the best movie of the summer.
X-Men: First Class begins by showing the very different pasts of Erik and Charles. Erik was a young Jewish boy captured by Nazis and was forced to watch his mother gunned down in front of him. Charles on the other had was a rich kid in a bib house who soon discovered a young girl named Raven who like both him and Erik was special. As they grew up Charles furthered his study in genetic mutations and became a proffessor, while Erik became a Nazi hunter and was in search of the man who killed his mother.
At the same time the government was in search of a criminal named Sebastian Shaw (Kevin Bacon) who had formed a team of mutants, and his plan was to wipe out all human life on the planet leaving mutants free to rule. The governemt eventually recruits Erik and Charles and they form a team of mutants to fight Shaw's, and the X-Men are born.
The thing that truly made this film great was the friendship of the characters Charles and Erik, and the deep past that they shared. And the film would have been nothing without the preformances of James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender. I reccomend X-Men to anyone who wants to watch a good super hero movie. I give X-men: First Class an 8.9 out of 10.

Best Movie of the Summer?

My Winner:


X-Men FIrst Class
After the horror that was the last two X-Men movies i expected the absolute worst from this X-Men prequel, and I was pleasantly surprised to find one of the most interesting and clever superhero movies of all time. I mainly give the success of this film to the acting of Michael Fassbender who played Erik Lehnsherr more commonly known as Magneto. Fassbender brought deep emotion and pure awesomeness of the Nazi hunter version of Magneto. I really hope that this means a reboot of the entire series will be coming soon! Read my full review of this movie soon.

I'm Back!

After nearly a year of nothing on this blog i decided to bring it back in style! My newest post will be my 2011 summer movie AWARDS! What were some of the best movies this summer? Find that out and more! Also i will be putting up more movie reviews and more random posts from this point on. Glad to be back

Top 10 TV Villains

Throughout the many years of Television there has been a barrage of brilliant villains, those people you love to hate. A hero is a hero but everybody loves a good villain. Do they always Win? No, of course not, where's the fun in that? But we indeed love to watch them try. And obviously I was unable to put all of them, but here is a list of my top ten. Please leave your comments!

10. The Man in Black from Lost

Born on the mysterious island, the nameless man who wears only black was the main nemesis of Jacob, the guardian of the island and soon became the nemesis of the survivors of the crash of Oceanic flight 815. After being killed by his brother Jacob, the Man in black was reincarnated as a giant pillar of black smoke. He also has the ability to take the form of any dead body on the island most prominently his and John Locke. Since he is evil incarnated he can also see the darkness inside of each person and become that darkness. He is the master of trickery and deception and becoming a giant monster made of smoke doesn't hurt either.

9. Plankton from Spongebob

Since they were kids, Plankton and Mr. Krabs have been archenemies. His main goal is to steel a Krabby patty from Mr. Krabs. He plans on selling them in his restaurant that has never had a customer. Well would you eat at a place called the chum bucket? Plankton is a super genius and has uses mind control, robots, and rockets. But he has never succeeded. In the end he is always some how stopped by the child like high jinks of Spongebob Squarepants.

8. Megatron from Transformers

Megatron is the leader of the evil decepticons whose main goal is to destroy all of the heroic autobots and rule the universe. Although he has recently been in the movies, Megatron started on the animated Transformers TV series from the 80’s. He like all the other transformers can transform, and while the others pick vehicles, he chooses to pick the most deadly thing of all, a gun. His rival is Optimus Prime and the two of them constantly fight. His right hand man is the sinister Starscream who wants to be leader of the decepticons and tries to kill Megatron on several occasions. And unlike Starscream, megatron actually has dignity and respect prime for being so strong and calls him a worthy opponent, but would instantly take up the chance to annihilate him.

7. Benjamin Linus from Lost

Benjamin Linus is the leader of the mysterious group called the Others. Ben is own of the most sadistic and sinister, not to mention brilliant villain on this list. What makes him different is that he is always calm and always has a plan. When it looks like he’s been captured and he’s doomed, he comes back in second and has the upper hand. Although his overall motivations are uncertain, Ben seems to be one of the people who is critical of the island’s beliefs, but will do what ever he is told.

6. Newman from Seinfeld

Although Newman doesn’t fill the normal qualities of a generic super villain, Newman is just as evil, if not more so, than anyone on this list. The chubby mailman who lives down the hall from Jerry Seinfeld is the goofy Kramer’s best friend, and has been referred to commonly as Jerry Seinfeld’s arch enemy. Whenever Newman enters the room Jerry states a disgruntled “Hello Newman.” Whenever he appears on the show, him and Kramer are always scheming something. Weather it’s trying to smuggle 2,000 cans in a mail truck, lying in court to get out of a speeding ticket, or putting an army of fleas in Jerry’s apartment. Newman’s only super power is making Jerry Seinfeld’s life more difficult.

5. Buu from Dragonball Z

From one of the most world renowned animated action series of all time, Dragonball z, the tiny pink alien known as Buu was easily the best. In his strongest form Buu is no taller than four feet tall, but he is more powerful than 1,000 warrior combined. He remains the only Dragonball villain that has successfully destroyed the planet, and with only one blast. He personally killed over half of the series main characters in a matter of seconds and even took on the main Characters Goku's strongest form. So the candy eating, steam blowing, regenerating goo ball that is Buu makes it into the top 5 TV villains of all time.

4. Lex Luthor from Superman

Besides maybe the Joker, you can’t really find a more perfect and pure evil arch villain than Superman’s archenemy Lex Luthor. Being the richest man in the town of Metropolis, Luthor uses his unlimited money to his advantage. Considering that his nemesis is the most powerful super hero of all time, you have to hand it to him, for a villain with no powers he knows how to play the game. But i guess it doesn't hurt to have an limitlessness supply of Kryptonite.

3. Sylar from Heroes

Gabriel Grey was a simple watchmaker from Queens. He had a pretty basic childhood, but he wanted his life to be different. He wanted to be different than anyone else, he wanted to be…special. But little did young Gabriel know was that he was indeed special. Gabriel has the ability of intuitive aptitude. Which simply put is the ability to know how things work. And although that sounds like a lame power, put with the hunger to be special, Gabriel Grey becomes one serious serial killer. Taking the identity Sylar, he travels around the world “collecting” abilities from other people with powers. And when I say collecting I mean using telekinesis to cut a persons skull open and absorb the ability through the brain.

The reason Sylar does this is because he believes other people don’t deserve these powers, and that he does. And although the show seems to have gone down hill, Sylar stays as one of the most riveting characters on television. Plus if you don’t all the other reasons are good enough to put him on the list, the man killed his own mother!

2. The Joker from The Batman

You cant really have a top villains list without at one point or another mentioning the Joker. One of the greatest comic book villains of all time and one of the greatest TV villains as well. Whether it was from the explosive whoopee cushions to the deadly hand buzzer, the Joker was always prepared to psychologically torture the famous caped crusader and have fun with it. With his classic purple suit and green slicked back hair the Joker was ready to go to toe with even the most powerful heroes, but even managed to bring Superman to his knees.

1. Mr. Burns from the Simpsons

Mr. Burn is the sinister, powerful, and seemingly immortal richest man in the cartoon town of Springfield. He manages the nuclear power plant in is the manager of the incompetent Homer Simpson. Burn lives in a creepy dark mansion on top of a hill that always seems to have a dark cloud floating above it. Burns is cold and mean and shows little emotion. How nice could a guy be who’s catchphrase is “Release the hounds.” He dumps nuclear waste in playgrounds, tried to block out the sun, trained the Simpson’s dog to be a blood thirsty attack dog, has killed hundred of endangered species and mad them in to coats and of course stole candy from a baby. Mr. Burns is indeed evil.

Play time is back

It's been fifteen years since the first time that toy box was opened and the world was introduced to for the first time the lovable toys belonging to a young boy called Andy and we saw what toys really do when the door is closed. Andy has finally grown up and we get to see what was foreshadowed in Toy Story 2, what happens when a toys owner gets too old for toys. Toy Story 3 is PIXAR's eleventh film and will probably add a few more Oscars to Pixars already huge collection.
The film follows toy cow boy Woody (played by Tom Hanks), space ranger Buzz Lightyear (played by Tim Allen), and all the rambunctious toys in Andy's room and their beloved owner Andy is all grown up and moving to college and the gang fears being left alone or worse...being thrown out (dum dum duuuuum!). And through a strange series events the gang finds themselves stuck in a daycare that seems like paradise at first but turns into a nightmare led by a large pink bear named Lotso (short for Lots-0-hugs, played by Ned Beatty).
For those fans of the film series you will be pleased to see many shout outs to the previous two Toy Story films as well as previous Pixar films such as a kid wearing a Lightning McQueen T-shirt to a sticker of Nemo in Andy's room. But all in all the film repeated the actions of almost all Pixar films and touched on a very emotional tone, causing many people (yes, including guys) to tear up. And the thing that I found comedic was as I was entering the theatre to see Toy Story 3, and dominant portion of the people seeing the movies were teenagers and adults, which contradicts the generic law of animated movies. And whether it's from the films humor, the lovable characters, or the films strong emotional moments I strongly say that Toy Story 3 is the (so far) best movie of 2010. And I give Toy Story 3 a 9.4, a solid A.

Zombieland Review

In total, there are about ten or twenty completely random horror movies. From anywhere from zombies to werewolves, vampires, demons, and even more. The film Zombieland completely removes itself from what a generic horror movie is. I wouldn’t even put Zombieland under the title of horror, but more in the genre of comedy.
Jesse Eisenberg (from Adventureland) stars as Columbus, one of the few survivors from the zombie apocalypse. He is one of the only humans left in his town, mostly because of a list of tips he constructed. Some of his tips include Cardio (because the fat ones are the first to go), always check the back seat (Zombies could be anywhere), keep limber (you don’t want to pull anything while being chased by a blood thirsty zombie), and buckle you seat belt (well that one’s pretty self explanatory). He is traveling to Columbus Ohio to see if his parents have survived. Along the way he meets another survivor, Tallahassee (Played by Woody Harrelson from No Country for Old Men, Semi Pro, and more). Tallahassee is a professional zombie hunter, and hates zombies with a fiery passion. Tallahassee’s main goal in this apocalyptic life is to find a Twinkie, mainly because it reminds him of a simpler time. Throughout the story we found out why Tallahassee hates zombies and why he acts the way he does.
Also throughout their journey, Columbus and Tallahassee meet two girls Wichita (played by Emma Stone from the Rocker and Super Bad) and Little Rock (played by Abigail Breslin from Little Miss Sunshine and My Sister’s Keeper). Both of them are sisters and dealing with the death of their family by going to the theme park they went to as children. They manage to trick Columbus and Tallahassee on several occasions by faking a zombie bite, and later tricking them to get out of their car.
Considering that very few comedies came out this year, I can say with confidence that this was the funniest film of the year. And probably one of the coolest. One of the best parts of this movie was a cameo by Bill Murray. Murray had one of the best cameos by an actor playing himself in a movie that I’ve ever seen. It even showed Tallahassee creepy obsession with the actor, and the two of the recreating a scene from Ghost Busters in which Murray starred. I would definitely recommend this movie and I would easily see it again. The hilarious and awesome Zombieland gets aa 8.7 out of ten.