The Adventures of Tintin

The Adventures of Tintin – Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis and Daniel Craig

Based on the comicbook/strip from the 1940’s.  A lot of people dont remember who Tintin is/was because it came out in the 30’s when our grandparents were kids.  With the help of Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson, we get to see him on the bigscreen.  The movie takes place in the 40’s – 50’s just like the comic.  Tintin is out shopping in a outdoors market with his dog Snowy and he finds a model ship that catches his eye.  The model ship is an exact replica of the great Unicorn ship.  The seller tells a little bit about the ship and Tintin purchases the ship.  Right after he buys it two people come up to him and try to buy it from him, telling him they will pay him double what he just paid.  Of course being a young journalist, he knows something is up with this ship and decides to keep it.  After he returns the ship to his place he goes to the library to do some research on the Unicorn.  When he gets back he finds out someone has stolen his model and this starts his journey to find out why.  The movie actually starts with no backstory of who he is except to show you that he’s a gifted journalist.  To relate him to someone that everyone might know…he’s like a young Indiana Jones with a dog.  Instead of just finding artifacts he’s also a journalist.  The voice of Tintin in the movie is by Jamie Bell who was in Jumper and Billy Elliot.  Captain Haddock is voiced by the great Andy Serkis who was Gollum in Lord of the Rings and was also Ceasar in this years Rise of the Planet of the Apes.  Last but not least, Rackham is voiced by Daniel Craig who is in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo or some of us will know him as Bond…James Bond.  There are the Thomson and Thompson who are voiced by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost…both of which did a great job.  I liked how they started the movie without doin the whole “orgin story”.  The character was already established and acted like we knew who he was by giving us glimpses of news articles he posted around his office area of things he has found.  It fit well with this movie.  I did see it in 3D and it was a pretty good 3D movie.  I always say that you get a bigger bang for you buck if you see an animated film in 3D than you do a regular movie.  If you need a great kid movie for the holiday season while they are off from school check this out.  You do get the 2D and 3D option so you arent breaking the bank to see this movie.

7.5 outta 1o wahoo’s

Top 10 Worst of 2011

If there is a Top then there has to be a Worst right?  Of course i’m right, these are movie’s i sat through and let you know what not to sit through to help you save money…but some of you didnt listen!  These are in no order, they sucked just the same in my book.  These movies range from vampires that failed to sparkle in the sun to two movies named after a color, to two movies in their third and fourth try at greatness.  And lastly a film that i hated just because of the people in the theater making noise and ruining my experience 🙂 your welcome

Top 10 of 2011

With it being the last week of the year, i think its only fitting to make a Top 10 list of movies from this year.  Of course you probably wont see any of these at the Oscars except maybe 1 or 2.  Here ya go with no reason why because i have a blog and you can read my reviews 🙂

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Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol – Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg, Paula Patton and Jeremy Renner

Like most people when i heard there was another mission impossible movie coming out i sighed and said…”well lets see what Cruise is gonna get himself into now”.  I thought the first one was good, second one was just meh and the third one i also thought was good.  Looking at the math, this one should be a meh.  The movie starts off with Josh Holloway, who i will forever call Sawyer, escaping a building in Russia with his team made up of Benji, played by Pegg, and Jane, played by Patton.  Ethan starts the movie in prison waiting to be broke out.  Jane and Benji end up breaking him out and Ethan finds out a guy that goes by Cobalt is trying to set off nukes.  He is tasked to go into the Kremlin and get the codes before Cobalt can.  When he gets inside he finds out the codes are gone and finds out Cobalt was already in there and has set a bomb to go off.  It does and destroys a good portion of the Kremlin and of course IMF is blamed for the explosion and the government has issued ghost protocol.  So of course, Ethan wants to find out who set him and his team up and goes out to try and find Cobalt.  First off i’d like to give props to Brad Bird, whose only made cartoon movies like Ratatouille, The Incredibles and The Iron Giant.  He did an amazing job and i think he should keep doing live action movies.  Since the second movie, the Mission Impossible franchise keeps throwing Ethan off of higher buildings so it was only a matter of time before they went to Dubai and jump off the Burj Khalifa, which is the tallest building in the world.  Cruise of course was typical Cruise.  I of course was interested to see how Simon Pegg would do in the movie and he did AWESOME!  It’s good to, for lack of betters terms, preview what Jeremy Renner will be like as Hawkeye in the Avengers movie coming out next year.  If you want a good action movie to check out over this holiday season, check this out.  You dont have to do a lot of thinking for the plot and if you get a chance to see it in IMAX, i would say do it!

8 outta 10 wahoo’s

Top 5 Christmas Movie’s According To ME!

Lets just call it as it is, its Christmas not holiday movies and i hate that we have to change everything so that we dont offend anyone.  This is my blog and i’m calling them Christmas movies…so there.  In no particular order here is what my top 5 movies for christmas are.

Elf – Will Ferrell

Why not, its Will Ferrell thinking that Christmas is real and John Faverau directed it.  If you havent seen it, you should to get a break from your “claymation” christmas tales and a taste of the new christmas movies.

National Lampoons Christmas Vacation – Chevy Chase

If you have to ask why this is on my list…you shouldnt be celebrating christmas at all.  Hands down one of the GREASTEST Christmas movies of all time.  I love you Clark Griswold!

Gremlins

my argument for this…it happens during christmas, its a family tale, phoebe cates, gizmo, what happens when you dont follow rules.  your welcome!

Die Hard – Bruce Willis

My argument – it happens during Christmas Eve, John McClain, Professor Snape, Run DMC Christmas in Hollis, Yippee Ki Yay!

Die Hard 2

Are you gonna make me explain this one too…ok – happens on Christmas Eve, John McClain, Snow, reindeer flying into an airport, more snow, more Yippee Ki Yay