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The Lego Movie (2014)

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  Directors: Phil Lord, Christropher Miller Producers: Dan Lin, Roy Lee Cast: Chris Pratt (Emmet), Will Ferrell (Lord Business), Elizabeth Banks (Lucy), Will Arnett (Batman). THE MOST AMBITIOUS CROSSOVER EVENT IN HISTORY. Seriously, would you expect Gandalf, Dumbledore, and Green Lantern chilling in a single room? Great movie here. The ancient LEGO wizard Vitruvius fails to stop the tyrannical dictator Lord Business from obtaining the Kragle, the deadliest weapon in the universe. He divides all the worlds of LEGO by walls. 8 years later, construction worker Emmet Brickosuzuki reads a state guide on how to be ‘cool’, by wearing trendy clothes, drinking overpriced coffee, ride the Bricksburg Monorail, and more. Emmet one day after a day of work, falls into a pit and finds the glowing Piece of Resistance, a thing that a certain girl going by the name of ‘Wyldstyle’ is also looking for. Supposedly the ‘chosen one’ from the ‘master builders’, the head cop of Bricksburg, Bad Cop/Go

Home Alone 2 : Lost In New York (1992)

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  Director: Chris Columbus Producers: John Hughes, Mark Radcliffe, Duncan Henderson. Cast: Macaulay Culkin (Kevin McCallister), Joe Pesci (Harry Lime), Danie Stern (Marv Murchins). SPECTACULAR! One of the sequels that are as good as the original. It’s a normal Christmas Eve at Kevin McCallister’s house. Everyone is super hyped and excited and packing for their trip the next day. Kevin takes his raincoat from the bathroom, while his uncle is bathing. Kevin, with his new tape recorder, record his uncle singing in the bath. Kevin also messes up and gets sent to the attic as a punishment, but his mom remembers the events of last year and revokes the punishment. The next day, Kevin and his family reach O’Hare International (in Chicago), but Kevin lags behind and accidentally boards a flight to New York while all of his family is on a flight to Miami. Later, Kevin books a room in the fanciest hotel in New York, the Plaza Hotel, with his father’s credit card. Harry and Marv, however,

Snow Buddies (2008)

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  Director: Robert Vince Producers: Robert Vince, Anna McRoberts Cast: Skyler Gisondo (B-Dawg), Jimmy Bennett (Buddha), Josh Flitter (Budderball), Henry Hodges (Mudbud), Liliana Mumy (Rosebud), Dylan Sprouse (Shasta), Dominic Scott Kay (Adam). AMAZING! This movie is great! 5 quintuplet puppies named Budderball (chubby), Buddha (meditate), Mudbud (getting all muddy), B-Dawg (rapper), and Rosebud (the girl). One day, the buddies meet up, and decide to play hide and seek. Budderball, finding an ice cream truck, for his love of ice cream, decides to use it as his hiding spot, and probably eat all the ice cream.   However, all his siblings see him and run after him, to the ice cream truck. After getting stuck there because of getting sleepy after eating too much ice cream, they arrive in Alaska, which Budderball describes as a ‘vanilla ice cream wonderland’. They later find an Alaskan husky puppy named Shasta, who wants to help his owner Adam to win the great dogsled race. The pups

Raya and the Last Dragon (2021)

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  Directors: Carlos Lopez Estrada, Don Hall Producers: Peter Del Vecho, Osnat Shurer Cast: Kelly Marie Tran (Raya), Awkwafina (Sisu), Gemma Chan (Namaari) Amazing! Great! Super! And something tells me you’re going to like this movie. 500 years ago, the people of Kumandra live harmoniously along side dragons. One day, the Druun, a monstrous plague erupted and the Druun turned people into stone. The dragons fought hard. They decided that all dragon magic would be cast into a gem. The last 5 dragons concentrated their power into the gem, decided that their youngest, Sisu, would stay alive, and they all died. Fast forward 494 years later. Kumandra is divided into 5 lands along the main Dragon River: Tail, a desert wasteland protected by harsh mercenaries, Talon, a floating market resembling a Thai one, famous for fast deals and many products, but you must watch out for con artists. Next is Spine, a cold boreal forest defended by Vikings in metal suits, Heart, the place where Raya c

Monsters, Inc (2001)

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  Director: Pete Docter Producer: Darla K. Anderson Cast: John Goodman (Sulley), Billy Crystal (Mike), Mary Gibbs (Boo), Steve Buscemi (Randall). SUPER! GIVE ME THE CHILD NOW. It is a normal day at Monsters Inc. Top scarer Sulley is scaring effectively, generating more power all the time, since the Monsters use screams to power stuff in the hidden city of Monstropolis. Second best scarer Randall is trying to stop Sulley from being the best scarer, trying to be the best in an energy crisis that is affecting the monster world, as children are becoming less and less scared. Sulley’s best friend, flat mate, and assistant Mike Wazowski meets up with his girlfriend, who agrees for a date to a popular resto-bar in town. Sulley is told to file Mike’s paperwork, while doing that, Sulley stumbles upon a door left behind. While he investigates it, the child from the room on the other side sneaks up on them. Now , Sulley must hide that child, because the Monsters think that a child’s touch

The Pacifier (2005)

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  Director: Adam Shankman Producers: Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber, Jonathan Glickman Cast: Vin Diesel (Shane Wolfe), Brittany Snow (Zoe Plummer), Max Theriot (Seth Plummer), Morgan York (Lulu Plummer), Kegan and Logan Hoover (Peter Plummer), Bo and Luke Vink (Tyler Plummer) Very cool. Idk why people hate it. US Navy SEAL Lieutenant Shane Wolfe fails to rescue a scientist called Howard Plummer from Serbian rebels. He gets another task: to take care of Plummer’s children while Mrs. Plummer is away in Zurich. At first, he does very badly, trying to take care of the family very militaristically. He assigns the family ‘red codes’, which aren’t effective. Later, hating him, Zoe and Seth (the eldest) play a prank on Wolfe, by painting the stairs with maple syrup, but the plan backfires as Wolfe doesn’t go down the stairs, but however It’s their caretaker who slides down and after a quarrel, quits. He also remarks, that “I don’t even know how to change a diaper.” LOVED IT! Seems to be

The Founder (2016)

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  Director: John Lee Hancock Producer: Jeremy Renner Cast: Michael Keaton (Ray Kroc), Nick Offerman (Dick McDonald), John Carroll Lynch (Mac McDonald) AMAZING! Just remember, I’m lovin’ it, and you’ll be lovin’ it. A struggling Illinois milkshake machine salesman named Ray visits San Bernadino, California to sell his multi-mixer to a restaurant, of which the system is supremely different than any other. Later, at a dinner with the founders, they reveal that they use the ‘Speedee’ system, a system that lowers the time required for a drive-thru meal from 30 minutes to 30 seconds. Intrigued by this idea, Ray tries to convince the founders to issue franchises, but they disagreed, because someone sold something else altogether.  Ray decides to handle franchises. He asks his golf friend to make a franchise. However, that was a disaster as he sold literal fried chicken, not the real menu of hamburgers, fries, and soft drinks, so Kroc takes matters into his own hands. Want to know more

The Parent Trap (1998)

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Director: Nancy Mayers Producer: Charles Shyer Cast: Lindsay Lohan (Hallie Parker and Annie James), Erin Mackey (Lohan’s acting double for when the twins appear together), Dennis Quaid (Nicholas Parker), Natasha Richardson (Elizabeth James), Elaine Hendrix (Meredith Blake). SUPER! WATCH IT WATCH IT WATCH IT. A remake of a 1960’s movie. Hallie Parker is sent to a summer camp in Maine. Over there, after a disastrous fencing match against her rich British doppelganger Annie James, she engages in a prank war against her. After a rather disastrous prank which affects the teacher instead of Annie, they both get isolated. In the isolation house, they discover that they are twin sisters and discuss their plans while enjoying Oreos with peanut butter in their cabin. One day, they realize that they have never seen their other parent – their mom for Hallie and their dad for Annie. They decide to pretend to be the other and go to their other parent’s places. In California (where Hallie l

Up (2009)

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  Director: Pete Docter Producer: Jonas Rivera Cast: Edward Asner (Carl Fredricksen), Jordan Nagai (Russell), Christopher Plummer (Charles F. Muntz), Bob Peterson (Dug the Dog) Highly recommended.   A young Carl watches a 40’s documentary about the famed explorer Charles F. Muntz, who has just entered the Venezuelan wilderness. Later, playing with his balloon, he hears noises from an old, abandoned house, and realizes it is a girl, who introduces herself as Ellie. Her dream, to get to the Venezuelan wilderness and keep her home there. As adults, they get married and adjust the house to look like the one in Ellie’s drawing. The two decide to have a baby and they build a nursery, but Ellie suffers a miscarriage and is unable to have babies. Years later, Ellie passes away. Couple of years later, Carl attaches thousands of balloons at this house, floating up in the sky, to pursue his and Ellie’s dream of living in the Venezuelan wilderness, and to get away from the builders who wer

Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarves (2019)

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  Director: Sung-ho Hong Producers: Belli Ramirez, Hwang Su-jin, Hyung Su Kim. Cast: Chloe Grace Moretz (Snow White a.k.a Red Shoes), Sam Claflin (Merlin), Jim Rash (Prince Average), Frank Todaro (Pino, Noki, and Kio). Mirror, mirror on the wall. Which is the best Snow-White adaptation of them all? Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs! Merlin is the leader of a group called the Fearless 7 (F7) who patrol Fairytale Island and defend it. They are Merlin, Arthur, Hans, Jack, Pino, Noki and Kio. One day, after flaying a dragon, they kill a witch, who seemed very suspicious, but she was the FAIRY PRINCESS! For killing her, the curse was that they will turn into dwarves and have to kiss the most beautiful woman to become human again. Fast forward to 7 years later. The dwarves are still looking for a woman to kiss to be normal. At the royal castle, a chubby and strong Snow White comes into her stepmother Queen Regina’s room, where she sees 2 red shoes, and she wears them. Regina tells h

Luca (2021)

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  Di rector: Enrico Casarosa Producer: Andrea Warren Cast: Jacob Tremblay (Luca Paguro), Jack Dylan Grazer (Alberto Scorfano), Emma Berman (Giulia). Amazing. Spectacular. Not wrong with this one, at all. One day, Luca, a sea monster, finds out that all his fish have escaped, and he needs to get them back before his mom notices. After dealing with a rather pesky fish, he finds a couple of human objects, like a playing card and a wrench. After seeing those things, Luca’s parents berate him by ‘why did you go to the surface’ and ‘they are only here to do murder’. Luca remains very curious about the surface, while not allowing himself to go there. One day, while fooling around near the surface, he finds what seems to be a human diver, but is a fellow sea monster named Alberto. He teaches Luca the basics of being on land, and also tells him about a Vespa, which you can sit on it and it takes you anywhere in the world you want. To gain the Vespa, they go to the nearby village of ‘Por

The Witches (2020)

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Director: Robert Zemeckis Producers: Robert Zemeckis, Guillermo del Toro, Alfonso Cuaron, Jack Rapke, Luke Kelly Cast: Anne Hathaway (Grand High Witch), Chris Rock, Jahzir Bruno (Unnamed protagonist), Octavia Spencer (Hero’s grandmother), Codie-Lei Eastick (Bruno Jenkins), Kristin Chenoweth (Mary a.k.a Daisy). Amazing. Great. Ingenious. A man is showing a gaggle of kids a slideshow about witches. He then begins to recount his encounter with witches. It’s Chicago, 1968. A car overturns and while the parents do not survive the accident, the man (as a boy) lives through the crash. He is taken by his grandma who lives in Demopolis, and is described as a person who would give a good spanking or a warm hug based on your actions. One day, Grandma buys the boy a cute little white rat, who is known as Daisy. One day, to make a house for Daisy, the boy heads for the supermarket to buy nails. At the market, Grandma tells the boy to get rust-proof nails. The boy there has his first encou