Ishaan Uwach

 Director: Ron Clements, John Musker Producer: Osnat Schurer Cast: Auli'i Cravalho (Moana), Dwayne Johnson (Maui) Jemaine Clement (Tamatoa) A woman is telling the story: Thousands of years ago, there was only water. Then, emerged Te Fiti, the goddess of land, islands and life, and created many different islands from the power given by her heart. It leads to many people being jealous of her powers, only for one trickter, shapeshifting demigod named Maui, strong, powerful, and famous, but the removal of the heart set many after Maui, maily the undersea giant crab Tamatoa from the realm of Monsters, and the vicious, malevolent, lava demon Te Ka, why imprisons him on an island. 1,000 years later, the woman's granddaughter Moana, gets to know about the tale, and as the corruption from the removal of the heart ascends to her island of Motunui, she sets sail on her boat, to find Maui, and to return the heart she had found and stop the corruption. Want to know more? Watch the movie! Th...

Director: Tom McGrath   Producers: Lara Breay, Denise Nolan Cascino. Cast: Will Ferrell (Megamind), Tina Fey (Roxanne Ritchi), Jonah Hill (Hal Stewart), Brad Pitt (Metro Man). A really funny parody of the traditional superhero movie and a one where a villain is a hero, Megamind (2010) is the perfect spoof. One day, a big brain guy is seen falling into a lake. He tells his story up till then. When he was only eight days old, his planet was sucked into a black hole. He was sent from an escape pod to Earth, with a piranha named Minion. From a neighboring planet, a (better) escape pod comes out of it containing ‘Mr Goody-Two-shoes’. From that day, both of them became rivals. The guy in the better space pod landed in a mansion and the one with minion landed in a prison in the same city. Both became lifelong rivals, turned superhero and supervillain. One day, the one in the prison and the one in the mansion named Megamind and Metro Man respectively, engage in Armageddon and Meg...

Directors: Ron Clements, John Musker Producers: Ron Clements, John Musker, Roy Conli. Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Jim Hawkins), Brian Murray (Long John Silver) David Hyde Pierce (Doctor Doppler), Emma Thompson (Captain Amelia). A nice treasure movie based on the novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson which integrates sci-fi (YAHOO!!!) into it , Treasure Planet (2002) is a great movie for some. On the planet Montressor, young Jim Hawkins is fascinated by stories based on Treasure Planet, 12 long years later, a teenaged Jim aspires to find Treasure Planet and crack the mystery of the treasure. After meeting a friend named Doctor Doppler, he is taken to Crescentia, an artificial satellite orbiting Montressor. At the terrarium, Jim and Doppler set off on the RLS Legacy, a starship. Jim meets the Captain, Amelia and the cook John Silver. Silver poses as a nice guy, but Jim quickly realizes he is a textbook description of a pirate. Want to know more? Watch the movie! T...

  Director: Andrew Stanton Producer: Jim Morris Starring: Ben Burtt (WALL-E, M-O), Elissa Knight (EVE), Fred Willard (Shelby Forthright), Jeff Garlin (Captain B. McCrea), John Ratzenberger (John) The first Pixar film to use live-action, WALL-E is a great movie. It is the year 2805. Earth is a trash-covered wasteland. 700 years earlier, humanity was taken to space by the Buy n Large megacorporation  because the Earth had become too toxic to support life. A bunch of robots were sent to clean earth in 2105, but now one remains operational   because all others were shut down. Let’s call him WALL-E. Wall-e has achieved sentience, and he’s a bit lonely. He also gets driven away from   his work and stores his ‘ treasures’ (few things he finds in the trash for example a birdcage full of rubber ducks and a Rubik’s cube.) in a place formerly used to store other WALL-E robots. One day, WALL-E spots a light and starts chasing it. The light reveals to be a landin...

Director: Pete Docter Producer: Jonas Rivera Starring: Amy Poehler (Joy), Phyllis Smith (Sadness), Richard Kind (Bing Bong), Kaitlyn Dias (Riley Andersen), Mindy Kaling (Disgust), Bill Hader (Fear), Lewis Black (Anger). A literally mindblowing Disney Pixar movie, Inside Out (2015) is a perfect for your mind movie. The movie starts with the birth of a girl named Riley. Joy, the protagonist, explains about herself, her friends, and Riley’s mind. One day, Riley must move to San Francisco from Minnesota. This angers her emotions- Joy, Sadness, Disgust, Anger and Fear. One fine day, Sadness accidentally creates a new sad core memory-a thing that creates Riley’s personality (which is usually happy) and drops all others. This takes Joy and Sadness out of the Mind Headquarters where they work and end up into Long term Memory, a place where Riley’s memories are stored. Joy and Sadness plan to take Goofball Island as a shortcut to HQ, but due to not having the core memory required to mak...

  Director: Rob Minkoff Producers: Denise Nolan-Cascino, Alexandra Schwartz. Starring: Ty Burrell (Mr. Peabody), Max Charles (Sherman), Ariel Winter (Penny Peterson). Mr. Peabody and Sherman which is the first DreamWorks Animation film I am reviewing is a great time-travel adventure. The movie starts with an opening narration by Mr. Peabody about himself and his adoptive son, Sherman. They explain about the Wavelength Acceleration Bidirectional Asynchronous Controller (WABAC) machine, saying that it is a time machine. It is also Sherman’s first day of school. Sherman gets into a fight with a girl named Penny Peterson, and Sherman bites Penny. Mr. Peabody invites Penny’s parents, Patty and Paul Peterson to set scores. With Sherman and Penny, when Penny asks him about how he was answering every question in class, Sherman accidentally tells Penny about the WABAC, (even though Mr. Peabody had warned Sherman not to tell Penny or the middle would be grounded) and forces Sherman t...

Directors: Dan Povenmire, Robert Hughes Producers: Dan Povenmire, Jeff ‘Swampy’ Marsh. Starring: Vincent Martella (Phineas 1&2) Dee Bradley Baker (Perry the Platypus 1&2) Thomas Sangster (Ferb) Dan Povenmire (Dr Heinz Doofenshmirtz 1&2) Ashley Tisdale (Candace 1&2). A (TV) movie based on Phineas and Ferb (cartoon series) , Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2 nd Dimension is a dynamic movie. The movie starts with Phineas, Ferb, Isabella, Baljeet, Buford and Irving creating a device enabling them to play badminton with Perry. But they accidentally run into Dr. Doofenshmirtz and his Other dimension-inator and much to Perry’s dismay, Phineas and Ferb fix it. They then go to another dimension where a more intelligent and successful version of Dr. D exists. Then Phineas and Ferb realize that Perry was ‘Agent P’ all along (something that P&F had no idea about).   Phineas disowns Perry and Perry leaves (‘I Walk Away’). But P&F realize that 2 nd dimension Doofen...

Director: Clyde Geronimi Producer: Walt Disney Cast: Mary Costa (Aurora), Eleanor Audley (Maleficent), Verna Felton (Flora) Barbara Jo Allen (Fauna), Barbara Luddy (Merryweather) The movie, based on the original fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, is the 16 th Disney film (and the oldest film in my collection up till now (though there will be more older movies)). The movie started with an opening narration about King Stefan, Queen Leah and Princess Aurora. The movie then cut to the time where baby Aurora was being blessed by the three good fairies (gift): Flora (beauty), Fauna (song), but Maleficent interrupted. She argued about not being invited and she ‘blessed’ Aurora by saying that before sunset, on Aurora’s 16 th birthday, will prick her finger on a spindle of a sewing machine and die! Merryweather, the last fairy said she couldn’t undo the curse, but lessen its effect. She said that Aurora will just go into a deep sleep. Want to know more? Watch the movie! I liked the m...

Directors: Byron Howard, Chris Williams. Producer: Clark Spencer Starring: John Travolta (Bolt), Miley Cyrus, Chloe Grace Moretz (Penny), Susie Essman (Mittens), Mark Walton (Rhino),    Malcolm McDowell (Calico). The 48 th Disney film, Bolt (2008) is a great coast-to-coast adventure. The film opens with a dog playing with his favourite toy, Mr. Carrot. The dog gets adopted by a girl named Penny and she names the dog Bolt. Five years later, Bolt and Penny play the protagonists in a hit TV show also named Bolt. Bolt (the dog) has to think that everything is real so that he can act accordingly, and he does that very realistically. But one day, he accidentally gets shipped to NYC. He doesn’t actually have powers, so he thinks that Styrofoam reduces his powers. He meets a cat named Mittens and a hamster named Rhino (who claims he is Bolt’s biggest fan) and embarks (literally barks) on a coast-to-coast tour to get back home and ‘save’ Penny, his owner who he refers to as hi...

Director: Stephen Anderson Producer: Dorothy McKim Cast: Daniel Hansen, Jordan Fry (Lewis), Wesley Singerman (Wilbur Robinson), Tom Selleck (Cornelius), Stephen Anderson (Bowler Hat Guy, Tallulah, Bud Robinson), Ethan Sandler (DOR-15) Genre: Animation/Family Based on the 1990 book titled ‘ A Day with Wilbur Robinson’, Meet the Robinsons is another adventure in the future. The movie starts with a woman placing a baby in front of an orphanage. 12 years later, Lewis (the baby, who is now 12 years old) is an amazing inventor. At an invention convention, he meets a shady teen named Wilbur who claims to be from the future. To prove it, Wilbur takes Lewis to the future. There he meets Wilbur’s family consisting of: ·        Goofy old man Bud. ·        Former scientist Lucille. ·        Ventriqolist uncle Fritz. ·        Obese uncle Joe. ·   ...

Directors: Jennifer Lee, Chris Buck Producers: Peter Del Vecho, Byron Howard Starring: Idina Menzel (Elsa), Kristen Bell (Anna), Josh Gad (Olaf), Evan Rachel Wood (Iduna) Frozen 2 (2019) , often stylised as Frozen II is the 58 th Disney animated film and a direct sequel to Frozen (2013). The movie starts with a flashback to the time Anna and Elsa were young. Their mom, Queen Iduna, used to sing them a lullaby about the Ahtohallan River (‘All Is Found’). After a few minutes, the movie returns back to the present times. Three years after her coronation, Elsa is having a good time, but she feels something strange internally. Plus, she is hearing a voice which is probably calling her (‘Into the Unknown’), but she accidentally enrages the spirits and almost destroys Arendelle [A1]   (the kingdom which Elsa rules). When the whole of Arendelle’s population takes refuge in the cliffs after the almost destruction of the kingdom, Elsa promises that she will save Arendelle. Want to...

Directors: Byron Howard, Rich Moore Producer: Clark Spencer Starring: Ginnifer Goodwin (Judy Hopps), Jason Bateman (Nick Wilde), Idris Elba (Inspector Bogo), Jenny Slate (Bellwether) Genre: Animation/Comedy The 55 th Disney animated film; Zootopia (titled Zootropolis in the United Kingdom and Zoomania in Germany) is a mind-blowing film based in the world of animals. The movie starts with an opening narration by Judy Hopps, a 9 year old rabbit who wants to become a police officer. But she is tormented by bullies Gideon Grey and Travis, as there never been a bunny police officer. 15 years later, Judy has passed her exam and is now the first bunny police officer. In Zootopia, she becomes a meter maid. While she is on parking duty, Hopps meets a sly fox hustler, Nicholas ‘Nick’ Wilde near the Lemming Brothers Bank. But Judy is recruited to find Emmitt Otterton, a North American otter gone missing. Judy then seeks the help of Nick to find Emmitt; since Judy thinks the fox is the ...

Directors: Adrian Molina, Lee Unkrich Producer: Darla K. Anderson Starring: Anthony Gonzalez (Miguel), Gael Garcia Bernal (Hector), Benjamin Bratt (Ernesto de la Cruz), Alanna Ubach (Imelda) The first Pixar film with an all- Latino cast, Coco (2017) is an adventure with (dead) family. The movie opens with a boy named Miguel explaining his passion for music, the ancestral ban on music in his family and his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz.   Then the movie moves on and shows Elena Rivera (Miguel’s grandmother) trying to prevent Miguel or anyone else from playing music. When Miguel is shining shoes (Miguel shines shoes rather than make shoes) at the Plaza de la Cruz, a musician was also getting his shoes shined by Miguel and noticed the shoe-shiner’s passion for music. Later, when Elena finds out about the music stuff, she destroyed Miguel’s makeshift guitar. The same day, when Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) starts formally, Miguel entered Ernesto de la Cruz’s mausoleum, ta...