Ishaan Uwach

 Lightyear (2022) Director: Angus Maclane Producer: Galyn Susman Cast: Chris Evans (Buzz Lightyear), Keke Palmer (Izzy Hawthorne), James Brolin (Zurg). The movie in a movie, Lightyear (2022) is great! The movie starts off by saying that Lightyear is a movie in the Toy Story universe, and Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story was just merchandise for that movie. 4.3 million light-years away from Earth in the far future, Buzz Lightyear and Alisha Hawthorne are space rangers, set out to find new habitable worlds for humans. They crash-land on a planet which is habitable, but supposedly has no intelligent life-forms. Buzz then complains a bit about how he hates autopilot systems and rookies, but then Alisha reveals what she brought a rookie along with her, Buzz complains hard. Later, as they where exploring, a slithering, sentient green vine tugs on and pulls Buzz, and he somehow escapes. As he, the rookie, and Alisha escape to the starship jokingly called ‘the turnip’, the ship cr...

Director: Domee Shi Producer: Lindsey Collins Cast: Rosalie Chiang (Meilin Lee), Sandra Oh (Ming Lee), Ava Morse (Miriam Mendelsohn), Maitreyi Ramakrishnan (Priya), Hyein Park (Abby) This review’s going to turn RED . Meilin Lee is an outgoing, smart, and happy 13-year-old girl, who always gets an A+ in everything. Her mother Ming Lee promotes this behavior, by forcing Meilin to study for most of the time. Her family owns a Chinese Temple in the city of Toronto where they live. One day, Mei, with her three friends Miriam, Priya, and Abby, after school departs, peek at the nearby convenience store clerk NAMED Devon, who all of them, except Mei, have a crush on. Mei stands up and reminds them of the popular boy band 4*TOWN, who Mei has a crush on. Later that day, when Mei and Ming are watching a soap opera on TV, the first commercial to be shown in the break is one of 4*TOWN announcing a North American tour. Mei gets excited, but Ming disapproves of the band and gags at the sight ...

  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 t...

  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 builder...

  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 ...

  Director: Brad Bird Producer: Brad Lewis Cast: Patton Oswalt (Remy) Lou Romano (Alfredo Linguini) Peter O’Toole (Anton Ego) Brad Garett (Auguste Gusteau). The movie is Mind-blowing. Awesome. Spectacular. Let’s get to the review. Remy is a bluish-grey rat who, unlike his clan, can actually taste and smell food. His brother, Emile, is extremely proud of this unusual feature, but Remy’s dad doesn’t value these abilities. That is, until one night. The rat clan are stealing food from the house of an old lady. Once Remy’s dad takes an apple core in his hands, Remy’s nerves spring into action and Remy quickly informs his dad that the apple core has rat poison. Finally proud of his son, Remy’s dad employs him as ‘Poison Checker’. Later, Remy goes to watch the TV show of Remy’s idol chef, Auguste Gusteau. But to his horror, Gusteau’s hotel was given a scathing review by one of the most renowned restaurant reviewers, Anton Ego, causing it to lose a star, and Gusteau dies of a broke...

Director: Dan Scanlon Producer: Kori Rae Cast: Tom Holland (Ian) Chris Pratt (Barley) Octavia Spencer (Manticore). Woohoo! A new Pixar movie! As you might have seen. I review a lot of Disney or Pixar movies. So, here’s the synopsis. Long ago, the world had magic, which helped everyone in need. However, it was difficult to master, and the world found another way to get by. 20XX, in a fantasy world, Ian Lightfoot, a teenage elf, celebrates his 16 th birthday and tries to do many things, like trying to invite people from his school for his birthday and learning how to drive. At home, Mrs Lightfoot gives Ian and Ian’s older brother, Barley a present from their late father, which is a magical staff and an extremely rare phoenix crystal and a spell to resurrect a dead person. The brothers manage to summon only a part of their father, and they go on a quest to find another phoenix crystal to summon the rest of their father. Want to know more? Watch the Movie! I loved this movie. PI...

 Director: Brad Bird Producers: Nicole Paradis Grindle, John Walker. Cast: Holly Hunter (Elastigirl), Craig T. Nelson (Mr. Incredible) Catherine Keener (Evelyn Deavor) Bob Odenkirk (Winston Deavor). A super sequel to a super movie, Incredibles II (2018) is amazing! The movie starts with The Underminer, a wanted criminal, trying to rob a bank while being stopped by the Parr family. Tony Rydinger, a boy who Violet asked out the earlier day, witnesses the event and Violet tries to reassure Tony that it is nothing, and Tony gets a bit too terrified and flees. Since the Parr house has been burnt down in the first film, they are living in a motel and within two weeks, they have to get out of the motel. One day, a fellow superhero named Frozone/Lucius Best meets Bob and Helen Parr, and tells the two that a man named Winston Deavor has called them, in their original superhero costumes, at DevTech HQ. Want to know more? Watch the movie! This is the greatest film! The handling of ...

  D irector: Brad Bird Producer: John Walker Cast: Craig T. Nelson (Robert Parr/Mr. Incredible) Holly Hunter (Helen Parr/Elastigirl), Spencer Fox (Dash Parr) Sarah Vowell (Violet Parr) A mind-blowingly great movie, The Incredibles is perfect! Many years ago, Superheroes used to save the world. But one day, Mr. Incredible, the most powerful super to exist, stopped an attempted suicide. Then Bomb Voyage, a French mime villain, explodes a rail track and Mr. Incredible saves the people inside. The people start suing Mr. Incredible, thinking that he exploded the train track. The next day, the government forced all the superheroes to return to normal civilian lives. 15 years later, in 1962, Mr. Incredible, going by Robert ‘Bob’ Parr, is seen working in an insurance company at a desk job. He then is bawled out again by his boss. Bob then returns home and messes up his car. It is revealed that he married Elastigirl, a fellow super and had 3 kids, 2 of which who have powers. Violet,...

  D irector: Pete Docter Producers: Pete Docter, Dana Leigh Murray Cast: Jamie Foxx (Joe Gardner), Tina Fey (22). A movie with a complete greatness   , Soul (2020) is an jazzing one!!! The movie starts with a middle-school band teacher named Joe Gardner trying to teach jazz to the school band. He then says that he didn’t like jazz earlier, but later found out that he was made for it. After that, he gets called by the principal of that school and gets to know that his part-time job is now a full-time job, which leaves Joe disappo inted, as he wouldn’t have time for his big break. On his way home, he hears from his old student that Dorothea Williams, a famous jazz player, was coming to town. Captivated, Joe rushed to the Half Note, a music bar, to audition.   Joe manages to convince Williams to let him play. But when he tries to go back home, he falls into a manhole and falls into a place called the Great Beyond. He runs away and ends up in the Great Before, a ...

  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...

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...

Directors: Brenda Chapman, Mark Andrews Producer: Katherine Sarafian Starring:  Kelly MacDonald (Merida), Emma Thompson (Elinor), Billy                             Connolly (Fergus) Julie Walters (The Witch) Genre:     Animation/Family Brave is a Disney Pixar film based in medieval Scotland. The movie opens with Queen Elinor, (the queen of Clan DunBroch) looking for someone. That person happens to be Merida, the daughter of Elinor. Ten years later, Merida talks with the audience off-screen about what is life there now and about her new triplet brothers, Harris, Hubert and Hamish and describes them as ‘wee devils that could get away with murder’. She also describes the stress she has to face as a princess, but every once in a while, there was a day she didn’t have to be a princess. One day, out of the clear blue sky, Elinor announced Merida’s   betrothal (engagement) ...