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Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (2022) Director: Jeff Fowler Producers: Neal H Moritz, Toby Ascher, Toru Nakahara, Hitoshi Okuno Cast: Ben Schwartz (Sonic), Coleen O’Shaughnessy (Tails), Idris Elba (Knuckles), Jim Carrey (Dr. Robotnik) An epic supersonic experience, Sonic The Hedgehog 2 is a blast! It has been a few years since Sonic banished Robotnik to the mushroom planet. Robotnik, with one of Sonic’s quills, has finally made a big machine to return to Earth, by opening a portal back to Earth, but then, he chances upon an echidna named Knuckles, and the decide to team up. Back on earth, Sonic has perfectly adapted to life in Green Hills, MT. He also sometimes tries to play the superhero figure, by trying to save people in Seattle. However, his brash and irresponsible attitude destroys a city block while trying to defuse a bomb and stop a bank truck robbery. Tom, a police officer nicknamed ‘Donut Lord’ by Sonic, says that Sonic should tone down his powers till the time they are needed. One Satu...

 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...

  Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) Director: Ron Howard Producers: Kathleen Kennedy, Simon Emanuel, Allison Shearmur Cast: Alden Ehrenreich (Han Solo), Email Clarke (Qi’ra), Donald Glover (Lando Calrissian) Paul Bettany (Dryden Vos) An epic Star Wars heist movie, Solo: A Star Wars Story is epic! 13 years before the empire, young Han is trying to escape life on the streets on his planet of Corellia, with his childhood crush Qi’ra. While at the spaceport (place where spaceships land and take off, like an airport) Han unsuccessfully bribes the customs officer with refined coaxium, very expensive fuel for spacecraft. Han gets stuck past the customs, where he sees an Imperial ad, which beckons him to join the Galactic Empire as a pilot. 3 years later, Han Solo is on a mud-covered planet called Mimban, where he deserts to work for a crime syndicate called the Crimson Dawn, after helping a Wookie prisoner named Chewbacca escape captivity. He is sent on a mission to a mountainous...

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: 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...

  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 Co...

  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, howev...

  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. ...

  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 Ra...

  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: 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 t...

  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 ...

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...

  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...