Ishaan Uwach

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...

Director: Gennady Tartakovsky Producer: Michelle Murdocca Cast: Adam Sandler (Dracula), Selena Gomez (Mavis), Andy Samberg (Jonathan), Kevin James (Frankenstein), David Spade (Griffin), Steve Buscemi (Wayne) Sadie Sandler (Young Mavis, Winnie Werewolf). A fun movie, Hotel Transylvania is the best movie executed about Dracula. It’s 1895, the Count tries his best to ‘peekaboo’ a baby Mavis (Dracula’s daughter) but makes the baby cry. Over the years, Drac develops and builds Hotel Transylvania, in (as you might have guessed) Transylvania, Romania. He also has a very valid reason for building a hotel: to give monsters a break from hiding from humanity, and to protect Mavis. 1898. the hotel is finally built and the architect confirms that the hotel is totally human-proof. 2012. The hotel is running very smoothly and all the monsters are having the time of their lives. Drac welcomes his friends Frank, Wayne, Murray, and Griffin the Invisible man. The next day, which is Mavis’s 11...

Director: Kenny Ortega Producer: Tracey Jeffery Cast: Dove Cameron (Mal), Cameron Boyce (Carlos De Vil), Booboo Stewart (Jay), Sofia Carson (Evie).   A perfect Disney Channel TV movie (and the second I am writing for, after Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Across the Second Dimension ), Descendants is a great movie! The movie starts with an opening explanation of The USA (United States of Auradon), The Isle of the Lost, and the villains.   King Beast and Queen Belle’s son, Prince Benjamin decides to takes the children of Maleficent, Jafar, Cruella De Vil, and The Evil Queen, to prep school on Auradon. The King denies but Ben says that they will be fine. Meanwhile, a different story is in full swing on the Isle of the Lost.   The said teens Mal, Jay, Carlos and Evie are hanging out on the street, singing a song about evilness (‘Rotten to The Core’). After the foursome and their parents get the news, Maleficent goes crazy, wanting the Fairy Godmother’s wand. All the...

  Director: David Bowers Producers: Nina Jacobson, Bradford Simpson. Cast: Zachary Gordon (Greg), Devon Bostick (Rodrick), Connor and Owen Fielding (Manny), Steve Zahn (Frank), Rachael Harris (Susan), Robert Capron (Rowley), Peyton List (Holly Hills). The ultimate sequel to the hit book and movie  (Diary of a Wimpy Kid), DOAWK: Rodrick Rules is great! The movie starts with an attempt by Susan to help Rodrick and Greg spend time together   with ‘Mom Bucks’, a type of play money that can be traded for real money. They could obtain Mom Bucks by spending time together . So, the next day, Rodrick drops Greg to school just to obtain Mom Bucks. One day, Greg and Rodrick get grounded after a church scuffle and  are banned from their trip to a water park. When they are at home, Rodrick calls on a party and locks Greg in the basement.   After an hour or two of partying, Rodrick gets a call from Susan. Greg joins in and tells that he is locked in the basement. Th...

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: Nick Bruno, Troy Quane Producers: Michael J. Travers, Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping. Starring: Will Smith (Lance Sterling), Tom Holland (Walter Beckett), Ben Mendelsohn (Killian). A thrilling adventure against the forces of evil, Spies in Disguise (2019) is a perfect movie for the true thrill seeker. Sometime in the early 2000’s, local brainy kid Walter Beckett is working on a contraption to help his mom Wendy for self-defence on her police missions.   14 years later, Lance Sterling, an overconfident spy, is fighting off corrupt arms dealer Katsu Kimura, in Japan.   After he reaches their base in Washington D.C, Sterling meets up with Walter, who now works at a gadget designer at the same organization. Lance tells Walter that non-violent ways (ahimsa) is never going to work to defeat supervillains, and fires Walter. However, Lance soon realizes that he’ll need Walter to help him, so he goes to Walter’s place and inadvertently drinks a potion made by Walter whi...

  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...