Tangled

The story of this animated flick is based on the beautiful fairy tale of the strikingly beautiful Rapunzel who had long hair and lived in a tall tower where a witch had locked her up since she was a child.The movie has the Disney touch and is bound to get one and all enchanted.

The story begins with Rapunzel being kidnapped by the evil witch Mother Gothel after she discovers that the little girl is blessed with healing powers from a magical flower. The powers are said to grow in the golden hair of the beautiful little girl. Now since the powers of the magical flower had to be kept away from the world Rapunzel is locked in a tall tower. As Rapunzel grows up to be a beautiful teenager her hair grows to an amazing length of 70 feet.


Things change rapidly as one day a bandit Flynn Ryder climbs the tower and is then kept captive by Rapunzel. She only allows him to go on the deal which she strikes with him. Thus, wanting to run away from the prison like tower with the bandit who had climbed over into the tower she tells him to take her to the place which dazzled with floating lights that seemed to be so attractive to her whenever she was allowed to see it ever year on her birthday.

Thus begins the wonderful journey of the girl and her new found life and what adventures she goes through .The entire animated film has been given a very contemporary touch and the storyline has been slightly altered from its original pattern to suit modern thought process and logic.

Rapunzel voice over by Mandy Moore and Delaney Rose Stein as the baby Rapunzel are both quite competent and convincing in their performance. Donna Murphy as the evil witch is also excellent. Other characters are also very much believable and adorable. Indeed a great watch.

The Dilemma

The Dilemma is a movie based on the storyline of best friends Ronny (Vince Vaughn) and Nick (Kevin James) who are also partners in business. The two set up a design house and while trying to make it big in their business deals and catching up on a big project sooner or later.

All goes on fine until Ronny discovers one fine day that Nick’s wife Kevin James (Winona Ryder) was into the kissing thing with another man Zip Hanson (Channing Tatum). Ronny searches desperately for answers until he discovers that Nick has a big story of his own going on behind everybody are back.


The hilarious situations of Ronny trying to find a way to tell Nick about his wife and her cheating ways makes the entire movie into a complete laugh riot.

Despite the first promo of the movie falling into some sort of entangle due to the use of the word Gay in an inappropriate manner, it was sorted out after the word was taken off. However, the movie itself has the term as it was originally incorporated into it.

Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen

Not all movie can be made into good sequels. Perhaps this is the thought director Michael Bay missed while directing Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The movie seemed to be directed by the aliens rather than Michael Bay as the story falls apart in the first hour itself and seems like the director tries to forcefully establish it. He can’t even put a coherent series of shots together in the entire movie.

All Bay seems to know is action that never stops and seems to be obsessed with it throughout the movie. Ehren Kruger, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman share the writing credit for apology of a script. The actors in the movie seem to have come out of a sitcom and it is the robots which entertain the audience. It will be difficult for Michael Bay to live up to the standards set by this movie!

Sam Witwicky(Shia LaBeouf) had saved the planet from the attack of the aliens in the first sequal and in Transformers Revenge Of The Fallen he is trying to forget that he discovered a robot alien race. Sam is now interested about his education and starts going to the college. He also holds onto his sizzling girlfriend Mikaela Banes(Megan Fox)

The Autobots are still on earth and have now allied with the US military. They are working together to protect the earth from further Decepticon attacks Unfortunately, as Optimus Prime solemnly intones, "Fate never calls on us at the moment of our choosing." The Decepticons are on the move again, with the very ancient and very evil Transformer - The Fallen - masterminding a diabolical plan to destroy the Autobots

The Fallen's aim is to destroy the Earth itself and secure the future of his race. Soon earth turns battleground for these ancient robotic foes to wage war. Sam Witwicky sheds his student self and once again takes up the responsibility of saving the human race from these aliens. While Sam be able to save the human race from The Fallen?

Shia Lebouf is highly repetitive throughout the movie and doesn't seem to be the same actor as in the first sequel. He is anything but impressive in the movie. Other characters hardly find any significance in the movie. The robots make superstars like entries and at times outshine the actors in most sequences.

The only thing noticeable in the entire movie was the graphic works. It has surely improved from the first part. The drama is short on a variety of military bases, and throws in several robot-on-robot battles for good measure. In the end the story finished Optimus Prime comes back to life( Killed in the Start by megatron) with the help of sam witwicky and defeats The Fallen Like a Hero and covers up all the action he missed during the movie.

The Surrogates

Disney produced Hollywood movie The Surrogates is a semi sci-fi thriller. The movie, which features Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike in lead roles, is based on a comic book miniseries written by Robert Venditti. Although the film seems to have borrowed heavily from Blade Runner, The Matrix and Total Recall, it has an identity of its own.

These days, man is passing by the corporate-controlled world. He is growing more and more dependent on online avataras. He does not come out from his home. He wants to do everything online. He is getting addicted to the social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. In disguise, he wants to see what everyone out there feel. In the course of technological development in future, man might create his cybernetic avatars/surrogates to do all his works, which might lead him to trouble.

The film The Surrogate is all about this. The movie is set in a futuristic world, where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots. In this era, crime is virtually non-existent. The movie is not only a disturbing look into the future, but is also a powerful commentary on the world we live in today. The movie touches poignant subjects such as gender roles, technology, American consumer culture and advertising. Meanwhile, it also focuses on telling an exciting science fiction crime tale.

The movie The Surrogates has two plots. The main plot of the film is Greer attempting to find out who is behind the weapon that killed the inventor of surrogates along with its original self. The subplot deals with Greer"s wife Maggie Greer (Rosamind Pike), who never unplugs from her surrogate and lives a false life as a surrogate stylist.

When the film opens, it has been 14 years since Lionel Canter (James Cromwell) a college student, who developed a high-tech surrogate phenomenon. The movie starts with the mysterious murder of his surrogate as well as his own self. Both the brains are fried and liquefied.

FBI agents Tom Greer and Peters (Bruce Willis and Radha Mitchell) start off the investigation on the murder. Greer sends his surrogate, but it gets fried and destroyed in during a chase. As the mystery of a conspiracy unfolds Greer himself comes outside in his human form in order to solve the crimes. He does an investigation on the weapon called BD gun, the MacGuffin, which destroys the surrogates and their operators.

Director Jonathan Mostow has come out as a capable genre technician while exhibiting his wit and graft through the movie The Surrogates. The film"s action is top notch. Especially, the chase scene that involves a helicopter crash is really marvelous. But Jonathan"s flimsy narration seems to have failed in handling the elegance of its overall conceit.

However, the director has made a right choice for lead role of the movie. Bruce Willis, who is a versatile actor, has given a credible performance as FBI agent Tom Greer. He has managed to carry whole responsibility of the movie on his back. The movie also has a fairly strong supporting cast which includes James Cromwell, Radha Mitchell and Ving Rhames.

In a nutshell, The Surrogates is a thought provoking semi-action movie. The director has come out with an interesting concept, but he has failed to execute in onscreen.

The Step Father

Director Nelson McCormick, who was earlier helming TV serials, entered the big screen through the remake movie Prom Night. Now, he has come out with another remake movie with most of its characters being the TV actors like Nip/Tuck's Walsh, Gossip Girl's Badgley, series veteran Ward, Damages's Turco, The Closer's Tenney, and ER's Sherry Stringfield (except Heard). The movie is nothing but a TV movie quality remake.

Veteran TV director Nelson McCormick's The Stepfather is a remake of the 1987 cult classic, which was directed Joseph Ruben. Donald E. Westlake had penned the original screenplay and Terry O'Quinn had played the lead role as a serial killer. Now, the remake features Dylan Walsh and Sela Ward in lead roles.

JS Cardone, who had written the script for remake Prom Night, has now once again reworked the original screenplay for The Stepfather. But the script of new Stepfather is astonishingly dull and it is so relentlessly dumbed down the original. Cardone has lifted many sequences from other movies.

The original movie has an enduring reputation as a suspense thriller. Although the remake is considered as generic thriller, it does not provide thrill to the audiences. It is a bland movie. The scattered murders are perfunctory and the suspense is nonexistent until a climax as overwrought as it is predictable. There are no surprises or revelations, but just the playing out of the inevitable conflict between David and Michael.

Wayward teenager Michael (Penn Badgley) comes back home after spending a year in military boarding school to see his mother Susan (Sela Ward) and his insanely hot girlfriend Kelly (Amber Heard). But he finds his mom is engaged to a new man called David (Dylan Walsh). David goes out of his way to make Michael feel welcome. But suspicions unravel his nasty track record of marrying widows and divorcees and then killing them and their kids.

NIP/TUCK’s Dylan Walsh is good in the title role. But he is nowhere near Terry O’Quinn when compared to his canny charming/crazy performance in the original. Sela Ward is also pretty good as his wife Susan. The real star here is probably Penn Badgley of Gossip Girl. Amber Heard fares better as his insanely hot girl friend.

However, the movie The Stepfather utterly fails to create interest among the audiences with its predictable screenplay. It can be a negligible horror film.

Shrek Forever After

Shrek is back this time in 3-D. While some might call it an unwelcome thing feeling that the oversized green ogre has already overstayed his welcome with feckless second and third chapters. But for many, this fourth installment of the Shrek franchise will be an extremely entertaining enterprise as this one is not only smart, imaginative but also an exceptionally hilarious sequel that wraps up the series.

In this film, Shrek (Mike Myers) is feeling the pressures of fatherhood and the mundane nature of daily life and his marriage with Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz). He longs for his days as a bachelor ogre. When Rumpelstiltskin (Walt Dohrn) comes into his life and offers him a deal to relive his bachelorhood, Shrek takes the bait. This sets into motion a sequence of events in which Shrek never existed and Rumpelstiltskin becomes the king of Far Far Away. It’s up to Shrek to fix the past so he can fix the future.

The fourth and final installment of the Shrek series has a tremendous amount of heart. Writers Klausner and Lemke have been able to capture the spirit and warmth that made the first two movies so wonderful, and if Shrek's journey doesn't get you feeling a little emotional, then you have to be lying to yourself. The action scenes are well shot and fast paced, and the imagery is further enhanced by the crisp and vivid animation, which absolutely pops in 3-D. And although not all of the humor hits the mark (the dancing scenes with the Pied Piper are a bit tacky), enough of it works that it shouldn't bring back those bad memories of “Shrek the Third.”

And there's not enough you can say about remarkable voice talents of Myers, Diaz, Murphy and Banderas, who have settled nicely into their roles. Dohrn is also equally impressive as the unpredictable Rumpelstiltskin. These actors really bring their characters to life, which makes it so much easier to lose yourself and be immersed by the narrative.

After a disappointing third outing, this "Shrek" brings the cycle of fairy-tale-themed films to a fine finish.

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows

In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part I, Harry faces new troubles; he must collect the Horcruxes that evil Lord Voldemort has left behind to vanquish him. Little does he realize that the final Horcrux is Harry himself. Killing the Horcrux will make him loose all the powers, which make him so much alike the ‘Dark Lord’ himself. He has no idea, where these are and he has to destroy them all, even without the faintest idea how to do so.

Directed by David Yates, this movie does not allow Harry and his friends to experiment. There is absolutely no room for trials and errors. With the ‘Dark Lord’ rising in power again, Harry and his team has to ensure that they use all the tricks up their sleeves and magic to vanquish Voldemort. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is a thrilling roller coaster ride, which forces you to sit and watch, even though you may have read the novel.

However, the film has been termed both exciting and scary. The lead characters look suave and carry the film with style and give a very ‘mature’ performance. There was a mixed response after the movie’s release. Many parents did find it to be inappropriate for their little ones because of the scary scene and the smooch, which turned out to be a full blown adult kiss.

The performances of other characters look more menacing than ever. With brilliant sound effects and excellent cinematography, one feels as if he/she is a part of the movie. Step by step, the filmmaker very beautifully drops hints as he unveils the mystery slowly and steadily leaving you satiated yet desperately anticipating the second and final chapter of 'Deathly Hallows'.

Overall, the adventures unfold with not a dull moment and which makes the viewer want to see the part II as soon as possible to know how Harry and his friends ultimately win over the evil forces. It is certainly the 2 hrs and up movie deserves a watch