Review: Wall-e

Wall-e, the last robot left on Earth cleaning up trash, and Eve, a robot sent to discern Earth's livability, embark on a adventure across the galaxy.

This was another hard one to summarize, not that my summaries are ever very good. This was a very cute movie. Very creative, especially since there was very little dialogue. I enjoyed how they combined some live action with the animation. Another knock out for Pixar. I especially loved the short before the movie. Hilarious.

My favorite parts of the movie:

Hello Dolly dance
pizza plants
Sigourney Weaver as the Ship's computer
crazy robots
too many others to list

5 our of 5 stars.

Review:The Dark Knight

Batman (Christian Bale) is winning the fight against the mob in Gotham when a new upredictable villian, The Joker (Heath Ledger), appears.

WOW. This was a great movie. Superhero, action, drama, comedy... Heath was amazing as the Joker. Truely astounding. Oscar potential? Hmm, I don't know. I really can't see the Academy giving him a pothumus Oscar, especially for this film. We'll see though.

This movies had some definate twists and turns. The deaths and non deaths completely suprised me. The story was great, pretty deep for a comic book movie, but I guess that's what we've come to expect from Christopher Nolan's Batman. I hope the next movie can continue and not dive bomb like Spiderman 3. Coincedentally, this movie beat that movie's opening weekend record with $158 mil.

Lost connections: Lost's Richard Alpert (Nestor Carbonell), aka the guy that doesn't age, plays Gotham's Mayor in The Dark Knight.

My favorite parts of the movie:

Subtle bat sounds during the opening Warner Brothers logo
Joker's magic trick with a pencil
story

5 out of 5 stars.

Review: Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Hellboy (Ron Pearlman) and his band of freaks attempt to save the world from an evil otherworldly prince and his aspirations to control the golden army.

That discription is vague and doesn't do the movie justice but it's really hard to summarize this movie. It was awesome though. Director Guillermo del Toro's vision is exquisite. I enjoyed "Pan's Labyrinth" for it's visual qualities. So I am super excited that he is directing "The Hobbit" and that other LOTR movie. He should do it justice.

This sequel to 2004's Hellboy does an even better job all around I would say. The story makes slightly more sense than the first. Visually, it's much better. The action was pumped up and the story has more weight. Plus, given the extreme oddness of the movie, a superhero called Hellboy and other weird creatures in an otherwise normal world, it's deals with some deep issues but also doesn't take itself too seriously.

I remember going to see the first one in the theater and really I have no idea why. I wasn't quite as crazy into movies then. I knew virtually nothing about it. Maybe I wanted to be rebelious and see a movie called "Hellboy." Then again, maybe Tom wanted to see it. He chooses weird movies. ;)

My favorite parts of the movie:

drunken love song singing (seriously hilarious)
all the different visuals
trilogy potential
John Hurt made a cameo as Dr. Broom
Hellboy as a boy

4 out of 5 stars.

Review: Hancock

Hancock (Will Smith) is a drunk, unruly superhero that almost everyone despises. After saving PR executive Ray Embrey (Jason Bateman), Hancock takes his advice and tries to overhaul his image.

Good summertime movie, with a twist. I think that's what has so many people up in arms, it's not your standard action movie. Shockingly, it has a plot and some drama. I enjoyed it. I tend to like most Will Smith movies though, and from his box office takes, who doesn't really?

My favorite parts of the movie:

Unexpected twist
the moon
"Wolverine" comment

4 out of 5 stars.