The biggest problem with blogger is the limitation of character tags. So when you have a movie like Ice Age 4 Continental Drift which has 36 people doing voice overs of as many characters, one can pick up only 10 to be called out in the tag list. It is just too unfair that this post will not be revealed in a search for the role Nicki Minaj or Rebel Wilson or Kunal Nayyar played in a movie that was an outright laugh riot from the time Scrat the Sabre Toothed Squirrel (Chris Wedge) comes into frame one searching for a place to hide is notorious acorn.
Our family – which has grown since the first edition of this phenomenal franchise – of Manny the Woolly Mammoth (Ray Romano), Ellie the Mammoth wife (Queen Latifah), Peaches the baby Mammoth (Keke Palmer) Sid the Ground Sloth (John Leguizamo – and I have always been in awe of this man’s talent in terms of voice overs) and Diego the Smilodon (Denis Leary) have settled down peacefully. However, their peace is about to be disturbed thanks to Scrat, who has managed to create the entire concept of the Continental Drift just by shoving his acorn in the wrong place.
A sudden movement of plates causes the land mass to move gradually and eat away into the home of our family who along with the other species start their trudge towards the land bridge – which is the only way to get across to safety. All of this only after a massive quake traps our heroes onto a berg of ice and cracks it away from the mainland. Over the din, Manny promises – as always – to come back to save his family. But to do that he has to fight the crew of Captain Gutt the Gigantopithecus (Peter Dinklage) – a high sea pirate who rules the unknown waters – and his right hand woman Shira the Smilodon (Jennifer Lopez).
Superb characterization and great voice over has been the highlight of all Ice Age editions to date. A franchise that has improved over the past decade like very few others can claim. Probably one of the few movies where the sequels are as good as the first part if not better. Continental Drift is not different. In fact the 3D quality is actually one of the better ones in recent times.
The competiton for Uncle Oscar in the category has thrown up 3 clear leaders. As of now, very difficult to choose between Ice Age, Madagascar and Brave. I strongly believe Brave is leading the charts as of now. We will know for sure in about 6 months. In the meantime it is a 7.5 on 10 for Ice Age. Watch it for certain.
Watch the trailer at http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi2524815897/
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Wednesday, 8 August 2012
Monday, 2 July 2012
The Amazing Spider Man
Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) is back. One can choose to go “What the hell???? Don’t these guys get enough of making the same movie again and again and again and then when you think its all done they get one more just for posterity”. One can also choose to go, “Wow!!! Lets see what Spiderman is upto this time around”. Fortunately, I fall in the latter category and went to the screen expecting a good show. The good news – I was not disappointed. The not so good news – I wasn’t half as excited when I exited the movie as I was when I left the hall after say, The Avengers.
A better part of the movie goes through the same old rigmarole of how Peter Parker allows curiosity to get the better of him only to get bitten by a mutant spider of some kind and then turns into Spiderman. The difference however – in each one of the movies – is how he lands up being Spiderman. This time around it is by one which is being used to test gene therapy of some kind which will allow human beings to lose all of their weaknesses.
Leading the project is Dr. Curt Connors (Rhys Ifans – remember the nerdy character who doesn’t have a bath and is Hugh Grant’s room mate in Notting Hill – I couldn’t believe it either) who used to be Peter’s old man’s best mate. Richard Parker (Campbell Scott) suddenly disappeared under circumstances that can best be described as mysterious. Doc stops keeping in touch with the Parkers. Period. Uncle Ben (Martin Sheen) and Aunt May (Sally Field) both find this quite weird but have done nothing to reach out to Connors either. Connors is now heading research @ Oscorp and is charged with the responsibility of keeping Osborne alive – a job that Rajit Ratha (Irrfan Khan) knows how to do.
The Amazing Spiderman – thankfully doesn’t not stop in its differences with the name. It goes onto give a different story and therefore can keep the audiences engaged if they have seen the trilogy that preceded it. If they haven’t then this is one will be a good entertainer. The 3D effects are far superior to any of the previous ones. And Marc Webb – who has only one full length feature to his credit prior to this one – comes up with the goods for sure.
It’s a super hero movie so don’t look for acting as such but the performances are definitely above the expected level. The disappointing part for us Indians is that we would have expected our own Irrfan Chacha to have a meatier role. His screen time is restricted to about 2 minutes and 38.91 seconds. I give the movie 7 on 10 and I guess you will enjoy it. But honestly – not as good as the previous ones.
Watch the movie on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBfk0MqD67s
A better part of the movie goes through the same old rigmarole of how Peter Parker allows curiosity to get the better of him only to get bitten by a mutant spider of some kind and then turns into Spiderman. The difference however – in each one of the movies – is how he lands up being Spiderman. This time around it is by one which is being used to test gene therapy of some kind which will allow human beings to lose all of their weaknesses.
Leading the project is Dr. Curt Connors (Rhys Ifans – remember the nerdy character who doesn’t have a bath and is Hugh Grant’s room mate in Notting Hill – I couldn’t believe it either) who used to be Peter’s old man’s best mate. Richard Parker (Campbell Scott) suddenly disappeared under circumstances that can best be described as mysterious. Doc stops keeping in touch with the Parkers. Period. Uncle Ben (Martin Sheen) and Aunt May (Sally Field) both find this quite weird but have done nothing to reach out to Connors either. Connors is now heading research @ Oscorp and is charged with the responsibility of keeping Osborne alive – a job that Rajit Ratha (Irrfan Khan) knows how to do.
The Amazing Spiderman – thankfully doesn’t not stop in its differences with the name. It goes onto give a different story and therefore can keep the audiences engaged if they have seen the trilogy that preceded it. If they haven’t then this is one will be a good entertainer. The 3D effects are far superior to any of the previous ones. And Marc Webb – who has only one full length feature to his credit prior to this one – comes up with the goods for sure.
It’s a super hero movie so don’t look for acting as such but the performances are definitely above the expected level. The disappointing part for us Indians is that we would have expected our own Irrfan Chacha to have a meatier role. His screen time is restricted to about 2 minutes and 38.91 seconds. I give the movie 7 on 10 and I guess you will enjoy it. But honestly – not as good as the previous ones.
Watch the movie on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBfk0MqD67s
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