Ice Age is a decent movie with good characters. The movie starts off, introducing us to a group of animals including Manny, Sid and Diego who encounter a human baby and go on a journey to return the baby to its family, but Diego has a secret mission to return the baby to his leader for revenge. The overall plot and story are decent, but there is nothing much special about it. The area where the movie shines the best is the characters.
Up is a classic-animated movie with an emotional story. The movie begins by introducing Carl and Ellie, two kids who shared the same dream of visiting Paradise Falls. Now as an old man, Carl looks to fulfilling Ellie’s dream after her death. The story is very deep and well written and balances mature themes like loss with humorous elements. The contrast between Carl’s grumpiness and Russell's enthusiastic nature is one of the best humorous elements present in the movie.
Wall-E is a unique and charming movie. The movie introduces us to Wall-E a trash compacting robot left on earth to clean up the garbage to make it habitable for humans to return after they left on a luxury spaceship called the AXIOM. The plot of the movie is simple and not complex, but the execution of the story is what made this movie special.
Ratatouille is an amazing movie with an amazing story. It's one of the best movies to watch casually and to enjoy, as it has a simple plot with a unique concept. The movie introduces to Remy, a rat who has an ambition to become a chef, inspired by chef Auguste Gusteau’s philosophy that anyone can cook. Whereas his family is more concerned with survival. While the plot is simple and predictable, the movie executed the story well with a good balance between various elements of the movie.
Iron Man is one of my favorite superhero origin stories and movies. The movie introduces us to Tony Stark, a genius billionaire inventor who is the CEO of Stark Industries, a weapons manufacturing company. A visit to Afghanistan for a weapons test turns disastrous as his convoy gets attacked by terrorists and Tony gets kidnapped and forced to build weapons for them. Tony Stark, however, creates a suit of armor to help him escape the terrorists.
The Secret Year is a realistic fiction young adult novel that follows Colt through his junior year of high school. Labor day weekend, he lost the secret love of his life in a car accident. Although they were in love, no one was allowed to know. He was from the flats, and she was from one of the huge houses up on Black Mountain. Throughout his junior year, Colt faces his grief in secret, reading her journal entries written about their time together, allowing him to relive the best year of his life, the one with Julia.
The Outsiders is set in 1965 Oklahoma, centering on two different gangs. This book was loosely based on how life could be during this time and the author wrote this for her friends that were considered the version of greasers in her town. A greaser is a teenager that is considered a delinquent, does not have much money, and is known for their trademark long greasy hair. The gang opposing the greasers is the soc gang. A soc is a rich, socialite privileged person with nice cars, clothes and hair.
Rent is a rock musical about New York City struggles in the 90s with the rise of AIDS. It is a musical written by Jonathan Larson and has many awards. It started off Broadway, made its way to Broadway, and now there is the movie adaptation. Unfortunately, Jonathan Larson passed away before he was able to see its success. This musical is all about love, acceptance, bohemia, drugs, pride, friends and loyalty.
Fantastic Mr. Fox is a cozy, adventure movie full of laughter, stress and love. Mr. Fox is bored with his plain old family life much to the dismay of his wife. He’s an animal and animals need to be wild! So, he hatches a plan to steal from three of the scariest farmers in the town, Boggis, Bunce and Bean, notorious for their violent ways. He only planned to do one heist to feed his family and get that itch out of the way, but once he pulled off the perfect heist he couldn’t get enough. Mr.
Holes by Louis Sachar follows a young boy named Stanley Yelnats. Stanley Yelnats is cursed with bad luck, and his entire family has been cursed with bad luck since his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather broke his promise to Madame Zeroni. Stanley was caught in the wrong place at the wrong time and got sent to Camp Green Lake for a crime he didn’t commit.
