Princess Mononoke Review

Best environmental movie I have seen yet! It starts off with this prince who fights off a demon but becomes cursed, the curse makes him exiled from his village so he goes to try to break the curse and find out why the demon appeared. He makes it to this iron smith town, and later finds out that this town has been driving the gods mad with it's destruction of the forests and mining of the mountains.

Learning this he tries to restore peace between men and nature, and teams up with a wolf-girl who hates all humans. All the animals are becoming enraged and strive to kill off the human race to return their forests to normal. The forest god of life and death plays a big role because later on he is beheaded, and in a blind rage to find it's head it destroys the forests, but rebuilds it once it's head returns.

There was not much I did not like about this movie. I watched it once beforehand, but was too young to really critique it then. one of my favorite parts is when he took his shirt off at the furnace to help work it. He is HOT! Another part about this movie I liked is the fact that women are in power and are treated with more respect, but that's also what I didn't like about it. They have too much power, and now treat the men like they are weak pitiful good-for-nothings. The main leader says that men "cannot be trusted," which brings a whole new level of sexism in this movie.

But I like the theme I got from this movie. That we should not destroy nature or one day it will come back to haunt us. The love story between the more neutral main character, and the extremist wolf girl I liked as well.

I would give this movie a 8.5 out of 10, I recommend it for all people. But be warned, there is a decaying boar carcass in here and the demons are covered and weird worm-like things.

Ponyo: Movie Review

Very nice kids show. But the whole plot line and climax confused me. Where do I even start?

Ponyo is the name of this weird fish that runs away from home for no apparent reason, and for no good reason falls in love with a human child who keeps her in a bucket of fresh-water. Ponyo is apparently narcoleptic, as she is very energetic, and then automatically falls asleep for no apparent reason. For some reason she really enjoys the human world, and like Ariel from the Little Mermaid, is obsessed with becoming a human.

But for some reason that never is explained, her wanting to be a human has upset the balance of nature, and it is up to Sosuke to love her as she is (a fish) to turn Ponyo into a full-fledged human. A lovely connection with Beauty and the Beast and Pinocchio at the same time.

Some reason you can create bubbles of water in the water. But hey, this movie has magic, so screw physics!

It was cute, but certainly not for an older audience. I honestly think this movie could have made a lot more sense, saying that the person who made this movie also made Kiki's Delivery Service and Howl's Moving Castle. There did not seem to really be much of a meaning for what was going on, and all this seems to take place in a full 48 hour time frame. Love develops fast.

I would actually give this movie a 3/10, it rarely kept me on edge and nothing really shocking happened. But recommend you watch it simply so you can form your own opinion of it.

Howls Moving Castle Review

LOVED IT!

Just like in Kiki's Delivery Service, I was able to fit in quite nicely when the main character. A dress-wearing, depressive, young female who wants more out of life but can't get it. Falls in love with a (pretty hot) guy but does not think she is pretty enough to be able to have anyone like that attracted to her. Sounds like me so far... I would love for a storybook ending like this.

I really liked it, the humor, the fire, the story line, the magic, everything! The only things that puzzles me is at the end when she still has grey hair, I don't remember her spell being broken, even though in many cases she turns from old to young and young to old. But I thought that was mainly for clarity. I also don't understand the premise of the war, they don't seem to mention what exactly the war is for, except the fact that it is happening. All the bad guys are ugly, vile creatures, while all the good guys are very good looking, cliche, but not shocking.

I love romantic movies, and this one had me gasping, and sighing all the way through. I watched this once when I was young, but back then I was not all that interested in the romantic stuff. But if you are not a romantic person, than watch it for the explosions! As entire towns are being blown up, who knows how many dead, by gigantic warships equipped with missiles and flying. creepy, wizard, monster things. So you have the best of both worlds!

I would give this movie a 9 out of 10!

Never Been Kissed Movie Review

I just watched this movie today, and I loved it! I can really get into the shoes of the main character, socially inept 25 year old Josie Geller, newspaper editor for the Chicago Times. I myself am a socially inept, weird, bookworm, the only real noticeable difference is that she wanted to live a normal life, to be a popular kid at school, to fit in with everyone else, and I do not have such desires for popularity. I found it sad that the school bullies were that mean to her, calling her names and attacking her in school, and even more so when she goes back to her school  as a under-cover reporter, pretending to be a high school senior to get a scoop for her newspaper or she will get fired.

I am glad that I have never had to go through such copious amounts of school bullying when I went through high school. I guess it was mainly because I never cared enough. I like how she knows seemingly useless information and portrays that in real life, sounds an awful lot like me. I cal also connect with her on the basis that I too, am an aspiring writer, partial journalist.

Of course, there is a lot of cliche in this movie, you always get the man at the end, and schools always have those cliques. In fact, I cannot even point out the popular kids in the lunch room at my school if I was paid to do so, neither the cool kids, the band geeks, the football team, the cheerleaders, the geeks, etc. Everyone looks the same eating to me. Lets not forget that in order for her to succeed in life she has to start being more fashionable. Michelangelo never bathed, changed his clothing, or did anything else of the like and he is famous today!

I really liked this movie though, the stuck-up popular kids, the nerds, the nobodies, and always that one guy, the most popular guy in school (who never existed in my high school), who seems to have eyes only for you (of course, the one in the movie really was not that hot), and the one guy that isn't as hot, but is the better match for you. It has a lot of different aspects in it. I personally recommend this movie to whoever wants to watch it, It was made in 1999, so I guess you should be able to download it online. I give it a 10/10, I am a sucker for love stories and dramas.

The Avatar: Legend of Korra review

For the first two episodes I like it so far. The story of peace and how it is being disrupted and how discrimination plays a part in it. A hot-headed teen and a town of poor people and gangs.

I will not spoil it though. You it watch it on Nick.com, I recommend it. Of course, I love magical mind elemental bending abilities. Which makes me sad of how boring the world seems after watching this.

watch it!