I had high expectation for the animation film “9″ that bears the logo of Tim Burton. Later on, I read that Tim Burton only produces the film while the director and writer is Shane Acker. “9″ is a decent animation. Just that I love “Corpse Bride” so much better. The quality of the image animation [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Animation'
Ponyo On The Cliff By The Sea – That Can’t Be A Gold Fish, Can That Be?
January 24th, 2009 8 Comments
Japanese imagination knows no bound, I must say. A gold fish that looks like a baby girl to me except the missing limbs and the ability to live both in and out of water. Am I the only one who wonder if I was reading the subtitles correctly? It is beyond the visual art on the [...]
Tags: Hayao Miyazaki
WALL·E – Quite Possibly A Must Watch Movie of 2008
September 1st, 2008 10 Comments
I have high expectation on WALL·E. Somewhat close to the level of anticipation I had with “Lilo & Stitch”. And the movie delivers. What a magical experience. Don’t compromise. Watch WALL·E in a digital format.
I walked into the theater with little knowledge of what the story is about beyond what I saw in the trailer. [...]
Tags: Pixar
Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis – A 2D Animation With Impact
February 27th, 2008 1 Comment
Yet another voted as top 10 films of 2007 by the critics, I have got to drag my Movie Review Squad to check out this Oscar nominated animation from France featuring an Iranian young girl living through the Iranian Revolution (the film itself is in English). So much faith they have on me, I was kind [...]
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Ratatouille and Blood Brothers
September 1st, 2007 10 Comments
It is one of those weeks that watching one movie is just not enough. Having read so many ravishing reviews on “Ratatouille” and since Cynthia so wanted to watch it, Ratatouille it was. An animated feature film produced by Pixar and when you hear the word “Pixar”, it just can’t go wrong. This film is [...]
Tags: Pixar
The Simpsons Movie – It Is Crazy And It Is Fun
August 7th, 2007 13 Comments
After choosing three consecutive Asian movies for the Movie Review Squad, it’s time to go Western. I have not watched a single episode of “The Simpsons” on TV but somehow I knew that Cynthia and Tong Kiat would both love “The Simpsons Movie”. I was not too far from the truth.
I didn’t have much expectation [...]
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Paprika and Who Slept With Her – A Mixed Review From Us
July 25th, 2007 5 Comments
After a rather disappointing outing to watch the Korean sex comedy “Who Slept With Her” last week, I tried to make amend and choose a better movie this time for the Movie Review Squad – the Japanese anime “Paprika”. Turns out that three of us have different opinions on these two movies. TK actually enjoyed [...]
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So We Watched Shrek 3 One Day Before Cynthia’s Birthday
June 6th, 2007 No Comments
Tuesday nights are traditionally the nights when the Movie Review Squad comes out and watch some movies. Tonight (June 5th) was no different – except we were celebrating Cynthia’s birthday one day in advance as well. Buddy TK picked up the bill and that is very nice of him. We were dinning at that Japanese [...]
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Happy Feet – An Entertaining Movie Short Of A Great One
December 3rd, 2006 No Comments
Happy Feet has all the right ingredients: lovely dancing penguins, great music scores, beautiful sceneries, and a unique concept that attracting a soul mate in this land of penguins is through a heart song. Mumble, a penguin that cannot sing but loves to tap dance, is the hero of the movie. Being an outcast, it [...]
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Wallace and Gromit
January 7th, 2006 3 Comments
Kicked start my new year movie journey with TK and watched Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Probably because I went in with a high expectation (my wife said because we went in with an empty stomach), the show was good but not as good as I thought. The artwork is beautiful. However, [...]
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