Click

I rarely cry for a movie, especially lately since there haven't been really good movies for a long time. It feels great that I could really emotionally touched by the movie. My friend told me that this movie is a very meaningful one. So I watched it on the 1st day of 2007. My, he is really right: this movie is very meaningful. I think it's 1 of the best Adam Sandler's movie. It's not just pure comedy, but it has lots of lessons to be learned.

The struggle and situation that happened to Michael *Adam Sandler's character* actually happened to many of us, and I personally can relate myself with him. I think many of us, in the name of work, try to deceive ourselves about the fact that we are abandoning our family. If we say that we work for our family, sometimes we have also to think that the family doesn't only need money and food, but also our time. Perhaps, time is the most precious thing that can be given towards anyone: You probably are more readily give out money to help others than spending your time with that person, listening to his/her troubles, attend to them when they need us. The movie just teach you that: Family comes first. I think everyone should watch this, especially with their family to learn or relearn about what family is all about.

It's a really great movie, what a great thing to start the year! Happy new year everyone!

PS: I'm surprised though, that this movie only got 27% at rottentomatoes.com, while Happy Feet has 77%! Talking about mainstream website.. or they are actually getting paid to give good review on Happy Feet since it's big budget movie while "Click" didn't, since it's a low budget movie?

Happy Feet

I saw this movie with my dear family on the last day of 2006. My sister loves to watch 3D animation,so I thought it would be great to watch. The movie is quite ok, but definitely not as good as my expectation. The animation is really great, the quality of the environment is just fabulous, there is no doubt about it. The icy area, the swimming scenes, the natural movements of the objects in the water environment:it's something not seen before. I am truly amazed with the look of the rocks and ice, and how they move while they are on the surface of the water.
Music is also a big thing in the movie. There are so many familiar tunes for all ages. They have new ones, those from the 90s, the 80s, and even 70s! *They have "Somebody to Love"!*. I think anyone with lots of knowledge about music and video clips would really enjoy the inside jokes, such as "shake your bon2" by Ricky Martin, Elvis' signature moves, Freddie Mercury's songs, etc. I really enjoy the musical part of the movie.

However, the thing that made this movie a bit disappointing is the storyline. They just don't have a good script. You can pretty much guess all parts of the movie.The movie follows somewhat a cliche story about a boy being and outcast from the society, and he just come back to save everyone. Typical like Alladin,Sword in The Stone,Notredame,etc. And after Mumble, the main character, grows up, then you don't really have that greatly animated and cuddly character. Fortunately, they have other characters that support the story well, with, again, inside jokes about Spanish people in California. Those who had been in US, especially California, would know what I mean. =)

All in all, it's an ok movie, I recommend people to watch it on the theater for pretty much the pretty eye-candy, but if you are really only into story, then buy the DVD.

300

This is a mixed review. The movie, I think, has to be reviewed in couple of point of views. First, let me tell the good part. The movie definitely has a very great cinematography.It doesn't try to blend 3D environment to look like 'real', but actually really emphasize that it's 3D graphic,which is nice, then try to blend stupid tiger in Gladiator.

The slow motion graphic looks nice, the falling soldiers over the cliff,but I dislike war scene where the blocking is slow, n then attacking is fast.It's confusing,it also looks so fake.Also,for a movie that's based in real history, I think I prefer to have it more like Braveheart:during war, Braveheart doesn't have computer graphic,no music during war, all looks real, n no super human power.

one thing that I find to be annoying is the scriptwriting and the 'inaccuracy' of the history.First,this battle is very famous indeed in history,it's called Battle of Thermopylae