Posts Tagged ‘Animated’

In this small village of Vikings there is always the one guy who just doesn’t cut it, that is Hiccup (Jay Baruchel).  Hiccup is one of the worst Vikings ever, he’s never been physically inclined, but he has ideas.  While being under pressure from his father Stoick (Gerard Butler) to try and be a better Viking he decides to test out his new device.  He ends up catching one of the most dangerous of dragons.  However, he can’t bring himself to kill it.  Eventually he ends up befriending the dragon and learning that sometimes being different isn’t the same as being wrong. (more…)

In Metro City Dr. Tenma [Nicholas Cage] is the head of the Ministry of Science and the city’s expert on robotics.  After an accident his son, Tobey, passes away.  This sends Dr. Tenma into a crazed state and he decides to deal with his grief he will create his greatest robot and make him a complete replica of his son in looks and in mind.  He therefore ends up creating Astro Boy [Freddie Highmore]. (more…)

This week the podcast crew decide to talk abt Satoshi Kon’s animated film Paprika. (more…)

 

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Flint Lockwood [Bill Hader] has always wanted to be a great inventor.  He has invented many things, but none of them work or turn out the way he wants them to.  One day when his town falls to economic problems and everyone is made to eat sardines he decides to invent a machine that converts water into any food he wants; and it works.  However – as expected by a story like this – eventually everything goes out of control and Flint must save the town from his own creation. (more…)

This time around I decided, with the recent US release of 9, to ask:

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This is once again an attempt for me to create a weekly article here on gmanreviews. I know I’ve disappointed you many times before promising some weekly pieces which have ranged from slightly interesting to completely useless. However, I promise I will try my best to keep this one going. And whenever I can’t find ten news pieces I’ll try to pad with cool articles that I like.

I don’t cover news on the site for the main reason that most of the news reported on film blogs that I read are either uninteresting or unconfirmed rumour most of the time. But on the odd occasion that the news is in fact genuine then that is when I jump up in joy reading some of it and other times fall into a deep dark depression. So here is the TOP TEN NEWS ITEMS THAT BROKE THIS WEEK. (more…)

Susan [Reese Witherspoon] has been hit by a meteor at her wedding. After surviving the incident minutes later she erupts into Ginormica [i.e. The 50-foot woman], and is captured by the government and stored in a facility with other monsters. General W. R. Monger [Kiefer Sutherland] is the warden of this facility where it also houses creatures such as: B.O.B. [Seth Rogen], Dr. Cockroach Ph.D. [Hugh Laurie], The Missing Link [Will Arnett] and Insectosaurus. Gallaxhar [Rainn Wilson] is an alien seeking the energy from that previously mentioned meteor, Quantonium, and has sent out a huge friggin’ machine to get it. With the government threatened by this weapon they send out their final hope, the monsters, to defeat it. (more…)