The Tourist

An American tourist, Frank (played by Johnny Depp) is asked by a beauty in Paris to play her lover because she is hunted by the authorities. He played along not knowing that the pretty woman, Elise (Angelina Jolie) is part of an espionage. There are twists and turns in the movie and the best part is the ending when you think it is so but it turns out differently. Enjoyable.

Gulliver's Travels

Just like the Grimm brothers' original tale, the guy who is travelling in this modern adaptation is Lemuel Gulliver who has been working in the mail room of a corporate office for more than a decade. He is attracted to a lady in the same office but too shy to approach her. Then he hires a new guy who overnight becomes his boss and Gulliver is asked to take some bold approach to improve his life, at work or romantically. Though he couldn't do the latter, he plagarised a website's content to write about a place of attraction. Thus he wins a trip to Bermuda's Triangle and that's when he shipwrecks and wakes up in Lilliput.

TRON: Legacy

Kevin Flynn is in the midst of creating a virtual world when he disappeared from his family leaving his son, Sam. 20 years later, Kevin's friend receives a message on his pager from Kevin. He tells Sam about this and Sam goes to his father's video arcade to have a look. As he uncovers a secret passageway, he also finds some computers which he dabbles with until he finds himself transmitted to The Grid. There, he finds his father and found out that he is battling his evil creation with the same face. This is a science fiction show with lots of heart stopping music. You will love it if you like such shows.

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Edward and Lucy are sucked into a pool of water which pours out of an ocean painting with their obnoxious cousin Eustace. Eustace doesn't get along well with them and upon reaching Narnia world keeps asking to go home. They are saved by a ship called The Dawn Treader. Prince Caspian is in the ship waiting for them with his crew. Caspian explains that Narnia has been in peace for three years but before he took his throne back, his uncle tried to kill the seven lords of Telmar, who were the closest and most loyal friends of his father. They fled to The Lone Island and no one has ever heard anything about them. Now Caspian is seeking out the lords of Telmar with his Captain Drinian, the rat Reepicheep and his loyal men.

Lots of CGI are tossed in so it is a good fantasy movie. Enjoy!

The Social Network

Every facebooking users will want to know how it all started. This is what this show is about, how Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook. Being a Harvard student only underscores the genuis' idea who one night decides to create a platform for friends to connect.
However, all is not a bed of roses as the founder of Napster, Sean Parker (played by Justin Timberlake) claims that Mark has plagarised his idea and sues him.
In one of scenes Sean in a discussion with Mark said that they are aiming at millionaires anymore but Billionaires! So, even if the amount of claimed is settled, Mark still doesn't lose much.

Rapunzel : A Tangled Tale

The Rapunzel here is also taken away at birth from her biological parents and locked up in a tower. As she grows her hair over the 18 years, her kidnapper is whom she knows as her real mother. She will bring her a basket of food everyday and call out, "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair." Her mother tells her stories about how dangerous the world beyond the tower is. But being 18, Rapunzel decides to see the world for herself one day.

This is when she meets the hero, Flynn Ryder and both go through the adventures of battling a group of evil creature as well as finally finding her real parents.

Her parents never give up looking for her as they and the people light up lanterns on her birthday every year. This is how she sees the light.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows: Part 1

Lots of character building happens here. There's handsome Radcliffe, grint Gruff and gorgeous Watson. Besides the main Harry Potter character which was emphasised in the last 6 movies, Ron and Hermione join forces with him to battle the evil horcruxes under Lord Voldermort. Lord Voldermort is now in charge of the Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts. He is finding Harry Potter and gang at all expenses to destroy them of course and be in firm power. To be able to that both are now racing again each other to find the most precious wand "The Deathly Hollows".

This movie being Part 1 does not have the conclusion. Part 2 will be seen next year 2011.

The Other Guys

Intitially, I thought this was about the good cops versus the bad guys. See how hunky Dwayne Johnson and Samuel Jackson are at the beginning of the show as Danson and Highsmith respectively until the story writer thinks brawn has no brains. This is when the fun starts where the other guys, Terry Holtz (Mark Wahlberg) and Allen Gamble (Will Ferrell) start to partner together. The former has the action whereas the latter is a forensic accountant and they are investigating a financial scandal. Compared to the earlier heroes who lynch the robbers, they chase after scammers which is what thousands of people are feeling frusfrated about.

To the end, there are some statistics about how much money has been lost and how many people become jobless due to the financial turmoil of Worldcom, Enron and also Ponzi schemes. At least we see some justice served on the scammers!