The world of cartoons please all of us, no matter young or old, the colors, the images and the innocent appeal is just so likeable, the feeling of nostalgia and a break from the real world is just more than welcome. However, when you put humans inside the artificial yet pleasing world of cartoons, it would definitely spoil the broth. Warner Bro’s Speed racer comes as a total surprise this summer. When Wachowski brothers The Matrix was released, it gave us so much to cud on, the extreme action sequences, the incoherent dialogues, the binary-equated plot pleased us all. It was extremely refreshing and full of brilliant futuristic ideas, though the subsequent releases in The Matirx didn’t capture the fancy to that level but still they built a lot of expectations from the director duo. (more…)

A thrilling, perilous new adventure… The Chronicles of Narnia : Prince Caspian. From 16th May to a theatre near you…!!! Prince Caspian, the second instalment of The Chronicles of Narnia, which is due for world-wide summer release on May 16, 2008. “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian,” is on an even more ambitious scale than The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (the first instalment in the Chronicles of Narnia series) and will feature bigger battles, more effects shots, more CGI creatures and some of the largest sets ever created for a Hollywood movie. (more…)

(Stills) Comedy is definitely not enjoying the greatest heights today. And even if we do have splashes of comedy, they are primarily built on situational or contextual podiums that do not feature a perfect comedy of errors or comedy of manners. Judging a movie in a comedy scale makes one get anxious. Fine, no apprehensions, the audience does laugh, but that is definitely not an answer to the all-pervasive question, was it comic enough? This is when you rate a movie average, answerable for the fact that you are in a superb fix. So, when Walt Disney decided to take a break from its trademark fairytales and go for a pure comedy, it turned out to be a farce, a mere slapstick opera. Created for a teen audience, College Road Trip can not be tagged as a masterpiece, though it does take you for a light hearted family trip with the drizzle of laughter that occasionally takes the shape of a tropical thunder storm. Director Roger Kumble has given us a G-rated movie that deals with or rather showcases the good-natured clash between an over-protective father and freedom-loving daughter. Keeping this storyline everything goes for a pure surprise-free comedy. We expect a complete menace and we do get one by and by. (more…)

Enchanted is a classic fairy tale about a princess Giselle who lands up in New York city due to a spell cast by an evil queen. After her arrival in New York she meets a divorce attorney and starts staying with him as she has nowhere to go. Let us however start at the beginning. Princess Giselle, played by Amy Adams meets and falls in love with Prince Edward essayed by James Marsden and they decided to get married. However, the prince’s stepmother Queen Narissa portrayed by Susan Sarandon is against the marriage as it will deprive her of power and control over the kingdom. So she disguises herself as an old woman and tricks Princess Giselle in to falling in to a wishing well. (more…)

Fred Claus starring Vince Vaughn is meant to be a jolly, good- humored Christmas tale and does succeed to an extent. So we have Fred Claus, the not so famous brother of Santa Claus who has fallen on bad times and seeks his good brother’s help to bail him out of a messy situation. Santa agrees to help his sibling provided Fred comes to the North Pole to help out in the week before Christmas. (more…)

Oh yes! There is nothing better than something really tasty to eat and something really great to watch. The combination of the appeasement of these two senses is of vital importance to me and once the two are satiated, I’m one happy person. Some films are so great that they make you forget what is happening in your world because they pull you into theirs. (more…)

Mostly everyone who has been following the Harry Potter series knows that a phoenix is a bird that crumbles up on its death bed, but rises from its own ashes to live again. Immortal is the word that fits perfectly for this mythical creature. Immortal seems to be what J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter is turning into as the queues for the latest movie and the pre booking for the last book seems to be ceaseless. Everyone wants to know what happens to their dear little wizard. And those who don’t follow the books, well, they just want to see what the fuss is all about. (more…)