Synopsis/Review: Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

The movie started with the penguins and the monkeys going to Monaco with their super jet to gamble (and a lot of gold and diamond too!!) and left Alex (Ben Stiller), Marty (Chris Rock), Melman (David Schwimmer), and Gloria (Jada Pinkett Smith) in Africa. 


Rather than waiting for the penguin and the monkeys to pick them up and going back to New York, Alex decided that they should go and meet the penguins in Monaco. So Alex with Arty, Melman, and Gloria swim (yes ... swim!! Haha) to Monaco.


After they found the casino, they wanted to enter the casino from the window ceiling (well after they turn-off the light of course :D). But then, they started to argue, who's the right person to go down to the casino and meet the penguins (just to let you know, that they are standing on the window ceiling) First Alex, then Marty ... Melman ... and ... GLORIA!!! *nightmare* the glass breaks, and all of them fell to the casino, and everything turned to chaos.

The casino security guard then decided to call Monaco animal control, named Captain Chantel Dubois, and that's when their nightmare started. A nightmare? Yes, because Captain Dubois (Frances McDormand) is the collector of the animals head that she caught, and she still missed one head. Lion's head. That means, it's a super duper nightmare for Alex! 

This is when their journey started ... 
Will they succeed in going back to New York?


...


I really love this Madagascar movie, compare to previous one.
Actually I didn't really want to watch it, but as many of my friends saying that this movie is really fun, and has many good messages, so I watch it. 


And yesss ... they're right!!


In the beginning, this movie gives you fun, and laugh especially when Dubois chased them ... Then in the middle, the movie went to more drama mode and gives touchy feeling, and the last part gives you the excitement!


I watched the 2D version, but I guess that's enough to enjoy the movie.


So don't miss the movie, and enjoy it ;)

Synopsis/review: Dark Shadows

Barnabas Collins (Johnny Depp) was a son of a wealthy family in Maine, where the business of the family was in fishing. 

One of the maid, Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green), in Barnabas' house fell in love with him, but he didn't return her love. Instead his love went to Josette. What Barnabas didn't know was that the Angelique was a witch. She killed Barnabas' parents and put a spell on Josette so she jumped from the Widow's Peak. Barnabas was sad, so he jumped too, but ... he didn't die. Apparently Angelique has turned him into a vampire.

Then Angelique told all the people in Maine that Barnabas was a vampire, and they locked him in a coffin and buried him. 

Synopsis/Review: The Avengers

Loki, The Asgardian, had a deal with The Other, the leader of the alien race, Chitauri. The Other promises Chitauri army to Loki to help him conquer the Earth as the exchange of Tesseract, a powerful energy from unknown source.


Meanwhile on the earth, Nick Fury, the director of S.H.I.E.L.D, was notified that Tesseract was active. Even Dr. Erik Selvig didn't know how it became active. 


Suddenly Tesseract opened a portal, and Loki appeared.


Loki then attacked the S.H.I.E.L.D. base. He also influenced Clint Barton/Hawkeye, and Dr. Erik Selvig with his power, so they become Loki's minion.

Synopsis/review: 21 Jump Street

Schmidt (Jonah Hill) was a nerd in the high school, while Jenko (Channing Tatum) was a more of popular guy in the school,  but he was not as smart as Schmidt. In the school, Jenko really liked to bully Schmidt, and show that he has more power than he's.


In the next few years, Schmidt met Jenko once again, but in the different situation and place. They're in the same police academy. Just like in high school, Jenko has more capability in physical exercise, while Schmidt showed that he could have great score in written test. 


So Jenko asked Schmidt whether he wanted to be his friend and helped each other or not. Schmidt agreed, and they helped each other so they could graduate together.


After their graduation, they thought they're going to do some chasing, or some explosion ... But they're wrong. They were assigned to be the police parks with bicycles.

One day, they saw a motorcycle gangster in the park. This gangster was famous because of their drug activity. 


Jenko and Schmidt had the initiative to catch them, because they think, this going to be their break for their police career. 


Well they caught one of the guys, but they forgot one thing. The Miranda Rights. The police didn't have any chance to keep that guy in jail, so they release him. 


Because of this, they were moved to 21 Jump Street, where there's a revived division. 


This division was used to infiltrate the case in the high school. The people in this division usually has a young appearance. 

For their first assignment here, Jenko and Schmidt were assigned to find the drug dealer in one of the high school. They were acted as brothers. Jenko went to the social class, while Schmidt join the science class. It's all okay, until Jenko mixed up the class where he went to the science class while Schmidt to the social class. 


Then they found out that one of the student, Eric (Dave Franco) was the drug dealer in that high school.


So how they're going to find out who's the supplier?


...

I have watched the trailer some time ago, and I knew that this is a comedy movie, but what I don't know was that the movie could make me to ROTFLOL (Roll On The Floor Laughing Out Loud), well ... ok ... I didn't roll on the floor, but I still laughed in the entire movie.


The story line was okay, but that doesn't make me not to give a high recommendation for this movie. 


I didn't know that Tatum could play in a comedy movie, but he could blend well with Hill :)


Watch this movie if you want to ROTFLOL :D

Synopsis/Review: Battleship

With the advanced technology that NASA has, they found a planet that similar to earth, named Planet G, and decided to communicate with it. So they sent a signal to the planet, hoping they would return the signal to communicate with NASA.

Instead of getting a signal as a reply for their first signal, earth got a reply of 5 alien ships! 

One of the ship, believed to be a communication ship, hit a satellite and was destroyed to pieces, while the other 4 'landed' at the pacific ocean near Hawaii.

At that time, there's a RIMPAC event. RIMPAC is the world largest international maritime exercise that is hosted by the United States in Hawaii. Many countries joined the exercise, including Japan. 

When the 4 ships hit the ocean, Alex Hopper (Taylort Kitsch), Stone Hopper (Alexander Skarsgard), and Nagata (Tadanobu Asano), where each of them captained one battleship, were doing the exercise nearby that area.

Alex Hopper, Raikes (Rihanna), and another Navy soldier was instructed to check the alien ships. 

When Hopper approached the ship, the alien ships suddenly beamed laser and covered the area around them. The area included the 3 battleship that were captained by the Hoppers brother and Nagata, plus some islands that has some antennas that was used to transmit the signal to Planet G. 

With the laser covered the area, the 3 battleships were separated with the main ships armada that was led by Admiral Shane (Liam Neeson). They couldn't contact anyone beyond the area.

From the here, the battle between the 3 battleships and the alien ships begun ...

The Battle Begins at Sea ...

...

In the trailer, it said about Hasbro, the company that brought you Transformer. Hasbro is a toy company, and perhaps you remember the game Battleship. I like to play this game many years ago ... It's like I have one board that has a coordinate. And then I put my ships in random coordinates, and my opponent does the same thing. To attack, I just say some coordinate, and if my opponent's ship is in the coordinate that I said, then it will lose one life (depends how long is the ships). So this movie was based in this game! Interesting!

I really love this kind of movie, the human race VS the alien race, where the alien has bigger and more sophisticated gun, while we only have regular gun. I love to see, how the human with its limitation try to survive and attack the alien. 

Although there are a lot of movies with similar theme, but I still see Battleship as a great movie to watch! I watch this because of the cool factor, not the story :) and I was expecting this movie when I first watched the trailer, even when I didn't realize that Rihanna is also in the movie :D

Btw, I read somewhere telling that there's an after credit! I missed it :(. So if you want ... sit tight until the end :)

So have fun, and enjoy the movie. 

Synopsis/Review: REC 3 Genesis

A wedding and a zombie?

That's not a good match!

But that's what happened in Clara (Leticia Dolera) and Koldo's (Diego Martin) wedding.

It all started with an ordinary day ...

They were in the church for a holy matrimony  ...

Then they continued to go to the reception building to have a party!

That's all just normal ...

But then, something happened.

Koldo's uncle suddenly fell from a balcony. He laid on the floor motionless.

Synopsis/Review: Wrath of The Titans

What happen when the human didn't pray for their gods? 


The gods would lose their power, and as the consequence the wall of Tartarus, the underworld prison, would break.


That's what Zeus (Liam Neeson) said to Perseus (Sam Worthington) about what's happening. He then asked Perseus to help him and the remaining gods to battle this if something bad happened, but Perseus declined the offer. He didn't want to leave his only kid alone.


Finally, it's only Zeus and his other son, Ares (Edgar Ramirez), also Poseidon (Danny Huston) who were left to fix the wall. Zeus also asked Hades (Ralph Fiennes) favour to forget what had happened between him and Hades, and helped them. The unexpected happened. Hades released his minions to attack them, and Ares betrayed Zeus and helped Hades captured him.

Synopsis/Review: Hunger Games

When the name Primrose Averdeen (Willow Shields) was drawn in a lottery to become one of the tributes, her sister, Katniss Averdeen (Jennifer Lawrence), immediately volunteered herself to replace her sister. To accompanied Katniss, Peeta Mellark's (Josh Hutcherson) name was then drawn in the lottery. So Katniss Averdeen and Peeta Mellark were the tributes to represent District 12 in the 74th Annual Hunger Games. 

Hunger Games was a game where selected boys and girls between the age of 12 and 18 from District one to twelve, had to kill each other until there's only one remaining soul which would then become the winner. The game was also being televised. 

Synopsis/Review: John Carter

John Carter (Taylor Kitsch), a rich man who was also an adventurous, was suddenly dead. He inherited all of his wealth to his nephew Edgar Rice Burroughs (Daryl Sabara) who also called Ned. Ned then was being told by Carter's lawyer about what John Carter doing lately. He was given Carter's diary, where he wrote all of his adventure there. The weird thing about John Carter was that he wanted to be buried in mausoleum which was locked from the inside. 


Then the story went back to the time in the past when John Carter, a cavalry officer, was being ordered by Colonel Powell (Bryan Cranston) to join his troop. But he declined. He just wanted to look for a cave where there're lot of gold. Because of this, he was locked in the jail by the colonel. Somehow he managed to escape the prison. 

Synopsis/Review: Man on a Ledge

When a man was accused to be a guilty man and thrown to jail, sometimes the man would do anything to prove that he's innocent.

That's what happened when Nick Cassidy (Sam Worthington), an ex-cop, when he was accused of stealing a $40-million diamond from a businessman, David Englander (Ed Harris). He was caught and put in jail because something that he didn't do.

One day, his father died. Nick was allowed to attend the funeral with a supervision. So he want to the funeral and met his brother, Joey Cassidy (Jamie Bell) and his girl friend, Angie (Genesis Rodriguez), but then he ran away.

Not long after that, Nick checked-in in a hotel. After having a meal, he decided to go out through a window and stand on a ledge of the building. So he became the man on a ledge, or the police called it the jumper. 

Synopsis/Review: Hugo

Hugo Cabret (Asa Butterfield) was living in one of Paris railway station ... ALONE. To be more specific, inside the wall of the railway station. His job was to maintain every clocks inside the train. So why he was living there alone?


Before, he actually lived with his dad (played by Jude Law), but then the father died in a fire incident in a museum where he worked. Before this event, his dad, who also worked as a clock maker, brought a broken automaton to his house. It's something like a robot, and mostly used by magician. It also could write. They decided to fix this together.

Synopsis/Review: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Jim Prideaux, an agent of British Intelligent (or was called 'The Circus'), was assigned to meet someone in Hungary. He needed to obtain an information from this guy. Apparently it was a set-up, and Prideaux got shot! 

Control (John Hurt), who was the Chief of the Circus was forced to leave because of this incident. He decided to bring Smiley (Gary Oldman) with him. But not long after this, Control died because of an illness.

After the departure of Control, The Circus was led by Percy Alleline (Toby Jones) and his allies Bill Haydon (Collin Firth), Roy Bland (Ciarán Hinds), and Toby Esterhase (David Dencik).

Synopsis/Review: Safe House

Matt Weston (Ryan Reynolds) was a house keeper of a not ordinary house. It's a safe house. A safe house of CIA. A safe house to protect the witness, or to keep a suspect before he's being transferred to another location. 

It's his 12 months of employment in CIA. His post was in Cape Town, South Africa. He's bored with his current job, where he only starred 4 walls every day. When he's asking for a promotion, he was not qualified enough for the position. Other applicants have more field experience than he's.

One day, Tobin Frost (Denzel Washington), a former great agent of CIA that has been accused of selling information, showed up in Cape Town. He's meeting with another former MI-6 agent, Alec Wide (Liam Cunningham), who's going to give Frost a list of important name.

Synopsis/Review: One For The Money

Stephanie Plum (Katherine Heigl) was just got fired from Macy's lingerie division, and she had a lot of debt. She needed to do something to pay-off her debt. Her mom had an option for her, to get married with Bernie Kuntz (Adam Paul), the owner of a furniture store. But her grandma Maruz (Debbie Reynolds) had better option for her. Stephanie's cousin, Vinnie (Patrick Fischler), whose business was in bail-bonds, needed an administrator. At first she was reluctant as he tried to kiss her on her wedding day, but it's a better option than to marry Kuntz. On her first day, she was asked to cover a job whose belonged to other bail enforcement agent who's just got an appendix operation. While she was looking at the case, she suddenly she saw a man in her past in one of the cases. His name was Joe Morelli (Jason O'Mara). He actually was a cop, but then became a suspect. He was accused of murdering someone, but then he never showed up in the court. Plum was insisted to handle this case. If she managed to drag him to the court, she could get $50,000.

Synopsis/Review: This Means War

How if two CIA agent used CIA technology to compete with each other to get a girl?

Well that's what FDR (Chris Pine) and Tuck (Tom Hardy) did to get Lauren (Reese Witherspoon).

FDR and Tuck were two of CIA Agents and best friends. They were signed to a mission but then the mission went wrong, which resulted they're being suspended by their boss, Collins (Angela Bassett). So they're back working behind the desk. 

While they're not on duty, Tuck who's a divorcee with one kid, tried his luck to find a girl by joining a dating online website.

Synopsis/Review: Chronicle

Andrew (Dane DeHaan) was an unpopular student in the school. One day, he went to a party and filming the party. Apparently there were people who didn't like it, and angry with him.

Upset with what just had happened, he went out to calm himself.

Suddenly he's approached by Steve (Michael B. Jordan), the popular quarterback in the school. Steve asked Andrew to help him and Andrew's cousin, Matt (Alex Russel), to filming something.

Reluctant at first, but then agreed to follow Steve to somewhere inside the forest.

Synopsis/Review: Underworld: Awakening

Selene (Kate Beckinsale) was held captive in a facility called Antigen, but then someday, she was released by something. Selene was the 'Subject 1' in this facility.

During her exit from Antigen, she saw something as if she saw it through someone else's eyes, and thought that this should be from Michael's eyes. During her search of Michael, she encountered another vampire, named David (Theo James), who has been following her for a while. Following the vision, she finally found the source of the vision ... which was not Michael, but a little girl, Eve (India Eisley) or the Subject 2.