The Young Victoria

This is the first historically-accurate movie I have seen that does not have any bad scenes or language in it that I can remember. And wow, was it good! Starring Emily Blunt (The Wolfman) and Rupert Friend (Pride and Prejudice), to name a few of the many and very talented actors and actresses in this film. It starts out with Victoria telling about her childhood, being one of seclusion from almost everything normal, being a prisoner in a palace, never being able to do what she wanted, really, and all was found out with she turned 11, to be for her protection, since she was the only heir of brothers, either kings or dukes, and would inherit the royal title as queen when the last king died. She meets a prince (Albert), and they become friends instantly, though his uncle had first had him in the 'friend' position as a main way of getting information to help Germany, but since Albert really was a friend and really did like her for her, his 'mission' failed. x) This movie was so well-made, it is a photographer's dream to be able to see all the true colors, all the focus-changes, all the beauty of England presented as it was. I loved it. =) It is around 105 minutes long, rated PG for smoking, brief violence and incidental language, and some sensuality. No scenes whatsoever, and I did not notice the 'language' being harsh or anything like that. Most of the things in this movie are accurate, though some were put in to add some thrill to the movie, and that they did. It is an AMAZING movie, I would give it more than 5 stars. =)

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Theif

Wow. haha This movie really caught me by surprise, yet it didn't. Okay, so this past month I have been hearing lots about the 'gods' and such, and we watched a couple movies with them, including this one. But this one is by far the best. Not only because it was made by Chris Columbus (Director of Harry Potter =D). Percy, an average teenager, lives with his mom and rather annoying 'step-dad' in an apartment. He spends his free time hanging out with his best friend, Grover, at the swimming pool. Most of the time. Percy suffers from what everyone thinks as ADHD, and several other problems as well. He always sees words swimming in his head that he is reading, which, if in a certain language, are translated for him. After a substitute teacher turns into a beast one day in a museum and threatens him, trying to make him give up a 'Lightning Rod', his whole life changes. Percy finds out that he is the son of a god, Poseidon, and is himself a demi-god, a half human half god. He meets many people, some friends, some not, and travels across the United States to find certain things to take him on a certain journey to save the whole world. I will not give it away. Though I am a Christian, and do believe in only one God, the true, real God who created this world and everything in it, I still find this movie a very good, very amusing one, a good education for learning about the Greek mythology and such. I had lots of laughs. heheh I like laughing at various random things, and this movie was packed. =D Rated PG for lots of action violence, peril, suggestive materials, and mild language, and is around 118 minutes long, starring Logan Lerman, Brandon T. Jackson, and Alexandria Daddario. =) Great movie, I would so give it 5 stars. =D

When in Rome

=D I like this movie. x) This chick flick is about a gal (Beth) who has her job going well for her. She is a great modern art shower, and just adores her job. The thing is, she is single. And none of her friends are happy with this. They want her to find a guy, but she says she doesn't want to get a guy unless she loves him more than her job. After a bad day at work, her sister comes to her apartment and tells her she is getting married to a guy she has known for a couple weeks, but just knows that he is 'the one'. And guess where they are getting married? Rome! Beth flies over there for 48 hours, and while over there, meets the best man, Nick, who is a lot like her in many ways. She thinks she might like him, and then boom, she sees him with another girl outside. So while everyone else is partying, she goes to the famous fountain of love and takes some coins out just to 'aggrivate' it. Little did she know that those coins were thrown in by some guys who would then pursue her aggressively with no mercy till she either accepted them or really just gave them the complete foot. haha It was very well made, the actors were chosen well (at least Beth and Nick), starring Kristen Bell and Josh Duhamel (in the Transformers movies). Rated PG-13 for some suggestive content, though I would really say it is for some disturbing things. It has that guy from Napoleon Dynamite, and he is as weird as ever, but the parts with the pursuers are just really weird. 91 minutes long, very good, I would give it a 4 1/2 star rating, because of those weird scenes. I really like this movie, though. =D

Leap Year

Can I just say that Amy Adams was excellent in this movie? Oh, was she amazing! Anna O'Brady, a lady who designs rooms to present them to sellers for a sale, thinks she is in love with her boyfriend of 4 years. After her hopes of a proposal one night at dinner are washed down the drain, and he leaves for Ireland, she decides to follow him there, and propose to him on February 29th, since it was a leap year, and girls are allowed to do so that one day. But before she is able to get to where she is going, a storm warning makes their plane land early where she does NOT want to go, and she is either stuck at the airport for a day, or tries to find her own way of getting to Dublin, Ireland. She chooses to go. After a bunch of different rides that fail to help her reach her destination, she ends up staying the night in a small inn owned by a man (Declan) who knows much, speaks little, and laughs at her. After much negotiation and then a threat from someone to close his inn, he accepts her offer of a certain amount of money to take her there, but on their way,  they loose his car, and are forced to find another way there. I am not going to ruin the middle or ending of this movie, as it is waaaaaaaaaaay too good for that. =D =D May I just say that the locations where they shots this movie are SPECTACULAR, to die for places that I would very much not mind visiting for a long time. =) =) Amy Adams, Matthew Goode, and several others starr in this beautiful romantic, funny movie. Seriously, it was so hard to keep from completely laughing my head off while on the plane watching this. x) 100 minutes long, rated PG for sensuality (some sort of inappropriate but not things) and a couple words, most I didn't even understand because of the heavy Irish accents. haha x)  Totally one of my favorite favorite favorite (if not my favorite) movies right now. 5+ stars on this one! =) Amy Adams was incredible. =D =D

Monsters Vs Aliens

haha I love this movie. Totally one of my favorites. =) This cartoon starts out with a wedding. Susan, a normal modern-day young woman wakes up on her wedding day, gets ready, and goes out a while before the wedding to enjoy the moment. Her fiance, Derrick, comes out and talks with her, saying he changed their honeymoon location from Paris to some unheard-of place because of a job audition as a weatherman. She hides her disappointment and watches him leave with a half-hearted smile. While walking back to the church, she sees a meteor and runs, but ends up getting hit by it. During the ceremony, the beautiful bride starts to glow in a strange green hue, then starts to blow up to at least 20 stories high. After being tranquilized and relocated to a hidden location, she meets 4 monsters: a giant cockroach scientist who loves doing the evil scientist laugh and wears a white lab coat, a big blue blob of....er...whatever he is. lol His name is Bob, and he has no brain, but "It turns out, you don't need one!" haha =D She also meets a strange, giant lizard guy who thinks he is a very strong, amazing creature who 'gets girls' and 'defeats hundreds of strong men' uh, yeah, in your very common dreams. haha All of these guys are about the size of her hand, btw. She also meets Insectisaurus, a giant moth thing that is very, very tall. About the size of 4-10 of Susans. lol Anyways, she goes through some big adventures and learns her strengths, all of which she didn't realize she had. The earth gets attacked/invaded by a mad alien trying to get a substance which was placed in Susan's body when she was hit by the meteor, that made her huge. This movie is soooooooooooo good, let me tell you. I love it. Packed full of hilarious jokes, most of which the kids laugh at as well, and also quote...I find myself quoting things from this movie a lot. haha =D Reece Witherspoon is in this movie (Susan), as well as Seth Rogan (Bob), Hugh Laurie (Dr Cockroach), and many more. Rated PG for some mild, mild language, crude-ish humor, and some action that can scare little children under the age of 2. 94 minutes long, and so worth it. Great movie!! =) =) =)

Old Dogs

Robin Williams and John Travolta star in this fantastic, PG rated comedy. Despite all his language-filled movies, (Robin) this one was very clean and so funny. I was surprised at how funny it was. Two old men are best friends, old pals, co-workers, and much more. After hearing from his ex-wife and finding out he has two children, twins, Robin's character goes on adventure with his buddy to care for the kids for 2 weeks while his wife is in jail. He is, as he says, 'allergic' to children, and for the first week or so, struggles with his bud to keep the kids amused, out of expensive things, and happy. They go through maaaaaaany funny adventures in this movie. So good. 88 minutes long, full of things you will laugh at, and you will find that these two actors go so well together as old pals. haha =) I am not positive if I would let any kids under the age of 8 or 9 watch it, but it is still safe. Very well done. =)

Coco Before Chanel

Coco Chanel is a very famous lady, having changed the fashion world forever, in more than a few ways. She starts out in this movie as a very poor girl, barely getting through life by sewing during the day time, and singing at night time, working with her beloved sister. Coco is no typical girl, however. She is totally against the 'silly, ridiculous' styles of the day, and wore mens clothing instead of the corsets, feathered hats, and crazy skirts. She makes some friends, but after her sister moves away to someday get married, she moved to the house of a man she met while working one night, and from there learned how to ride and care for horses, made more friends, and started making hats and such for the ladies who at first throught they were too plain, but then came back more and more as everyone loved the style. This movie is all in the French language, with a couple British words, but not many. haha It is something you would want to wait to see till you are a little older, I think. I had it filtered, as it is rated PG-13 for many, many scenes and crazy sensual things in it. Oh, and some smoking. lol I actually found it annoying how much smoking was in this movie. It is 105 minutes, has amazing actors, including Audrey Tautou, Benoit Poelvoorde, and Alessandro Nivola, who you have probably not heard of, but are all extremely talented. haha  This is actually a really, really good movie, that is very touching and helps you see what type of life people had back then.  Not one of my favorites, but this is still very good, and I plan on watching it again, someday. =)