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Triple Play Baseball (2001)
I play this all the time.
I love this game, I play it all the time, and I always write from first person point of view. It gives so many features of baseball and is a perfect game for a kid my age. Of course since I am an Astros fan, I always have fun creating a team and making up players, and making the old ones better, and many other fun features this video game offers. It spans from a regular season to the Big League Challenge. You can pick your players, put yourself in the game, and manage your teams. I loved when I won the Division and made it to the World Series and won that. This game gives a person the true MLB experience. Almost. Rating: Great.
Chuck Amuck: The Movie (1991)
Great Account on Chuck Jones
This movie is a good film about the life and times of esteemed animator Chuck Jones. The one who made many of the cartoons that we know today (Wile E. Coyote, Road Runner, Pepe LePew, Sniffles the Mouse, and the list goes on.) He also contributed to every major Looney Tunes character we know today except Tom & Jerry. This movie is like Chuck Jones: Extremes and In Betweens, so all those who enjoyed that will most likely enjoy this. This would be a film recommended to all cartoon-lovers or people interested in anything about Chuck Jones. This might also be a good family film for those who wish to know and enjoy the "Merry Melodies" characters created and contributed by Chuck Jones. This is an o.k. movie that gives a good account of Chuck Jones life and I would recommend it to anyone interested.
Superior Duck (1996)
Superior Daffy!
To begin with it saddens me that Chuck Jones died before he got to create more great cartoons. This is a funny cartoon that involves Daffy Duck in a recurring time for the cartoon. The tape is a compilation of many Daffy Duck hits such as: Stupor Salesman, Golden Yeggs, Naked Stork, Design for Leaving, and Show Biz Bugs, but this new cartoon entitled "Superior Duck" is just as good as all the old ones. It's a bit random, which makes it funny. Some funny recurring jokes within the cartoon are all the "saying mistakes", such as "Superior Duck able to leap tall locomotives..." "Superior Duck, faster than a speeding building..." More things that make this a great film is all the akwardness and use of the "Looney Tune" characters. They are somehow able to fit all the "Looney Tune" characters when they are telling the "Description" of Superior Duck. All in all this is a good movie that deserves to be watched by cartoon lovers young and old. I highly recommend it.
The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show (1983)
Another Great Schulz Cartoon.
If anybody has read any previous comments by me then they have been on cartoons, which tells you I am an expert Cartoonist and cartoonist critic at age 12. To second with, I don't bother writing a comment unless it's a good one, so all comments are good. Anyways this is a great show for adults and kids alike, it involves many of the truths in life in the humor of Charles Schulz' acclaimed cartoon. It involves many of the comic strip themes into the show (e.g. "Baseball", "The Cat Next Store", "Show and Tell".) What cracks me up though is that these children act so adult part of the time and completely ignorant the next. I just love sweet old Charlie Brown always being so good yet such a complete failure that he makes us laugh. I love Linus' intelligence and "Security Blanket", as much as I love his sisters crabbiness. I would also like to comment on Schroeder's music craze, and Snoopy's humanlike attributes. Although these are my favorite characters what cracks me up in the show is Sally's comments, like when she's playing football with Linus "Why should I kick the ball, it hasn't done anything to me." "Just kick it" "What if it kicks me back...I've decided not to kick the ball" (Air leaks out of the ball). "The ball is hissing at me" "Maybe it's sprung a leak" "No this ball is definitely hissing at me..." (the ball goes flat) "I think it passed out". To me this is funny, these are events that happen to most regular people through kids. If you like Peanuts or feel you need to laugh at life then see this movie, you'll enjoy it.
A Garfield Christmas Special (1987)
I just love Garfield.
If anybody even likes Garfield remotely then they will love this movie, it's funny, heartwarming, and original in one. To begin with I must say that the two best cartoons in my opinion are Charles Schulz' Peanuts and Jim Davis' Garfield. Plot summary: Garfield, Jon, and Odie go to the farm to visit their relatives (e.g. Mom, Dad, Grandma, Doc Boy). Garfield is, like always, pessimistic and hilarious, Jon is as usual optimistic and still in his bunny slippers, and Odie is his sweet old self. The basic things that happen in the movie is that the family puts up the tree, has their little Christmas traditions, and Garfield finds the true meaning of Christmas. Along the way is "Garfield-packed fun" with a funny and sweet way of interperating life.
This is your basic Garfield, wisecracks about everything and everyone that seem to reach the truth in life like, if I may quote from the movie "Why do we always put the stupid star on last? Why don't we put the star on first and then put the tree up?", and this is replied with "Well it just wouldn't be Christmas if we put the star on the tree first, honey." To me that's what we all have to laugh at. To sum it up this is a good movie for anyone (unless you don't like Garfield) and it will make you want to watch it again and again. The is the first time I've given a rating in my report, but for a cartoon movie this is ******** out of 10.
Rush Hour 2 (2001)
Deserves more recognition
This may not be the best movie, but it is still very good. I'd reccomend a lot of Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker movies to you, but this is currently the best, at least until Rush Hour 3 or Shanghai Knights come out. The charisma between Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker is again amazing. Jackie Chan uses his keen Martial Arts and Foreign comedy to make his part action packed and comedic, although Mr. Chan gets a lot of the good jokes, the comedy still belongs to Chris Tucker. It just cracks me up to hear Chris Tucker funny high voice and fast mouth, and Jackie Chan's unclearness with words in this movie. They combine a lot of the old jokes from the fist rush into this movie that make it even more catching. I think that critics just don't like to laugh, because I have rarely heard a good review from critics who see comedies, or other movies that I seem to enjoy (Lord of the Rings, Count of Monte Cristo, Legend of Bagger Vance). I just hope that people can join me in saying this is a very good film.
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
A good intelligent movie.
I came into the theaters thinking that this was going to be a strange movie about revenge--it's not. It is a great movie one that starts fast and keeps its suprising pace of action and intelligence throughout the whole movie. It starts out with Edmond Dantès (James Caviezel) and his friend Fernand Mondego (Guy Pearce) in a fight scene, making a person think that this will be a good buddy flick, but things turn so richly around. Dantes is asked to carry a letter by Napoleon Bonaparte during his stay with him. It turns out that it was a letter of treason and Mondego and the first mate of the ship Dantes was made Captain of become jealous and accuse him of treason. Dantes is thrown in a prison, where he is tortured for many years , his fiance marries his friend, and Dantes meets a new friend Abbé Faria (Richard Harris). He then becomes literate and cleverly escapes from jail, along with his "man" Jacobo (Luis Guzmán), who he spared in a fight, he gets revenge upon all those who framed him under the identity of "The Count of Monte Cristo" he does not kill his framers, but give them punishments worse than death, suffering. This movie uses intelligent plots of revenge (that may sound weird), and great fights and action throughout the entire film. This is one of my favorite films of all time, and I hope that it is as enjoyable for others as it was for me.
Shrek (2001)
Funny.
I'm going to make this short.The title pretty much says it all this is a funny movie. Mike Myers and Eddie Murphy have incredible charisma in this movie. The script is incredibly funny and the plot is highly amusing, this may seem like a kid's movie to those who have seen it, but it's for everyone (although I'm just a kid). The ongoing jokes and satire based on very big movies makes this a great movie. Myers, Murphy, Diaz, Lithgow, wonderful team.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
One of the Best Films ever.
Lord of the Rings is one of my favorite movies, it is loaded with action, an in-depth plot, and great adaption from the J.R.R. Tolkien novel. I had never read the book before the movie and since I saw it, it has intrigued to read the whole series as fast as I could. Me, being a child expected this to not be as good as Harry Potter, it turned out to be better. It starts out with the infamous (at least to the Hobbits) Gandalf (Ian McKellan) coming to Hobbiton. They're holding a banquet in honor of Bilbo's (Ian Holm) 111 birthday and Frodo's (Elijah Wood) 33 birthday. It's just like in the book except that you meet Merry and Pippin (Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd) early. The plot starts off early, and the characters' characters are unfurled. Gandalf shows his determination and intelligence and Bilbo shows us even the most pure hearts can be corrupt by the ring. Anyways, the ring is past to Frodo, everybody's fine for 17 more years before Gandalf tells Frodo that he must leave with the ring immediately. So Frodo and Sam (Sean Astin) embark on a quest to Bree to reunite with Gandalf and make plans for destroying the ring. They meet Merry and Pippin along the way and encounter the Ringwraiths for the first time. After great struggle, the four Hobbits arrive at the Prancing Pony in Bree. There they meet Strider (Viggo Mortensen), they then go on a quest to reach Lord Elrond (Hugo Weaving) and his protection. The ringwraiths find the Hobbits and end up stabbing Frodo, but Strider comes in and in a heroic swordfight saves Frodo, they eventually reach the home of Lord Elrond with the help of Arwen Everstar (Liv Tyler), whom Strider has a relationship with. At Elrond's they meet with Gandalf, and have a council meeting where you meet the impatient, but loyal dwarf Gimli (John Rhys-Davies), the keen wood elf Legolas (Orlando Bloom), and the unethic, but brave Borimir (Sean Bean), and you reunite with all previous met characters, including Bilbo. It is decided that Frodo, Sam, Merry, Pippin, Strider, Gandalf, Borimir, Gimli, and Legolas (a.k.a. "The Fellowship") will go on a quest to destroy the ring. They brave trolls, and fiercesome warriors, and even Saruman's (Christopher Lee) treason to do their non-desireable quest. This movie has well done performance by all the cast (especially Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Sean Bean, and Christopher Lee), and combines the great heroism and bravery by all the characters to make this one of the best movies seen