Santa Claus is Coming to Town!

        Remember when you were little and use to always look forward to Santa coming to your house? Remember when the songs like “Rudolph the red nose reindeer”, “Silent Night,” and “Frosty the Snowman,” on the radio started to get you into the Christmas mood? Well that’s what the new movie “Arthur Christmas” is about, young children are eager to receive gifts from Santa every Christmas. However, unlike most of the other Santas, most people probably didn’t know is that this Santa is slightly more realistic than the traditional Santa and has an ultra high-tech sleigh with a modern operation underneath the North Pole. Santa Claus  has a  family tradition of passing the role of being Santa. In the movie, there is Grandsanta, Santa Claus, his wife and his two sons Steve and Arthur. One of them will be the next Santa. 

        During Christmas night, Santa Claus delivers all but one present.  Arthur realizes this and informs Santa and Steve. However, Steve tells Arthur that one little mistake doesn’t matter. So Arthur goes off without Santa or Steve to deliver the one gift to a little girl named Gwen.  Sounds like a perfect movie for the Christmas time. For more info on when the movie in shown in certain movie theatres and the synopsis, go here.

Words By: Minji Kim
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Dancing Penguins are Back

Sven... totally a penguin

The chilling new sequel to Happy Feet , Happy Feet 2, came out on November 18.  The name sounds extremely creative doesn’t it, but anyways the newest movie is about Mumble’s son Erik who fears dancing, because of an embarrassing accident.  Erik then meets Sven, a penguin who can fly…, and makes him his new role model instead of Mumble.   Then trouble strikes, which forces Mumble, and Erik to save the other emperor penguins.  There are also some krill, trying to become higher in the food chain, which is just sort of weird.

                Most reviews say that while Happy Feet 2 is visually entertaining it lacks a strong plot.  It does have a lot of fun and energy and music put into it but the original Happy Feet was much better. 

                As for the cast many of the characters from the original have returned for this one.  The big exception to this is Gloria (Brittany Murphy).  Murphy was scheduled to have a part in this movie but she died with pneumonia in 2009 so instead Pink, the singer, plays the voice of Gloria. 

Check out these trailers and movie clips.

Elena A.

Breaking Dawn (Part 1): Hit or Miss

“Say it, out loud.”

“Vampire.”

                                                               

     Give me a break! The first movie of the Twilight saga, Twilight, missed by a long shot. Bella Swan’s character was definitely not awkward or perceived as self-conscious, but actress, Kristen Wigg, portrayed her that way in the first, second, and third movies.

                                                  

      But now the first part of the fourth movie, Breaking Dawn, is in theaters and I have been able to watch it. I think Breaking Dawn is a miss because there were SO many awkward pregnancy scenes, and now that I mention it, it was pretty much a collage of awkward scenes. Oh sorry, spoiler alert, Bella is as prego as a tomato.

             

     An example of a REALLY awkward moment is when Bella decides that if her blood-sucking fetus were a boy, she would name him E-Jay (after Edward and Jacob). Really? Are you kidding me? Luckily it was a girl and she named her some really long name that I didn’t catch during the movie because I was laughing so hard at how awkward the scene was.

           

      But I will give this movie some credit. At the wedding of Edward and Bella (yes, barf), Bella’s friends seemed a little suspicious and in disbelief how 18-year-olds are getting married (I mean finally someone has some sense in these movies!). And in a way, Kristen’s acting was less… awful? I even thought she did a marvelous job when she was acting like a monster was living inside her. Her make-up was also a lot better in the movie. In the past movies, her make-up was horrible.

             

     But no matter the ups it had, this movie was a miss. And I love this awkward picture! (^_^)      

Posted by A Foley Artist
First photograph source here.
Second photograph source here.