Le Petit Nicolas

I just love foreign movies. Fine, American movies are still foreign movies too. Foreign to me is a language I'm unfamiliar with, hence in need of subtitles.

Anyway, Le Petit Nicolas or Little Nicholas in English is magnific. It's more like a French version of Diary of a Wimpy Kid. It's about Nicolas being pressured for assuming himself being a brother. He and his friends set up a scheme to ensure that his parents would still love him and keep him in the house. Such young and innocent dilemma.

Ratings: 4
Le Petit Nicolas is such an adorable show with great laugh and nice family portrayal.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1

Part 1 of the last installment of the Harry Potter movie franchise. I don't read the book so I expect a lot from the movie. And with every new installment of the series, the movie get darker and more grittier. True enough the show is quite gritty and there's a lot of fade to black.

Lord Voldemort is back and Harry has to find a way to defeat him. Without Professor Dumbledore to assist him, Harry has to find the remaining Horcruxes and destroy them. Harry ran into many despair from friendship and situations.

Since this is only part one of the finale, the show does not leave you hanging by the end of the movie. The movie is split wonderfully. Fine for me who don't read the book, so not much disappointment.

Rating: 4
A finale much awaited for eventhough it's just the first half. Just another 8 months till the true ending.

Talentime

I saw an advertisement that the show will be on TV during Hari Raya Haji, but I can't wait. So I dugged out from my stack of DVDs and played it.

Talentime is the last movie from the late Yasmin Ahmad. Her movies are well known for its controversial content, same as her other 4 movies that I watched; Sepet, Gubra, Muksin and Muallaf.

The movie revolved around a group of students involved in their schools talentime. Discrimination of races have been an issue with majority and we'll see how the students go along with the discriminations.

Ratings: 4.5

I'm being biase but Yasmin Ahmad's works are always great. So far, she is the best in the malay movie scene and will be remembered as one.

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

The Sorcerer's Apprentice is a Disney movie. Nope, not staring Mickey Mouse but some parts of the movie has an extensive reference to the movie Fantasia.

It's about Merlin's apprentice Balthazar (Nicholas Cage) searching for the successor of Merlin. For decades, he searches for the Prime Merlinian and met Dave Stutler.

During their first encounter in Balthazar's antique shop, Dave accidentally released Horvath, Balthazar's nemesis from his imprisonment in the Grimhold.

Horvath came to get hold of the Grimhold to release the many level of imprisonment to release Morgana, who did not complete her world domination berfore.

Ratings: 3
Not that superb but not that dull. Nice amount of action.

The Social Network

Being an entrepreneur is about taking risks and even led to loosing your own best friend whom could be your only friend. Most ironic thing is you're an entrepreneur for connecting 500 millions friends.

The Social Network is a story adapted by a non-fiction book, 'The Accidental Billionaire' by Ben Mezrich about Mark Zuckerberg and the founding of Facebook. From the start, I sees Mark Zuckerberg as an a-hole especially on how he treats his girlfriend and friends. But a wise and intellectual a-hole with a noted compulsive behaviour.

We'll see the growth of an idea into the current multi-billion dollar social network website that I too love to use, and also it's lawsuit that arises.

It's a new view of seeing most entrepreneurs as a-hole but the risk they took to make something so successful till it would worth billions. It shares the current views of living in a cutthroat society where people who wish to be successful in life but forgoing the values of friendship and trust.

Ratings: 4
A refreshing view of being an entrepreneur and see the risks they endured to be successful in life, or some values of it.

Megamind

It's been awhile since I anticipated a movie to release. There's not much interesting movies before November. Now winter seasons starting, good movies are coming up. One of them is Megamind.

Dreamworks did it again with a great animation. Megamind is the 'Good Versus Evil' kind of movie, it's the fight between MetroMan and Megamind. But what happen when Evil won? Megamind succeeded defeating MetroMan, and took over Metro City.

Time passes by and Megamind got bored since no one is there to stop his evil deeds. So he creates a new hero, Titan. But things goes haywire and it's up to Megamind to be the new hero instead.

Ratings: 3.5
Great show but MetroMan has a close connection to DC Superman. The show build-up is slow and the comedic moments is quite as lame but still have plentiful of good laugh.

My Spy

I shall not be bias about the movie entries, so I will input even malay movies. Most malay movies nowadays are some sort crappy, unlike show from P Ramlee, movies in the 80s-90s where there are substance. Only malay movies that are worth watching to me are show by the late Yasmin Ahmad. Her show packs a lot of meaning. Some movies by KRU productions should be noted too. Their technological use are quite commendable for a Malaysian movies.

My Spy is an espionage-comedy movie produced by KRU productions and directed by Afdlin Shauki. It is about a competing private eye AJ (AC Mizal) and Salleh (Harun Salim Bachik) working together to uncover the secret relation of Datuk O but ended up in a totally different situation.

Ratings: 2.5
Watch it once. The show is funny but the technology behind the show is commendable for a Malay movie.