DISCOVER HOW FAR ADVENTURE WILL TAKE YOU WITH TINTIN

Inventiveness of the animation genre is expected from the collaboration between Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson who teamed up for the first entry in a planned trilogy of films adapted from the famous Belgian comics “The Adventures of Tintin” by Georges "Hergé" Remi. The series is one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century, with translations published in more than 80 languages and more than 350 million copies of the books sold to date. Its popularity around the world has been attributed to its "universal appeal" and its ability to transcend "time, language and culture." Set

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Summer Reviews: May Movies Recap

Kung Fu Panda 2
Score: 7,5/10

The trailer of “Kung Fu Panda 2″ claimed that the film comes with ‘double the awesomeness’. For a change, though suffers a bit from being familiar, it still manages to be full of fresh action and adventure. Also silly sight gags aren't going to be absent altogether in a film about a seriously weighty Kung Fu master, but “Kung Fu Panda 2” has more interesting things to say, and takes the time to say them. In this sequel, Director Jennifer Yuh who was responsible for some of the most thrilling scenes in the original film, has given the story a

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Keep the Wheels Rollin’, It's Cars 2 Drive Time!

The animated autos of Disney/Pixar's "Cars" will be racing back into cinemas via its sequel after the original made impact in box office circuit five years ago. However, while earning more than $460 million at the worldwide box office -- and more impressively, over $5 billion in merchandising, "Cars" always remembered as the weakest link of Pixar films. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film sticks out like a sore thumb, scoring 74% positive reaction and a 6.9/10 average rating while every other feature they've ever produced scores at least 91% and 7.9/10 respectively. Yet “Cars 2” is the project they chose to do their first non-"Toy Story" sequel for, instead of any other film in their wagon that are more deserving or fitting. The decision to continuing the story of Lightning McQueen and its fellow vehicles possibly initiated by Pixar head honcho John Lasseter who always so protective of "Cars" cause it's his personal baby, and he wants it to succeed as well as anything they've ever done. In addition,

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Review Mix: Rio, Detective K, The Yellow Sea

Rio
Score: 8,5/10

Set in the magnificent city of Rio de Janeiro and the lush rainforest of Brazil, the comedy-adventure centers on Blu (Jesse Eisenberg), a rare macaw who thinks he is the last of his kind. When Blu discovers there's another - and that the other kind is a she - Blu then leaves the comforts of his cage in a small town in Minnesota and heads towards Rio. But it's far from love at first sight between the domesticated and flight challenged Blu and the fiercely independent, high-flying female, Jewel (Anne Hathaway). Unexpectedly thrown together, they embark on an adventure of a lifetime, where they learn about friendship, love, courage, and being open to life's many wonders.
You won’t believe how incredibly fun it is when the crew of “Ice Age” finally decided to take a vacation from the freezing territory into the ‘much warmer’ tropical city of Rio de Janeiro. This latest 3D animation effort from

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Prepare for the Return of Kung Fu Pandamonium

Very much in the vein of “Kung Fu Hustle” and other humorous martial arts film of its ilk, “Kung Fu Panda” is a success story for DreamWorks that took an appropriate break from the venerable Shrek franchise to bring us yet another adventure featuring a plus-sized character. A film about panda named Po, whose fandom of everything Kung Fu comes in handy one day when he's unexpectedly chosen to fulfill an ancient Kung Fu prophecy by studying alongside his idols, surprisingly gobbled up the most business and became one of the biggest June openings ever, and the second best animated opening in June ever (it's just a smidge behind 2006's “Cars”). Reviews also were really strong with early solid word-of-mouth helping fattened up

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Review Mix: The Way Back, World Invasion: Battle Los Angeles, Red Riding Hood, Rango

The Way Back
Score: 6,5/10

Based on a novel “The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom” written by Slavomir Rawiez, Peter Weir’s “The Way Back” traces the grueling journey of a bunch of war prisoners who try to flee from a Siberian gulag to escape the wrath of Stalinism.
A stunning tribute to human fortitude and to the command of Mother Nature, from the intense cold of Serbia to the blistering sun of the desert, Weir and cinematographer Russell Boyd effectively convey the splendor and extent of the landscape the survivors have to navigate. The film is gripping, despite being long and plodding in places. It also has quietly commanding performances from Jim Sturgess as the group’s leader and Ed Harris deliver a quietly affecting performance as an indomitable American who inspires his companions to press on. “The Way Back” certainly succeeds as a visual spectacle and continent-hopping travelogue. But is it as successful as a

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Café’s 2010 Best of Western Cinema

Although the year has delivered quite a disappointing summer and pretty indifferent mainstream prospects at movie centre Hollywood, but we were able to pull together a list of our favorite movies of the year. From the mind-bending “Inception” to the movie that may have defined our generation, “The Social Network,” following below in no particular order are the 10 of Movie Cafe's 2010 Best of Western Cinemas. And since tonight we all will celebrate the New Year 2011, above we have prepared our sparkly Singapore Happy New Year card specially to you, all our lovely and awesome readers. We hope 2011 will be a much better future for all of us and for movie industry of course.

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Somewhere Beyond Your Imagination is a Tangled Fairy Tale

Walt Disney is still the king of animation, while Pixar and the Dreamworks 3D animations are fantastic but they definitely owe a debt to the wonderful classic cartoons of Disney. In 1937, the studio released its first fully animated feature film,

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Capture the Legendary Journey of the Owls of Ga'Hoole

September and October were infamous as months where much of children's fantasy books adaptation films were left exhausted at the box office competition. So it’s quite a question when Warner Bros. scheduled to release the Zack Snyder’s first foray into family zone with adapting “Guardians of Ga'Hoole”, a best-selling series of epic proportions intended for young adult readers written by Kathryn Lasky, in this month. Or maybe

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Toy Story 3 Turn Box Office Into Private Playground

"They're the greatest story-tellers around. [Director] Lee Unkrich found a way to take everyone's best friends, Woody and Buzz, and deliver the goods like crazy." Said Disney. Drew a phenomenal $41 million on Friday opening day, the long-awaited Pixar sequel “Toy Story 3” see its strong first three days at box office with $110 million, the best-

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Toy Story 3: Positively Merit The Years Of Waiting

This weekend is worth a celebration because Woody and his gang are back on the big screen with their next adventure in “Toy Story 3”. Become the favorite plaything for moviegoers in two previous films, the latest animated sequel also heads to a $100-million-plus opening weekend and will make Pixar 11 for 11 on No. 1 box office debuts, an unprecedented run that began with

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The Third Toy Story Adventure Takes Off!

Pixar-Disney union represents an interesting maneuver. “Cars” nearly became the final co-production between the two animation studios and “Toy Story 3” originally announced by Disney as a project to be made without the involvement of character creators, writers, producers, artists or animators of the original two features, Pixar Animation. However,

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Café’s Most Anticipated 2010 Films: Part Two

It seems sequel and remake films are going to be the biggest thing of summer 2010, so let's hope that people won't get too bored with it by the time the last one of them opens. However, while each year the summer movie season arrives with the promise of big-budget excitement of the kind only Hollywood can inspire, also top-heavy with stars and directors that want to win us over again, this upcoming summer (kicking off on May 7th with the sequel of “Iron Man”) still looks promising enough. But wait, there’s a new thing in this summer of 2010,

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Shrek Forever After Is Not So Far Far Away

While “Shrek Forever After”, formerly known as “Shrek 4”, “Shrek 4Ever After”, “Shrek: The Final Chapter”, and previously titled “Shrek Goes Fourth”, will be the first Shrek movie in RealD-3D and IMAX 3D, it also has announced as the final Shrek movie long before its release. Yep, there’re already been three chapters for this green ogre already and all of them met enormous success from a

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9: Good For Its Unique Style And Design

Previously, a film called “District 9” became an impressive word-of-mouth in Hollywood while it was only made by this new filmmaker, Neil Blomkamp, who garnered such of buzz because he is an apprentice of Peter Jackson. Now, another new name that also started his creation in a short movie frame, Shane Acker, is following Blomkamp’s step by entering the film business under the wings of two famous visionaries, Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov. They lend

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Capturing A New Anthem From The Christmas Carol

After delivered their own 3D chop into the big screen with “Bolt” and completed another collaboration with Pixar for “Up”, what is next exactly for Disney Film to adapt on their Digital 3-D format? It seems Charles Dickens' immortal story “A Christmas Carol” is something that still promising enough for them. To polish the classic tale, director Robert Zemeckis and comedian actor Jim Carrey are bringing to the house. Zemeckis (Back to the Future, Forrest Gump) with the motion capture technique he used on “The Polar Express” and “Beowulf”

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Plan Nine From The Outer Universe

Previously I’ve posted an article about one upcoming sci-fi film which title is “District 9”. It was based on an acclaimed short film, which being expanded by its filmmaker into a full length feature project, and being backed up by a well known figure in movie industry. So, here I’ve found another similar case in a film shortly titled “9”, it is an animated action/fantasy film directed by Shane Acker and produced by filmmakers Tim Burton (The Corpse Bride, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory) and Timur Bekmambetov, director of “Wanted.” It is also based on Acker's Academy Award-nominated short film of the same name. And just like Neil Blokamp with his

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Up: Pixar Continues Soaring Up With Their Best Work

The peoples at Pixar animation studios are keep coming back with their finest work. Who can push away the facts that Pixar animated movie always become one of the bests every year they comes up, since their 1995 masterpiece, "Toy Story" to last year "Wall-E." And for this summer season's offering from Pixar, "Up," the digital animation studio works its magic all over again. Pixar can be relied upon to offer audiences something new and different with each release. One more thing that Pixar does so well is that it uses advanced digital animation to tell stories that you just could not tell as well in live action, their film even

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While The Third Ice Age Met Dinosaurs Epoch

In 2002, “Ice Age” which made by new CGI animation studio called Blue Sky became a surprise box office hit for their distributor, 20th Century Fox. Given an acceptable budget of $60 million, the movie was expected to be a quiet but solid performer for the studio, however the animated flick debuted to a jaw-dropping $46.3 million on its way to $176.4 million domestically, and also hailed universally positive reception from movie critics. It was a shocking success stories for the previously unknown Blue Sky Studios which formed by a long forgotten group of CGI- programming forerunners from Disney Studio who made futuristic sci-fi “Tron.” Their story continued with a sequel to the project that made them famous,

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Going Up To The Sky And Break The Limit

Previously, some people were dubious that an animation film about fish could be successful, but later the little clown fist called Nemo turned into one of the biggest theatrical hits ever, grossing over $800 million worldwide. After that, the same went for the Incredibles, Lightning McQueen, and especially Remy the rat and WALL-E the robot. It all made Pixar has nine successful movies in a row since “Toy Story” in 1995, and they managed to do so while never losing sight of the fact that the thing that keeps customers coming back is quality. To date, the studio also has earned twenty-two Academy Awards, four Golden Globes, and three Grammys, among many other awards, acknowledgments and achievements. Last year, Disney-Pixar animation studios

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