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Up

"Winsome, touching and arguably the funniest Pixar effort ever, the gorgeously rendered, high-flying adventure is a tidy 90-minute story of Carl Fredrickson and the little Boyscout Russell." Up is a movie for everyone of all ages to enjoy. I saw it twice in theaters and enjoyed it both times. The plot is that an old man named Carl's wife had just died but before she died, he made a promise to her that they would find Paradise Falls in South America. So to escape going to a retirement community, Carl ties thousands of balloons to the roof of his house and sets sail to South America. Russell, a Wilderness Explorer trying to earn his final merit badge for "Assisting the Elderly", has stowed away on the front porch after being sent on a snipe hunt by Carl the day before. So together the two of them embark on a journey of a lifetime. This is without a doubt the best Pixar movie I have ever seen. It is everything you expect and more out of a Disney movie too because someone dies, and then they gain a new friend. It was also quite hilarious. The quality of the graphics were incredible. The story itself was a very nice tale in which the movie suggests that a life without adventure isn't a life worth living. I give this movie 5 out of 5 stars.

Moulin Rouge

Last night, I watched Moulin Rouge for the very first time. All of my friends and family said it was an amazing movie and if I didn't watch it, I was insane. So, I watched it. And it was fantastic. I listened to the soundtrack of the movie while growing up, so when songs came on that I knew, I could sing right along with them. Ewan McGregor did a wonderful job playing Christian who was a writer that had moved to France to be inspired. Nicole Kidman is one of my favorite actresses and she also had an amazing performance. The movie is all color and music, sound and motion, and kinetic energy. It was nonstop motion and music. I really like how they sang their own versions of modern day songs, like Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and Elton John's "Your Song." Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman both did their own singing for the movie and I love their voices. The best scene in the movie is when one of Christian's actor friends sings the song "Roxanne". It was pretty intense. I give this movie 5 stars out of 5 because I think that I could watch this movie over and over again and not ever get tired of it.

--Margaret

Whip It

"With "Whip It," her remarkable debut as a director, Drew Barrymore proves that she is just as perky, quirky and talented behind the camera as in front of it." This was an AWESOME movie. I love love love Ellen Page who played the main character Bliss in this movie. Basically, this whole movie was about how Bliss didn't like being the pageant girl her mom wanted her to be so she secretly signs up to join the Dallas roller skating derby. It's a problem, though, because Bliss is only 16 and you have to be 21 to join up, but in the long run everything pretty much ends up fine. Bliss makes the team, gets a boyfriend, breaks up with a boyfriend, and gets to beat up other girls on the roller derby teams. This was a typical "follow-your-dream" movie but follow-your-dream movies are my favorite. I give this movie a 4.5 out of 5 stars!

--Margaret

Fame

"The new remake of Fame appeals to pre-teens who hope to go to performing arts schools, and they must not yet possess the ability to tell a good performance from bad." I just recently saw Fame about a week ago. I thought it was actually all right. The whole story wasn't good at all, but the dancing, singing, and playing of musical instruments was fantastic! All of my friends who saw it with me enjoyed it too, but my mom hated it. I got this impression from a lot of parents. They all thought that the original Fame that came out in 1980 was "so much more original." I was then forced to watch the original Fame with my mother only to realize that it actually was better. The only character who I actually did like in this new Fame was Denise, the classical pianist longing to be a pop star. Of course. All in all, I think I'll give this movie a 2 out of 5 stars. You can tell that the producers and director really did try, but it just wasn't going to work out in the long run.

--Margaret

Hello to all my fellow bloggers!

Hi everyone!

My name is Margaret and I am a movie-holic. I've just created this blog to share my love of movies with other people like me. I'm going to use this to review movies I've seen and to talk about my favorite movies of all time. I want it to be interactive so feel free to tell me about moives you've seen as well! This post isn't going to be actually about movies, just to let you know why I'm doing this. We have an assignment in my computer class at school to create a blog with a theme, so of course, I chose movies. I'm really excited to get started with this and I hope you all enjoy it!

--Margaret