MADAGASCAR 2: ESCAPE TO AFRICA by jeeanfoxy

it was a battle between James Bond and Alex the Lion. the latter won and the decision was made. it was madagascar day today.

oh boy, do i regret it.

my ass was practically bouncing up and down my chair when ferb called to say we were going to watch madagascar 2. well i saw the movie trailer a week ago i swore to myself that i will watch this movie as soon as i get the chance. ferb knew how much i wanted to see it so he invited me to a movie date on the first day of screening (today, 11-7-08). he meant well, but the movie itself disappointed me.

it disappointed me.

the movie takes place immediately after the ending of the previous installment so you can expect that the beginning was rushed and the rest of it dragged. the comedy was cliche and the usual slapstick antics brought in the yawns. there were too many dull moments and in every one, all i could think of was "where are the penguins? penguins! more penguins, goshdarnit!" sadly, it was only the penguins that kept me awake.

has it ever happened to you that while watching a movie, you can easily point out where the story shifts chapters? like for example, it's happy singing dancing lollygagging time, and the next thing you know, the characters are fighting and suddenly turn emo. well you can find many scenes like that in this one. it's like manic-depressive chaos.

or maybe i just expected too much out of it?

i might be ranting too much about an animated movie supposedly made to satisfy the expectations of children, but it's a FAMILY MOVIE, and family movies are supposed to hit the mark for adults as well. madagascar 2 didn't do much for me.

here's another thing that bothered me: the Lion King flashbacks. i had them while watching this. there were too many details close to the lion king that only a kid who watched the original lion king movies would understand. maybe the creators were too lazy to make up a more interesting and original storyline took inspiration from that, perhaps?

madagascar 2's animated animals sure know how to move it. they had their chance in the first one and now in the second one. they're just made to be party-happy i guess, so be it. but then here's madagascar 3 in the works right now and i don't think another serving of dancing lemurs and bipolar animals would be necessary. could someone in the creative team take that story board to the atlantic ocean and let it float away to africa? thank you.

oh my God. the movie is so bad i forgot about the weight of moral fiber.

i've lost my faith in alex, gloria, melman, marty, the annoying lemurs, and even my beloved flightless penguins. they gotta prove me wrong in 2011.

THOUGHT:
a star studded cast doesn't always mean it's a good movie, especially if things aren't executed right.

xoxo
JEEAN

TETSUO by angel

". . . I enjoy being raped by the machine but at the same time I want to destroy the things that are invading me, the human being."

——Shinya Tsukamoto

Completely insane, unpleasant, visually stimulating oddities and bizarre as hell - TETSUO is a high speed surreal chase that Shinya Tsukamoto pulls off Hollywood mediocrity, he created a film that's both accessible and also capable of showing you things you've never seen before.

The movie begins in an abandoned factory where the metal fetishist is hit by a car driven by a businessman with his girlfriend then dumped the victim into the woods then escaped. The next day starts the telepathic bond between them and the radical grotesque body transformation into a pile of metal junk. Watch out for the disturbing yet funny "erotic" scenes though, it is hard to watch depending on how dark your humor is but still, I’m inclined to laugh don't ask why :P

My only complaints would be Tsukamoto's complete lack in-depth characterization and confusing plot that went on unfortunate directions that makes me scratch me empty head, but in the end, it's primarily a brain teaser, obtuse and makes you squirm.

11/11

last night...

• a woman in her late 30s who had sworn to keep her virginity intact until she was married to the right man was mugged and raped by three men in a dark alley
• an overseas worker secretly came home to surprise his family only to find out that his wife had been cheating on him
• a bum, that had spent hours in several garbage dumps to find food, lost his dinner to a bunch of stray dogs
• a car veered off the road and fell off a cliff, killing all of its passengers, a family of four that had bought it a week ago
• a high school girl who had just broken up with her older, womanizing boyfriend of two weeks saw that her pregnancy test was positive
• a kitten that could not follow when its mother left because it had a broken leg drowned in the flood
• a child with brain cancer who had spent half her life in the hospital, died in her sleep hugging her teddy bear

if any of these did happen last night, then i am sorry because...

last night was the greatest happiest awesomest bestest best night of my entire life!

recipe for a great day

sugarplum pumpkin sweetie pie
+ cupcakes, gumdrops and snoogum-boogums (whatever they are)

main ingredients:

a pair of new shoes











clover chips










1 liter coke













uno stacko













a bunch of mp3s










1,000 tablespoons of bodily fluids













procedure:

lay old shirt on bed to prevent mess

wear each other's pants

tickle regularly

brush spine with beard

try not to sleep but sleep anyway and surrender body to kisses

turn a love song into a song about fast food

let the blissful feeling simmer while locked in an embrace

number of servings: 2
nutritional value: good for the heart and brain
best served with love