Very cleverly intertwined with prequel. And just like part 1, this too has lots of twists and turns, complex plots intertwined with many characters. Despite the intricacies, the director makes it very easy for the audience to follow the tale (without having to rewind multiple times!). Best part is the dialog. Extremely witty and humorous. And, of course, the TV soap which continues from the prequel. In all, a fantastic entertainer!
Rating: Good
Language: Telugu
True story of a genuinely nice person Jeffrey Manchester who resorts to thievery to keep his family happy. Gets caught, escapes with ingenuity, and stays in a Toys R Us store for several months hidden from all and does a variety of good samaritan work, but eventually gets caught. Stunning tale, great acting and narration.
Rating: Good
How a simple chance encounter of a petty thief results in the downfall of a genuinely nice person. Simple enough thievery too but it gets easily so complicated. Good narration of this true story of 2010 theft of five masterpieces from a French museum.
Rating: Good
Language: French
Simple movie on similar lines of other Karate Kid movie series where Jackie Chan trains kids but in this case it is a combo of Karate and Kung fu - so there is one trainer for each 'branch of the same tree'. The kiddo has acted/actioned well, and it made me remember of early JC's movie stunts.
Rating: Average
Back to back true story tennis movies seen! This one's another mindboggling tale about just one match where Brad Minns was two sets down and 0-5 down on 3rd set with 3 championship points to his opponent at 0-40 and came back all the way to win the match..! So, the movie narration goes from his childhood till that game - how he became deaf, how he never gave up, etc. A simple movie, nice casting, nice setting.
Rating: Good
OMG! I never knew this true story about the plan that the father of Venus and Serena Williams had created and executed to perfection! It is like how one person says in the movie - 'Giving birth to two Mozarts in the same house'! Absolutely stunning tale. Only flip side is the movie ends with Venus losing a match albeit she has a huge fan gathering which she realizes as a surprise. Very well taken movie indeed. Mr King Richard, take a bow!
Rating: Good
Ok-dokey. More of a moral ideology pass-thru to the audience (mainly parents & Grandparents) but done in a nice manner. Nothing much to write about. Time-pass for a lazy day.
Rating: Good
Language: Kannada
Such a nice film! Although it starts off with a mishap, overall movie is full of feel-good. The 'mom's character, casting and acting is superlative. In fact, pretty everyone's - the dad, the boy, his younger brother, the 'villain' teacher, the principal, his grand daughter, etc.. Even the setting of Tirupati is well conceived. End of the movie, you are bound to feel nice and good.
Rating: Good
Language: Telugu
Two events inspired this movie - a delivery guy who cheated on camera while counting money and marijuana being grown inside a Hyderabad flat. The story-writer took these two things and charted out a twisted, complicated tale of three bachelors. Narration is witty, humorous, edge-of-seat and with constant twists, it becomes a good movie to watch. The serial episode shown at times is ROFL. At the beginning, it seems dull but picks up pace after about 30 minutes. Acting is mediocre by all but the tale makes up for it.
Rating: Good
Language: Average
Very refreshing, unique and entertaining. The whole story of boy falling in love with girl and their family not agreeing and the girl eloping happens within the first few minutes while credits are being shown, and that makes one think what else could be there in the movie. But the actual movie starts from the eloping scene, which is very unique indeed! Every time we think movie is about to end, there is a twist in the tale and it keeps spinning. Not a moment to bore, instead lots of wit, freshness, divinity, honesty and 'do-the-right-thingy'. The dialog and dialog-delivery is good too, from one and all. The movie's very special and deserves a rating higher than Good but not really a Must-see.
Language: Hindi
I might have seen already a dozen documentaries regarding the Thailand Cave Rescue of 13 boys stuck inside a flooded cave for 18 days, and each documentary brings me tears. There was one documentary from rescuers' perspective and there was one more from divers' perspective. The Trapped 13 is from the 13 boys and the coach's perspective. Each time I see it, I cannot believe this incident really happened and all 13 got rescued safely. Each documentary is fantastic in it's own way.
Language: English, translated from Thai at times.
Rating: Good
Wow, what a true story, and how well made the movie is! Fantastic graphics, gripping from first scene, fabulous direction. It took four men to converge and make the impossible possible - the person who created the video games exactly like how it is, the person who played and mastered it, the person who conceived the idea of converting simulation players into pros and the person who trained them to do so. Absolutely must-see.
Mediocre in most parts. Not as much hard-hitting as I expected - or as how Taare Zameen Par was. Aamir Khan's character is well portrayed. Humor too is mediocre. Worth a watch once.
Rating: Average
Language: Hindi
The movie continues off from where it had ended with the fox and rabbit being the cops. The new animal in the scene for this sequel is the snake. Like the prequel, this one too is filled with lot of fun, good twists and turns, lots of down and one final 'up'heaval! Nice time watching. And to make it special for the daughter, saw this in a nearby theater! Great animation, dialog and narration in general.
Rating: Good
Movie starts out ROFL and stays like that for some time, then comes down a bit to just being witty for most part. There are constant twists and turns every 10-15 minutes in the movie to make it interesting and engaging and funny. But the plot continues to go down and down. In the last few minutes, the director tries to make it end with a slight up-twist but it doesn't seem to be sufficient. Overall, somewhat similar to Dragon. Good dialog. Lively and worth the watch - for the most part.
Rating: Good
Language: Tamil
Extremely gory, very unpleasant character visualisations, not much of a feel-good factor. Not too many punchline dialog as well. Animations are good though.
Rating: Average
Language: Available in many...original Hindi, saw in Kannada
Nice time-pass movie for a weekend with child. Adam Sandler's production. Feel-good for kids specifically. Most of the movie happens inside the classroom. Little bit of creative imagination, of course. Some of the kids' characters are portrayed well - strengths and weaknesses.
Rating: Average
Language: English
Movie starts off in a negative mode and then starts dipping and dipping for almost an hour, to the point where you almost dont want to watch it but it is evident that things will start going up somewhere. It does, and again, it is evident that there will be another crash soon, and it is just a matter of time. Slight twists in the tale here and there, and suddenly there are many endings visible. The narrator and director chose the one which seems to be fair enough. Good tale altogether, lot of messages for the youth on where not to go wrong. The dad's role and Principal's role are brilliant. The Hero's casting seems to be very bold. All female casting is up top-class. Although storyline shows how degree certificate is of paramount importance to getting a job, one point they missed to highlight is that even if one does not go to college, they can indeed succeed in corporate life - which is something the main character proves indeed.
Rating: Good
Language: Tamil
